UKA Relays

[Witton Park]

Maybe they thought that they would get away with it? Goodness knows why

There's a lot of issues here.

Firstly, the terrain, the routes etc were all fine, hampered by weather.

The lack of prep by Leg 4 runners is hard to understand. Both my Leg 4 runners went around the key part of the route at 10:15 in the morning.

Marshalls - I was on the NAV leg and didn't see one. A 6"x3"x2" dibber machine with a bit of red & white course marking tape wrapped around it is tough to find in Clag.
A marshall would have helped as at least you could have found the dibber once you had got within 50m of it.

If CFR were re-hosting on the same patch, I would just ask for some marshalling on the NAV leg and at least something to make the dibber machine stand out a little more as you approach it.

Finally - the routes were amended as the day approached, to the point where the tanoy broadcast that a CP had been located 100m North of where it was supposed to be.
I hope everyone heard the announcement!

[Nee Bother]

Unfair or not, locals will always have an advantage. I cant be arsed to trawl through previous years results but one occasion springs to mind. When the relays were held in the Peak District didnt Dark Peak win the mens and ladies? From what i remember the clag was down that day as well

Have I missed something here.....do we not move about the country each year to 'share' round the local Knowledge?

(I had never been to those fells before, but got a look around my leg on Sat pm)

[Richard Head]

Maybe they thought that they would get away with it? Goodness knows why

There's a lot of issues here.

Firstly, the terrain, the routes etc were all fine, hampered by weather.

The lack of prep by Leg 4 runners is hard to understand. Both my Leg 4 runners went around the key part of the route at 10:15 in the morning.

I cant understand their thinking. With Sportident events its all there in black and white. If you havnt dibbed you get DQ'd. I dont think the Tebay race was Sportident was it?

As for lack of preparation. When i was on leg 4 in Wales i made a 4 hour round trip to recce the course. Thats not something i would ever do for an individual race but i didnt want to let my team mates down

[Pinchy]

Like any race, if you want local knowledge get out there and recce it... as someone once said, "who has the problem here?"

[XRunner]

Im always intrigued to debate with people as to what they class as experience.

The FRA are aware that the standard of competitors in fell relay races may be lower than in full navigation fell races. Hence the more stringent rules for fell relays:-

14 RELAYS

Because there is a possibility of less experienced runners being included in a relay team, in addition to the procedures above, the organiser MUST ensure that :

Every competing club has been vetted as experienced for this type of event.

Sufficient copies of information/rules/safety procedures are sent to competing clubs for distribution to each competitor.

Clubs must give the organiser formal assurance that this has been done.

Competitors MUST carry the equipment specified in Requirement 9. All leg winners and at least 10% of other competitors MUST have their equipment checked on finishing and any transgression of the organiser’s requirements MUST result in instant disqualification of the offending team.

[IainR]

Have I missed something here.....do we not move about the country each year to 'share' round the local Knowledge?

Have they been?

Serious question here, have they ever been held in the south of England? South Wales? or Northern Ireland?

It's not a huge issue anyway. I'm not sure it should be such an issue that someone thinks the relays should be flagged, is that such a threat to the sport?

[Another Team]

How is the marshall who broke his leg??

[Nee Bother]

[QUOTE=IainR;264109]Have they been?

Serious question here, have they ever been held in the south of England? South Wales? or Northern Ireland?

QUOTE]

Not sure Iain, (probably not from your post) but i'm assuming it moves around to give most folk a fair chance of attending.

I don't think its been up here to North East either.

Ken

[IainR]

The Mourne's would make an excellent venue.

[Nee Bother]

The Mourne's would make an excellent venue.

Its a lang way from Sunderland tho