Veterans Time Trials Association
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Standards
What are Age Adjustments?
Age Adjustments modify an actual result by subtracting an amount of time achieved in a distance event (e.g. 10 miles), or adding an amount of distance in a time event (e..g. 12 hour), so that performances of riders of different ages, classifications, and machines, can be compared.
The VTTA publishes tables of Age Adjustments for open and female classifications, and for solo bikes, solo trikes, tandem bikes and tandem trikes.
These two examples show how Age Adjustments work:
- Rider A, a 45 year old man, is riding a 25. He rides an actual time of 58:55. His Age Adjustment for that distance is 55 seconds, so his Age Adjusted Time (AAT) is 58:00.
- Rider B, a 56 year old woman, is riding the same event. Her Age Adjustment is 10:00. She rides the course in 01:07:30, so her AAT is 57:30.
We modify Age Adjustments to ensure that they are based on the performance of the current rider population. When we do that we publish new tables of Age Adjustments. Only the Age Adjustments applicable at the time of a result should be used. We do not change history!
As you age and you hopefully keep racing, your Age Adjustment increases. This means that you can always compare your Age Adjusted Time or Distance to see if you’re improving against expectations.
Historic Note:
‘Standard’ times are a set of times for age, gender, distance and type of machine. If you beat your Standard time your actual time is subtracted, and you achieve a ‘Plus on Standard’. You will see plus's used to rank riders in our results from 2022 and before. Plus's produce the same rank order as Age Adjustments.