Race Info

Title Sponsor

The North Face®

Host

Chinese Athletic Association (CAA)

Huipao® Race

Race Dates

2019.1.12-1.13

Start/Finish

Start: West Gate of Baiyun Mountain Scenic Area

Finish: Jian Gong Academy

Group

100km（1000 Participants）

50km（1000 Participants）

30km（1000 Participants）

Race Schedule

Rules and Regulations

Registration Qualification

1. 100km Group Qualification

Participants should submit the following result certificate to the organizing committee:

Result certificate of formal trail race (50km and above) in the last 2 years; 

2. 50km Group Qualification

Participants can submit either of the following result certificates to the organizing committee:

a. Result certificate of formal trail race (21km and above) in the last 2 years;

b. Result certificate of formal marathon (42.195km and above) in the last 2 years;

3. 30km Group Qualification

Participants can submit either of the following result certificates to the organizing committee:

a. Result certificate of formal trail race (10km and above) in the last 2 years;

b. Result certificate of half marathon (21.0975km and above) in the last 2 years;

 General Rules

1. Participants must be more than 18 years old before race date (Prior to January 8, 2001 (inclusive) is permitted).

2. participants must be physically healthy without history of unhealthy blood doubt，cardiac disease， disturbance - driven mental exercise and other diseases.

3. Participants may run, walk or crawl, but may not make use of any motorized or wheeled vehicles during the race. Doing so could be grounds for disqualification.

4. Participants cannot take the disposable bottles, cups and bowls away from supply point. Please take your own hydration gear.

5. Participants must follow the marked course route the entire way and register at each timing checkpoint. Navigable GPS watch is recommended by the organizing committee. Please download the GPX file on the official website and load the track in GPS device in advance, so that uncertain course can be confirmed via GPS device. If a participant runs the wrong way and misses the check point, his/her race result will be penalized.

a) Penalty Rules: The slowest time (of all participants) between the two check points before and after the check point that the participant has missed, multiplies by 1.1 as the penalty time, which will be added to the participant's result. If the result (which has added the penalty time) exceeds the closing time, the participant will be defined as unfinished to the race.

6. Number bib must be visible at all times on the outside of clothing and on the front of body. The race number and race wristband are to confirm participant's identity. The loss of either race number or race wristband will lead to disqualification.

7. Each supply point will have a cut-off time (all cut-off information will be published before the race). If a participant arrives at a supply point after cut-off time, he/she must stop the race and take the shelter car to the finish. The participant will be disqualified and suspended to the race for insisting to continue the race.

8. If drop out of the race on the course, please go to the nearest check point, or call the phone number in the front of the number bib to inform the race command center.

9. When assembling before the race, all participants' mandatory gear will be checked and staff member will check mandatory gear randomly. During the race, participants must carry all the mandatory gear. Any lack of mandatory equipment will lead to the participant's disqualification, while their number bib will be marked and their timing devices will be taken back.

10. Environmental protection check. Participants cannot bring any disposable hydration gears, including plastic bottle, pop can, disposable cup and tableware. The organizing committee will forcibly stop the participant to participate in the race who insists to bring disposable hydration gear in the race and his/her race number and timing device will be marked and taken back. During the race, participants should cooperate with the organizing committee on the environmental protection check. If a participant is found taking disposable hydration gear or tableware, he/she should drop them in the supply point and have mandatory equipment checked to continue the race.

11. Personal garbage should be taken to next supply point to drop. Littering on the race will lead to disqualification and the race number and timing device will be marked and taken back. Mutual monitoring and kind reminder are highly advocated.

12. The organizing committee reserves the right to change the race route, put off the race time, terminate the race in advance or even cancel the race due to the adverse weather conditions or the other force majeure. No matter in what condition, registration fee will not be returned. Please note and understand.

13. Race qualification transfer is extremely prohibited. Individuals from both sides who have transferred the race qualification should take the responsibilities of issues of medical aid and insurance claim. If anyone is found of racing with another's race number, both individuals involved will be disqualified and both will not be allowed to participate in TNF100 series and races held by Huipao race operating organization. A report will be submitted to International Trail Running Association and Chinese Athletic Association to state the situation.

14. Participants must show valid and original identity certificate (ID card/Passport) to pick up their race pack. Only participants themselves can pick up race number, timing chip and race wristband. If a participant cannot participate in the race, he/she can apply to delivery service on the official website for other race items apart from the race number, timing chip and race wristband.

Mandatory Gears

 Drop Bag Service/ Suit-changing Point

1. Participant who need drop bag must paste small race number on the bag for recognition and leave the bag to the staff member at bag storage area of the start.

2. Phone, certificates, cash and other valuable items are not allowed to put in drop bag, if losing please note that the organizing committee will not undertake the compensation responsibilities.

3. Participants’ drop bags can be collected on the basis of corresponding race number.

4. Collecting drop bag service will close in 30 minutes after the race finishing. If participants have any bags not collected within that time, please contact the organizing committee in 1 week after the race to send the bags back through express delivery (the delivery fees are on participants' own).  A week later, the bags may be defined unclaimed.

5. A suit-changing point is set for 100km Groups and located at CP5. 100km participants that need to change clothes during the race can leave their bags (of change of clothes) at the suit-changing bag storage bus near the start, and there is no suit-changing service for 50km and 30km group.

Prize

Finisher's medals and souvenirs are awarded for all finishers. Certificate of achievement can be downloaded on the official website 48 hours later after the race, and there is no printing service at the race day.

100km

Trophies will be awarded to the top 3 in each of the male and female category of 100km group, and they can also receive the following rewards:

1. The North Face® Outdoor Training trail race package, which is worth more than 10,000 RMB. The specific products with optional sizes will be published before the race and sent after the race.

2. Chance of participating in TNF Outdoor Training, which is the most professional training of trail running within 1 year;

3. Chance of participating in TNF Outdoor Training's trial plan of new products within 1 year.

50km

Trophies will be awarded to the top 3 in each of the male and female category of 50km group, and they can also receive the following rewards:

1. The North Face® Outdoor Training trail race package, which is worth more than 5,000 RMB. The specific products with optional sizes will be published before the race and sent after the race.

2. Chance of participating in TNF Outdoor Training, which is the most professional training of trail running within 1 year;

3. Chance of participating in TNF Outdoor Training's trial plan of new products within 1 year.

30km

Trophies will be awarded to the top 3 in each of the male and female category of 30km group, and they can also receive the following rewards:

1. The North Face® Outdoor Training trail race package, which is worth more than 2,500 RMB. The specific products with optional sizes will be published before the race and sent after the race.

2. Chance of participating in TNF Outdoor Training, which is the most professional training of trail running within 1 year;

3. Chance of participating in TNF Outdoor Training's trial plan of new products within 1 year.

Punishment

Breaking any rules will lead to disqualification and timing penalty for the participants.

Following are examples:

1. Making use of any motorized or wheeled vehicles

2. taking the disposable bottles, cups and bowls to the course

3. Not following the marked course route

4. Keeping racing after the cut-off time

5. Loss of either race number or race wristband

6. Lake of mandatory gear

7. Littering on the course

8. Destroying or disturbing and plants or animals

9. Cheating. Using other’s race number or give race number to the other one

Insurance

Individual accident insurance for all runners and volunteers covering race days will be purchased by the organizing committee. In the meantime, the organizing committee recommends participants to purchase accident insurance with higher coverage.

ITRA Points

100km Group: 4 points

50km Group: 2 points

30km Group: 1 points

Note: the final points will be evaluated and confirmed by ITRA 

Course Info

Course Info

1、 100km

100km

Cut-off Time: 28hrs

Ascent / Descent: 5113m / 5119m

Map:look the competition route

2、 50km

50km

Cut-off Time: 14hrs

Ascent / Descent: 2770m / 2775m

Map:look the competition route

3、 30km

30km

Cut-off Time: 10hrs

Ascent / Descent: 2066m /2074m

Map:look the competition route

Closing Time of Each Checking Point

1、 100km

 2、 50km

 3、 30km

How to Enter

Requirements

1. Participants must be at least 18 years old on race day: January 12, 2019;

2. Healthy. No hypertension, heart disease history or any other disease, which is inappropriate for strenuous exercise.

Registration Fee

Note: 100km & 50km participants should pay 300 RMB of GPS device's deposit, which will be refunded after the race.

Registration Qualifications and Verification

Registration Qualifications

100km Group Qualification

Participants should submit the following result certificate to the organizing committee:

Result certificate of formal trail race (50km and above) in the last 2 years; 

50km Group Qualification

Participants can submit either of the following result certificates to the organizing committee:

c. Result certificate of formal trail race (21km and above) in the last 2 years;

d. Result certificate of formal marathon (42.195km and above) in the last 2 years;

30km Group Qualification

Participants can submit either of the following result certificates to the organizing committee:

c. Result certificate of formal trail race (10km and above) in the last 2 years;

d. Result certificate of half marathon (21.0975km and above) in the last 2 years;

Qualification Verification

1. After a participant filling out name and ID number, the registration program will search Huipao ® result database, to figure out whether the participant has history result that fits the qualification verification. If any, the participant will pass the qualification verification directly without uploading any result certificates.

2. If there are no history results of the participant, he/she will enter result-uploading page and have his/her results checked manually. Participants must upload authentic and valid result certificates and wait for the verification. The organizing committee will verify the authenticity of participants' result certificates. A participant who forged the result certificates will be added in the suspension list, and the organizing committee will never accept any registration application of the participant. After passing the qualification verification, participants will receive confirmation letter of registration qualification, via e-mail and SMS.

3. Participants who cannot pass the verification, can re-submit other result certificates for “supplementary information” and have verification again.

How to Enter

1. Registration Method

① Participants need to log on http://tnf100.ihuipao.com/ or follow WeChat public number “tnf_ot” to get registration link to register.

② 100km provides 1000 entries, 50km provides 1000 entries, and 30km provides 1000 entries.

③ Registration & Payment will be available from November 8^th 10:00am. It will end when all quotas were used.

2. Registration Procedure

① Log on http://tnf100.ihuipao.com/ or follow WeChat public number “tnf_ot” to get registration link, then fill in registration information;

② Wait qualification verification result;

③ After qualification verification, participants will receive a confirm letter of registration qualification via e-mail or message;

④ Payment: After the payment opening, participants who have passed qualification verification can pay to confirm their qualification.

 Quit / Registration Waiting List

1. After the registration is full, participants who want to take part in the race can still register. If the participants have met the requirements, they will enter the waiting list after payment. Before registration and payment, the system will inform the participants whether they are applying for a formal qualification or a place of waiting list.

2. Before December 21^st 24:00, the participant who have already get the race qualification can choose to quit, then a participant in waiting list will take the qualification.

3. The number of participants in the waiting list will be published in real-time, and the sequence number of participants in the waiting list is available through registration enquiry.

4. Participants in the waiting list can apply to leave the list but cannot re-apply to enter the waiting list of the same group.

5. The deadline of registration and quit-registration is December 21^st 24:00. After that the organizing committee will not accept participants' quit applications. Participants in the waiting list who do not get qualification at last will have their registration fee back after the deadline of registration.

6. Participants with race qualifications who apply to quit can get 80% registration fee back before December 7^th 24:00; get 50% registration fee back before December 21^st 24:00. After December 21^st 24:00, refund application will be unacceptable. Participants in the waiting list who do not get qualification can get full registration fee back anytime.