A guide to organising trail races
Trail running is rapidly increasing in popularity. This is partly because of the difficulties of
organising road races due to the ever increasing volume of traffic, and partly because
most people find running in the countryside more enjoyable than in towns.
This booklet is intended to help the many people who plan to organise trail races to do so
successfully. That means that both officials and competitors should enjoy themselves,
and do not come into conflict with other people or
organisations.
It is not a set of rules that must be obeyed. It simply
contains ideas to guide those planning trail races to
achieve satisfactory standards of organisation and
safety. The reader should adopt only those ideas that
suit his/her event. Indeed as every trail race is unique,
the precise instructions appropriate for track or road
running are impractical, as well as out of keeping with
the relaxed ethos of trail running.
Click here to download a free copy of this 34 page booklet - reproduced here by the kind permission of the TRA and of the author, John Foden
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