Brian Moore, our very own statistical genius, casts his expert eye over Club Championship race results & reveals the numbers that matter...
GREAT NORTH WEST HALF MARATHON - 21st FEBRUARY 2010
Despite there being nearly 300 less finishers than last year (881 compared to nearly 1200), RRR managed to more than double our number of (first claim) finishers, up from 13 to 28. This turnout made us the number one club in terms of finishers! As in 2009, six of our runners managed to break 90 minutes - but it may be an indication of improving strength-in-depth that the number going sub-95 was up from seven to 11. Following a significant improvement on his 2009 Dewsbury finishing time, Dave Smith again produced an impressive run at Blackpool, knocking a massive 16mins of his time in 2009. At this early stage 36 people have taken part in the club championship, compared to 26 at the same point last year.
DEWSBURY 10K - 7th FEBRUARY 2010
Some impressive performances in the first club race of the season! New PBs for Stuart Carroll (by 40 seconds), Chris Eavers & Mark Kelly (by 3mins 45). Dave Smith completed the course almost five minutes quicker than in 2009. Other significant improvements on last year were posted by John Higgins (1min 22secs), Bryan Lawton (51secs), Rob Kellett (33secs) & david Emanuel (25secs). Highest age-related 'percentage performance' was recorded by Carole Madden (85.02%) - if Carole had managed to run just over two minutes quicker, her percentage performance would have broken the 90% 'world class' mark. Average percentage performance was 70.10% compared to 67.69% in last year's race.
