This free event only for members of Totley AC
The 5k Totley Time Trials (5kTTT) is a series of 5 out-and-back 5k off-road races on Friday nights throughout the Spring & Summer, followed by a social. No course marshals, no timing chips, no entry fee – just turn up and run. The courses out-and-back and designed to be very easy to follow
The race days are one per month from April to August, on Fridays with a 6.30pm start, and are followed by a pub social. You’ll need to time your own run using a running watch or phone.
If you can’t make the race day, you can run the route any time in the race’s respective month and then submit your time to the leader board. Of course, everyone welcome to the social whether you’ve run or not
Run times have to submitted on the day you’ve completed it. This stops people running several times in the month and then just submitting their fastest time.
We have a WhatsApp group for this race series – email me for the link: chris@runtimes.co.uk
2024 race info
| Race 1 – Limb Valley – Friday 12th April ’24 (all on trails) followed by a social at the Rising Sun (Abbey Lane) | Click here for more info… |
| Race 2 – Totley Moss Trig – Friday 31st May ’24 (road and moorland trails) followed by a social at the Crown Inn, Hillfoot Road (Totley) | Click here for more info… |
| Race 3 – Lady Cannings – Friday 7th June ’24 (all on trails & moorland paths) followed by a social at the Norfolk Arms (Ringinglow) | Click here for more info… |
| Race 4 – Gillifield Wood – Friday 12th July ’24 (all on trails) followed by a social at the Cross Sythes (Totley) | Click here for more info… |
| Race 5 – Burbage Green Lane – Friday 2nd August ’24 (all on trails) followed by a social at the Norfolk Arms (Ringinglow) | Click here for more info… |
| The All-In-One route is a 22km / 500m circular route that links up all of the 5 5kTTT courses – a challenge, not a race, and in addition to the 5K TTT race series. Start where you like on the circular route and go clockwise or anti-clockwise. View the 5KTTT All-in-One Hall of Fame | Click here for more info… |
Why a time trial and not a race?
A race is where you have one start time for everyone. Because runners will be timing their own races, start times may vary even with a mass start.
This also means that if you can’t make the Friday mass start time, you can run the routes when you can (at any time in the same month) and submit your times when done
How is the race scored?
There are two races in one- a traditional race (fastest first) and a time-bonus race.
For the tradtional race, it’s simply fastest time first. The fastest cumulitive time over the 5-race series gives us the winner.
For the time-bonus race, runners will receive a time bonus based on their overall finishing position in relation to the other runners. The time bonus increases the further down the field you are and varies from race to race. This means that slower runners will receive a better time bonus than the fastest runners.
Here is how we work out the individuals time bonus:
Finish position x time-bonus in seconds = your time bonusHere is how we work out the individual’s final time for the time-bonus race:
Final time - your time bonus = your final race timein other words, if you finish in 10th place and the time bonus for the race is 10 seconds, you take off 100 seconds from your time.
If you miss any the races, you will be given the final time of the slowest runner but without the time bonus subtracted so its worth submitting a time even if you walk it
FAQs
Yes. If you can’t make race day and time, you can instead simply run the route another day in the same month and submit your time.
Only open to members of Totley AC
Mainly off-road on well trodden trails or muddy moorland. Some tarmac sections on the Moss Road race
Dates are as above – all race days are on a Friday evening at 6.30pm. If you can can’t make the race day, you can run the route another time in the same month and then submit your time.
Yes of course
It’s free – just turn up on the day and run
Sadly not. Once your time has been submitted, that’s your official time
To be in the overall competition, you’ll need to have run all 5 routes and submitted your times. However, you can simply come along and run anyway if you prefer
The races are self-timed and need to be sent to me.
No. The routes are designed to be easy to follow so will not be marked and there won’t be any course marshals
If you run on race day, I’ll try to log your times on the day. Alternatively, you can email them to me chris@runtimes.co.uk
A ‘time trial’ is a type of race where people don’t necessarily all set off at the same time. This means that all the times submitted throughout the month go on to the leader board regardless of whether the runners ran the route on race day or at other time during the month
This is a race so you’ll need to submit your elapsed time from start to finish.
No. You should submit your time on the day of the run. However, you can run the route as often as you like
Email chris@runtimes.co.uk
Submit a race time
- Send via the 5KTTT WhatsApp group (email me if you’re not a member I’ll send the link)
- Email: chris@runtimes.co.uk