The Purpose of the accumulator is to recognise and reward representation and performance. Key components include age grade performance scores, so there’s equity in comparison of all athletes.
Race Categories
Each Race is given a category and each category is given a points score based upon importance of the race to the club or quality.
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Race Category |
Points |
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Pot 1 |
75 |
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Pot 2 |
25 |
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Club Priority |
125 |
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Prestige |
150 |
You will receive points based upon your performance in each race based upon your age grade score against the world record for age group. Scores start accumulating at 30.00% (1point and increase each 0.1% with larger increases the better the age grade performance).
Age Grade scores
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Age Grade % |
Points range (increases with performance) |
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30 – 50% |
1-20 |
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50.1 – 65% |
21-35 |
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65.1 – 70% |
37 -137 |
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70.1 – 80% |
139 – 338 |
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80.1 – 90% |
341 – 689 |
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90.1 – 99.9% |
693 -1095 |
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World Record! |
2000 |
Personal Best Times
Based upon information available on Power of 10. Points allocated for achieving a PB with additional points added if the PB is 2 seconds or more faster than previous or if the PB is a higher age grade score.
Once you’ve achieved a PB, if you are within 0.9% of the age grade for your next 2 events (any event 800m upwards) you will be rewarded with additional consistency points.
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Achievement |
Points |
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Personal Best |
100 |
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Personal Best + (2 seconds better than previous for 800m +) |
150 * supersedes PB score |
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Multiple PB |
200 |
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Multiple PB+ |
300 |
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PB bonus if >70% age grade |
120 |
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PB bonus if >75% age grade |
140 |
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PB bonus if >80% age grade |
150 |
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PB bonus if >85% age grade |
175 |
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Consistency |
200 |
Event positions
If you or the team win or are placed in a race you will get more points. Places are typically top 3.
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Position |
Points |
Position |
Points |
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Win |
100 |
Age Category win |
75* must be at least 3 in race |
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Placed |
50 |
Age Cat place |
25 |
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For win/places in multiple events then double points will be rewarded. |
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Full Team Achieved
If an event requires a team and a full team is obtained each member will receive points.
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Team event |
Points |
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Full Team |
100 |
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Example event 1 |
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Tom is a senior athlete who takes part in the Road Relays. As a result, we have a full team and we finish in 1st place. Tom scores 125 points as the road relay is a club priority, 100 points because we had a full team and a further 100 points as the team won. Totalling 325 points for the event.
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Example event 2 |
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Sally is an U23 athlete who takes part in the Run Aintree 5k. She runs the event in 19:09 and finishes 1st lady. Her time is a PB by 25 seconds Sally scores 75 points the pot 2 event, 150 points as she achieved a PB+, 100 points for the win and 323 points for her age graded score of 79.2%. As she achieved her PB and was over 75% of her age grade she received a PB bonus of 140. Totalling 788 points for the event.
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Volunteer |
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The sport can nott survive without volunteers. We will allocate 50 points for each volunteer event
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Equity |
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The aim is to reward performance and representation. Those athletes competing at a higher level tend to compete less but will naturally achieve more points, however those athletes who compete more often will achieve more points through attendance and still achieve points per age grade %.
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