Tennessee Age Group Rankings

After months and months of analyzing the results from the past year of triathlon in Tennessee, we are happy to publish the first ever Tennessee Age Group Rankings. We have used Utah Tri Buzz's methodology (here) for the rankings and we feel that it pretty accurately reflects your position among your age group.

If you are friends with or teammates with someone on the list, please spread the word so they can bask in their much-deserved glory. If you think you should be on the list and you're not, please email us. You wouldn't believe how many John, Jon, Johnathan, and Jonathan Smiths there are out there and how hard it is to tell them apart.

The goal is to get more people out to local races. We have a great list of races all over the state and we need YOU out there! Hopefully this will provide you with a little extra motivation for your off-season training and those early mornings on the trainer and those cold mornings in the pool.

The methodology is very simple and yes, we know it's not perfect:

* Tennessee races only

* To be eligible, an athlete must have raced at least 3 of the 30 (10%) races listed on the RACE CALENDAR . Get out and race local!

* We take the AVERAGE of everyone's top 3 races for the year. This provides you with some incentive to get out and race often. For example, if you have an off day, or even a dreaded DNF, that result will shake out of your top 3 average if you race 4+ times.

*No duathlons, aquathons, decathlons, or off-road triathlons this year

* For the 2018 season we will add more races and we will update quarterly throughout the season

* The ranking is an average of your Overall Finish %... so as a simple example if you placed 60th out of 100 in one race, 500th out of 1,000 in another, and 40th out of 100 in another, your average is 50% for those 3 races

* There were over 300 people who met these qualifications for this year's Age Group Rankings

Using those rules for 2017, here are the rankings

*Updated 10/23/17*