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VIRGIN MONEY GIVING TEAM MANAGER’S FINAL INSTRUCTIONS LONDON BOROUGHS SUNDAY 22 APRIL 2018 @LondonMarathon @LondonMarathon @LondonMarathon VIRGIN MONEY GIVING MINI LONDON MARATHON / 22 APRIL 2018 Final Instructions for Team Managers eam managers, welcome to the 2018 London Marathon. TEAM SIZE BOROUGH CHALLENGE: Virgin Money Giving Mini London A maximum of six athletes per age/gender Marathon. This guide will give you a BEFORE THE EVENT category from 33 London boroughs. The comprehensive overview of the event Race entries will be made through the Virgin Money maximum number of athletes per London Tto ensure you and your team enjoy a smooth Giving Mini London Marathon online entry system. borough is 36. The total number of possible run-up to the races and have a relaxed and Each team manager is responsible for entering London borough athletes is therefore 1188. enjoyable time on Race Day. their team line-up, including three reserves per age category, by Tuesday 3 April 2018 at 12:00. REGIONAL/HOME NATION CHALLENGE: Whether you are a returning team manager or A maximum of six athletes per category from brand new to the event, we recommend you read Substitutions are permitted. The team eight English regions plus Northern Ireland, through the information that follows. manager must overwrite the withdrawing Scotland and Wales (11 teams in total). athlete’s details by selecting the reserve ACCREDITATION athlete’s details online. The withdrawing There will also be an overall London regional Ahead of the 2017 event we introduced a new athlete’s running number and IPICO Sports scoring team. The team will be composed of the accreditation system. This system will again be Tag will transfer to the substitute athlete. four top scorers from the London boroughs in used for the 2018 event. More details can be each race category. The results will be compiled found on page eight. It is essential you apply for The final date to confirm your final team using the IPICO Sports Tag system. your team’s accreditation ahead of the event as lineups and substitute an athlete is there will be no access without a pass on the Tuesday 17 April at 13:00. Any undeclared The Virgin Money Giving Mini London Marathon event day. Our team should have already been athletes competing in the Virgin Money Giving is also the official British Athletics Three-mile in contact. If you havent recieved your link to Mini London Marathon will be disqualified. Road Championships for young athletes. Medals submit team manager details please contact for the winning athletes will be sent out after [email protected]. ATHLETES MUST BE AGED BETWEEN 11 the race. AND 17 ON SUNDAY 22 APRIL 2018 TO BE We hope you and your team have a great PERMITTED TO RUN. RACE PACK time at the 2018 Virgin Money Giving Mini IPICO Sports Tags and running numbers for each 2 Fitting Your IPICO Sports Tag STEP 1 Loosen the laces of one of your running shoes. STEP 2 Thread the wire twist ties under the laces. London borough athlete will be dispatched to missing any items from your race pack, please each team manager similar to last year. A box contact us immediately. with all athlete race packs and other important documents will be delivered to your designated Please make sure your athletes are wearing the delivery address by TNT in Race Week (third correct coloured T-shirt for their race (see the week of April). table on page six). T-shirts should not be defaced in any way prior to the event. STEP 3 Your borough’s box will contain the following: Thread the IPICO Sports Tag IPICO SPORTS TAG onto the wire twist ties. • Athlete-named white envelopes containing As team manager, it is your responsibility to running numbers and IPICO Sports Tags ensure your team members are wearing the • One box containing a consignment of correct IPICO Sports Tag, which will have been athletes’ sized technical T-shirts in six issued to each athlete. race colours • A number of Athlete’s guides containing Please check the name located on the sticky event information name label of the white envelope matches that • Officialehicle v pass (label) – to be of the athlete you give it to. displayed in the coach window on Race Day The IPICO Sports Tag must be attached • Map and information for coach driver, to the athlete’s shoe with the wire twist ties including route map to start and finish supplied (see panel on the right). Any athlete STEP 4 not wearing an IPICO Sports Tag BEFORE Secure the IPICO Sports Tag by Please note that accreditation and vehicle the race start will be withdrawn by a marshal twisting the ties firmly together. passes will be sent to you separately. If you are and disqualified. 