Avon Valley Runners

Westbury White Horse

White Horse Relay

Rules

General

  1. Competitors take primary responsibilty for their safety and participate in the event at their own risk. The organisers accept no responsibility for personal accident nor damage to athletic equipment or other personal effects nor any public liability.
  2. The decision of the Race Organiser will be final in all matters.
  3. The race is run according to UK:A rules.

Teams

  1. Each team must consist of seven runners, each runner running two stages, once in stages 1 to 7 and once in stages 8 to 14.
  2. Mixed teams must consist of at least two men and two women and three other runners of either sex.
  3. No runner may run for more than one team.

Participants

  1. All participants must be aged 16 years or older on the day of the race.

Schedule

  1. No stage will have a cut-off time.
  2. At any stage, if the nominated runner for that stage is not present at the start, then the team will be awarded maximum points for that stage as a penalty.
  3. If a runner starts a leg but does not finish, the team will be awarded maximum points for that leg.
  4. Runners are responsible for their own hydration during their stages. The organisers will attempt to provide water stations for the longer legs.

Race Route

  1. It is the responsibility of each runner to follow the Race Route (supplied with each team's acceptance of entry or available on request), as there are few or no marshals or additional markers. The organisers take no responsibility for ensuring that the trail is waymarked. The team is advised to check out the course in advance of the race.
  2. Runners will not be disqualified for accidently deviating from the race route except for stage 1 where they may not cross the railway line other than by the route shown, stage 5 where no short cut will be tolerated, stage 7 where it expressly written in the description of the route and shown in red on the Google map, Stage 10 where they may not run along Oare Hill nor Marlborough Road.
  3. 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.
  4. Runners cross roads at their own risk and are alone responsible for themselves. Road crossings may not all be marshalled but if a marshal is present the runner must not assume that the marshal will make it safe for their protected passage. In other words, marshals, when present, will not be responsible for runners' safety.
  5. Most of these stages are along public rights of way, however runners should be aware that these rights of way may pass through farmers' own land.

Team Responsibilites

  1. Runners' names are to be declared to the Race Organiser prior to the race on the form provided. Changes must be notified before the start of each stage or sooner if possible.
  2. The Team Captain must ensure that each runner in his/her team is safe should they get lost or fail to comlete a leg.
  3. If a runner drops out, the marshal responsible for the finish of that leg must be notified.
  4. Each team will be required to supply Marshals to marshal one stage each of the relay. These marshals will be given instructions for the minimum marshaling required. Each team captain will be advised to ask each member of his/her team to pioneer their stages of the relay prior to race day.

Course Responsibility

  1. Gates which can be opened should not be climbed. Any runner opening a gate must ensure that it is properly closed after passing through it.
  2. Any damage resulting to fences, gates or styles must be reported to a marshal at the end of the stage. A runner causing such damage must make their best efforts to leave the object stock-proof.

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