We’ve decided to add a ‘Dash for Cash’ event (of sorts) to our summer activity for…
Entry and booking is £14 per head. We’ll provide water safety and time your effort. The event offers time reductions/is handicapped for individual swimmers, based on age and gender (with the time reductions based on the national Master Champs records (pre-Covid), over 800m and the current South West regional qualifying times for the open category). We took the average time per 100m over the 800m records and multiplied it by 8.5, to cover the 850m course. Last years event was won by Jane, in her 50s.
The Swim :
Enter location here - from a set point... The swim is 850m... Booking : Insert link here...
Prize : £100 for the overall winner, plus an additional £1 for each person that enters ie. 87 entrants over the summer, the prize will be £100 + an additional £87 = £187.
HANDICAP/ADVANTAGE (times below) explained : If you’re male 16-29 you end up with the exact time you swim. Females 19-29 end up with the time they achieve minus 21 seconds. So they effectively have a 19 second head start over the males in the same age group. Males 30-34 have the equivalent of a 15 second head start on the male 16-29 age group and females 30-34 would have the equivalent of a 37 second head start. If you looked at males and females (30-34 yrs category) the females are -37 seconds and males -15 seconds, meaning that a female in this age category would have a 23 second head start over a male participant in the same age group….
MEN :
Male 16 - 29 : -/+ 0 secs
Male 30-34 : - 15 secs
Male 35-39 : - 19 secs
Male 40-44 : - 22 secs
Male 45-49 : - 41 secs
Male 50-54 : - 62 secs
Male 55-59 : - 1 min 36 secs
Male 60-64 : - 1 min 45 secs
Male 65-69 : - 2 mins 20 secs
Male 70-74 : - 2 mins 30 secs
Male 75 + : - 2 mins 54 secs
LADIES :
Females 16-18 : - 37 secs
Female 19-29 : - 20 secs
Female 30-34 : - 37 secs
Female 35-39 : 63 secs
Female 40-44 : - 1 min 17 secs
Female 45-49 : - 1 min 43 secs
Female 50-54 : - 1 min 54 secs
Female 55-59 : - 2 mins 17 secs
Female 60-64 : - 2 mins 44 secs
Female 65-69 : - 3 mins 26 secs
Female 70-74 : - 4 mins 23 secs
Female 75 + : - 4 mins 50 secs