Team Bath Athletic Club

COTSWOLD WAY RELAY - RULES

GENERAL

1.       Competitors 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.

2.       The decision of the Race Organiser will be final in all matters.

3.      The race is run according to FRA rules (Fell Runners Association).

TEAMS

4.      Veteran Teams will have every runner aged 40 or over on race day.

5.      Mixed Teams will have a minimum of 3 women

RUNNERS

6.       All runners will be aged 18 years or older on race day.

7.       Each team will have no more than 10 runners, and only one runner per stage.

8.       Each runner may run over one stage only, for one team only.

RACE SCHEDULE  

9.       Each stage will have a cut off time, shown in the Race Schedule, which will be the maximum time applied to a runner who finishes that stage.

10.   If a team does not have runner for a stage the No Runner Time shown for the respective stage in the Race Schedule will apply.

11.   If a runner starts but does not finish a stage the No Runner Time shown for the respective stage in the Race Schedule less 5 minutes will apply.

12.  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

13.   The route will adhere strictly to the Cotswold Way unless otherwise indicated in the guidelines / website or by the Start Marshall.

14.   It is the responsibility of each runner to follow the Race 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 are not waymarked.

15.   Runners will NOT be disqualified for accidentally deviating from the Race Route. However if it is judged that a runner has gained advantage from not following the Race Route a time penalty will be added.

16.   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.

17.  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.

TEAM RESPONSIBILITIES

18.   Runners Names are to be declared to the Race 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.

19.   The team captain must inform a race official at the finish of that stage if a runner has dropped out.

20.   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.

21.   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. Race officials will leave the finishes shortly after the cut-off times. It is the responsibility of the competitor to inform their team captain of retirement, and to inform marshals / organiser.

COURSE RESPONSIBILITY

22.   Openable gates should NOT be climbed. Any runner 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.

23.  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.