Participant’s
Bulletin 1 – 6th May 2025
Participant’s Booklet
No matter how many Crosses you have taken part in please
study the booklet! There are changes and memory can play tricks on you!
Rules
Please read ALL the rules and the Safety Advice.
Your individual 2025 event number
You will be issued with your individual event number by SI
Entries within the next few days. This must be displayed on all baggage and
bikes that you want Highland Cross to convey for you. Please carefully read
page 4 of the booklet.
Please ensure that you remove all past event numbers from
your bike and baggage!
Rehydration fluid on the course
We will be providing water or a product from Active Root, a
Scottish based company who have developed and manufacture it in Scotland. This
year it will be their hydration product in Lemon flavour.
Highland Cross is a cupless event
Please provide your own cup or water bottle as stated on
page 11. THERE WILL BE NO SPARE CUPS!
If the day looks like being hot, please start the event
carrying fluid of your own choice.
A warning from our Medical Team
Please see the medical warning on page 11. Our wonderful
Medical Team state that:
Do not be tempted to start the event carrying an injury or
hiding an illness.
The Medical Team has advised that no participant should
enter the event if they have been in any way unwell in the 48 hours prior to the
Start.
Nothing matters more to us than our participants getting
home safely. We have had a number of instances of folk allowing their urge to
take part to overrule their commonsense and ending up very ill. If you have
been unwell prior to the event please do not attend, let us know by e mail that
you are dropping out due to medical reasons and get well safely at home.
If our marshals or Medical Team believe that you are not
well enough to continue on the course we will withdraw you from the event. If
you are moving so slowly that you are unable to complete the course in
appropriate time you will be removed from the course. Please see rules 8 and 9
on Page 3.
Safety layouts at the Strathglass/Beauly Toll
junction and on the route into the Square for the Finish
Please look closely at the sketch plans on pages 16 and 17.
These new provisions have been brought in as a direct result of near misses
between participants and oncoming cars.
The final approach into the Square has been altered from
last year and the final chicane into the Finish from the Police control is
narrower and over a mix of surfaces including a ramp into the final approach to
the Finish Arch.
PLEASE study the changes and stay in the coned off lanes
for your safety and to protect the future of the event as we know it.
Further regular bulletins will be issued in the run up
to the event please read them all and please check that your team colleagues are
getting theirs. If anybody is not getting their bulletin, ask the Team Owner to
check the e mail address that is displayed on the team’s SI Entries page and
correct it as necessary. If you have problems, check the FAQs page on the event
website or as a last resort e mail
info@highlandcross.co.uk with details so that we can help you out.