Competitive Cycling for Life ^
You might see these referred to as SLCs. There are three of them and they run alongside your normal racing season. We'll explain them in more detail below. You do have to register in advance for the competitions you're interested in using your profile page. When you view your profile and look at the 'Competitions' section you'll see three boxes that need to be ticked. By default they'll carry forward unchanged from the previous season, so if you've entered in the past the tick will stay in place.
You don't have to pay to enter, and there are no forms to fill in. All your results automatically feed across from the CTT website as long as you have correctly linked your VTTA and CTT user profiles. You can find out how to do this here.
Each time you complete an event your competition results will be updated on your competition pages for you as an individual, for your club, and for your regional group.
(It's slightly different if your event is a Scottish Cycling event rather than a CTT event, we explain how that works here)
To qualify for this competition you need to ride at least two 10s and two 25s in the season. Your best age-adjusted times are used to calculate an average speed across all four events, and this leads to your overall position in the competition. Your average speeds are added together and divided by four. This means if you have only one, two or three qualifying rides your average speed will appear low.
This is similar to the Short Distance Competition, but this one is for events at 25, 50 and 100 miles. Your best age-adjusted times are used to calculate an average speed across the three events, and this leads to your overall position in the competition. Your average speeds are added together and divided by three. This means if you have only one, or two qualifying rides your average speed will appear low.
To be the best all rounder you have to do events at 25 miles, 50 miles, 100 miles and 12 hours. As with the above two competitions, your best age adjusted times, and distance for the 12 hour, are used to work out your average speed across all four events and this is used to rank you in the competition. Your average speeds are added together and divided by four. This means if you have only one, two or three qualifying rides your average speed will appear low.
If you want to see the full detail of how the competitions work refer to sections 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7 of the Regulations.
Up to and including the 2022 season, pluses were weighted and added together to produce an aggregate plus, which was used to rank riders in the competitions. From 2023 age adjusted times and distances are now used to calculate an average speed, and the average of the average speeds is used.