Our two biggest summer series - Sydney and Newcastle - kick off next Wednesday with important changes to the way both are conducted.
Newcastle will be using the free app MapRunF available for smartphones and watches. This ensures that the events are as contactless as possible due to ongoing covid concerns.
Warm-up events on October 7 and 14 offer the opportunity to get procedures sorted in time for the series opener on October 21.
Events remain score courses of 45 minutes, with the start window from 5-6.30pm. Only people participating during that time will count towards the point score, otherwise people can run the event at a time that suits them.
You can pre-enter right up until 6.30pm on the day. Printed maps will still be available.
In Sydney, maps will be available on Eventor from 7pm Tuesday so people can plan their routes in advance. The days of mingling with buddies to compare routes are over thanks to covid. The intention is to arrive, run, leave.
All Sydney Summer Series events will have a common assembly area layout - see here for details. This is to better manage the flow of 200 participants across the three hours.
Events remain score courses of 45 minutes, with the start window from 4.30-6.45pm.
You can pre-enter up until the last start time, and there is a free MINI course pretty much every week as well for kids.
The SSS website has also had a big revamp thanks to Andrew Wisniewski. Clicking on your name on any result will bring up your entire SSS history! Thanks to Jim Merchant, Ian Jessup and Richard Pattison for pulling together the historical data.
SSS season tickets offer members a discount of 30% and are available here.
