Prestwold 10k

2021 LRRL Reunion League - Race 1

Race: Prestwold 10k

Club: Barrow Runners

Date: Sunday 27th June 2021

Time: 10am

Distance: 10km - MAP

Entry Fee: £11

Entry Link: Event Entry - Entries Open 23/05/2021 @ 19:00

Race Limit: 600

Club Waiting List: If there is a waiting list for transfers, please contact your captains to be added to the list.

Transfer Link: Event Entry

Venue: Prestwold Driving Centre

Address: Prestwold Driving Centre, Prestwold Lane, Loughborough LE12 5SH

Lift Share: Due to the current situation, we will not be organising a lift-sharing meeting point on the morning of the race. Members are free to arrange lifts with other members or the club captains can help facilitate car shares for those who require it. Please contact your captains for more information.

Information

We understand that some runners will be nervous about an absence of COVID restrictions, especially around the village, the start and the finish, so we are doing the following:

The race has been reduced to 600 runners (it’s normally 900) and will be a closed race for members of LRRL clubs only.
We will have the coffee man and the cold drinks van there, but no fun run or merchandise stalls or massage tents. Not really a family day out!
A few more portaloos than the matrix requires, with sanitiser etc outside.
Numbers will be in individual envelopes, but issue will be in bulk to club representatives so that there is no queueing at a registration desk. There is plenty of space for clubs to bring their tents and flags to provide a base for their runners.
Just in case we have to phase the start due to COVID restrictions we will be asking for a rough estimate of finishing time when people enter. We hope this won’t be necessary, but seems a sensible precaution.
The start and finish will be moved up the road a few metres to create more space at the start and a more natural flow at the finish – marshals will encourage finishers to keep moving forward.
If the government still requires face masks to be used indoors we will provide disposable face masks and ask runners to wear them as a courtesy to others when waiting for the start. Runners can drop them to the side of the course over the first 200 metres or so for collection.
Water on course will be in bottles for collection by runners off tables.
The race will be on gun time (with normal prizes), but since most of us are really looking at our chip time we will encourage runners who want to avoid the crowd at the start to hang back for a few minutes to let the rush go.
By delaying the entry date we really hope there will not be a need to cancel. If we do, we will not be refunding any entry fees, but will allow all runners to carry forward their place to 2022 if they want to, or donate their entry fee to the Air Ambulance – the nominated charity of the Prestwold Hall owners.
All of the above will be confirmed in an email to runners in the week before the race.

Rules

The 2021 league will be a stand-alone league of 5 races and won’t continue from the abandoned 2020 league season

• There will be no promotion or relegation

• The league will be called the “Reunion League”

• Team scores from all 5 races will count – there will be no dropped scores

• Individuals will need to run 4 of the 5 races to count towards individual prizes

Tournament structure:

The tournament will be the same format as the 2020 Lockdown League - 4 pools of 7 clubs (one pool with 6), the top 2 clubs from each pool will race it out in The Grand Final.

Depending on the finishing position in the group stage clubs will be put into an A, B or C final so there is everything to play for at the last race.

Pools to be drawn randomly - no seedings or geographical groupings (if it leads to a "Group of Death" - so be it!) The draw will be made live on the LRRL Facebook page on Sunday 13th June at 8pm.

Team sizes:

Mixed teams made up of 8 runners - 4 men and 4 women. Included within this must be at least 1 vet man, and 1 vet woman. In the event a club's top 4 male or female runners are seniors or juniors, the 4th runner will drop out of the team score and be replaced by the highest placed vet. This will reduce the total number of runners each club will need in order to compete for team prizes and hopefully ensure everyone gets a fair crack of the whip.

Although the main competition will be between mixed teams as outlined above the league will also publish male and female league tables based on the 4 fastest male and female counters, again including the vets.

In order to encourage social distancing at the start line all league tables, both individual and team, will be calculated using chip time and not gun time.

Team prizes:

There will be prizes for the first, second and third-placed mixed teams in the competition. There will also be prizes for the first male and first female teams. Prizes will only be awarded if sufficient races are able to take place.

Individual prizes:

To count for individual prizes runners will need to compete in at least 4 of 5 races.

Prizegiving will be subject to numbers completing the required number of races taking place. It is anticipated there will be prizes for:

Top 6 Seniors

Top 3 all other age categories, subject to the number of competitors

Awards evening:

The aim is to hold a face to face awards evening as in previous years. This is subject to Covid restrictions and sufficient races taking place to award prizes and for the league to generate the income to pay for them!