Quite strange that this thread has a habit of losing posts, so that anyone reading through it will be a bit confused at the lack of continuity in some parts of the thread.
Not just from one poster either - several posts have been deleted.

I hope that's not a cynical attempt on anyone's part to cover one's tracks :sneaky:

All the posts of the last few days seem to serve is that there is total ambiguity at the moment as to what the operative date is in the junior fell races in particular, but also it has to be said in some of the seniors.
If an ex Junior Co-ordinator, ex Chair and still committee man, and FJunior all have slightly different takes on the situation, then how can the rest be expected to deal with this.
Post 107 Lecky - unless otherwise specified age on 1/1/13
Post 111 Breezy - age on day unless otherwise stated.
Post 127 FJ - paragraph 3 - the RO can be expected to make the entrants aware of the qualifying date (ie either of the above really)

I haven't looked at them all, but I've checked around a dozen junior races and only 2 identify the date of the age calculation. One is the Stretton FRA Junior race and one is my Trail Relays and they both have different dates.

As OB1 states, it is not a satisfactory situation that we turn up on the day and find out on arrival. Juniors do recce as well you know and so need to know what race they are supposed to do.

NB. Perhaps adding it on the permit application form would be a good idea?

There probably wasn't anything wrong with rule 10, or with the new rule 10, but it is a fact that it lead to a precedent in junior fell running that FJ touched on that races aligned to these dates.
I still think that what fell running lacks that other endurance disciplines have is age group rules such as I set out on an earlier post.