We will be running the 'Club Standards' awards again this year. The basic idea is to give everybody the oportunity to work towards a 'standard' which is based on a performance level for your age. Lets face it, most of us are never going to be running at the same pace as some of the faster guys (and girls!) but its always good to have a target to aim for - and its only fair that some of us older people get a bit of help when trying to compare our performance with some of you younger ones.

Fortunately there is a scheme which allows performance to be calcualted based on gender and age - its called the WAVA score. You can read all about it here. Fetch Wava Calculator

The club standards awards scheme is a series of running standards which anyone in the club can work towards. There are 5 WAVA based awards to go for from 'Club Standard' through Bronze, Silver and Gold through to Platinum. We want the Club Standard award to be accessible and achievable by all our members. The subsequent awards require increasing levels of performance, and a wider portfolio of races completed. Members will work towards achieving one or more awards in a particular calendar year by completing the required events at the required standard in a particular year Jan to Dec. In 2011 we are also going to have one new award - the 'Full House'. Although there is no WAVA performance level requirement, this award is no push-over as you will need to compete at every distance from 5k to a full marathon to achieve it. We will start again at the beginning of each year and celebrate the success at a convenient club meeting, and record it on the website too.

Its a new scheme so there might be a few wrinkles to sort out initially! Here are the details of the requirements for each standard.

It's never too early to start getting some results logged for the 2011 Scheme!!