The Arrows Rocket Award - 2022

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Are you fast enough?

This new award was introduced in 2018 as a trial and is back again for 2022 with a few alterations due to the restrictions caused by the pandemic. Basically we've made virtual races admissible. Hopefully these changes will make it possible to get the qualifying times needed in what looks like it's going to be another strange year, whilst still making it a real challenge to hit the required WAVA scores.

You will need to run 3 different short distances but each one at a high WAVA to qualify.

If you are more into speed than long distances this could be for you...

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The Fun 500 2022

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The Fun 500!

This new(ish), Annual Totals award which was introduced in 2021 is not event based. You may claim this as soon as you hit 500 running miles for the year, no matter how you got there, all runs count.

Obviously, this is largely based on trust so please be honest! Please keep track of where all your runs are stored as we will want to check it. Remember that you can claim this award as well as a Rocket Award and your chosen Club Performance Standard Award  . So - if its maybe only June and you have already done 500 miles perhaps you could hit 1000 or claim a full house by the end of the year?

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2022 Award Winners

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2022 Awards Announced at AGM

The Arrows AGM was held (virtually) on Feb 22nd and the Award winners for 2022 were announced.

(coming soon)

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Distance Challenges - 2022

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Distance Challenges

These work in a similar way to the Performance Level Standard Awards (except for the annual totals) but have different qualifying requirements AND you are able to submit  physical or virtual races, so long as the results are published, so that we can verify your results, where applicable. Distance Challenges are not WAVA based so all that is required is that the organisers publish the results so that we can verify a finish in each of your events.
N.b. Event details are required for the Full House and the Ultra-Level awards - Strava activities are not acceptable.
For the Annual Totals awards your Strava profile URL IS acceptable, event details are not required. You may claim just one of the awards described in this article for the year.

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Awards Summary 2022

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What Awards are there this year?

This year we've reviewed and re-worked some of our awards, and gone back to the familiar pre-Covid names and targets for the WAVA based awards. What we hope we have achieved is to offer a set of awards which are accessible to a wide range of runners but still provide a challenge - giving you all something to focus on in your running. We felt this would send a positive message to our members and hopefully encourage you to go out and test yourself at a few events now that we've learned to do things in different ways and more events are back on again.

Please take the time to read carefully what is needed for each one (it may have changed!) and make sure you put some dates in your diary asap.

There are three different award schemes and you will be able to claim one award from each if you wish.

Details on how and when to claim will be included in the detailed description of each one, and here on the Awards Claim Form. (Claims now closed)

1. The Arrows Rocket Award - 2022 For the speedy ones! 1 mile, 5k, 5 miles. 75% WAVA - Virtual events now accepted!

2. Club Performance Standard Awards 2022 (WAVA based Standards Performance Awards from 'Club' (55%) to 'Platinum' (80%)) Based on increasing WAVA scores , distances and number of events.

3. Distance Challenges - 2022 Distance collectors Awards. Choose one from the The Fun 500 (2022) or one of the longer 'Annual Totals' awards, a traditional 'Full House', or the demanding  'Ultra Level' .

Please be patient if there are teething problems. If you are not sure that what you are doing or planning to do will qualify, please get in touch sooner rather than later.

We hate saying 'no' to people late in December!