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andr3wht Sep 2013 7:44pm, 30 Sep 2013 45 posts	0 andr3wht Baz - Good luck with the half - (Don't be tempted to spread tacks on the course behind you to improve you ranking!) Fozzy - negative SSS - short, downhill with wind behind and a dose of the plague running through the local populace... probably
Bazoaxe Sep 2013 7:51pm, 30 Sep 2013 6,041 posts	0 Bazoaxe maybe the getting worse over time is the giving importance to recent runs bit
Carlos Fandango Jnr Sep 2013 8:31pm, 30 Sep 2013 259 posts	0 Carlos Fandango Jnr The SSS formula was changed at some point... which might explain why some handicaps altered months after the event. It's a bit of a blunt instrument, particularly in small races with a high proportion of "unregistered" runners, but I do now check it to justify my slow times (e.g. "well I moved like a snail but it was a 0.8 day, don't you know").
Wirral Dave Nov 2013 12:26pm, 7 Nov 2013 62 posts	0 Wirral Dave SSS could change over time as it's the average of the difference between a runners time and their PB. If a runner obtains a PB in a race, but then beats it the next week, perhaps the system then says the course wasn't as easy as it the course the next week and so recalculates the value. I've no idea if the SSS is based just on the day, or is updated regularly - if the later then values would change over time. What the system is doing, effectively, is taking your time and producing a rating for the event and then converting the time to what it would be in perfect conditions - and this fictional handicap time is what's used to determine your handicap. Therefore, my performance compared to slower runners is irrelevant, it's amount my performance compared to what my handicap would predict compare to other people's times compared to what their handicap would predict. Therefore, for instance, doing a Parkrun where lots of the superfast runners are taking it easy with a cross country the next day would see them well beneath their PBs, and therefore your performance judged as good. A ParkRun which a club has turned up at as part of their club championship and with lots going for PBs would see your performance judged as weaker. Conditions irrelevant to the course could make a difference. There is a good blogpost which provides a good overview if the ranking system is difficult to understand which I found and certainly answered a couple of questions I had. yellowrunner.wordpress.com
CharlieP May 2016 10:03pm, 26 May 2016 142 posts	0 CharlieP Get, as I believe excited people say, in. runbritain.com
larkim May 2016 10:10pm, 26 May 2016 824 posts	0 larkim Congratulations!
HappyG(rrr) Jul 2019 10:10am, 8 Jul 2019 31,998 posts	0 HappyG(rrr) Any idea how race results get onto RunBritain? Some races I do, appear in there automatically. But others don't. Doesn't seem to be any pattern to it - some weird, off road ones appear, but more normal road ones don't? G
StuH Jul 2019 10:32am, 8 Jul 2019 3,187 posts	0 StuH I think it should be all races with UKA licenses.
Sigh Jul 2019 10:50am, 8 Jul 2019 4,099 posts	0 Sigh @HappyG - before I joined FERC and was clubless, I had to manually enter all of them (i.e. look up my result), apart from parkruns which pulled through based on my parkrun number. Once I started entering races with my Athlete number with FERC, those races now get automatically added - unless the race doesn't have a UKA licence, in which case I can't add it at all.
J2R Jul 2019 11:17am, 8 Jul 2019 2,125 posts	0 J2R HappyG, sometimes you find that they haven't matched up a name on the results with your Run Britain ID. You can go into the results (if present, which they should be if it's a UKA race, although it sometimes takes a week or two to come through), find your name and then click on the little envelope icon on the right, which will allow you to select who to assign this to. Your Run Britain ID should be in the list.