Rules

Rules of all events of BSI Balaton Supermarathon

I. COURSE

I/a. In the majority of the race the course leads on the bicycle road around Balaton. This road is only partly used specificly as a bicycle road, the other parts - especially within towns - are designated as public roads. Especially on the south coast of the Lake, the bicycle road often does not lead on a separate lane but on the smaller streets of towns (on bicycle-friendly roads). On these roads it is necessary to run with due care by observing the rules of the Highway Code.

Special care should be taken:

- on Saturday when the designated road crosses a main road (at Balatonrendes, app. 700 meters, here runners are protected from the traffic by a special barrier)

- when on Saturday and Sunday crossing a main road (road nr. 71, crossing should be done according to police instructions)

- anytime there is a railway crossing on the designated running road (crossing should be done according to instructions of civil guards).

At these places you should cross by taking into consideration the instructions of the police and the judges. On road nr. 71, policemen will direct traffic taking into consideration the secure crossing of the runners. When the railway shows a red sign or, in the lack of this when a train approaches, the runners will be stopped by the civil guard. In both cases running can only be continued when the policeman / civil guard expressly permits to continue.

There will be a leading cyclist in front of the field and a closing cyclist will close the field. Where the course permits this, a closing bus will follow the runners. Insurance of the race refers to the segment between the leading and the closing cyclist. The closing vehicle will follow according the daily time limit, those runners who are passed by it will be obliged to give up the race for that day and can continue the next day. Those giving up the race are obliged to get on the closing bus, which will follow the field and take the runner to the finish line.

The course of the race will generally lead on roads that are NOT closed to traffic so be prepared to expect other vehicles on the road!

I/b. Wherever the route is laid down along a public road, participants are to stay in the right lane or to keep to the right side. On the bicycle roads it is compulsory to run on the right side! Where the bicycle road leads on the pavement, this is where you should run.

In case there are any vehicles on the road, you should divert to the right!
The rules of the Highway Code are applicable to the runners and their companions; it is compulsory to observe these!

I/c. Because the race leads on a course NOT closed from traffic, for the safety of the runners we do not suggest to wear headphones on both ears, as it tones down the outside noises.

I/d. The booklet contains a detailed itinerary (description of the course) for each day and also a sketch map of the course, runners are advised to keep this at hand while running. On the course we will help your orientation with appropriate signs (sign, road signs, ribbons). Signs and ribbons will be placed shortly before the runners pass however, so it might happen unfortunately that someone replaces or removes these out of joke. The itinerary always shows the road runners will take (bicycle road, bicycle friendly road, public road). Each day's course will be marked with signs at every 5 kms. Each day the marathon distance is shown for that day. On the course we will also mark each 50th, 100th and 150th kilometre of the road.

I/e. The signs of the bicycle road around the Balaton and those placed by the BSI will help orientation on the course.

 
 
 
White BSI logo on orange surface.






 

Green-yellow official road sign.

 






 

II. START/FINISH

II/a. Each day we mark for the runners and for their companions on the maps the easiest way of how to get to the start and changing points. We ask everybody to keep to the recommended routes and parking places so that nobody disturbs the runners and no traffic jams form around the locations of the race. During the race's whole duration, runners should have priority over the companions and their vehicles!

II/b. Day 1., Thursday |Start: 11:00

Race Centre opens: 8:30

Location: Siofok, Hotel Aranypart, side of the lake

Mass start.

Finish: Fonyod railway station, parking place from the side of the lake

II/c. Day 2., Friday | Start: 10:15

Race Centre opens: 8:30

Location: same place as the finish of the previous day, Fonyod railways station parking place from the side of the lake.

Based on their previous day's results the participants start in pairs every 5-10 seconds. When creating the pairs the individual and the group results will be judged together. The time of the daily participants of the maraton + will be allocated based on their planned time. The start list will be placed near the start stage and the speaker will call the participants.

Finish: parking place under Szigliget Castle

II/d/1.Day 3., Saturday | Start: 10:00 -

BSI Balaton Supermarathon day 3, BSI Half Balaton Supermarathon day 1, 3rd day Marathon+

Race Centre opens: 8:00

Location: Badacsony, MOL petrol station

Participants will start in pairs every 5-10 seconds based on their overall results. When creating the pairs the individual and the group results will be judged together. The time of the daily participants of the maraton + and those of the Half Balaton Supermarathon will be allocated based on their planned time. The start list will be placed near the start stage and the speaker will call the participants according to this.

Finish: Balatonfüred, Tagore Promenade

II/d/2. Day 3., Saturday - MaratonFüred

Start: 9:50, race centre opens: 8:00.

Location: Badacsonytomaj, at the Badacsony end of the beach.

Participants start each 5-10 seconds in pairs based on their planned time. We will place the start list near the stage, the speaker will call the runners accordingly.

