The Festive Four is a fun competition to promote running in the Bridgend area over the Festive period, open to all members from running clubs within the 2023 Bridgend County Running League. [Club vests are compulsory at each event]
The competition is based on Tour de France style categories, combining the results of four runs:
TWO 5k runs
These are to be run on December 23rd and December 30th.
- 23rd December - ANY parkrun nationwide*
- 30th December - ANY parkrun nationwide*
* At least
ONE run
MUST be
Porthcawl or Maesteg or Aberfields parkrun, you can run them twice. If you have entered Nos Galon you can substitute that for your 30th December event.
A Boxing Day run
Choose between
A New Years run
Choose between
- New Years Eve - Old Father Time 5 mile (Vets only, entry HERE)
- New Years Day - Prince of Wales 3.7 mile (entry open 1st December HERE)
Where there is a choice of events and the distances are not equal the times will be proportioned to even them out.
Prize Categories
Yellow Jersey: Fastest aggregate time for Man & Woman over four chosen events.
White Jersey: Fastest aggregate age adjusted time for Man & Woman over four chosen events.
Green Jersey: Best Man and Best Woman with aggregate time as a ratio to Season's Best 5k time.
Polka Dot Jersey: Spot Prize category based on many different criteria.
Memento
Taking part mementos (if you don't want a tee shirt please select the option to donate the value to Llamau instead) and prizes will be presented on 13th January 2024 after the Porthcawl parkrun.
Follow this website and https://www.facebook.com/FestiveFour/ for results and updates.
Entries to the Festive Four (not the actual events) will be £10, all profits from the event will be donated to Llamau.
Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/FestiveFour and our website https://bridgendcountyrunningleague.wordpress.com/festive-4-2/ for updates and rolling results.
