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.