Finish: Balatonfüred, Tagore Promenade

II/e. Day 4., Sunday

Race Centre opens: 7:00.

Start 1. Individual runners and slower teams: 8:00

Location: the same as the finish of the previous day on Tagore Promenade.

Individual runners, the runners of Marathon + Day 4 and the slower runners of teams will have a joint start. The list of the teams in question will be placed at the reception of Hotel Aranyhíd on Saturday.

Those relay members where the first runner is also an individual runner will also start at this time.

Start2. (teams): 8:30

Mass start.

Finish: Siofok, side of the lake at Aranypart Hotel

II/f. At the starting location, the race centre is open for runners before the first start time of the race at the time designated above.

II/g. Prior to the daily start times, participants are obliged to confirm their wish to run half an hour before the start at the latest, the relays and pairs are obliged to provide their daily running order. Those individual runners who take advantage of the transfer, can confirm their intention to also start on the bus.

III. ACCOMPANYING RUNNERS, REFRESHMENTS

III/a. At the time of start number retrieval, we provide a distinctive sign (route permit) for vehicles accompanying the teams, which should be placed on the vehicles at a well visible location because only with this are they entitled to accompany runners according to the race rules. It is forbidden to continuously and directly accompany individual and relay/pair runners! Upon taking over the start number we also provide a distinctive sign (route permit) for the bicycle companions of the runners, which should be placed on a well visible place on the bicycle.

Continuous and direct accompanying is allowed behind the runner from the first refreshment station of the day!

The accompanying vehicle should not hold up the other participants or any other vehicle or pedestrians on the road. Where the course leads on a bicycle road the accompanying cars should not drive on the bicycle road according to the rules of the Highway Code. When parking around the start, finish and relay points we ask the accompanying vehicles to take into consideration those stipulated in the map sketches provided.

III/b. There will be refreshments served at the starting, finish and relay points. All participants can take refreshments only from tables designated to them, there will be a separate table for the individuals and the pairs and a separate table for the teams. The refreshment points will be uniform along the course; when approaching the refreshment stations, refreshment tables for individual runners and the pairs will come first and refreshments for relay teams will come second.

Accompanying cars are asked to wait exclusively outside the area of the refreshment station. Bicycle companions may take refreshments IN A MANNER WHICH IS NOT DISTURBING FOR THE RUNNERS from the table of the runner whom they accompany, but only after leaving their bicycles outside the area of the refreshment station.

Personal refreshments can be provided 30 minutes prior to the start at the latest. It is necessary to place them in the race centre in the appropriate collection box containing the daily km and the number of the refreshment station, showing the start number on it. All runners can provide personal refreshments, which the organisers will place at the selected refreshment station. It is also possible to send clothes to the refreshment stations. Clothes sent remaining at the refreshment station or clothes handed over at the refreshment station may be retrieved during the opening time of the race centre. Refreshment can be done only from a stationary car by observing the rules of the Highway Code referring to parking.

III/c. Planned choice of the refreshment stations: Individuals and pairs: water, iso drink, glucose, fruit, dried fruit, bread, cola, salt, chips / salted sticks, chocolate, cereal bar. Relays: water, iso drink, glucose, fruit

IV. TIME MEASUREMENT, RESULTS

IV/a. Just like in the past few years, tracking time will happen with the help of SPORTident system, used in orientation with a chip (small plug). The deposit fee for the small plug is HUF 6000, which must be provided when you obtain the start pack. The deposit will be returned to you when handing over the small plug after finishing the last day in Siófok; those accomplishing the marathon + and the MaratonFüred will receive the deposit when arriving in the finish. Those giving up the race for good will be eligable to have the deposit returned to them at the daily finishing points. There is a possibility to use your own SportIdent chip, please notify us about this when you recieve your race pack at the latest.

IV/b. We advise wearing the small plug on the finger. When recieving your start package you will have a chance to try it, and our staff at the race centre will also provide help with this. Resetting the plug back to zero will happen when you obtain your start pack.

IV/c. On day 1 everybody's start time will be the same, on day 2 and 3 everybody will be able to start off their time by plugging, on day 4 we assign a start time for the two start times. There will be plugging places on the course at the relay points. Relay members will need to plug when arriving in the relay zone, then change by handing over the plug and the team start number. Individual and team runners will find their plugging places before their refreshment table.

IV/d. The plug will set the time at the plugging points so that it has to be plugged in the device, then you should wait for the sound and light effect (app. 1 second) and then you can continue running. There will be another plugging point directly at the finish gate, then at the race centre we collect the data for that day from the plug, so the next day everybody can start with an "empty" plug.

IV/e. Each day we shall place the overall race results at the official hotels of BSI at the race centre and the next day at the start points near the start stage. We will also feature the names of those who gave up the race but without their place. When announcing the results we only take into consideration the results of those participants who accomplished the whole distance.

