Power of 10 - Official Thread

C'est crap, as they say in France.

Never mind, BA are delighted to announce that Pro:Direct are the official retail partner for the Power of 10. What does that actually mean?

Shame there isn’t an obvious API to extract the data from the site, as I’m trying to learn the basics of web development (python / django) so this could have been a fun learning project for me. Could have sprinkled in some custom data visualisation charts etc.

Why doesn't the US have this?

They can't count to 10

On the positive they’ve stopped adding parkrun on there as an official race

I'd go back to having parkrun included in an instant if we got the old website back.

Can't believe how much worse it is lol, pretty on the face of it, but so bad to navigate

Parkruns are so frequently attended by runners that their inclusion was a useful gage to measure runners who race very infrequently. They basically made up the majority of most runners' entries, and I was happy to disregard most of them as noise while extracting some nuggets of intel about a runner's ability. Parkrun have made it almost impossible to carry out nominal searches on their website due to privacy concerns, so the exclusion is a loss in my view.

Agree - they were also listed separately as "parkruns" and not as official 5ks. Don't see why they shouldn't be included as they are just as useful to see for most runners as cross country results (which are still included)

all it needed was a little adjustment for readability on mobile. bizarre bit of ensh*ttification here really. it's just rubbish.

world athletics changing their athlete pages to a much less readable layout was the same sort of nonsense. what is going on?

would love to see any kind of explanation of how this is a "big upgrade". also, why did they have to take the old site down while the new one was being built?

also - how do I log in like I could on RunBritain? Power of 10 has me unattached to a club atm - but that might be because I havent raced?

Also, is there a way on the new site of getting a list of club members rankings so I can compare myself to others?

Classic example of design agency winning and a contract to do some colouring in and completing ignoring the actual reason why the website is used.

It's been months now and they're not listening to the members. They clearly don't care.

Time to organise a boycott of ProDirect. Maybe they'll feel the pain and put pressure on UKA.

every facebook post relating to power of 10 is littered with complaints, i have not seen one positive comment. is there anyone to contact about this or way to start a petition?

I know that Tim Grose frequents these pages, were you forced to give it up? is there anyway you could just start it up again under a different name using the same format as before? you really dont appreciate how valuable it is until a bunch of buffoons go and ruin it. the new site is unusable and i dont have the time to google search every race up and down the country to see the results of

It's definitely not as simple and easy to read as the old website, but I do like that they have combined powerof10 and runbritain.

Agreed but the 'privacy concerns' line is a deliberate misdirection from parkrun. They initially said they removed records and athlete searching etc. to make parkrun more 'accessible' but this coincided directly with visible concern at a growing number of 'female' first place finishers and course records being awarded to biological males. Minutes from a 2024 meeting with parkrun chiefs including parkrun founder Paul Sinton-Hewitt eventually admitted this:
“Save Women’s Sport” was mentioned, and Paul said that a by-product of removing the stats was “helping to address the gender thing.” He elaborated that if the stats were returned, those protesters would then have grounds again to attack parkrun for their stance on this issue. Parkrun want to convey that it is not a sport or competitive, to avoid this amongst other issues."

So rather than address that sticky subject or- god forbid- ask biological males to compete in the male category, they instead decided to go scorched earth and axe all of the records completely to appease about 7 middle aged men who get their kicks beating the next generation of female talent each week.

what was the point of Run Britain? seemed like a pointless website

It was much more suited for hobby joggers looking to track progress over parkruns and road events whereas Power of 10 catered to elite, semi-elite and top club runners with a focus on track pbs.

If they've stopped tracking parkruns (which seems to be the case) then the new power of 10 is officially useless for hobby joggers (i.e. 95% of their users) as their handicap will only update about twice a year for those paid events that also submit times to power of 10 (which isn't all that common for local races). Presumably all of that 'dead time' between paid races will mean the handicap slides down too, making the graph useless for actually tracking progress. It's gone from something I would be excited to check each week after a parkrun to something which I might check once every two years if I remember.

Not exactly an original take but this update is truly terrible, there can't be that many other use cases for the website beyond looking at all races / runs by a person whether it's viewing your own historical results or looking at someone elses but they've made what was a simple list into an absolute car crash.

Looks like you are not trying very hard to learn. Open the network tab and do a search. The API is incredibly easy to find. Maybe you just relied on AI to do your thinking for you?

Here is an example form Womens 2000m SC for the UK region for the year of 2026. Every param maps to one of the UI filters and you can easily paginate via the 'pg' param to get more results. It is a simple search API.

https://www.powerof10.uk/Home/SearchRankingsTrackMain?ev=2000_SC&yr=yr2026&sex=W&age=OVER&reg=natUK&pg=1