Participant info Indian Summer Ultra.

Important information

Before the event

Registration only via online registration.

Race DAY

Participants

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 transition area and finish.

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/hand in gearbag	6:00 – 10:00 PM	6:00 – 10:00 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 gearbag**	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
75/100
Cut off WP1	tba	tba	x
Cut off WP2	tba	tba	x
Cut off WP3	tba ***	tba	x
Cut off WP4	tba	x	tba
50 km
Cut off VZ 1 (50 km)	x	x	00.30 PM
Cut off VZ 2 (50 km)	x	x	2:00 PM
Cut off VZ 3 (= WP4)	x	x	tba
All participants
Cut off time (all distances)	8.00 PM	8.00 PM	8.00 PM
Gearbags back at finish
From WP 2	tba	tba	x
From WP 3 (first bags)	tba	tba	x
From WP 3	tba	tba	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

* If ordered.

** When registering (100 and 75 km), you must indicate whether you want to receive your trail bag at transition area 2 (after 45 km) or transition area 3 (after 66 km);

*** In order to continue to WP4 (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 barcode 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.

Marking the trail

Go to route info for gpx download, route map and marking (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.

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;
Both the 2-3 and 4-5 person teams will be ranked in the ‘Teams 2-5 persons’ category;
Until Tuesday before the event weekend you can change the team composition;
There is always a maximum of one runner on the course, never more;
You may only change team members at the transition areas (WP);
The team members drive independently to the next transition areas 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 transition areas (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

With sufficient registrations, LIVE Tracking of the 100 and 75 km solo participants will be 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 € 150);
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.

Mandatory equipment

Solo participants

The following materials are mandatory for all solo participants:

ID;
Headtorch 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;
Mobile phone;
Cup;
Water (at least 0.5 liters);
Rescue blanket (foldable lightweight heat blanket);
GPS tracker (supplied by the organization). Don’t store the tracker in the main compartment of your trail vest or backpack to avoid to signal loss;

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);
Money: at least € 20.

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 (you need to request a shower pass).

On the way:

Toilets: are sometimes available at or near the transition areas.

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 transition areas;
At the end of each stage there is a aid station (WP / Wisselpunt = Transition Area) 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 Saturday morning (size ± 30 × 40 cm – provided by the organization). When registering, you can choose whether you will receive this bag at transition area 2 or transition area 3. The moment you can hand in your gear bag and the time when the gear bags 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 transition area;
Water is available at the start & finish and all transition areas;
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). This may be adjusted in connection with Corona;
Depending on the temperatures, broth may be available;
At some transition areas there are also catering facilities;
The transition areas/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

You can order with your registration:

Friday:
- Pasta €9,00
- Pasta (vegetarian) € 9,00
Saturday (hot meals as from 4.00 PM):
- Breakfast box €8,00
- Salade meal(vegetarian) € 9,00
- Hamburger de luxe € 9,00
- Pasta € 9,00
- Pasta (vegetarian) € 9,00
Sunday:
- Luxe breakfast buffet €12,50 (8.30 – 10.00 AM)

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. Mobile team is moving from transition area to transition 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 acute 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 transition area 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 transition areas is not permitted. You are on your own. Even if you are part of a team. Assistance by third parties is permitted at the transition areas;
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;
Switch from 100 km to 75 km:
- If you will not be in time for the the cut-off at transition area 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 transition area 3 and at the finish. You will receive a different color wristband at transition area 3;
- You can also decide between WP 3 and WP4 (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.