Club Achievement Tables 2023 | Newmarket Joggers

Achievement Tables are given in alphabetical order of surnames, rather than age grade %. The tables are primarily for the use of club members to assess their progress, rather than for competitive purposes. The Top Twenty are given for recognition of high individual performance.

Please email: chris.aylmer@newmarketjoggers.co.uk if you spot any errors or if you have any results you would like to be added to the tables for 2022.

See all the archived achievements tables at the bottom of this page.

Download your own, free, age grade calculator:

http://www.howardgrubb.co.uk/athletics/wmalookup15.htm

YB (= this year’s best) times for all the regular distances are shown in our achievements tables for club 5K races, parkruns, Newmarket GRLs, local and national races, including ARC (Association of Running Clubs) races where known. For example, the Wibbly Wobbly Log Jog and Ely NYE 10K are ARC licensed. The use of the word “season” is because, traditionally, the track athletic season used to go from spring to autumn while the weather stayed favourable. Nowadays, with the growing popularity of road running and indoor track athletics, the season effectively lasts all year.

All-time PBs and indeed all your individual race results (for parkruns and UKA licensed races only, not ARC races or GRLs) are kept on the sister websites: www.thepowerof10.info and www.runbritainrankings.com. You need to register on runbritainrankings to claim your profile and handicap. Make sure that your race results are listed and that you are down as a member of Newmarket Joggers in your profile, which helps them automatically identify you and pick up your results. You can claim any missed race results if you are registered and logged into your account. Once logged in, click on “Add performances” on the runbritainrankings web page and you will be shown how to do it.

About Club Standards

Age Grade % reference tables:

NJ Women’s Club Standard Tables

NJ Men’s Club Standard Tables

In Newmarket Joggers, like any other running club, the time you take to run a particular distance shows how quick or slow you are compared with other club members. However, our senior club members range in age from 16 to 70+ and it’s clear that advancing age takes its toll on how fast people can run, just as youngsters in Junior Joggers will steadily improve as they approach adulthood. Age grading is a way of comparing athletes’ performances, allowing for the difference in ages. Runners tend to reach their peak potential from their 20s to their 30s if trained in their earlier years, with performances in longer races like marathons peaking later than sprint and middle distances. However, it’s quite common now for people to begin running or come back to running in their 30s, 40s, 50s or 60+ with very little training in their earlier years. Late starters will be rewarded with a flurry of motivating PBs and will enjoy their journey to peak fitness.

In the 1950/60s someone in their 40s or older running down the road to keep fit might have been considered mad or sad….fetch the yellow van! All the running gear available to wear in those days would have been white plimsolls (standard canvas gym shoes) with white singlet vests and white gym shorts/skirts. Don’t know why everything was white….harks back to school PE lessons I guess. Thankfully, those days are gone but everyone is now forking out a fortune for all the latest fitness wear for themselves, their children and grandchildren.

Re the club standard tables, the main thing is not to concentrate exclusively on those who have the highest age grades and therefore the highest club standards. The most successful runners can be a positive inspiration and role model for other club members. However, each level of standard may be an important milestone for a particular club member. Beginner runners have the most potential to improve their standards, yet may be the slowest at the start. Experienced runners may be content to maintain the age-graded standards they achieved when younger. Maintaining an age grade % is a much more positive feeling than watching your times get progressively slower.
In the Club Standard tables, we keep records for the current year only, from Jan 1st to December 31st, which can then be archived. So every year is a new challenge and you can start afresh. The advantage is that, as you grow older, you will be allowed to take a bit longer in every race to maintain the same Club Standard! Your age grade % is adjusted for every year of age, not in 5 year brackets. The 5 year interval Club Standard tables are for reference only, so you can see approximately what time and pace you need for a particular standard in a particular race from 5K to Marathon, according to your age. If you would like to work out your exact own Age Grade % the calculator is freely available at:

http://www.howardgrubb.co.uk/athletics/wmalookup15.html

You can EITHER: Set a target age grade % for a certain distance/age/gender, e.g. 60.00% and calculate the time required by pressing the “Result” button, OR: Enter the time for the distance/age/gender and calculate your age grade % by pressing the “Age-Grade” button. Note: this calculator is the most up to date (2015) and generally recognised as the best available. The parkrun website uses its own version of the official tables, which does not appear to have been updated, so does differ somewhat. It seems to give more generous age grades for older runners. All age grades in the Club Standard Tables will be according to the calculator on this page, using the exact age of the club member when the race was run. The calculator will cope with all unusual distances too, such as 5.4K in the Newmarket Heath Race. Please let us know if there are any errors, queries or omissions in your results.

The tables for women and men are being kept separate at present, even though there is an allowance for female and male gender in age grades. They are based on your % speed compared to the world record holder for your gender and age. Keeping them separate makes it easier to sort and compare in a number of ways and also for entering data into the table. A grand list could easily be compiled from the separate tables to show female and male combined if required. Also, a significantly larger proportion of the women are beginners or fairly new to running and more men are experienced runners, so a combined table tends to look top-heavy with more men attaining the highest age grades, which isn’t helpful for a meaningful comparison.

Archived Club Road/MT Achievements Tables

NJ TOP TWENTY Achievements 2022 Final

NJ TOP TEN TIMES 2022 Final

NJ Women’s Achievements 2022 Final

NJ Men’s Achievements 2022 Final

NJ TOP TWENTY Achievements 2021 Final

NJ TOP TEN TIMES 2021 Final

NJ Women’s Achievements 2021 Final

NJ Men’s Achievements 2021 Final

NJ Virtual Winter Handicap Table 2020-2021 Final

NJ Women’s Road-MT Achievements 2020 Final

NJ Men’s Road-MT Achievements 2020 Final