Closing date for entries: Midday on Thurs, 16th January, 2025.

Timetable

12.00 Numbers available for collection by team managers.

1.00pm Masters Men - over 50, over 60 & over 70         approx 5 miles (8,000m)

1.40 Masters Women - 35-49, over 50, over 60, over 70       approx  5 miles (8,000m)

2.25 Masters Men - , 35-49    approx  5 miles (8,000m)

3.20 Cut off time for course marshalling & recording

Ages as at date of competition. Numbers will be issued to team managers on the day.

Age Categories: Individual medals will be categorised in 5 year bands i.e over 35, 40, 45 etc. Teams will be as above (35-49, 50-59, 60-69). Both genders will be categorised the same.

Eligibility: All athletes must have a Sussex County qualification through Birth or Residence. Residence requires nine months continuous residence in the County prior to the date of the competition. All athletes must be affiliated to England Athletics and their affiliation membership number shown on the entry form. No athlete will be able for awards unless competing in their club vests. This is the responsibility of the club.

Team Managers are asked to advise Athletes with disabilities who wish to enter that they should contact 07738706683 to discuss the individual implications of the disability risk assessment.

Awards:

• Medals will be awarded to first 3 runners in each age group and to the first three teams in each of the above categories.
• Teams will comprise the first 3 finishers for each club, except for 35-49 men, which will be 4 to score.
• Athletes are not permitted to score in two different age group teams. They can score as an individual in one age group and in a team of the age group below as long as it is within the same race. Athletes who opt to score in the age band lower than their own, but this must be notified to the meeting manager in advance of the day.
• Presentation of Awards for all races will take place as soon as the results are known and proceedings allow.

Directions – Coombes Farm is best approached via the A27 (please note there is a new road layout since last year).(Please note this is a working farm so no dogs anywhere on site).

The course - 2 x 2.5 mile laps with a sweeping Downland course with approx 400 feet of accent, it has a cattle grid but this can be bypassed by gates on either side.

Car parking is off road so car sharing maybe a good idea, we intend to have people to direct runners upon arrival.

Club tents are very welcome and can be pitched near the start/finish area.

Notice – No dogs, no smoking, no entering farm buildings other than the designated office/toilets, and please take your litter home with you.

DATA PROTECTION - In entering this event, athletes are agreeing to Sussex AA publishing personal information as part of results and passing such information on to the governing body and/or affiliated organisations. Data may also be used to provide information on future events. Any queries regarding this contact Kate Matthews (matthews2000@live.co.uk)

All participants (including athletes and athlete support personnel) in any licensed event are bound to UK Athletics’ anti-doping rules and must make themselves familiar with these rules. Organisers of licensed events are expected to cooperate with UK Anti-Doping with regards to any code-compliant anti-doping investigations and proceedings linked to their event or participants in their event, and to include the following statement regarding anti-doping compliance, provided by UKAD, within their event registration process:
“An entrant shall be deemed to have made himself/herself/themself, familiar with, and agreed to be bound by the UKA Anti-Doping Rules and to submit to the authority of UK Anti-Doping in the application and enforcement of the Anti-Doping Rules. The UKA Anti-Doping Rules apply to entrants participating in the sport of Athletics, for 12 months from the date of entering the event, whether or not the participant is a citizen of, or resident in, the UK."