2024 USATF-NE All Terrain Runner Series

The USATF-NE All Terrain Runner (ATR) Series challenge runners on a variety of surfaces.  Five events over five types of terrain.
Try a new type of race this year, and earn a commemorative award by completing four of the five events.

2024 ATR Series events
Website or entry info for each event is underlined

Track -    800m - Options - more will be added during season
                  Final date for 800m times is July 27
              Jan 28 - USATF-NE Masters Indoor Championship, Providence RI
              Feb 18 - USATF-NE Open Indoor Championship. Harvard U
              Feb 29 - Night at The TRACK #2 at New Balance. 6:00 pm
              July 20 - Bay State Games, Regis College, Weston MA
              July 27 - USATF-NE Outdor Championship, 800m, Regis College
              More than one 800m race can be contested with the best score used.

Mountain -
       May 25 (Saturday) - Wachusett Mountain, Westminster MA. 3 mile uphill 

Road - 8km -
      August 11 (Sun) - Bobby Doyle 5 Mile, Naragansett RI

Cross Country -
      August 24 Old Goat 5K XC, Sutton MA

Trail 
       November 24, Rachel's Run,  Tyngsborough MA 

Eligibility: 
There is no fee to enter the series. 
Participants must have current (2024) USATF membership prior to their second series event, and submit their intent to participate in the ATR Series online no later than June 1.   
   Participation Declaration Form 
   Road / Track Time Submission - email results directly to Kara Haas

Awards:  
- Completion of 4 of 5 events earns a commemorative award
- Prize money to the top overall Male and Female scorer (4 race minimum) and to the top Male and Female scorer in the following age divisions:
   40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70+  (4 race minimum)
- A participant is limited to one prize money award.
Series Contacts
   Kara Haas
   Emer O'Donoghue 

Series rules
Scoring: ATR Series standings are based on the sum of “Percentile Points” achieved in a participant’s top four races. 
- Percentile Points for the road, mountain, trail and cross country races are calculated for each race like a standardized test:
( (Total Finishers - Place + 1) / Total Finishers ) x 100.
Example of the Scoring System: 
   A runner finishing 1st of 200 finishers receives 100.0 points calculated as follows: ( (200 - 1 + 1) / 200) x 100 = 100.0 points.  
  A runner finishing 150th of 200 finishers receives 25.5 points calculated as follows ( (200- 150 + 1) / 200) x 100 = 25.5 points

All finishers in a given race regardless of USATF membership status count in determination of percentile points calculation.
Percentile Points calculations will be carried to one decimal point for each race. In the case of a tie, the tie will be broken by the participants’ top single Percentile Point race score.

-  Scoring for the Track race (all ages) utilizes World Masters Athletics age grading points found at world-masters-athletics.org