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Guidance for Runners - please read!

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Guidance for Runners

You will know that, for reasons beyond the club’s control, the venue of the race and, therefore, the race route, have had to be changed this year.

The Tame Valley Tennis and Squash Club have very kindly agreed to host the event and the facilities there are excellent.

However, in consideration to the club, your fellow runners and the residents and neighbours, it would be very helpful if you would note the following:

• There is very limited car parking at or close to the race headquarters and the road at the front of the club provides access both to a private residential development and to the Pennine Bridleway. Such parking as is available will be restricted to Tennis Club members and race officials. In addition, part of the highway will be coned off to create the race finish. Please do not park so as to cause an obstruction in the immediate vicinity of the club.
  
  
• Please also note that there are limited changing and shower facilities at the club, so it would be helpful if you could arrive at the race changed and ready to run if at all possible.
  
  
• In order to create an accurate 6-mile race, it is necessary to start the race on the Pennine Bridleway some 250 yards or so from the race HQ. The start will, therefore, be on a tree-lined footpath, slightly uphill to start (!), then downhill and over a footbridge onto the road outside the Tennis and Squash Club. It may, therefore, be somewhat congested at the start! Please be careful!
  
  
• The better news is that the bar will be open after the race!!
  

In addition:

1. IF POSSIBLE, PLEASE ENTER BEFORE THE DAY OF THE RACE! I will accept postal entries up to and including the morning of the race.

2. PLEASE DON’T SEND A STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE! Remember, numbers will not be sent out before the race. Doing it this way means that there is no need for a closing date for postal entries.

3. PLEASE COMPLETE THE ENTRY FORM LEGIBLY AND PROVIDE ALL THE REQUIRED INFORMATION! I need to know your club, if any; in which category you are competing; your date of birth, and your UKA Affiliation Number, if any.

4. IF YOU CAN’T PRE-ENTER, PLEASE TURN UP EARLY ON THE NIGHT! All entries have to be input to computer, and, in the past, we have still been doing this long after the start of the race! If you turn up after 7 o’clock your entry may not be accepted. We will accept entries from about 5:30. The start will not be delayed to accommodate late arrivals

Brian Varley (Race Organiser)

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