Minutes per course calculations
To calculate
whether athletes qualify for Certification, you can download and/or open an Excel spreadsheet that will do calculations for you (if you have Excel), or calculate them yourself as described below.
Calculate a course benchmark (total time an athlete must beat on a particular course) by multiplying posted course lengths by the threshold min/k levels.
For Orange courses, only Navigator (<15 min/k) Certification is offered.
On Brown and Green courses, certification can be earned as a Navigator (<15 min/k) or Pathfinder (<12 min/k).
On Red and Blue courses, certificates are available at all levels, with Experts running less than 10 min/k on average.
Example: A 4.32K Orange course at 15:00/K should take 4.32 * 15 = 64.8 minutes. Convert the 0.8 minutes to seconds by multiplying it by 60; 0.8 * 60 = 48 seconds. Therefore, the course benchmark is 64:48 (or 1:04:48). An athlete should post a result faster than 64:48 on this particular course to earn a Navigator Certificate.
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