Participant info Indian Summer Ultra.

Important information

Before the event

Registration only via online registration.

Race DAY

Participants

As from this year our aid stations aren’t called WP anymore but VZ;
Participants in the 75 and 100 km distance can register from Friday evening 50 km only on Saturday;
Bring your own cup;
If you run shorter (different distance or cut off) then immediately report this at the aid stations and finish;
The cut-off time is 14 hours for all distances, but up to VZ3 (75 km participants) and VZ4 (50 km participants) cut-off times apply per aid station, which are not evenly distributed across the 14-hour time limit. Make sure you check the times carefully beforehand.

Time schedule

On phone and tablet: view in landscape!
	100 km	75 km	50 km
Register up to and including	Sunday before	Sunday before	Sunday before
Friday
Registration	6:30 – 9:30 PM	6:30 – 9:30 PM	–
Hand in dropbag	7:00 – 9:00 PM	7:00 – 9:00 PM	–
Pasta meal*	6:00 – 9:00 PM	6:00 – 9:00 PM	6:00 – 9:00 PM
Saturday
Registration	6:00 – 6:40 AM	6:00 – 6:40 AM	9.00 – 10.15 AM
Hand in dropbag	6:00 – 6:45 AM	6:00 – 6:45 AM	x
Opening start section	6:45 AM	6:45 AM	10.15 AM
Opening ceremony	6.50 AM	6.50 AM	x
Start	7:00 AM	7:00 AM	10.30 AM
All participants
Cut off time (all distances)	9.00 PM	9.00 PM	9.00 PM
Dropbags back at finish
From VZ2	2.00 PM	2.00 PM	x
From VZ3 (first bags)	3.00 PM	3.00 PM	x
From VZ3	5.30 PM	5.30 PM	x
Price winning ceremony	depending on finish time	depending on finish time	depending on finish time
Breakfast buffet (reservation required)	08.30 – 10.00 AM	08.30 – 10.00 AM	08.30 – 10.00 AM
Cut-off times	All distances and aid station cut-off times can be found on our route info page.	All distances and aid station cut-off times can be found on our route info page.	All distances and aid station cut-off times can be found on our route info page.

* If ordered.

** In order to continue to VZ4 (otherwise to finish).

Start/Finish (navigation parking guests camping only))

Camping Lente van Drenthe
Houtvester Jansenweg 2
9462TB Gasselte
lentevandrenthe.nl
+31 (0)599 564 333

Plan

Parking

You can park at the Gasselterveld parking area. Traffic controllers will assist you.

Only guests staying at Camping Lente van Drenthe are allowed to park on the camping grounds.

Sign up

Take your ticket with QR-code with you in your phone or as a print (will be emailed with your registration – check your spam box if necessary);
You can request your ticket again via this link;
We link your ticket to a starting number;
On the starting number is a link to the route map.

Procedure

New to us? Check our RFR van A tot Z page (in Dutch) about requesting and selling your ticket, registration and the start & finish procedure.

ROUTE & GPX

Go to route info for gpx download, route map and marking explenation (in Dutch).

The fastest runners might cross some participants from shorter distances from the RUNFORESTRUN Indian Summer.

The 50 km Ultra starts later in the morning. You may meet runners you didn’t see before overtaking you or you overtake them. The distance differences can be seen by the different color wristbands and race-bib numbers.

The route will be signed with (sometimes reflective) orange ribbons. The turn-offs will be indicated by a double ribbon.

Info teams

It is possible to register without having all the team member names (use tba (to be announced));
A team consists of a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 5 people;
Until Tuesday before the event weekend you can change the team composition;
You will receive a race number for each participant. You will be issued a tracker and a strap; this equipment must be returned after you finish. The tracker must be handed over to the next runner after every exchange. Teams will be disqualified if they do not have the tracker;
Only one runner from each team is allowed on the course at any given time (however, the team may run the final kilometers from the lake together);
You may only change team members at the aid stations (VZ);
The team members drive independently to the next aid station in order to switch. You decide how to plan the sections within your team. i.g. switch after each section, or one runner run´s two sections, the next one does the next one etc.;
Don’t forget to handover carkeys at the aid station (use a spare key?). It’s is not within our priority to help you when this goes wrong.

