Long Eaton 50 June 16th 2012
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Feb 2012
10:55pm, 5 Feb 2012
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chrisity
General Information for the Long Eaton 50 Ultra on June 16th 2012. Sorry for the delay in updating the site, this was due to organisational issues. I am pleased to say that the event will definitely be taking place with the same course, except for a minor route change in Duffield. It will be around 51.7 miles to run. We are maintaining the price at £15/17, with a souvenier mug for finishers. There will be individual prizes as last year for the first male and female, and possibly for age categories if we attract sufficient entrants. This includes food at checkpoints and soup at the end. We have set a limit of 75 entries, but in the event of us being swamped by numbers we may reconsider the viability of increasing this. The team relay will again take place with a maximum of 25 teams, and we have reduced the price to £30 for a team of 6. The race has been awarded 2 qualifying points for anyone entering the Ultra Tour de Mont Blanc. Over the next couple of months we will be updating the course instructions and maps to take into account any changes, and we aim to emphasise the harder navigation issues with selected notes and photographs. We will add canal bridge numbers and also indicate which names used are not on signs. For example we use farm names from the map but they may not be clearly named from the route. Please bear with us if it takes a while, there is a lot to check. Information at longeatonrunningclub.com Chris Robson, new e-mail address is chris.robson@snc.ac.uk or just fetchmail me. |
Feb 2012
7:20am, 6 Feb 2012
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hellen
Hello
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Feb 2012
8:33am, 9 Feb 2012
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chrisity
i have sent the new entry form to our webmaster but it has not appeared on the site yet. if anyone wants to enter at the moment then last year's form is acceptable, or fetchmail me with an e#mail address and i'll send you a copy of the updated version.
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Feb 2012
11:18am, 20 Feb 2012
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chrisity
some photographs from last year, plus links to the ones of the various stages
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Feb 2012
11:19am, 20 Feb 2012
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chrisity
race day photographs picasaweb.google.com photographs of course by stage (an edited highlights for navigationally difficult places will follow) picasaweb.google.com picasaweb.google.com picasaweb.google.com picasaweb.google.com picasaweb.google.com picasaweb.google.com |
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Mar 2012
11:07am, 3 Mar 2012
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chrisity
Entries so far - 6. Remaining places 69. we have a policy of refunding entries if people can't compete due to injury, as we don't want to encourage anyone who is not quite fit to attempt the race. we ask you to let us know asap if this is likely to occur, so that we can offer your place to someone else. if we don't have the 75 entries then we can take provisional entries to pay on the day - this is mainly for people who are racing a couple of weeks before and didn't know how they will recover. |
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Mar 2012
11:11am, 3 Mar 2012
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hellen
I'm going to leave things til nearer the time as I have a lot on and want to see how my recovery is from a 24 hour event in May I am almost definalty doing the 5 mile though, I need to sort out my 5 mile PB! |
Mar 2012
11:22am, 3 Mar 2012
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Salty Dog
These Long Eaton blokes have got it spot on. Love that policy of understanding that people get injured and so offering refunds. I was down there for their 5 mile race last year (which is the same weekend as this 50 mile) and raved about it afterwards for the organisation, course, goodies (mug, tshirt and BEER) and it was only about 8 quid. And the resultsand FREE race pics were on the website before I'd even got home! Hat's off. Other race organisers, this should be your model... |
Mar 2012
11:41am, 3 Mar 2012
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Barky
The LE5 is a damm fine event, have done it a number of years now - mut do it this year!
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Mar 2012
2:26pm, 3 Mar 2012
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chrisity
i hope that your running is better than your typing Barky . it will be nice to see you again.
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