Surrey Hills Race, 9 June 2019

Watch the Race video and review the map (please see link at bottom of this post.)

Organised by South London Orienteers
under FRA regulations
Hall of Fame

Get off the roads and try the trails this summer! These races will take you along the footpaths  of the beautiful Surrey Hills. They provide an enjoyable challenge to all types of runners, orienteers and adventure racers. All races are mass start; run on your own or with friends. Courses require navigation to visit checkpoints, such as at the top of Leith Hill.  A purpose-drawn map at 1:25:000 is provided to all competitors.

2019 is the fortieth year of these races.

Entries

Pre-entry is open online through Fabian4. It costs £8 for seniors and £4 for students and juniors. Entry on the Day will be possible subject to map availability, at £10 for seniors and £5 for students and juniors. The event uses Sportident electronic punching. If you don’t have an SI dibber of your own, we will lend you one.

Courses and Start Times

COURSE	DISTANCE	START TIME
The Three Summits Challenge (A)	30 km / 18 miles	10:30
The Leith Hill Ten (B)	16 km / 10 miles	10:45
The Surrey Six (C)	10 km / 6 miles	10:35

All courses require navigation. We have a cut-off time at the second water station on the Three Summits Challenge (30km) course. This is 1km before checkpoint #7 (at the Duke of Kent School.) The cut-off is 12:15pm, an hour and 45 minutes after the start. We’ll drive any runners arriving after this time back to the race centre.

Race Centre

Registration on the day from 9:30am at The Priory School, West Bank, Dorking, Surrey RH4 3DG.

Location	Dorking
Address	The Priory School, West Bank, Dorking, Surrey RH4 3DG
Latitude/longitude	51.2269, -0.3433
OS grid reference	TQ157488
Maps	Google Maps, OpenStreetMap

Changing, toilets, showers (rebuilt this year) and supervised bag storage are at the school.

Travel Directions

The race centre is easily accessible by both car and public transport. By car head into Dorking and follow signs to the parking area. Public transport is excellent to the race, with trains to Dorking taking an hour from London Waterloo and Victoria, or to Dorking Deepdene from Reading. From the station, it’s a half an hour walk to the race centre where there is changing, toilets and bag storage.

Prizes

Trophies are awarded in memory of Byron Davies and Kate Thomas to the winner and the first lady on The Three Summits Challenge course. The Michael Murray trophy is awarded to the winner of the Leith Hill Ten. There are also trophies for the Surrey Six course and for the first lady on the leith Hill Ten. And we also have Age Class prizes.

Results

Results are published on the SLOW website shortly after the event.

FRA rules

Under-18s may only run the Surrey Six. Unfortunately no under-16s can be accepted. There is a limit of 100 runners in each race. Competitors take part at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety, and are required to sign a disclaimer to this effect on the entry form.

Race Map

The courses are known in advance. Runners are provided a specially produced map. This is the Leith Hill Ten map.