Sections

Etappe	1	2	3	4	5
100km	x	x	x	x	x
75km	x	x	x	x
50km				x	x

LIVE tracking (75 & 100 km)

LIVE Tracking of the 100 and 75 km solo participants is provided by Geo Tracks;
When you register on Friday evening or Saturday morning, you will receive a tracker;
With the receipt you have become responsible for the return of the tracker (costs for loss are € 50);
The competition can be followed via a link which will be published on the Route info-page;
Immediately at your finish and if you get out earlier you must ensure that your tracker is returned.

Live tracking with Race With Me (FREE FOR ISU & RFR)

Share your trail adventure live with your friends and family. That way, they know exactly where to cheer you on. Or they can follow while sitting on from the couch.

With Race With Me, your supporters are always close by and along the right route. If you take a wrong turn or the route is sabotaged, you can easily find your way back.

Download the app and sign up for your race for free (for now).

Note: tracking 75 & 100 km participants is supplied by Geo Tracks.

Mandatory equipment

Solo participants

The following materials are mandatory for all solo participants:

ID;
(Head)torch with sufficient (spare) batteries for the morning and (depending on your speed/part) the evening. Not for 50 km participants, unless you think it will take you into the evening hours (no red backlights allowed, not necessary and annoying for the runner behind you);
Mobile phone;
Cup;
Water (at least 0.5 liters);
Rescue blanket (foldable lightweight heat blanket);
GPS tracker (supplied by the organization).

The following materials are recommended:

Gloves;
Hat;
Map (in phone or printed) of the route;
GPS watch with track (in principle not necessary because the entire route is marked).

Teams

The following materials are mandatory for all participants in a team:

ID;
Headtorch with sufficient (spare) batteries for the morning and (depending on your speed/part) the evening;
Mobile phone with the number of the team driver;
Cup
Water (at least 0.5 liters);
Rescue blanket (foldable lightweight heat blanket) if a participant runs more than one stage in succession.

The following materials are recommended:

Gloves;
Hat;
Map (in phone or printed) of the route;
GPS watch with track (in principle not necessary because the entire route is marked).

Facilities

Get changed
Is possible in a building on the campsite. You can leave bags here, but don’t leave any valuables behind. There is no monitoring. During the day, this barn is also used by participants of the RUNFORESTRUN Indian Summer.

Sanitary

Camping:

Toilets: there are toilets at the restaurant but also enough toilets in the sanitary building on the campsite;
Showers: showers are available at the campsite (shower pass available – deposit needed – at the finishtent).

On the way:

Toilets: are sometimes available at or near the aid stations.

Accommodation

Camping Lente van Drenthe offer different accommodations;
Other possibilities: check Holiday in Drenthe

Support

Support during the event

You are self supporting. Depending on the stage length and your running speed, you will on your own for 1.5 to 3 hours. Therefore you must ensure that you have adequate drinking and food between the aid stations (VZ);
At the end of each stage there is a aid station (VZ)) with a varied selection of food and drinks;
Support by third parties at the aid stations is permitted;
Solo participants (100 and 75 km, not 50 km participants) may hand in a bag with food / personal items on Friday evening and Saturday morning (size ± 30 × 40 cm – provided by the organization). When handing in your dropbag, you can choose whether you will receive this bag at aid station 2 or aid station 3. The moment you can hand in your dropbag and the time when the dropbags will be back at the campsite is in the table on top of this page. If you need your bag earlier, you can pick it up yourself at the taid station;
Water is available at the start & finish and all aid stations;
Our aid stations will also offer other drinks and food in addition to water;
The complete assortment (not everything on every aid station) consists of: bananas, oranges, apples, different types of bread or cake, salted peanuts, natural chips, tucs, sweet tomatoes, winegums, raisins, liquorice, water, sportdrink (SPORTFOOD WEBSHOP brand), cola (JUMBO brand) and more;
Depending on the temperatures, broth may be available;
At some aid stations there are also catering facilities;
The aidstations are on the map and have a closing time. See Route page for locations and distances;
The aid stations are for the runners who are currently passing or finish their stage, so not for runners who have yet to run or did run before;
You can fill you waterbottle at the aid stations (not sportdrink or cola).

