NECAA Fell Running Championships 2012.

For anyone who is interested in taking part this year, Sarah Lister won the ladies event in 2010.

Key to table abbreviations:   EOD = Enter on day

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) 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 LV60+ and MV70+ a competitor’s best three races will count. The results will be calculated on the same basis as the British and English Fell Running Championships, i.e. 1^st =  52 points, 2^nd = 49 points, 3^rd =  48 points and then 50^th onwards = 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 intended to give competitors the opportunity to participate in at least four of the required seven races 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