Due to the club dinner being a special 50th anniversary undertaking and being a significant undertaking on the Saturday for those organising and assisting, the committee had decided to have the champs on a different weekend.
Our one race Club Championship Race is on Saturday 28th November, R.O.’s Simon Mills and Jasmine Brown.
This year, it’s slightly different to the previous few editions. The planned course is roughly 16km with 750 m of climbing, so expected winning time of c.a. 01:30. The course planner thinks it’s a cracker, and it’s less rough than some may have expected.
We appreciate this may be longer time out that some would like for a Club Champ’s race. With this in mind, there will also be the option of Short course available which removes 2 check points, and with distance of approximately 10.5 km and 560 m of climbing using the R.O.’s planned route.
If you think you’ll be out for over 3 hrs in racing conditions on the Long, consider the Short.
Volunteers
To be able to have a club champs, we rely on volunteers, for either marshalling on the hill, or to assist with registration and start. If you are available to assist, please sign up here. If you haven’t been able to volunteer / chose not to, at any of the open DPFR races and don’t quite fancy the champs, please consider volunteering. Thanks.
Sign up on this form:
https://forms.gle/ei5bQugZmJyYTB1C6
Race Details
To be eligible for one of the open trophies (i.e. categories without handicap taken into account), you’ll need to enter the long course, but the short there can be bragging rights, and who knows, some tat from a garage may be available as prizes for the short.
As can be expected for a winter peak district race, navigation will be required; particularly if the mist is down, and full FRA kit will be mandatory, possibly with additional warm layers depending on conditions. And as usual, the map will be released on the Wednesday evening prior to the champs so recceing will be difficult.
You can opt down to Short once the courses are published, but if you do it on the day, you will be non-competitive.
To keep things fair for the handicap categories, the Long and Short courses will both be handicapped competing for the same handicap trophies. A fudge factor will be put in for the loss of speed on the longer course, so will hopefully even out, but handicapping will be slightly more generous if you chose long over short.
The handicap will attempt to be based on recent race results (within the past couple of years) so if there is no useful data to work with, you may end up with a bad handicap, so in the entry form please list recent results.
To assist with handicapping, if you’re on the fence about doing this, it’s less faff to remove an entry than sort a handicap last minute. Entries received after Monday 23rd November can expect a suitably rubbish handicap.
A non-competitve mass start option is also available for both Long and Short, though the intention is that this group will run together and navigate together.
Sign up to what promises to be one of the finer Peak District races of the year, on this form: