Nielsen Challenge

Name: Nielsen Challenge
Start: 2024-11-02T08:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-11-02T09:00:00-06:00
Location: North Monument Valley Park, W Fontanero St & Culebra Ave

Schedule

Sat Nov 02 2024 at 08:00 am to 09:00 am

UTC-06:00

Location

North Monument Valley Park, W Fontanero St & Culebra Ave | Colorado Springs, CO

There is no race day registration. Pre-registration closes at 5:00pm on the Friday before race morning. Online registration is through RunSignup only.
Please arrive at least 20 minutes early so that we can get bibs distributed to everyone and promptly start the race on time – 8:00am. Due to timing of this event those participants who show later than 8:05am will not be timed, but can participate in the race with no bib.
Race Format
The first time you run this event, you'll establish a base time for yourself. This base time is used to generate a handicap time. The handicap time is calculated using an algorithm developed by Bob Royse, and it's geared to favor a beginning runner and the slower runners. See the Handicap Calculation section for an explanation of the handicap algorithm.
Once you have an established handicap, you are racing against your handicap time. The person who improves the most from their handicap time is the winner. Each month the results are regenerated and all of the handicap times are updated after the latest result data is available.
As mentioned before, the handicap does favor a beginning runner or a slower runner who is putting in a lot of quality training time, as it's these types of runners who tend to have significant time improvements running the same course. But the race is also good for established runners and the swift of feet because it gives those runners a good indication of their fitness level. It's the same 2 mile course each month. Thus given similar weather conditions, you have a very good basis to check out your running fitness from month to month.