Race rules

Entry Rules

1. Each team will have 20 runners.
2. Each runner may run over one stage only, for one team only. He or she may run for a Business House, if eligible, as well as his or her affiliated team, but not on the same leg.
3. Mixed teams of male and female athletes are permitted.
4. Only first claim runners may run for affiliated teams.
5. Runners for Business House teams must be a direct employee of the business concerned, or a spouse, son, or daughter of such an employee.
6. Veterans are males aged 40 and over, and females aged 35 or over.
7. While runners are expected to follow the correct route (see Race Rule 5), the organisers will endeavour to supply marshals for each stage. Accordingly, teams are accepted on the understanding that they will supply marshals as requested.

Race Rules

1. Each stage has a cut off time. This cut-off time is the maximum time that will be applied to any runner who starts a stage. If a team fails to get a runner to run the stage at all, the cut-off time plus 15 minutes will apply.
2. Runners are timed over their stage, and the times for all stages are summed to give the total team time.
3. Runners will wear the identifying numbers on both the front and back. Veteran runners must ensure that the identifying ‘V’ on their front is visible. Lady runners must ensure that the identifying ’F’ on their front is visible.
4. Pacing or protecting a runner from wind is not allowed.
5. It is the runner’s responsibility to follow the correct route. Maps and instructions will be supplied to each team. No lead vehicle is supplied. Runners should keep to the left hand side of the road at all times, except when instructed otherwise. If a runner is seen by an official to be running contrary to the race instructions, a fixed one minute time penalty will apply.
6. The prize for the first veteran (male or female) on a leg, is given to the first veteran after the first runner on the leg.
7. No training or cycling is allowed on the route of a stage during the running of that stage. These activities will result in a severe frown from the race officials, and in extreme cases will result in a fixed one minute time penalty being applied to the team whose members offend.

Points to Note

1. The organisers attach great importance to the spirit in which the event is run. Teams are relied on to conform to standards of good fellowship and sportsmanship to make the event enjoyable to all, without the necessity for rules to take account of every possible occurrence. If you are in doubt about a contemplated action, ask the Umpire.
2. All runners start each stage simultaneously, normally as the first runner from the previous stage finishes, although this may be varied at the organisers’ discretion to suit local conditions. Thus each stage functions as a seperate race.
3. Each team is responsible for getting runners to a changeover point on time and for picking up spent runners. Coaches are not allowed for this event because of narrow roads and parking.
4. Les Croupiers RC will supply the Race Umpires and their decisions will be final. For safety reasons, the race rules will be firmly enforced.
5. The race organisers will supply a vehicle to follow the last runner and warn traffic of runners ahead. They will also supply Timekeepers, Flying Marshals, and other necessary officials. Timekeepers are responsible at changeovers for the actual position of the starts and finishes and their relative times.

Dave Weeden 2000–8. Feel free to contact me with suggestions, complaints, or praise — or if you spot any errors of fact, grammar, sense, or coding.