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Parking before the fun walk and road race...Route 85 will be closed at 9:45 AM. From 9:45 until 11:00 you will not be able to enter or leave the Salem School parking lot by car. Suggestion: park at Round Hill Road athletic fields.
Parking: Available at the Town Green, Town Hall, Salem Library and Round Hill Road Athletic Facilities.
Parking along Route 85 will not be allowed by Connecticut State Police.
Post Race Pancake Brunch (New this Year!)After the 5k please join us for a pancake brunch at no additional charge within the Multipurpose Room of Salem School. Family, friends, spectators are all invited to join us. Donation jars will be available for those who would like to help offset the cost of the meal and additionally donate to the Children's Cardiomyopathy Foundation.
Results for the 2009 Road Race...We intend to post both Age Graded Results and the “regular” results (in the order the order the runners come across the finish line). Awards, with the exception of at most 4, will be based on the Age Graded Results.
Our Master of Ceremonies, Kevin McCaffrey will do a great job of explaining the Age Graded Results and encouraging the runners to use these results to work harder in order to win some “hardware” next year at Salem.
Kevin McCaffrey, myself (Rick Konon), and our timer this year, Charlie Olbrias of The Last Mile Race Management Co. are very excited about this and we believe that this is what will become the norm for road racing results and awards in the future. More importantly we believe “Age Graded Awards” (awards base on age graded performance instead of base on when you crossed the finish line relative to others) are much more encouraging for all runners, a much more fair way to distribute recognition and awards, and for race directors it eliminates waste - you’re not buying awards for divisions that may have one or no participants.
"Age Graded Results" Further Explained...If you ran a race and your “age graded” performance was 60%, the “theoretical best possible performance for your age and sex” is approximately 60% of the time you ran. (So if your time was 50.00 for a race, the theoretical best performance for your age & sex in this particular race is 0.60 x 50.00 = 30.00). In other words the closer to 100.0% your age graded performance is, the closer you are to obtaining the theoretical best time for your age and sex.
To compute the “theoretical best possible performance for your age and sex” worldwide data is used for every standard race distance. There is one standard for Male and one for Female. For every one-year age, there is a performance factor - based on empirical data of how performance varies with age.
In my opinion “Age Graded Awards” (awards base on age graded performance instead of base on when you crossed the finish line relative to others) are much more encouraging for all runners, a much more fair way to distribute recognition and awards, and for race directors it eliminates waste - you’re not buying awards for divisions that may have one or no participants.
For those who are still undecided ask yourself - Are you really that proud of the trophy you won when you knew you ran badly and still won your division because there was no one else in your division that day?
Many thanks to David Reik and Ray Wise of the Hartford Track Club whose help and explanations I’ve used in the above explanations.
Sincerely, - Rick Konon, Event Coordinator |
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