Gauteng North Master Championships

The Gauteng North Masters Championships will take place on Saturday 2 October 2010 at the
Pilditch stadium, Pretoria.

Athletes from age 30 years to 90 years + are welcome to enter.

Clubs / athletes can contact Gretha Viljoen at 082 6255 189 or after hours at 012-333 8491 or visit our website www.gnma.co.za for more information.

Program for the days here
and the Entry Form can be downloaded here

Time Trial Champion: January

Last week, we ran an 'unofficial' time trial championship, as we're testing a new handicap system for our Annual Time Trial Championships.

Congratulations to Eddie Smit who is January's Time Trial Champion. Here are the results, according to finish times on 2 February's Time Trial:

1. Eddie Smit
2. Leon Spamers
3. Johan Erwee
4. Simon Segwapa
5. Irene Goncalves
6. Canie Cullen
7. Eric Economon
8. Ruben Setumu
9. Nico Botha
10. Errol Meyer
11. Gareth Ramsden
12. Trudie von Stade
13. Chris Kaempffer
14. Shane van Schalkwyk
15. Ursula Reyneke
16. Michiel Scharrighuisen
17. Vernon Hohls
18. Hein du Toit
19. Magdaleen van Zyl
20. George Makhonjwa
21. Sammy Ngoepe
22. Max Visagie
23. Pannie Marais
24. Ria Barnard
25. Peter Sebola
26. Gert Swart
27. Johnny da Camara

Time Trial Championships 2009

Our annual Time Trial Championships take place next Tuesday, 24th of November.

Qualification Criteria:

• Current members who have run at least 10 Time Trials from 1 January until 9 November 2009.

• Members who qualify for the trophy have an X next to their name on the spreadsheet below.

• Everyone is welcome to run, but only those that qualify in terms of the above rules are eligible for a prize.
  

How does the Time Trial Championships work?

• A 'handicap' system has been devised and perfected by Pieter over the years, which gives everyone a fair chance of winning.

• The start is in reverse order, so the slower athletes start first, followed by the faster athletes.

• Each athlete has an individual start time, based on his / her time trial times over the past year.

• The clock starts counting at 17:30.

• To work out your start time, add the time in the 'Start' column to 17:30 for example, my start time is indicated as 10:59, so I will start running at 17:40:59.

Below is the list of start times, or you can download the spreadsheet here

Time Trial Championships: 2008

Wingate Road Runners' annual Time Trial Championships took place on 25 November. An early thundershower cooled down the afternoon temperature, but the competition was hot from the start.

A revised handicap system ensured that there was no clear favourite for the title this year, and the winner was decided only within the last 500m of the gruelling 8km event. Congratulations to Vernon Hohls, Wingate's Time Trial Champion for 2008.

Hein a.k.a. Madala (2007 Champion) congratulating Vernon on his victory