Road Races - co-ordinating our entries

David V kindly created a spreadsheet where we could put down which races we've entered or are thinking of doing. There's been some discussion on facebook about upcoming races, but it would be useful to shift that here so that people who aren't on facebook can find out what's happening too.

For ERRL road races it's unlikely we'll get more than two riders into a race at a time, so it would be good if we could share those out and just have a couple of riders enter each one.

Here's the spreadsheet (which is growing to include sportives as well): http://bit.ly/1IBkaVx

Jamie, re two riders, where did you see that? I have just been sent the 2015 race organisers rules for field selection and there is no mention of that.

Cheers

Paul

Hi Paul - could you let us know what the rules say?

I've never said there's a rule saying there's a limit of two per club. What I said was whenever we've entered just one rider, he's got in, and whenever we've entered two riders, they've both got in, but whenever we've entered three riders only the best two have got in.

My understanding (and I can't remember who told me this, but it was back in 2011 when I was first entering ERRL events) was that every club that has an entrant has to be represented. So if 90 people entered and only 60 could get in, instead of picking the best 60 (and excluding riders from some clubs) they had to pick the best rider from each club that had entered and then the second best rider from each club and so on until all the spaces were filled. This is how I managed to get into races as a 4th cat with no points while 3rd cats ended up on the reserve list (because lots of people from their club had entered). This doesn't mean there's a limit of two per club - in theory you could still end up with ten riders from one club in the race, it all depends how many people entered and how many different clubs they came from. But maybe this isn't the rule?

I've just checked on the ERRL website and it is what I thought it was:
*11. Field Selection
a) Non Member Clubs may be represented in League Races, but never at the expense of any League Members who enter by the normal three weeks closing date. The selection of entrants for League races should allow for the equitable representation of all member clubs.
b) Where an event is undersubscribed on the closing date promoting clubs may complete the Race Start Sheet with further entries from their own or other Member Clubs and then entries from non-member clubs.
c) Race competitors will be categorised as per their racing licence on all start sheets.
d) For Regional events: In the event of a full Field of ERRL riders, equal representation to be enforced i.e. to select the field one rider taken from each ERRL club in turn then second rider etc. until field is full. Riders from each club are to be selected according to Licence points (as indicated on entry forms unless otherwise specified by Club secretary of the riders club under a single cover by letter before the closing date).
e) For National events: There shall be no restrictions on field selection for National level ERRL events.*