SLOW		The Annual North Downs Relay Race
			for teams of 16 runners (registered with the FRA and run under FRA rules)
			This year's race will be on Saturday 20 June 2009.
	e-mail :  Paul Whiston  (wizzo@tinyonline.co.uk)   NOW  to book your place in the SLOW team
	Other teams expected from GO, Canterbury Harriers and Haywards Heath Harriers.
	The race starts at 5:30am and follows the North Downs Way  National Trail  (official route, no deviations) from Dover to Farnham.
	Each leg has a mass start when the previous leg's first finisher arrives to set them off, but with fixed time starts for Leg 7 (at 10h40) and for Leg 15 (at 17h30) - to stop the event extending too long,
	and giving us the chance to get to the pub before closing time.
		2008 results in this Excel file.
		the post race pub
	Leg no	Length (km)	Record time (mm:ss)	Cut off time (mins)	Start time	Start at (grid ref) - click for map	Finish at - click for map
	1	11.2	49:23 (Saxons?)	95	Mass start at 05h30	Shakespeare Cliff, Dover (308400)	Castle Hill
	2	13.3	53:49 (Matt Lynas, SLOW)	100	Mass start at first finish leg 1 (c 06h20)	Castle Hill (213382)	Stowting Tiger
	3	10.5	46:51 (Dick Clark, SLOW)	93	Mass start at first finish leg 2 (c 07h15)	Stowting Tiger (120414)	Wye Station
	4	11	40:49 (Mark Chapman)	87	Mass start at first finish leg 3 (c 08h10)	Wye Station (047469)	Charing
	5	12.3	50:56 (Andrew Redington, LOK)	97	Mass start at first finish leg 4 (c 08h55)	Charing (957499)	Hollingbourne
	6	16.7	76:30 (?)	120	Mass start at first finish leg 5 (c 09h50)	Hollingbourne (845554)	Bluebell Hill
	7	8	28:26 (?)	72	Mass start at 10h40	Bluebell Hill (745621)	Medway Bridge west
	8	13.2	54:43 (Tom Mendum, GO, 2004)	103	Mass start at first finish leg 7 (c 11h15)	Medway Bridge west (717673)	Vigo Inn
	9	14.7 (15.8/GPS2006)	63:48 (Charlie Whetham, SLOW, 2004)	110	Mass start at first finish leg 8 (c 12h15)	Vigo Inn (631610)	Rose & Crown, Dunton Green
	10	9.8	44:14 (Mike Farmery, SLOW)	90	Mass start at first finish leg 9 (c 13h15)	Rose & Crown, Dunton Green (507579)	Betsoms Hill Farm
	11	11	49:47 (Alan Leakey, SLOW)	96	Mass start at first finish leg 10 (c 14h00)	Betsoms Hill Farm (441559)	Caterham bypass, A22
	12	11.5	46:29 (Paul Brooks, SLOW, 2005)	92	Mass start at first finish leg 11 (c 14h50)	Caterham bypass, A22 (349537))	Reigate Hill
	13	11.8	46:41 (Chris Beecham)	93	Mass start at first finish leg 12 (c 15h40)	Reigate Hill (262523)	Stepping Stones, Dorking
	14	15.0 (16.3/2006)	66:40 (Charlie Whetham, SLOW, 2005)	108	Mass start at first finish leg 13 (c 16h25)	Stepping Stones, Dorking (172512)	Newlands Corner, Guildford
	15	12.4	47:54 (Iain Rochford, GO)	94	Mass start at 17h30	Newlands Corner, Guildford (044492)	Puttenham
	16	10.6	44:25 ("Willows")	90	Mass start at first finish leg 15 (c 18h15)	Puttenham (934478)	Farnham by-pass, A31
					Estimated Finish time c 19h00	Farnham by-pass, A31
	RULES
	1. Each team must have a minimum 2 males and 2 females - penalty 20 minutes per missing male or female (ie single sex team suffers a 40 minute penalty).
	2. If a runner runs more than one leg they must be consecutive, and each leg except their first will be penalised by adding 10% to their leg time.
	( This is because multi-leg running by excellent long-distance runners is discouraged, but it is recognised that getting and keeping a full 16-person team is not easy.)
	3. The leg time starts are as defined above and a late starter will have no adjustment made (therefore legs 9 and 10 are not advised for a multi-leg runner!).
	4. If a runner takes longer than the leg cut-off time they will be awarded the cut-off time. This is to make getting lost a qualified rather than absolute disaster.
	5. If a team has no runner for a leg they will be awarded the worst runner's time for that leg plus 20 minutes (no worse than cut-off plus 20 minutes). Reasoning as above on qualified disaster.