Not the Summer League 2020

Introduction

An opportunity to take part in running activities over the two distances used by the Summer League races (5 miles or 10k), but where you design your own route and choose when you run (in the period from 5pm Thursday to 5pm Sunday of the weekend of the event).

This google spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QIkqaVWGeul9SfgU-nqhA1n8uc0xMJYmriE0iztiINM/edit?usp=sharing shows allocations to teams for everyone who signed up before 9pm on 25 May. You will be allocated to a team for the first event if you sign up by 9pm on Wednesday 26 May.

The Summer League dates would have been:

May 31 Dulwich

June 14 Headstone Manor Park, Harrow

June 28 Perivale

July 19 Regents Park

August 9 Battersea Park

Rules

1. After signing up, you will be allocated to one of eight teams. For each event, the first 10 runners of the team will earn points for the team but others can still affect the scoring by finishing ahead of scoring runners from other teams. The first finisher will gain 100 points for their team and there will be a combined scoring of men and women.

2. For each event, runners must sign up by 9pm on the Wednesday immediately before the period of the event to be allocated to a team. Other runners can still sign up after the deadline but will be classed as guest runners for that event and then assigned to a team for the following event(s).

3. Teams must provide a team name and team colour(s) with a design for a team vest corresponding to the style of club vests shown on the Summer League website (not Ealing Eagles). http://www.thesummerleague.uk/

4. Runs for each event must take place in the time periods indicated.

5. Evidence of the run must be posted in the club facebook group or emailed to coaching@ealingeagles.com before the end of the indicated time period. It is essential that you post evidence of time and distance and desirable if you can include the map (by starting at a distance from your home you maintain a level of privacy). Suggestions for the format of the evidence are given below.

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Route guidance

6. Ealing Eagles Running Club is a mixed ability club and we welcome all members who are able to cover the distances for Not the Summer League to take part. We also want to provide events which will challenge those who are more confident as well as be accessible to everyone.

7. Summer League events take place at different locations and so the expectation is that runners will run a different route for each event. Although Summer League is competitive, it also embodies community spirit and so those who simply want to join in for the running and be involved in the social side of the event may prefer not to adhere to the route guidance. An extreme example is that someone who is shielding and not running outside their accommodation is allowed to run the distance on a treadmill.

8. It is likely that the guidance (for events after Event 1) will be to design routes north, south, east and west of your home location but we will confirm guidance nearer the date of each event when we know the latest Government and England Athletics guidance on social distancing and how runs may be organised.

9. To enable all members of the club to participate we are asking you to run in your local area. This means that variation in routes due to terrain and amount of ascent (and deviation from your planned route due to the requirements of social distancing and being courteous to others) will have a small effect on your time and hence your position. Enjoyment of your run is the objective!

10. Routes may involve crossing roads (or stopping because of the requirements of social distancing) and you should not pause your watch. Safety is top priority and you may wish to think in advance as to where to cross a main road if it might be busy.

Event 1

For our first event you run 5 miles (8.05k) between 5pm Thursday May 28 to 5pm Sunday May 31.

For this event we would like you to devise a circuit of 5 miles which surrounds your home. Please try to avoid repeating sections of the same road or path (regardless of which direction you are running). If you get back to your starting point before you have completed 5 miles, you continue (but try to use a different path) until you reach 5 miles. It does not matter if you complete 5 miles before you have returned to the start: you stop your watch at 5 miles. Circuits may be checked for distance in advance using mapometer.com.

Event 2 – includes interclub competition (rules revised 5 June 2020)

Since the original approach from Queens Park Harriers, Ealing Eagles is pleased to announce that several of the clubs who normally compete in the Summer League have agreed to organise a virtual competition. The arrangements are set out below for the interclub competition and also for the internal Ealing Eagles league modified where appropriate. More information (including the arrangements for Event 2 “Harrow”) can be found on this link https://www.ealingeagles.com/news/2020/6/5/not-the-summer-league-2020-revised-3-june-2020