Quote Originally Posted by dominion View Post
The 3 Peaks Cyclo Cross carries out 600 or so kit checks as the riders are signing on. The bivvy bag requirement there is absolute, they won't even take a technically better quality bivvy as a substitute to the BMC approved orange polythene one specified.
They requested this at a race I ran this year, exactly the same, had to be the orange polythene version. I think it was Long Tour of Bradwell but I could be mistaken...mind, there was no kit check whatsoever at that once I got there which baffled me a little. Conditions were great but 34 miles on fells and trails is a long way to send out a group of runners unassessed in my opinion.

It is possible to kit check everybody. Whether it is worthwhile is another matter altogether and dependent on the race. But Edale Skyline and Nine Edges are two off the top of my head where you'd have a bit of a job to actually get to the start without having your kit assessed. At Nine Edges in 2010 they had a registration table with kit check right next to it, and a couple of people circulating the throng of runners asking if they had been checked. And quite right too. I missed 2011 with injury :thunbdown: