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England Team's for The Snowdon International Mountain Race

18th July 2009

Men
Andi Jones (Salford)
Ian Holmes (Bingley)
Danny Hope (Pudsey & Bramley)
Chris Steele (Borrowdale)

Women
Katie Ingram (Horwich)
Pippa Jackson (Keswick)
Emma Clayton (Scunthorpe)

UKA British Relay Championships

6th WMRA Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge

(Tour de Tyrol – Kaisermarathon)

This year has seen a change to the LDMRC with the invitation of National Teams to run in the event on 10th October in Austria. England along with all the Home Nations have been asked to put forward teams of up to 5 men and 5 women (3 to run and 2 reserves) by the 30th June 2009.

Any athlete interested in this event and feels they have the performance/form to back their selection please contact :
Alan Barlow (0161 4839330) or Mark Croasdale (01524 388748)

This race is over 42km long, starts at the village of Soll (698m) and finishes at Hohe Salve (1829m) also see the race website at www.tourdetirol.com

Dentdale Fell Race

29th August 2009 - A Hell of a Rise Hill

As the external work at Shoolbred is almost finished, the landowner has kindly agreed Reccis is now possible with the exception of one field which is in the high level Environmental Stewardship Scheme.

To Recci', go up the lane to the house, passing the house on your right, go round the back, through the gate and then left up the track to a wooden gate. Go through this gate and head straight forward to a stile. Under no circumstances go through the metal gate to the left. This is the Schemefield.

Go over the stile and up the reedy field with the wall on your left to another stile then head diagonally left to the lone tree. Go through the gate and up the long allotment to the wall, turn right to the trig point.

From here you can do a visual Reccis of the whole of the Whernside Race (26 September) The track to the TV mast is clearly visible continuing up Whernside's summit, descend right across the head of Deepdale before climbing again to Great Coum and returning to Dent. A great 12 miler.

The return for your Reccis is by the same route avoiding the Schemefield.

A full Reccis may be possible late July and August once the meadow has been cut. Watch out for further updates. In the meantime, please respect the permission outlined above.

Safety Note. Billy the bull maybe in the long allotment or the field below. He is quite placid, but you should beware, although any self respecting fit fell runner should be able to outpace Billy going up or down. Red kit not advised.

Any questions, call John Hyde 015396 25503

UK Athletics Liability Insurance

Please note that UK Athletics have changed brokers for this policy and that any enquiries or claims by race organisers or others should no longer be directed to Oval Insurance Broking Limited.

Until contact details are provided for the new brokers, Marsh Ltd, any enquiries or claims should be directed to John Temperton at UK Athletics. Email: jtemperton@uka.org.uk Tel: 0121 7138493

I have been informed that the policy itself has not changed at all.

Click - summary of the UKA Insurance Policy

Margaret Chippendale
FRA Fixtures Sec.

Rule 5

At the Meeting on 23rd February 2009, The FRA Committee decided in order to give better competition and opportunities to athletes, to remove Rule 5 from the Eligibility Rules for the English Championship (page 93 of the FRA Handbook). Now any eligible athlete may compete in the English Championship in any eligible capacity regardless of counting in any other national championship.

England Athletics Registration

Firstly, apologies to all Scottish, Welsh and Irish athletes reading this. As you can see from the title, this is only of any real concern to English Athletes.

What is EA? - England Athletics is the governing body which manages and develops Athletics in England, performing the same kind of duties as were performed by the AAA (and its regional bodies, e.g. NoEAA, SoEAA etc) in the past. Scottish Athletics, Welsh Athletics and Athletics Northern Ireland are the equivalent bodies in the other home nations.

Do I need to register with EA? – On the face of it, the answer is no. Fell races in England do not charge any levies on behalf of either England Athletics or the FRA. They are open to all runners who fulfil the organiser’s criteria.

However, if you want to count in either the English or the British fell running championships, then you must either be a member of the FRA or registered with England Athletics.

Other reasons to register - You can take part in other types of races (e.g. road races) without paying the levy, or, if you want to race abroad, you can use your EA card instead of paying for a doctor's "fitness-to-race" letter.

How much does it cost? - England Athletics have agreed that, for runners who are FRA members and not members of multi-discipline athletics clubs, then they will allow registration without any charge at all. Please note the proviso – this is not supposed to be a method of avoiding registration payment, rather it is for members of fell-only clubs who might wish to run the odd road race, or to race abroad.

How do I go about registering with the EA? - Simply write (email or post) to me, Alan Brentnall (contact details at the front of the magazine), expressing your desire to register, and supplying your full name, running club, address, date-of-birth and confirm that you are a member of the FRA. I will maintain a spreadsheet of registered members which I will copy to England Athletics normally once a year, just before the start of the year - although for 2009, I will probably need to make several deliveries while the process is bedding in

Can my club membership secretary do this for me? – Certainly, I am quite happy to accept bulk applications from club membership secretaries, providing all the necessary details are supplied.

Commonwealth Mountain and Ultra Distance Championships

website

FRA Championships - V65

Members will be aware that there was consultation on omitting long races from the V65 Category from 2009 but it should be noted that these races will be counters as indicated in the 2009 FRA Calendar.

Langdale Horsehoe 2009 – Team Entries

Saturday 10th October 2009

In order to give clubs every opportunity to compete for team trophies, the following will be allowed for 2009 only:
in addition to individual entries clubs may reserve (and pay for) up to 5 entries. Such entries must be received before the entry limit of 500 is reached.
By 2 weeks before the race (Sat 26th Sept) such entries may be allocated to club runners in any team categories (English Championship & Lakes Classics) where the club has the possibility of a top 3 placing.

Unused entries will be allocated to individuals on the reserve list, and the club refunded that part of the entry fee.

Roger Bell