GENERAL
1. Competitors and their team
captains take primary responsibility for their safety and participate in the
event at their own risk. The organisers cannot accept any responsibility for personal
accident or damage to athletic equipment and other personal effects or any
public liability. Anyone participating in the event will be deemed to have
accepted total responsibility for their own safety in all regards.
2. Even though an individual
appointed by the organiser will facilitate a collective group start and is
likely to give instructions to start, there is no responsibility for the safety
of participants or liability for any claims or
damages that might arise carried by that individual, the organiser, or the host
athletic club Team Bath AC.
3. The decision of the
Organiser will be final in all matters.
4. The event is run according to FRA rules (Fell Runners Association).
TEAMS
5. Veteran Teams will have every runner aged 40 or over on race day.
6. Mixed Teams will have a minimum of 3 women
RUNNERS
7. All
runners will be aged 18 years or older on race day.
8. Each team will have no more
than 10 runners, and only one runner per stage.
9. Each runner may run over one
stage only, for one team only.
SCHEDULE
10. Each stage will have a cut
off time, shown in the Schedule, which will be the maximum time applied to a
runner who finishes that stage.
11. If a team does not have
runner for a stage the No Runner Time shown for the respective stage in
the Schedule will apply.
12. If a runner starts but does
not finish a stage the No Runner Time shown for the respective stage in
the Schedule less 5 minutes will apply.
13. Runners are responsible for their own hydration during their run. Attempts will be made to provide one water station mid-way through each stage, and details will be announced prior to the start of a stage.
ROUTE FINDING
14. The route will adhere
strictly to the Cotswold Way unless otherwise indicated in the guidelines /
website or by the Start Marshall.
15. It is the responsibility of
each runner to follow the Route, as there are no marshals or additional
markers. Organisers take no responsibility for ensuring that the trail is waymarked. The end of Leg 5 along the Stroudwater
Canal, and the start of Leg 6 between Ebley Mill and
Pen Lane may not be waymarked.
16. Guide runners are not
permitted.
17. Runners will NOT be
disqualified for accidentally deviating from the Route. However if it is
judged that a runner has gained advantage from not following the Route a
time penalty will be added.
18. Runners must pay attention
to trespass and invasion of privacy that results from
route deviation. Runners are reminded that any prosecution resulting from
trespass or other related offence is the sole liability of the runner.
19. Runners cross roads at their own risk, and are alone responsible for themselves. Road crossings will largely be unmarshalled. Runners will not assume that a marshall will in any way make it safe for their protected passage. Marshalls, when present, will not be responsible for runners’ safety.
20. The use of GPS mapping devices to guide runners is not acceptable, although GPS enabled time-keeping and recording devices may be used.
TEAM
RESPONSIBILITIES
21. Runners
Names are to be declared to the Organiser before the race on the form provided.
The officials must be notified of changes at the start of each stage, or far
preferably in advance.
22. The team captain must inform
an official at the finish of that stage if a runner has dropped out.
23. The team captain must ensure
that each runner is equipped with their own contact details, for use in
resolving loss of route or in end of stage logistics.
24. It is the responsibility of
each team to ensure that any of their runners who fail to complete a leg by the
cut off time is safe. Officials will leave the finishes shortly after the
cut-off times. It is the responsibility of the participant to inform their team
captain of retirement, and to inform marshals / organiser.
COURSE
RESPONSIBILITY
25. Openable gates should NOT be
climbed. Any participant opening a gate or running through a gate opened by the
runner in-front must ensure that it is firmly closed behind them in a
stock-proof manner.
26. Any damage resulting to fences, gates or styles must be reported to the marshall at the end of the stage. A runner incurring such damage must make best efforts to leave the object stock-proof.