Support before and after – in the Koerscafé

In the weeks prior to the event we will send an email with a link to order meals to the registered participants. This isn’t possible when registering.

Friday (5.00 – 9.00 PM):

- Pasta bolognese €14,50*
- Pasta vegetarian €14,50*
- Rice goreng with chicken satay €14,50*
- Rice goreng vegetarian €14,50*

Zaterdag (hot meals as from 4.00 PM)
- Pasta bolognese €14,50*
- Pasta vegetarian €14,50*
- Rice goreng with chicken satay €14,50*
- Rice goreng vegetarian €14,50*
- Wrap Chicken €14,50
- Hamburger and French fries €14,50
- Veggieburger and French Fries €14,50

* Second serving €7,00.

Zondag
- Breakfast buffet €14,50
  (contains: fresh orange juice, water, boiled eggs, fruit, choice of various buns (average 3 buns per person), various savory toppings, various sweet toppings, yoghurt, granola).

Safety

Traffic controllers

As a runner you are a traffic participant. You should pay attention to crossings with hiking and biking trails and unguarded roads;
On busy or dangerous crossing there are traffic controllers during a certain time schedule. It may be that a traffic controller is no longer there by the time you get there. At other crossings you will be warned by means of a sign ‘PAS OP AUTO’S’ (watch out cars).

First aid

First aid: start & finish area;
A special medic team will be traveling by car and they have bicycles in order to get anywhere on the trail;
Emergency numbers are on your starting number.

Indicate location
Save the route map in phone in advance. You can also find this information at runforestrun.nl/ICE. Put the number of the organization in your phone so that you can communicate your LIVE location via Whatsapp.

Communication / accessibility

For coordination / cancellation / questions: race management;
For direct help: 112, medic team field (with bicycle);
See also required material: mobile phone is required. You are required to provide your phone number and an ICE (In Case of Emergency) number to us.

Registration

You are required to report to the organization before taking your place in the starting section. Do not step over the boarding without registration because then we think that you have not started and therefore we also assume that you are not on the course;
You must inform the organization at the aid station or at the finish in case of withdrawal.

112NL
We also recommend installing the 112NL app. This is the official app of the Dutch emergency services with which you can also call and chat in case of an emergency. Because the app sends extra data to the control room, they can help you faster. And you can easily share your location with the emergency services.

You can download the app via the links below:
– Android
– Apple/iTunes

Rules

With your registration you declare that you agree with the following rules:

A pacer and assistance between the aid stations is not permitted. You are on your own. Even if you are part of a team. Assistance by third parties is permitted at the aid stations;
Stay on the trail, never leave the track (do not cross the road) unless this is indicated by our trail markings;
Take your waste with you;
Mountain bikes are forbidden on the non-atb route sections of the trail. Only our cyclists are allowed to cycle here;
Deliberate obstruction of other participants is not allowed. Tip: do not wear clothing or material with striking reflective material. This is annoying for the other runners when running in the dark because of the reflection;
It is mandatory to assist another participant in the case of an accident;
It is a competition but not a fight. Be nice!
Do not cause any music nuisance while running;
Red lights on your back are not allowed. They have no use and are annoying for the runner behind you);
It is not Carnival yet: how amusing it might be, dressing up—such as for bachelor parties, etc.—is not permitted. You will be asked to dress normally or not to participate;
Shouting and pushing to pass one another, as well as other unfriendly behavior, will not be tolerated and is inappropriate for any event whatsoever;
Switch from 100 km to 75 km:
- If you will not be in time for the the cut-off at aid stations 3 or based on your physical condition you don’t want to make 100 km and you want to run the 75 km instead of 100 km, that is possible;
- You must report this to the volunteers on aid stations 3 and at the finish. You will receive a different color wristband at aid stations 3;
- You can also decide between aid stations 3 and aid stations 4 (70.3 km) at the intersection of the 100 and 75 km to go to the finish when necessary. Please communicate this clearly when finishing!;
- Your time will be recorded in a separate 100> 75km ranking and you will receive a medal for the 75 km distance when you finish. However, you cannot win prizes from the 75 km distance. Based on the medals in stock it is possible that you will only receive a medal when all the official 75 km runners have arrived.