You are invited to enter our free monthly motivational competition.
Prizes of an Adidas miCoach and Sennheiser headphones will be awarded to 10 runners
who improve their handicap most in the month.
Spot prizes of Sennheiser headphones will also be awarded each month.
The runbritain handicap scoring system is a unique way of measuring your
progress and comparing yourself with other runners.
As in golf, handicaps go from scratch (zero, or even slightly negative for elite
runners) to 36 with increments of 0.1.
To compute your handicap we take a combination of your recent best performances
but adjusted by the "SSS" which is our measure of the course difficulty and weather
conditions on the day.
This means that you can improve your handicap at any race as on harder courses you
won't need to run quite as quickly as on faster ones. See the Time to Improve Panel
for more details.
National Ladder
The National Ladder position given here is your ranking out of all the road
runners in the UK of your gender. They are just like the rankings in other sports
like golf or tennis. See further down the page where you stand in your age group
and out of everybody.
Please login to view handicap scores and ladder positions.
The national ladder positions are an indication of where you stand out of all the
road runners in the UK. They are just like the rankings in other sports like golf
or tennis.
The values given indicate your Overall position amongst everybody, your position
among all Men or Women and (unless you are a senior) your position
in your own Age Group.
To compute these positions, we order everybody's current runbritain Handicap. Updates
to the ladder positions are made every week.