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Hampshire Todays Runner Cross Country League

Sunday 4 March 2012

Pamber Forest, near Basingstoke

Venue

Basingstoke and Mid Hants Athletic Club invite you to Pamber Forest (the Start is grid reference SU 612 617), a beautiful 479 acre Site of Special Scientific Interest, a few miles north of Basingstoke, near Tadley off the A340. The race will be a single lap through forest and fields along undulating tracks and footpaths. It will start at 11:00am; distance 5 miles.

Race Meet

The meeting point and race car park will be to the north of the Forest at Pamber Heath Memorial Hall (when full, for parking overflow, please park sensibly in Burney Bit or other local residential streets). After the race at the Memorial Hall, there will be hot food (freshly-cooked locally produced sausages in a bread roll) plus vegetarian options, and home-baked cakes by BMHAC club members, and tea/coffee, at a price of £1.50 per head. Please stay if you can (provisional race results will be announced asap).

Facilities

Toilets, limited changing, and clothing dump available at the Hall.

Competition Rules:

All runners must wear a Club Vest.

Directions

(From South): From M3 J6 follow A340 signs for Aldermaston. Keep on A340 until you reach the Lloyds Bank traffic lights in Tadley (just after the Sainsburys store). Turn right for Pamber Heath and Silchester, then after 1000m turn right into Pamber Heath Road, and the Pamber Heath Memorial Hall is 400m on left.

Race Start

The start and finish will be from the open field adjacent to the Forest and accessed from Burney Bit. To reach this point, walk along Burney Bit eastwards for approx 300m from the Pamber Heath Road junction, and then turn right, or simply follow our signs from the Memorial Hall.

IMPORTANT

As always, please display courtesy to others members of the public on the day, including whilst running. Please use the toilets in the Memorial Hall, or (if needs must) not in public view, particularly near the start line. A part of the course will cross a large field that may have sheep grazing, therefore no dogs with the runners please.