Bosworth
2017/18 Derby Runner XC League - Race 7
Race: Bosworth Visitor Centre
Club: Hinckley Running Club
Date: Sunday 11th March 2018
Time: Junior Race 10:30am, Men's Race 11:00am, Ladies Race 11:08am
Distance: 6.3 Miles - MAP
Entry Fee: Senior - FREE (BADGERS will be paying for the members this season)
Parking Fee: £2.50 Per a Car - This will allow you to stay all day at the center.
Venue: Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre
Address: Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, Ambion Ln, Sutton Cheney, Nuneaton CV13 0AD
Lift Share: We will be meeting at Woolpack Way Car Park, Atherstone at 9:30am (leaving 9:40am prompt) and travel over together!
NOTE: CAR SHARING IS ESSENTIAL - ONLY CARS WITH 3 OR MORE PEOPLE WILL BE ALLOWED ON THE MAIN CAR PARK.
**£2.50 PER A CAR PARKING CHARGE**
Information
Parking
There will be strict parking rules and would therefore ask that all runners please allow time to get themselves and their Children if running to the event. We have been granted a designated Car Park and are not allowed into any other areas. Parking will be £2.50 per car and will allow you to stay all day at the centre should you wish to.
Course
The course will be run around the car park area and surrounding woodland and fields.
Junior race approx. 10.30am, one or two laps of field and wood depending on age - 1 & 2 Mile
Main Race
Start 11am (This will be a split start race so please be aware of this);
Approx 6.5 miles; There will be a small loop out and back around the fields first followed by a long winding lap to include one worn in gravel track followed by muddy trails, woods with wet areas then fields. Note the route has 2 small tarmac sections back up by the car park. Some of you will have ran this course before as it was the very last race that Malcolm Bassett set out.
Footwear
Spikes, or ‘off-road’ shoes would be suitable (Trainers will be a struggle)
Toilets
These are available within the Center but please be courteous to other visitors.
After Race Venue and results with room for approx 50-70 people at:
Plough - 24 Leicester Road, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 1LS – 8 miles from race event
Rules
These races are CLOSED events, ie only members of affiliated clubs can take part. If you are a member of a club not in the Derby Runner Cross Country League, you can join one that is as a second claimer. Occasionally, at the rare and sole discretion of Dave Mann, guest runners may be allowed – any guest runner will not score points for a team.
Team Events
Men's event: 8 men (including 2 vets)
Ladies event: 4 ladies (including 1 vet)
Combined event: 7 men (including 2 vets) and 3 ladies (including 1 vet)
Please make your team aware of the following:
- Runners, MUST return their finishing disks
- Runners must run in club kit
- NO Earphones MP3s or other devices - it makes insurance invalid
- At stiles if you jump any queue, you and your team will be disqualified
- Host clubs are to make sure that all marshals know the mobile phone number of the first aid co-ordinator
- Host clubs are to make sure that the children’s race has hares and/or marshals
- Please turn up early and car share
- Finally, enjoy!
Race Results
BADGERS RESULTS (Download: EXCEL | PDF)
League Tables
FULL LEAGUE TABLES (Download: EXCEL | PDF)