Team Declaration: Final time for teams to declare runners is at 16.00 on Sunday 30th April.  Completed forms must be handed into registration upon which you will receive your pack (bibs and safety pins).

All teams will need to complete a Relay Declaration Form even if they filled in the details on the entry’s website. They will be available from the Registration tent on Friday and Saturday. The individual Names and SI cards will need to be filled in.

NOTE: In the Handicap classes you must declare which entrant will run which leg length the order is decided by this.

SPORTident Cards: Each runner must use their own SPORTident Cards. 

Relay Bibs:

Each Class has its own specific colour with the last leg (3) containing an added red diagonal stripe.

Bibs must be worn on the chest, highly visible and not covered by any other items of clothing.

Map Issue

Maps will be issued from 9.15am to the first leg runners who will enter the waiting pen. Maps must remain unopened until in the start pen and instructed to open them. Once the first leg have started maps can then be issued to the second and third leg runners who must remain in the waiting pen with their unopened maps.

ANYONE WHOSE MAP IS NOT INTACT AT THE START WILL BE DISQUALIFIED.

Start Pen:

The start pen will open at 09.15. First leg runners must be in the pen before 09.45.

Map.

• The map of The Tottenham Estate was mapped in 2022 and updated in 2023 by Angus Tyner and Neil Dobbs.  The map scale is 1:7500 with 5m contour intervals.

• All maps are A4 landscape printed on high quality waterproof Antius paper. Size SRA4(24cm x 33 cm)

• There are many controls in a very small area so please check your control numbers very carefully before punching.

• Team captains should ensure that junior competitors understand that this is vital to avoid disqualification.

• There is a purple OOB line highlighting a fence that is forbidden to cross (except through the gates at the indicated mandatory crossing points) near the first control on some courses.

• Rootstocks (represented by a green X) range from 1.5m to 4m in size.

• Large zones of brambles are usually represented by vertical green lines, representing the visibility. They are typically effectively imassable. Some smaller areas of brambles have been mapped as Forest Fight to emphasise impassability, where relevant.

• Not all vegetation detail is mapped; some is schematic. We have endeavoured to ensure that relevant details are correct.

• There are some large slanted rock faces which are unmapped, not meeting the threshold to be classified as crags.

• Mapped rides are mostly large and distinct. They are frequently grassy and sometimes resemble forest tracks (in having a nice, level surface). Two rides approaching the last control are a little less remarkable. There are further less distinct unmapped extraction rides in the terrain, farther from the Arena.

Control Descriptions.

• Symbolic control descriptions are printed on the front of the maps for all courses.

• Control codes will be beside the control numbers.

• Junior classes have combined text and pictorial description

Course notes:

There will be about 80 controls in the terrain, some close (while respecting the 30/60m rules). The Premier courses are fully gaffled; others will have overlaps. Please ensure you check your codes carefully.

The courses are routed through the more pleasant and, where appropriate, technically challenging areas of the terrain. Due to the nature of the terrain, some compromises were necessary; the courses are (mostly) a little shorter and a little steeper than usual. The Premier courses and Handicap 18 will enjoy a spectator control. Please cheer them on!

From the Start, one can choose between two gates to leave the Arena; Junior36 and Handicap 24 courses should leave via the upper gate, other courses via the lower gate.

The courses avoid the brambles as much as possible. On the longer courses, you are still likely to get a few scratches. If you are a gaiter person, wear gaiters (the planner would not).

There are steep areas and areas of rock covered with a thin layer of moss. Take care. If you are a dobbs person, wear dobbs (not the planner).