The Personal Achievement Awards are based on an individual‘s performance across a range of 7 distances based on their Age Graded times. We use the Age Grading system so that runners performance can be compared on an ‘even playing field’. Using the WAVA system we can compare performances of men v ladies, a 30 year old v a sixty five year old etc on a fair and equitable basis.

The awards system works across seven distances - 5k, 5 mile, 10k, 10 miles, half marathon, 20 miles and marathon. The Personal Achievement award is based on a minimum of 3 race results across those distances with no more than one to count at any one distance. The one exception is the club award where a member has to submit at least 4 race times but they can be any combination of the seven race distances (eg three 5Ks, one 10k or two 5Ks, one 10k, one 5 mile etc).

The race must be a public attended race with a measurement certificate and a minimum of 15 finishers. The race time used to calculate a members age graded times will be the lesser of the ‘gun to finish time’ or the ‘chip to chip’ time. Members simply need to submit their race time and the club will calculate the age grading percentage using the same set of tables that are used for the UKs parkruns. The club maintains a full set of race results, including the clubs handicap 5k events and it is these that are used to determine Personal Achievement Awards. It is up to members to ensure that their race time are included in the club results. All race times can be submitted at runners@stevenagephoenix.org.uk

For the 5k distance, members can use their best club 5k handicap time if they wish. Parkrun times cannot be included. For the CLUB award where multiple 5k times could be submitted to count, a maximum of two of the four can be a club handicap 5k.

There are 12 achievement levels:

CLUB - 4 races at any distance

TIN - 3 of the 7 race distances greater than or equal to WAVA 50%

BRONZE - 3 of the 7 race distances greater than or equal to WAVA 55%

SILVER - 3 of the 7 race distances greater than or equal to WAVA 60%

GOLD - 3 of the 7 race distances greater than or equal to WAVA 65%

DIAMOND - 3 of the 7 race distances greater than or equal to WAVA 70%

PLATINUM - 3 of the 7 race distances greater than or equal to WAVA 75%

CRYSTAL - 3 of the 7 race distances greater than or equal to WAVA 80%

EMERALD - 3 of the 7 race distances greater than or equal to WAVA 85%

PAINITE - 3 of the 7 race distances greater than or equal to WAVA 90%

SAPPHIRE - 3 of the 7 race distances greater than or equal to WAVA 95%

BLUE DIAMOND - 3 of the 7 race distances greater than or equal to WAVA 100%

There will be 2 award presentation evenings throughout the year and members will be presented with a trophy showing the highest level they have achieved at that time.