VI. DISQUALIFICATION FROM THE RACE

VI/a. Participants not prepared for racing will be disqualified. Participants must keep to the instructions of the appointed doctors. Doctors can and will ask participants to give up if there is a health hazard in continuing the race. Those participants asked should immediately give up racing but can continue the next day unless doctors rule otherwise. Participants must report at the doctors' office the next day 30 minutes prior to start for check-up.

VI/b. The organizers reserve the right to disqualify any participant of the race at their own discretion.

V. TIME LIMIT, GIVING UP THE RACE

V/a. We provide time limits for each daily parts and the daily relay points. When the time limit elapses, the runner / team has to give up the race for that day. The race can be continued the next day but the runner will not be evaluated in its category. There is also a possibility to give up the daily run. In this case the race can be continued the next day but will not be evaluated in its category. The personnel at the relay points will not allow the participants who exceed the time limit to go on, instead they will be asked to be transported by the closing bus to the finish. The race directorate can decide about letting the runner /team continue racing even after the time limit elapses. We would like to call the attention of our individual runners that the part time limits on day 4 arriving to the 1. and 2. relay station will have been decided in accordance with the pace of the teams starting half an hour later.

1. day (6hours)

until relay point 1. 7:00 min/km (12:46)

until relay point 2. 7:30 min/km (14:46)

until finish on day 1. 8:00 min/km (17:02)

2. day (7 hours 20 minutes)

until relay point 1.7:20 min/km (12:22)

until relay point 2. 7:40 min/km (14:25)

until finish on day 2. 8:15 min/km (17:18)

3. day (5 hours 50 minutes)

until relay point 1. 7:10 min/km (11:50)

until relay point 2. 7:40 min/km (14:01)

until finish on day 3. 8:10 min/km 15:46)

4. day (individual: 7 hours)

until relay point 1. 7:30 min/km (10:09)

until relay point 2. 8:10 min/km (12:35)

until finish on day 4. 8:40 min/km (15:03)

3. Day MaratonFüred (5 hours 55 minutes)

until relay point 1. 7:50 min/km (11:30)

until relay point 2. 8:20 min/km (13:50)

until relay point 3. 8:50 min/km (15:45)

4. day Relay: 6 hours 35 minutes

until relay point 1. 7:10 min/km (10:33)

until relay point 2. 7:35 min/km (12:50)

until relay point 3. 8:00 min/km (15:05)

V/b. The results of the participants accomplishing a part distance or giving up the race and the results of those exceeding the time limit will be featured on the result list by taking into consideration their last time when crossing a measurement point and the distance accomplished until that time.

V/c. Participants who give up the race are asked to remove their numbers and report this to the organizers, either at checkpoints, relay stations or to the bike rider closing the line. The SPORTident plug can be returned at the daily sections' finish line.

VII. TIME CREDITING

VII/a. During the race participants are entitled to time crediting in the following cases: Red light at railway crossing, and when waiting according to the instructions of the race judge in order to cross the road in a secure way. If the runner is being stopped by a race judge, he writes down the start number, the time of the stop and the continuation as well but the runner can also write this down on the check list of the judge.

VII/b. Time crediting happens based on the report of the race judge on that day.

VIII. TIME PUNISHMENT

Those not abiding by the rules can be punished by the race directorate in the following ways:

VIII/a Breaking of transport rules

Crossing the railway despite the red light or despite the judge prohibiting crossing: immediate exclusion from the race

Accompanying vehicle getting to a prohibited zone or despite the directors of the transport: 15 minutes time punishment each time

Stopping of the accompanying vehicle in an irregular way or its irregular crossing among the runners: 10 minutes time punishment each time

Parking of the accompanying vehicle by the road in an irregular way: 3 minutes time punishment each time

Accompanying bicycle obstructs another runner: 10 minutes time punishment each time

Wearing the start number in an irregular way: 10 minutes punishment each time.

VIII/b. Breaking race rules

In order to obtain unlawful advantage, the runner is being transported by any kind of vehicle: immediate exclusion from the race.

Providing refreshment from a moving vehicle: 15 minutes punishment each time.

Accompanying vehicle accompanies and refreshes without a valid course permit: 15 minutes time punishment each time.

The runner is being accompanied or refreshed not according to those stated in point III/a: 15 minutes time punishment each time.

The runner runs on the left side of the road: 3 minutes time punishment each time.

The runner does not run on the designated course: 3 minutes time punishment each time.

VIII/c. The punishment of those breaking the rules is primarily based on the perception of the organisers. Other participants of the race may lodge a complaint and prove it in a credible way. We evaluate all reports and complaints before making a final decision. The decision of the race judges is non-appealable.

