Level of event: Regional
Type of event: Race, Urban
A Yorkshire Urban League Event
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A Yorkshire Urban League Event
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Assembly will be at Titus Salt School, Higher Coach Road, Baildon, Shipley BD17 5RH. Grid Ref:SE138384 W3W:////aura.horns.incomes
Please consider travelling by public transport. The school is 7 minutes’ walk from Saltaire station (frequent trains from Leeds, Skipton and Bradford Foster Square) and the 660 bus from Bradford Interchange stops outside the school.
We have use of the school car park (90 spaces). The car park will not be marshalled. Please park within the marked bays. Competitors arriving on foot will be entering the school via the car park and some school children will be being dropped off for a gym class– please take care. Should the car park be full there is a public car park adjacent to the school with free all day parking.
Assembly/Toilets
Assembly is in a large indoor area with tables, chairs and toilets
'There will be a cake stall from 11am-2pm for the YHOA junior squad. If you would like a hot drink please bring a mug.
Registration will be open from 10:15 to 12:00
Start times:
Race 1: (Saltaire and Roberts Park) 10:45 to 12:15
Race 2: (Lower Baildon) 13:00 to 14:30
String course from 10:30 to 12:30
Courses close at 15:00 Please start early if you need extra time.
Pre-enter with the Fabian4 link
Pre-entry prices are
Closing date for pre-entries at these prices is 23.59 on Sunday 13th July.
After this date, online entries will remain open until midnight on Wednesday 16th July at EOD prices. There will also be limited entry on the day (EOD), subject to map availability:
EOD fees are
SI card hire: £1 for seniors Free for juniors on course 4
Hired SI cards will be available to collect at download. A charge of £30 will be made for lost or non-returned hire SI cards. After your run they must be handed in at download.
Controls will be SIAC (contactless) enabled. But you must dib at the Start and at the Finish and go to back to the event centre to Download where we register your result and so we know you have finished safely. You must return to the event centre and go to Download as soon as possible after the courses close even if you have not finished your course.
Competitors with standard or hired SI cards must also dib at all controls.
It is the competitor’s responsibility to ensure that their SI card has registered at the control. Back-up punches will not be available at controls. Should any SI box not register, please report this immediately at download.
Start/Finish
Morning Race: A single start in Roberts Park, 400m from assembly. The route to the start crosses a quiet road via a zebra crossing. The finish is close to the start and return to the school is via the same route.
Afternoon Race:
Courses 1-3: Start 1km from assembly. There will be a map of the route on display in assembly and the route will be taped. The finish is in the school grounds.
Course 4: Start and finish are in the school grounds.
Course information
The morning race will start and finish in Roberts Park.
Course 1-3 will go out into the streets of Saltaire
Course 4 will leave the park but has no road crossings.
The afternoon race
Courses 1-3 starts in Lower Baildon and finishes in the school grounds
Course 4 is entirely within the school grounds
The course lengths below are given as the actual optimum running distance and climb on each course, subject to controlling. These courses have suggested categories assigned based on the Yorkshire Urban League (YUL) guidelines. You are welcome to enter any course, but you may not be eligible for the YUL if you enter a shorter course. Note that Course 4 is the only course which under 16s on the day of the race can run as it does not cross roads.
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| Morning |
| Afternoon |
| Age category |
| Course | Optimal running distance (km) | Climb (m) | Optimal running distance (km) | Climb | |
| 1 | 4.3 | 60 | 3.8 | 100 | MO, WO |
| 2 | 3.1 | 40 | 3.3 | 80 | MV, WV, MSV |
| 3 | 2.8 | 30 | 2.4 | 50 | WSV, MUV, WUV, MHV, WHV |
| 4 | 2.5 | 25 | 1.7 | 15 | MYJ, WYJ, MJ, WJ |
If you are under 16 on the day of the race this is the only course you can run unless you are accompanied by an adult on the other courses, anyone aged 16 or over can run any course.
The age categories for each course are aligned with the Yorkshire Urban League for each M (Men) and W (Women) category:
Young Junior (YJ) = 12-
Junior (J) = 16-
Open (O) = 18+
Vet (V) = 40+
Supervet (SV) = 55+
Ultravet (UV) = 65+
Hypervet (HV) = 75+
There is also a string course from 10:30 to 12:30 - bring your little ones to try it out!
Urban terrain, parkland and woodland.
Please take care crossing roads and in the vicinity of the canal and the river.
There is an open air theatre production in Roberts Park in the afternoon. This will be being set up in the morning . The performance area is out of bounds. Equipment will be being moved on trolleys along a wide path from a shed to the AOB area. Please do not obstruct or upset the theatre staff – our future use of the park depends on our causing no disruption to this event.
Other information
Saltaire is a world heritage site – it’s a Victorian model village, created by Titus Salt for the workers in his textile mill, ‘Salt’s Mill’. The mill is now an art gallery with many pictures by David Hockney and a new exhibition of his digital art ‘20 Flowers’. It’s free to enter, is open 9:30-5 and is opposite Saltaire train station. You’ll be running round the model village.
There is a Shakespeare in the Park event in Robert’s Park in the afternoon – starting at 2pm and repeated at 7pm - ‘Romeo and Juliet the Oops version’ – it’s free – just turn up.
There will be a cake stall from 11am-2pm for the YHOA junior squad. If you would like a hot drink please bring a mug.
There is a small café in Robert’s Park which you can access after your morning run, and there are several cafes and a bakery in Victoria Road just beyond the train station. There is also a café in Salt’s Mill (but gets very crowded).
Not in school grounds or on afternoon courses as they finish in school grounds. Allowed on morning courses if on a tight lead.
Organiser: Sue Stevens nebstonesue@icloud.com
Planners: Andrew Stemp-Walsh
Controller: Rob Gatenby
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