Thames Valley Cross Country League

2011/12 Thames Valley Cross Country League

The Dates for the 2011/12 season are as follows

Date Host club Location
30 Oct Metros Mad Bess Wood, Ruislip
6 Nov Datchet Practice Run The Brocas, Eton, followed by coffee & cake
13 Nov Datchet The Brocas, Eton
27 Nov Sandhurst Hawley Lakes
11 Dec Handy Cross RAF Walters Ash, near High Wycombe
18 Dec Reading Bearwood College
8 Jan Tadley Hurst Community College, Tadley
22 Jan Bracknell Eversley
5 Feb Finch Coasters
TBC League Final

The XC races are a friendly affair, organised by mostly the same group of clubs who run the summer 5Ks. It’s a team event, with traditional cross-country scoring (see below for more details). In short, turn up, run, and remember to wear club kit or all your efforts will be in vain!

The races are free to Dashers as the club are paying the entrance fees. Guests GBP 3.00 per race. Just like the 5k races, there’s plenty of free food and hot drink afterwards.

All events start at 11am. Maps and directions will be sent out by the XC rep (Nina Smith) in the week before each race, or you can click the links in the table above to see where the races take place.

Results

Thanks to Mike Raistrick, there’s a fantastic database-driven site with all the results on - say hello to http://www.tvxc.org.uk/

Rules

  1. No spitting, biting or gouging :-)
  2. The minimum age for participation in the league is 16.
  3. All participating club runners must wear club colours. Anybody not wearing club colours will be excluded from the scoring team.
  4. All events will start at 11:00 am.
  5. Vets age status will be fixed from 1st Nov prior to the first event of the new season.
  6. A scoring team consists of 7 male runners (including a minimum of 2 vets) and 3 female runners (including at least 1 vet). Each scoring member will contribute a point score equal to their position within their gender.
  7. If a club is unable to field a full team, the missing competitors will score as the last position in the race plus 1; this will be split by gender.
  8. Male and female results will be calculated as separate races but the overall club score will be determined by the addition of male and female scores.
  9. The club position for each event will be determined by the total points of the scoring team. League points will be awarded to each team according to their position within the fixture.
  10. Any team failing to compete in a fixture will receive no points.
  11. The final overall league position will be decided by taking the total of the league points for all the fixtures. A club’s total league score will be defined by its total score minus the worst score for the season, i.e. best 7 from 8 events.