17/07/2020 Another Update
A good point made by Russell is that you can change your mind over how many jokers to play as you see how many have entered. Just enter your name again using the form and declare your jokers. Once the closing date has past, the latest declaration you have made will be the one that counts.
Alan
IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION
You must put your name down to "Enter" the race even if you are not playing jokers. If you don't turn up, then no problem. However if you decide last minute to do the race and your name is not on the list, you won't be included in the GP results. This gives people half a chance of knowing whether it is worth playing jokers or not. It's not ideal but in the circumstances it's the best we can do to make it like a normal GP race, ie you know roughly who is there on the day.
Alan
We will hold the Vertical Mile during the week of Monday 27th July to Sunday 2nd August inclusive. This will count towards the Grand Prix (if you remember what that is). Latest scores and joker situation can be accessed via the menu on the left of the blog.
You choose when you do it during the above period.
This shall be run as a solo effort to make it fair to those who cannot meet up with someone and to be absolutely sure we are complying with social distancing rules.
Please declare your intention to participate and the number of jokers you intend to play using this form. The form will remain live for entries until Sunday 26th July. Jokers can only be declared using this form and therefore before you have run. You can see who has entered in this list.
Times will be taken from the elapsed time field on Garmin Connect or Strava. If you don't have either of these, let me know and will come to some other arrangement.
The course is unfortunately not virtual but is the real deal, starting from the bottom of the road and finishing level with the gate into the war memorial which is (coincidentally) one mile up the hill. Start and stop your watch manually by pressing the start/stop button.
For safety, and as you are running individually rather than en-masse, start on the pavement on the left of the grassy area rather than on the road as I have indicated by the red line on the picture below and head up the pavement in the direction of the red arrow. Keep to the pavement as much as you can although inevitably you have to run on the road at some point. Be careful and check over your shoulder before stepping out onto the road or before crossing to the other side of the road. Once you have picked a side of the road to run on, try to stick to it to avoid zig zagging across the road and exposing yourself to danger from sometimes very fast traffic.
I am gutted that I do not have an equivalent hill here in Portugal as all the hills are in km here :-)
Alan
7 comments:
All the hills here are in kms, very droll Alan :-)
I am on holiday that week but if I manage to squeeze it in before I would anyone object?
Karen, I can't imagine anyone would object. As long as you declare your jokers on the form before you run, that is fine for me.
Alan
Does your name need to be on the list to run it even if you don’t intend to play jokers I.e. if you decide last minute to run it?
You must put your name down to "Enter" the race even if you are not playing jokers. If you don't turn up, then no problem. However if you decide last minute to do it and your name is not on the list, you won't be included in the GP results. This gives people half a chance of whether it is worth playing jokers or not. It's not ideal but in the circumstances it's fair.
Alan
How many more GP races are there likely to be? Critical for joker playing...
Probably only another 2 or 3 GP events after the VM. Likely to be August and September Auldhouse TT's as has to be same course for everyone to be meaningful.
Alan
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