City Runs Races are held under - UK Athletics Rules

In adidtion to UK Athletics Rules, City Run will have the following adiditional rules.

Overview:

City Runs believe strongly in fair and meaningful competition within the spirit of the sport. We reserve the right to DQ runners or give time penalties at our discretion should we feel they are necessary, this could be for both intentional or unintentional actions.

 In addition to UK Athletics Rules, City Run will have the following adiditional rules.

Our Standard Races:

The Race Director may award a time penalty (minimum 20seconds) or Disqualification maybe given for:

  • Not being respectful of competitors, official, volunteers or general public when racing.

  • Any inappropriate behaviour toward officials or marshals.

  • Cutting corner or not following correct race route.

  • Impeding or obstructing another runner during the race.

  • Not following race instructions, marshals instructions or course signage

  • Being paced by someone outside of the race either on foot or from a vehicle

  • Not displaying race number clearly on chest.

  • Any other reason given at discretion of Race Director or Officials

Specific to Relays:

  • Failure to enter a runner(s) that are eligible for that category - team will either be moved to correct category if available or downgraded to a non-scoring team

  • Runners deemed to have gone early by the change over judge will be given a minimum time penalty of 20 seconds - this could be more or result in a DQ.

 Appeals:

Any appeals or queries should be done in writing via website contact form. We are a very small team, but we will seek to respond as quickly as possible, applying a common-sense approach! If it is a complex query around race rules we may need to take advice/guidance from the governing body, which will take additional time.

Race Timing:

We take race timing and the accuracy very seriously and we will always seek to provide high quality results. Please note the finish clock is only a guide and not the master clock used for results - As per UKA rule 165.24 finish times will always be rounded up to the nearest full second. Where possible we will make results available for the Power of 10 and Run Britain Rankings.

Results/Prizes:

We will seek to provide accurate result for prize giving, prize categories will vary and be specific the individual race. We will follow UK Athletics guidelines on runners’ categories, unless we state otherwise.

Entry Details:

Initially we will take all details supplied at point of entry in good faith. If a runner wishes not to disclose age or gender, this fine we will not disclose on results but person will not be eligible for a prize.

Our events adhere to the UK Athletics statement of 31 March 2023 excluding all post-puberty males from the Female category

Headphones:

Under UK Athletics Rules T55 S5, No headphones other than bone conducting headphones are permitted in any race where the route is shared with other users.