Event Rules

We are keen to keep these simple. If you have any questions about these rules please query them before the event rather than after you have broken them.

It is the participant’s responsibility to understand and follow these rules:

  • Participants must follow the >> universal event rules << applicable to all events organised by Ourea Events.

  • • Retiring: if you retire, you must inform race control (the number is on the race map).

    • Finish bag: this must weigh no more than 5kg.

    • Race numbers: participants must display one race number (supplied at registration) on their front at all times and a second race number (supplied at registration) must be attached to their rucksack. Race numbers can be obscured by waterproof clothing only. Race numbers must not be folded to obscure any logos or information.

    • Route safety: the route, within a corridor of 200m, is mandatory, but we understand that sometimes the safest course of action might be to deviate slightly from the prescribed route, such as at a river crossing. Please prioritise safety and then return to the route as soon as safely possible.

    • Sleeping: strictly no sleeping inside any of the venue buildings, only in tents provided unless otherwise instructed.

    • Headphones: participants must NOT wear headphones or listen to music on any road sections/crossings along the route.

    • SOS button: the SOS button on participants’ GPS trackers is for true emergencies only (e.g. a life or limb threatening incident) – if it is pressed in order to alert us to a participant’s condition, then it will be assumed that the participant in question will not be able to continue with the event.

    • Race briefing: the briefing given before the start is compulsory – a register will be taken and any participant not in attendance will not be allowed to start.

    • Healthcare professionals: the event medics must maintain oversight of the health and wellbeing of everyone on the event and keep accurate records of all medical treatments. Therefore, unless it is an emergency situation, any healthcare professional alien to the event’s medical team that provides prescription-only medication (or any other significant medical intervention) to another participant will be disqualified from the event. The participant receiving the medication is also likely to be penalised for having accessed a service which is not available to all participants equally.

  • • Participants may take advantage of certain facilities that are available to all participants – this means that you may make purchases from shops, hotels, pubs, bars, cafés (where they might occur on the route, and are open). The exception is that you may not purchase or negotiate for showers / cleaning / laundry at any facility.

    • Participants may not access any services that are not commercially available to all i.e. you cannot take any support from supporters, public, and stores by friendship, arrangement, bartering or coercion!

    • Participants may not leave (or arrange to have left for them) equipment or food along the route.

    • Participants are not allowed support runners. Any person attempting this will cause their officially entered associate(s) to be disqualified immediately and all the runners involved may receive life bans from Ourea Events Ltd. events. The exception to this is the section from the last checkpoint at Hawsker to the Finish.

Specific rules applicable to the SILVA Northern Traverse only

  • • Under no circumstances may any naked flames or heat sources of any kind be present in the tents – cooking is strictly prohibited.

    • Participants must remove footwear before entering a tent.

    • Wet and muddy clothing must remain in the central communal area and must not go into the ‘dry’ sleeping bays.

    • To prevent the tents filling with midges or water (from unexpected rainfall), tent doors and nets must be kept closed when not being accessed.

  • • Size and weight: participants may only use a drop bag with maximum 80 litre capacity and weighing maximum 15kg for their equipment to be transported between the overnight camps. Oversized / overweight bags will not be accepted at registration.

    • Identification: ID stickers/tags, provided at registration, must be attached to participants’ drop bags for the duration of the event. Any other stickers that may cause confusion must be removed.

    • Handling: participants must never move or collect other participants’ drop bags as this is an important visual safety check that everyone is accounted for at the end of each day.

    • Contents: no glass bottles or breakables are permitted in drop bags.

A word on Supporters

We encourage participants’ supporters, as long as they and the participants follow all of the event rules – i.e. they may not run with the participant, carry any equipment for them, or give them any food, drink, kit or other supplies. See above.

Supporters may not enter support point areas and we strongly request no supporters to try and park near the same. 

Specifically, on the Silva Northern Traverse we must stress that attempting to drive down to (never mind park at the bottom of) the steep hill to the shoreline in Robin Hood’s Bay is strictly prohibited.