British Sprints
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British Sprints
Very limited info about this yet on BOF - probably too early. Anyone able to offer rough guide as to start times/format etc? Trying to figure if its feasable to fly down 1st thing on the Saturday or if this would be too tricky.
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Re: British Sprints
AFAIK there will be Heats and Finals as per previous years.
You should try and make arrangements to be within spitting distance
of Stratford International for around 10:00am. Apparently there is adequate
car parking in Westfield, Stratford (well, unless entries exceed 5000, in which
case other problems will arise )
You should try and make arrangements to be within spitting distance
of Stratford International for around 10:00am. Apparently there is adequate
car parking in Westfield, Stratford (well, unless entries exceed 5000, in which
case other problems will arise )
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and City airport is only a short ride on the DLR away
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cheers that helpful
10am could be pushing it for the morning flight. Looks like friday night is travelodge night again!
10am could be pushing it for the morning flight. Looks like friday night is travelodge night again!
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The Travelodge in Stratford High Street is fairly close to the venue --
well within walking distance.
well within walking distance.
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The timings from last year can be seen here.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150425010 ... ps.org.uk/
I expect this to be quite similar.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150425010 ... ps.org.uk/
I expect this to be quite similar.
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Entries should be opening on 1 March, per the updated information on the website.
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MIE wrote:Apparently there is adequate car parking in Westfield, Stratford (well, unless entries exceed 5000, in which case other problems will arise )
I spotted this on the website:
Please note that, in line with Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park event policy, car parking will not be offered for the Sprint Championships.
So does that mean you're not allowed to park in Westfield, I wonder, or just that you'd have to take a chance on space being available, as you would if you were parking there to go to the shops? Even though Stratford is indeed a good public transport hub, it's still a fairly slow journey from West of London, meaning that driving has some attractions.
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roadrunner wrote:MIE wrote:Apparently there is adequate car parking in Westfield, Stratford (well, unless entries exceed 5000, in which case other problems will arise )
I spotted this on the website:Please note that, in line with Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park event policy, car parking will not be offered for the Sprint Championships.
So does that mean you're not allowed to park in Westfield, I wonder, or just that you'd have to take a chance on space being available, as you would if you were parking there to go to the shops? Even though Stratford is indeed a good public transport hub, it's still a fairly slow journey from West of London, meaning that driving has some attractions.
Not sure the organisers would be able to monitor all the Westfield car parks!
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roadrunner wrote:I spotted this on the website:Please note that, in line with Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park event policy, car parking will not be offered for the Sprint Championships.
The "event policy" is supposed to mean that there will be no arrangements for the
parking of competitors vehicles at the Olympic Park.
As far as competitors using any of the gazillions of pay-as-you-park spaces in the
vicinity, or even trying to park on the available streets outside the Olympic Park,
there is no way that the Olympic Park Authorities or the Sprints Organisers can,
or want to, police that. It is entirely up to the competitors to sort that out themselves.
The largest selection of parking spaces close to the event centre is around Westfield
and if you are arriving in time to run in the heats it is unlikely that the Westfield
areas will be full (not impossible but unlikely). You should note that the parking
charges at Westfield are not as cheap as you might want them to be
(see https://uk.westfield.com/stratfordcity/ ... tting-here for more info).
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I have entered the British sprint but am seriously doubting that the Olympic park with its spread out stadia will be anything other than a park run. Is it just the words "Olympic" and "London" that the organisers are playing on or are they going to do something utterly brilliant as the Aussies did with Sydney Olympic Park when we visited the multi levels of stadia?
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EddieH wrote:I have entered the British sprint but am seriously doubting that the Olympic park with its spread out stadia will be anything other than a park run. Is it just the words "Olympic" and "London" that the organisers are playing on or are they going to do something utterly brilliant as the Aussies did with Sydney Olympic Park when we visited the multi levels of stadia?
That's for us to know and you to wonder about. "doing something utterly brilliant"!! - mmm! no pressure then
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Actual start times /ranges for heats and finals would be useful to book train times from up north! Details state hears from 11.00, tho may change to 10.00...! And the final races??
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EddieH wrote:I have entered the British sprint but am seriously doubting that the Olympic park with its spread out stadia will be anything other than a park run. Is it just the words "Olympic" and "London" that the organisers are playing on or are they going to do something utterly brilliant as the Aussies did with Sydney Olympic Park when we visited the multi levels of stadia?
You can usually get an idea of the area being used from the BOF embargoed areas page but the 2016 BSC is conspicuous by its absence. Not sure if this means there's no embargo, or that there is a super-embargo in place, under which all details of the embargo are themselves embargoed....
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greywolf wrote:You can usually get an idea of the area being used from the BOF embargoed areas page but the 2016 BSC is conspicuous by its absence. Not sure if this means there's no embargo, or that there is a super-embargo in place, under which all details of the embargo are themselves embargoed....
I guess you mean a "super-injunction" so we can't discuss the British Sprints until some high-court judge allows us...
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