North East Counties Athletic Association
& North East Hill Running Association
Fell Running Championships 2009: Selection of races

Key:
ER= Experience required       LK= Local knowledge           NS= Navigational Skills
NT= No Toilets                   PM= Partially Marked           T= Toilets

The sixth running of the North East Counties Athletic Association (NECAA) Open Fell Running Championship series is to take place during 2009. As in previous years the series will incorporate the North East Hill Running Association (NEHRA) Fell Running Championships for veteran men and women.

This year the series will consist of seven races of which a competitor’s best four results will count. The results will be calculated on the same basis as the British and English championships, i.e. 1st 52 points, 2nd 49 points, 3rd 48 points and then 50th 1 point, in each category (see below).

This year, as has been the custom, races are selected from those that are published in the first edition of the FRA calendar. The races have been selected from Northumberland, Durham and North Yorkshire. This is to enable competitors to participate in at least three of the four races in an area within a reasonable travelling distance of their home. An attempt has been made to select races that also balance the competition in terms of length, ascent, winning times, and distribution throughout the year.

The first race in the series will be the Doctor’s Gate Race on Sunday 29th March. The distribution of the races will hopefully give people sufficient lead in time to enable as many as possible to take part in the championships and complete at least four of the seven races.

The competition is open to all those over the age of eighteen who were born in or have been resident for more than one year within the boundaries of the old NECAA, that is, from Whitby, north to Berwick upon Tweed, (Northumberland, Durham, Tyne and Wear, Cleveland and part of the old North Riding of Yorkshire). Age categories, for the year of the competition, will be those that are declared on the result sheet of the competitor’s first championship race of the series. It will be assumed that members of clubs from within the region are eligible unless they declare themselves ineligible. Unattached runners and runners from clubs outside the region will be assumed to be ineligible unless they declare themselves eligible to the organiser.

Engraved medals will be awarded to qualifying competitors as shown below.

Competition categories are:

NECAA FR Championships
First three Senior Males and Females

NEHRA FR Championships
          First three Vet O40 Male and Female

          First three Vet O50 Male and Female

          First three Vet O60 Male and Female

          First three Vet O70 Male and Female

Keith Cooper
1st January 2009

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