EDMONTON HARRIERS CROSS COUNTRY SERIES

EDMONTON HARRIERS CROSS COUNTRY RUNNING LEAGUE 2006

General Information 2006

CHANGES FOR REGISTRATION FOR 2006

If you wish to have students participate in any of the cross-country races, please register your school by sending the following information to amsteward@shaw.ca
- School Name
- School Mailing Address including Postal Code
- Coaches Name
- Phone number to reach the coach if necessary

You only need to register once. There will be no on-site registration for schools. We would like to collect payment for all races following the 4th race. We will bill schools based on the athletes from your school that show up in the results. Hopefully, this will mean that schools will only have to issue one cheque, rather than 4 and will lead to less hassle for teachers/coaches. Most schools opted for this method last year and it seemed to work very well.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO SCHOOL COACHES

Once again this year, the Edmonton Harriers Track and Field Club will be hosting its Elementary Schools Cross Country Running League in September and October of the 2006-2007 school year. The format remains much the same as in previous years. We hope to see all of our "regular" schools back again this fall… and we’d love new ones!

Note: you will no longer receive information via fax. Please familiarize yourself with this website. All results will be posted here. Please feel free to share this address with any interested students and their families.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Harriers cross-country league, it is a series of four meets for elementary students, grades 4-6 (although younger students may compete with the grade 4 students). Students compete against others in their own grade and of their own gender, thus each meets consists of six races. The three Wednesday after school meets comprise a series in which students earn points for themselves (in the individual competition) and for their school (in the team competition). Awards are given for the combined results of these three races. Students must participate in all three meets to be eligible for the individual awards. A final meet is held on a Saturday morning and is scored independent of the series.

We would encourage each school to bring a bus, as a special parking will be provided for buses. There will only be limited parking available for cars.

Dates and Venues for 2006

Wednesday September 20 Laurier Park
Wednesday October 4 Millwoods Park
Wednesday October 18 Hawrelak Park
Saturday  Oct. 28 at Rundle Park

Race distances will vary from about 1300m to 1750m.

Race Order: For all meets the race order will be: 
Grade 4 (and younger) girls
Grade 4 (and younger) boys
Grade 5 girls
Grade 5 boys
Grade 6 girls
Grade 6 boys

Times: All Wednesday meets start at 4:45 p.m. On Wednesdays, races begin approximately every 10 minutes. The Saturday meet begins at 11: a.m. with races separated by 15 minutes.

Timing: All runners will be provided with a time for their run. Results (times, places, and points earned) will be posted on the website as soon as practical following the meet.

Park locations and parking:

Laurier Park: 13315 Buena Vista Road N.W. Use the Valley Zoo parking lot.

Millwoods Park: This park is bordered by 23rd Avenue, 28th Avenue, 66th Street and Millwoods Road. The races begin just east of the parking lot off 23rd Avenue. There is limited parking in this lot, but there are also two additional lots: (a) off 66th street and (b) the recreation centre at 7207 – 28th Avenue.

NAME:

GRADE AND GENDER:

SCHOOL NAME:

Information must be printed legibly as these stickers provide our only participant list. Students will stick these adhesive stickers to their T-shirts. Harrier volunteers at the finish line will remove them.