All of our competitions use the TrackieReg site for meet entries. During the registration process, all participants are asked to provide some basic personal information. Their name, date of birth, team name (if applicable) and gender. (Please note: we request an athlete’s gender here and in our membership forms, to ensure they are placed in the correct event – we encourage all members to review our Inclusion Policy).

Once that information is entered, athletes can select their events, category and indicate their seed time/distance. The “category” will automatically provide the appropriate age category, but athletes can also indicate whether they are Masters, Special O, or Para. This is where para athletes indicate whether they compete in wheelchair or ambulatory events.

It is important to note that not ALL ages compete together. There are certain events that are only offered for younger athletes, as well as certain events that are only offered for senior athletes. The registration system will filter this for you based on date of birth and gender.

Once the entry deadline has past and registration closes, event organizers download the data, create the heats and field event sections, and finalize the schedule.

In the case of Masters, Para or Special O athletes – if there are only 1 or 2 athletes in your category entered in a particular event, you will compete in a heat/section based primarily on seed time or distance. If there are enough athletes in a specific category, hosts will often include a separate heat/section to the final schedule.

Finally, it’s always helpful to remember that while you might sometimes be competing with older/younger athletes, or athletes who are not in your category (such as Para athletes) you aren’t really competing against them. Results are always sorted after the event and divided into the appropriate age categories. Final results always show athletes competing in their correct category.

*Age Class Events (Provincial Championships)

As much as possible, at Age Class events we do try to keep athletes competing within their age categories. However sometimes, if entries are low we will again combine sections (as we do with Open events) and then split out the final results.