North East Counties Athletics Association & North East Hill Running Association Fell Running Championships 2012: Competition Fixtures and Rules

	Date	Name	Cat	Dist km miles	Height m ft	Remarks
01	Sunday 12th February 2012	Danby Beacon LK/NS/PM/T Details: David Parry 07890 430624 parrydavid5@gmail.com Website:www.eskvalleyfellclub.org	BM	12km 7.5	360m 1200	10.30 a.m. Venue: Danby Moors Centre car park, N Yorks (GR NZ 717084). £6.00 EOD. Check web site for kit to be carried.
02	Sunday 04th March 2012	Brough Law Fell Race LK/PM/T@ car park & national park info centre. Details: Will Horsley 0191 388 2200 wjvh@btinternet.com Web site: northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk	AS	8.0 5.0	400 1333	11.00 a.m. Venue: Bulby’s Wood National Trust Car Park, Ingram Valley, nr Powburn, Nland. £5.00 EOD. GR NU 008 164
03	Sunday 15th April 2012	Gisborough Moors Race (NYM) LK/NS/PM/T Details: David Parry 07890 430624 parrydavid5@gmail.com Website:www.eskvalleyfellclub.org	BL	20.0 12.5	850 2833	11.00 a.m. Venue: Gisborough Rugby Club. £8.00 to organiser £8.00 EOD. Limit 250 (GR NZ 616 155)
04	Sunday 29th April 2012	Cheviot Summit LK/PM/ NT Details: Glen McWilliams 07748 864424 glen.cheviot@hotmail.co.uk Web site: northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk	AS	9.7 6.0	816 2720	11.00 Venue: End of Harthope Valley SW of Wooler (GR NT 954 225) EOD.
05	Sunday 3rd June 2012	Yetholm Hill Race ERLK/NS/ NT Details: Les Turnbull 07854 866370 les1984@btinternet.com Web site: norhamrc.co.uk	AM	12.8 8.0	760 2533	13.00 am Venue: Halterburn, nr. Kirk Yetholm (GR NT 840277) EOD: £5.00 Full kit required.
06	Tuesday 3rd July 2012	Saltwell Harriers Fell Race PM/NT Details: Keith Wood 0191 4875867 woodk2@btopenworld.com Web site: Saltwellharriers.com	BS	9.0 5.6	300 1000	07.30 p.m.  Venue: On B6278, two miles north of Stanhope, Co Durham £5.00 EOD. (GR NY 996 416).
07	Saturday 29th Sep 2012	Kielder Blast LK/PM/T Details: Will Horsley 0191 3882200 wjvh@btinternet.com Website: northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk	AS	9.5M 5.9	475 1583	Ladies 1.00 pm; men 2.00 pm.  £4.00 pre-entry (advised) or EOD. Venue: Kielder Castle (GR NY 632934) English Champs Counter.

Key:

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

The ninth running of the North East Counties Athletic Association (NECAA) Open Fell Running Championship series is to take place during 2012. 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 again consist of seven races of which a competitor’s best four results will count. For LV 60s and above and for MV 70s a competitor’s best three races will count. The results will be calculated on the same basis as the British and English open 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 and distributed over the whole of the region. The selection is made to give competitors the opportunity to participate in at least three of the seven 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 Danby Beacon race on Sunday 12th February.
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 and clubs will be those that are declared on the results sheets. 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 otherwise.
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
01st January 2012