3 COACH ROUTE TO THE ASSEMBLY AREA & START AREA UNUSED TAGS Upper Thames St There will be a collection point for unused tags ur St rth at the team managers’ information point at Old A Byward St Billingsgate. Please deposit all unused tags here. Lower Thames St Southwark Bridge After the race, please return your athletes timing tags to the London Marathon Events Ltd Freepost KEY Old Billingsgate address (below). If you could please confirm COACH ROUTE FROM SOUTH & WEST what Borough the timing tags belong to on the COACH ROUTE FROM London Bridge NORTH & EAST envelope that would be greatly appreciated. SET-DOWN POINT London Marathon Events Ltd FREEPOST LON2180 London SE1 0BR BAGGAGE & START ASSEMBLY AREA SUBSTITUTE ATHLETES: RUNNING NUMBERS & IPICO SPORTS TAGS Team managers must give the issued IPICO Monument Street KEY B Sports Tag and race number of the withdrawn B BAGGAGE athlete to the substitute athlete. Please ensure that this change has been put into the online Fish Street Hill entry system before Tuesday 17 April at 13:00. Lower Thames St SUNDAY 22 APRIL 2018: Start Line THE COURSE & FINISH AREA THE START LOCATION: Warm Up Zone TRAVEL TO THE START ASSEMBLY AREA (OLD BILLINGSGATE) The start assembly area is located at Old Old Billingsgate Billingsgate on Lower Thames Street in the (Assembly Area) City of London, EC3R 6DX. Please note that due to roadworks around London Bridge and Arthur Street, directions to Old Billingsgate COACHES ARRIVING FROM NORTH disembark when instructed. have been amended on the map titled ‘coach AND EAST LONDON route to the assembly area and start area’ Your coach should approach via Tower Hill, COACHES ARRIVING FROM WEST LONDON on the right. Byward Street and Lower Thames Street. Coaches travelling in from the west of London Borough teams may travel to the start using any are advised to travel south of the river and use mode of transportation they wish. We suggest COACHES ARRIVING FROM the route over Southwark Bridge detailed on the teams travel together and leave plenty of time SOUTH LONDON left in the section titled ‘coaches arriving from to ensure they arrive at the set-down point Your coach should approach from Southwark south London’. between 07:00-07:15. If you choose to travel by Bridge (northbound) and Lower Thames Street coach, please note that the maximum number (eastbound carriageway). THE START: ROAD CLOSURES of coaches allowed per London borough is TWO. Road closures for the event will come into force Please ensure the coach passes you are issued Coaches will then be directed 400m further at 06:30 on Sunday morning. with are clearly displayed. See below for further along Lower Thames Street to make a U-turn information relating to travelling by coach. onto the westbound carriageway where they It is therefore essential that the official vehicle can pull up outside Old Billingsgate. Please pass is clearly displayed in the front windscreen 4 VIRGIN MONEY GIVING MINI LONDON MARATHON - COURSE MAP High Holborn City Newgate Street Kingsway St Pauls Fleet Street Bank St Paul’s Bishopsgate Charing Cross Road Cathedral Fenchurch St F Strand Blackfriars Mansion House Temple Cannon St Victoria Embankment Upper Thames Street Leicester Square Monument F Tower Hill Lower Thames WaterlooF Bridge Start LineStreet F F Charing Cross Millenium Bridge Piccadilly Southwark Bridge Blackfriars Bridge Green Park Southwark Embankment Old Billingsgate St James’s Hungerford Bridge London Bridge Whitehall Southwark Street London Bridge Stamford Street The Mall Hourse Southwark The Shard F Tooley Street Waterloo Guards Road Guards Finish Line F Westminster London Eye F Westminster Bridge Borough Grosvenor Place Buckingham Palace St James’s Long Lane Park Blackfriars Road Borough Road Great Dover Street Houses of Parliament Lambeth North St George’s Road Victoria Street Victoria Borough High Street Vauxhall Bridge Road Lambeth Bridge New Kent Road Elephant & Castle of your coaches. The Met Police and Virgin THE START ASSEMBLY AREA Money Giving Mini London Marathon stewards will (OLD BILLINGSGATE) OLD BILLINGSGATE ASSEMBLY AREA Pimlico facilitate access for coaches arriving after 06:30. The Start Assembly Area is located in Old Vauxhall Bridge Entrance Billingsgate. On arrival, teams will be directedKennington Team Wheelchair & Ambulent The arrival process of team coaches will be immediately to their holding pens. The holding Managers Info athletes supervised by our Virgin Money Giving pens are per race 1-6. Clear signage will indicate Race 4 Race 1 Mini London Marathon stewards and their the pens and stewards will also assist. Please see Under 17s Under 17s Women Men instructions must be followed at all times. the diagram above which shows the layout of the DO NOT ARRIVE LATE. Old Billingsgate Assembly Area. Race 5 Race 2 Boys Under 15s Under 15s Toilets Girls Boys COACHES TRAVELLING TO THE VIRGIN PLEASE NOTE THIS AREA IS FOR ATHLETES MONEY GIVING MINI LONDON MARATHON AND TEAM OFFICIALS ONLY.