VIII/d. A complaint can be lodged with reference to each day's race at the race centre at the finish within half an hour after the closing time of the race. Individual runners may lodge a complaint personally, in case of a relay team or pair the manager of the team can do this. The fee of the complaint is HUF 10 000, that is ten thousand forints. The decision regarding the complaint will be disclosed to those in question in writing at most 30 minutes prior to the next day's race.

VIII/e. The organising committee makes decisions in all cases in all questions regarding the rules of the race and in any other issues regarding the race.

VIII/f. Members of the organising committee are: Árpád Kocsis, István Máth, Krisztián Tamás, Csaba Korfanti.

IX. SPECIAL RULES OF THE RELAY RACE

IX/a. In the relay race the mixed teams are being evaluated among the men. The relay teams are being evaluated together regardless of the number of runners in the team. The pairs are being evaluated in male, female and mixed category.

IX/b. Relay must be done within the designated relay-zone marked with the team's start number by the hand-over of the SPORTident plug and the team start number. In all cases first the plug should be plugged in order to measure part time, relay can happen only after this.

IX/c. There is an opportunity of relaying before the relay points (the team relays its previous member before the next official relay point) for each team only and exclusively in the case of an injury. In this case the next team member should approach the required relay point individually and without disturbing other participants. The relayed member of the team should leave the relay-point without disturbing other participants. Teams not keeping to the rules can be disqualified.

IX/d. Individual runner can only be a member of one team! A member of a team cannot also be a member of another team.

X. OTHER RULES, INFORMATION

X/a. Daily tasks: Participants must register every day at the start of the given day's section 30 minutes prior to the start. Relay racers and teams are asked to hand in the team's composition according to which team members will run the given day's course. Individual runners travelling with the organizers on the transfer bus can confirm their willingness to start also on the bus.

X/b. About wearing the start number and the distinguishing sign of companions. Runners are obliged to wear their start number, the companions (vehicle, bicycle) should wear their distinguishing sign throughout the whole time of the race in a well visible place. They must not obstruct this number in any way and wear no logo except for the field on the race numbers of the runners where a name, a nickname may be placed. Individual runners should wear their two start numbers received on the front and on the back of the running garment, the members of the teams should wear the team start number secured freely with a triathlon rubber gum (provided by the organisers), the individual start number should be secured on the front of the running garment in a well visible place. Runners running only one day (Marathon +, MaratonFüred) should wear the start number in the front in a well visible way.

X/c. Dressing room

1. day start: Siófok, Hotel Aranypart

finish: Fonyód: women in the building of Tourinform, men in tents

2. day start: Fonyód: women in the building of Tourinform, men in tents

finish: Szigliget: in tents set up in the finishing area

3. day start: Badacsony: in tents set up near the start area

finish: Balatonfüred: in tents set up by the finishing area and in Hotel Aranyhíd

4. day start: Balatonfüred: in tents set up near the start area

finish: Siófok, Hotel Aranypart

At the relay points each day in tents set up at the location.

X/d. Cloak room

The baggage of the individual runners handed over at the start will be transported to the finish.

Teams must solve the transport of their baggage individually. Clothes which are left at the refreshment or relay stations may be picked up at the race centre during opening times.

X/e. Massage

Individual runners will have a chance to take advantage of an approximately 15 minutes massage following the daily finishing. Free massages are available for runners who present their start numbers. Runners may apply for the massage after finishing the daily race at the massage points at the finishing areas or near these.

1 day: Fonyód: in the Matyas Kiraly Secondary

School approximately 200 meters from the finish

until 18:00 o'clock

2. day: Szigliget: about 100 meters from the fi nish in the Village House until 18:00 o'clock

3.day: Balatonfüred: about 5000 meters from the

finish in Hotel Aranyhíd until 18:00 o'clock

4. day: Siófok, Hotel Aranypart, until 16:00 o'clock.

X/f. Finishing medal

Individual runners will receive their medal upon finishing. At the finish at Siofok a finishing photo will be taken of the individual runners. Teams can take over their medal after finishing at Hotel Aranypart where a team photo will be taken.

X/g. Accommodation

The official hotels of the race:

Wednesday and Thursday Siófok, Hotel Aranypart, Beszédes J. stny 82., tel: 06/84/519-450

Friday and Saturday |Balatonfüred, Hotel Aranyhíd,2300 Balatonfüred, Aranyhíd sétány 2. 10., tel: 06/87/342058

X/h. Help, information:

Help will also be provided over the phone by doctors accredited to the race and by the members of the organising committee during the whole period of the race. The telephone numbers will also be shown at the back of the race numbers.

Doctor: +36/30/645-2775 (OXY TEAM)

BSI: +36/20/9651966

We ask all participants to take their mobile phones with them while running the daily courses, if possible!