Winter Series
Winter Series 2025/26 Scoring & Rules:
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The Schedule (subject to change - use the dates on the Events on the website)
Scoring
For each event in the Winter Series, 50 points will be awarded for 1st place, 49 for 2nd, 48 for 3rd and so on, down to 1 point.
Naked Triathlon: The 3 naked events form a triathlon. The one person across all leagues and categories that is closest to predicting their times for the three events (aggregate total) will be awarded 5 points. All competitors that compete the 3 naked events will be awarded 2 points.
Winter Series Triathlon: The 400m swim, 45 minute endurance bike and Wakefield 10k form the Winter Series Triathlon. Any member completing all three events is awarded an additional 2 points and the one person across all leagues and categories with the fastest aggregate time is awarded 5 points. The time for the bike leg of the Winter Series Triathlon is calculated as the time for a 40k ride at the pace achieved for the 45 minute endurance ride.
Volunteer points for assisting at internal and external events count towards your final score and are awarded as follows; 10 points for your 1st volunteering event, 2 points are awarded for volunteering events thereafter up to a maximum point limit of 20 points (20 points = 6 times volunteered).
Best 8 events count in the final standings.
The best score achievable is 430.
If a tie breaker for 1st occurs, the competitor who has entered the most events is deemed the winner. If there is still a tie, the finishing positions in the Winter Series Triathlon well decide the winner.
Qualifying Rules
The best 8 events count in the final standings and for points to count you must:
Complete a minimum of 8 events.
Volunteer at least once for a WTC organised (not external) winter series event.
Complete one Swim, one Bike and one Run event. Multisport events count for whatever sports they include (eg. Duathlon counts for both bike and run)
WTC Coaches, Committee members and series organisers automatically earn 10 volunteer points without having to volunteer at an event in the series.
Any committee decisions will be final.
Winter Series – League Format
There are 3 leagues in the Winter Series based on ability. The intention is that this will allow people to compete against people of a similar level and keep the series competitive for everyone.
These leagues will not have age or sex categories.
We will continue to keep the age group classes in both the open and women’s competitions.
You will be allocated to a league according to these times and your performances in the previous winter and summer series.
If you have not competed in a previous Summer or Winer series to assess what division you are placed in we collect your 400m swim time, 20km cycle time and 5km run time. Please use your best time in the last 2 years, (we will check). If you don’t know your time, your best guess please.
