Individual 12 hours regulations
The objective of this race is very easy: to cover the largest distance possible in 12 hours.
Schedule
Start: Saturday at 12 pm (midday).
End: Sunday at 12 am (midnight).
Place: Joan Serrahima Stadium– Carrer del Polvorí 3-7 (Barcelona)
Registrations
• Registration can be made on this website once registration is open, using the POS terminal, for a fee of €75.
• A €10 cancellation insurance policy can also be purchased for those unable to participate for medical reasons (justified by a medical certificate), with a maximum notice of 15 days before the competition (November 30).
• The refund to runners who are unable to participate (and who have paid the insurance) will be 80% of the registration fee.
• Once registrations are exhausted, a waiting list will be opened, managed by the organizers, for any cancellations. Name changes on race numbers are not permitted.
• The registration period will end on December 7 or as soon as the number of registered athletes reaches 90.
• Visually impaired people who need to participate with the assistance of guides must state this on the registration form. Before December 7, they must send an email to 24hores@corredors.cat with the full name, ID number, and date of birth of their guides.
• Participation with canes, wheelchairs, handbikes, or any other element that may hinder the normal conduct of the competition, including guide dogs, is prohibited.
• Participants explicitly consent to their full name, surname, gender, and year of birth being published in the entry lists, as well as in the partial and final results, thus following the established regulations.
• Registrants expressly grant the organizers the right to reproduce their image in any type of report, without a time limit.
• By registering for this competition, the participant releases the organizers from any physical or psychological harm they may suffer or cause to another participant.
• On the day of the race, there will be ballot boxes where additional charitable contributions of any amount can be made.
Race progress:
• This competition take place under the rules of “International Association of Ultrarunners” (IAU Guidelines) and the “International Association of Athletics Federations” (IAAF Rules), all competitors should read and accept the rules prior to registration.
• The race starts at 12:00pm (midday), yet competitors should come to collect their bib numbers at the stadium between 9:30 am and 10:30am.
• The organisers will provide space to put up everything needed during the race, there will be some volunteers to help.
If any athlete would like to bring a canopy, please, contact the organisation, but in any case, can use it in exclusivity, as there’s not enough place for individual canopies.
• The organisers will provide competitors with water, cola, isotonic drinks, fruit, dried fruits, power-bars, coffee and broth (during the night) and pasta (for Saturday dinner). For all other requirements, competitors should bring their own provisions
• During the race competitors will occupy the external lanes of the track, numbers 5 and 6. (This distribution can be modified depending on the number of runners who needs a guide).
• The length of lane number 5- which measures 430,034m – is the one that will be used to multiply by the number of laps in order to calculate the total distance that competitors have run.
• The race will finish on Sunday at 0am (midnight). A few minutes before, the organizers will give cards with corresponding bib numbers to all of the competitors. This card must be left on the floor at the moment that the bell rings to announce the end of the race. Using the placement of the cards the judges of the competition will calculate, using a caliper wheel, the distance of their final lap that each competitor has covered.
• Competitors in the 12 hour race will also oficial partial results of 50Km, 100Km, 50 miles and 6 hours. For this reason, once the first 6 hours are over, the total distance run will be measured in order to calculate entire laps, plus the meters covered of the last partial lap.
• Every 3 hours the spinning direction will be changed to compensate the hours that the athletes turn around the track. This change will be announced and sign out by the organization.
• All competitors must wear their race bib visible on their front.
• If a competitor retires from the race, to the should notify the organizers and return their chip
• It is forbidden to make physiological needs outside the changing rooms, toilets and chemical booths of the facilities.
• The judges of the race will take care in applying the IAU and the IAAF regulations, and can issue cautionary bookings (admonish) with a yellow card or disqualify competitors if they continue to break the rules.
• Antidoping test: the select athletes for the test on doping will be informed at the end of the race and will be accompanied and supervised by the “doping-stewards” as soon as possible for the antidoping test. The athlete who reject the test or give a positive will be disqualify.
• There will be a resting place for those competitors who need a break. Competitors must bring everything they require for their rest stops (sleeping bag, blankets etc.)
• Bathroom facilities will be available to competitors before, during and after the race.
• This race will be controlled by ChampionChip.
• The first 3 placed finishers, in both male and female categories, will receive a trophy. All the runners that achieve the end of the race will receive a commemorative medal. The award ceremony will take place at the end of the race.
• The first 5 placed of any gender who exceed the GOLD LABEL standard (as per IAU standards) will receive free registration for the next edition of the race.
The distance to be exceeded is 141km for men and 128km for woman. This award is non-transferrable and only valid just for the next edition of the race.