How ITRA Endurance Points are calculated ?

Please use our Itra points calculator (.xlsx) to simulate your race data and find out how many ITRA Endurance Points your race will award.

For single race stage, (not a multistage race), ITRA uses a validated method to calculate the level of difficulty of a race and this method is based on the notion of ‘Km-effort’.
The total “Km-effort” of a race are calculated by taking into account both the distance and the elevation gain as follows:

For standard races

Based on the number of Km-effort, each race is then classified according to its level of difficulty with ITRA Endurance Points ranging from 0 to 6 as follows:

Penalties

The number of Aid stations & Loops can have a direct impact over the calculation of km-effort and ITRA Endurance Point.
If a race has a large number of aid stations in relation to the distance, it will be deemed to not require self-sufficiency and therefore, the number of effort points will be reduced.

Regarding Aid stations, the average interval between 2 aid stations is calculated as follows:

• Distance = distance expressed in kilometers

• Ascent gain/loss =a hundredth of the ascent expressed in meters

• Number of aid stations =number of refreshment posts on the route (excluding start and finish line)

Aid stations = both liquids & solids and/or only liquids

The average interval = Number of effort points / Number of aid stations

Example: 40km / 1500m+ course with 6 aids stations:

AI = (40+ (1500/100)) / 6 = 9.16 Penalty points = - 15 effort points.

Effort points final = 55 - 15 = 40 effort points.

This race course would obtain 1 ITRA points.

Please use our Itra points calculator (.xlsx) to simulate your race data and find out how many loops are need for your race to award an X number of ITRA points.