COLLABORATION
The Lincolnshire T&F county championships are being staged in collaboration with Humber T&F county championships, sharing the administration and officials. Athletes need to travel to Humberside as all the athletics tracks in Lincolnshire are out of service and not up to EA standards.

VENUES
Day 1 (Saturday 21st August) is at Costello Stadium, Anlaby Park Road North, Kingston-upon-Hull HU4 6XQ
Day 2 (Sunday 22nd August) is at Costello Stadium, Anlaby Park Road North, Kingston-upon-HULL, HU4 6XQ
The U20/Sen/Vet Men's 10,000m is on Sat May 4th at Costello Stadium, Hull.

LINCOLNSHIRE COUNTY QUALIFICATION
All competitors must be qualified by being (a) born in Lincolnshire* or (b) resident in Lincolnshire continuously for nine months immediately prior to the competition.
* or born outside of Lincolnshire (e.g. in Peterborough Hospital) but birth-mother was a resident of Lincolnshire at the time of the birth.
The qualification may be relaxed for school children and college/university students in term-time residence in Lincolnshire - contact laa@lincsathletics.com first.

AGE GROUPS
U11s must aged 9 or 10 on Day 2 above; Veterans must be aged at least 35 on Day 2 above.
Upper age limit: as at 31st August of this year, except U20/Senior boundary being 31st December of this year.

ELIGIBILITY TO COMPETE
As well as the above county qualification, members of UKA-affiliated clubs must be registered with a current URN.
Unattached athletes with a county qualification can compete in this year's championships, but will need to possess a valid URN to compete in future years.

ENTRY FEES
1st event for U11, U13, U15 & U17: £5. Each additional event £2.
1st event for U20, Senior, Vet: £6. Each additional event £2.

CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES
Entries will be accepted until 5pm on Fri 26th April 2019. NO LATE NOR POSTAL ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED.

REGISTRATION & START TIME
Registration will begin at 09:00 on both days. Track and Field events will commence at 11:00 on both days.

CLOTHING
Competitors must wear vest and shorts (or equivalent) and be designed and worn as not to be objectionable, even when wet. The vest must be that of their first-claim affiliated club, county, area or nation. Numbers must be worn as issued.

HEATS / FINALS / TIME-TRIALS
Where necessary, track events may be split into Heats / Semi-Finals / Finals.
Two heats: fastest 3 each + 2 fastest others progress to final;
Three heats: fastest 2 each + 2 fastest others progress to final;
Four heats: fastest 3 each + 4 fastest others progress to semi-finals; fastest 3 each + 2 fastest others progress to final.

At the discretion of the organisers, U11 events may instead be time-trials.

EQUIPMENT
Athletes may use their own equipment, provided that it is submitted for checking before use. Only starting blocks provided by the Stadium may be used.

LINCOLNSHIRE AWARDS
Woven County badges will be awarded to those athletes finishing 1st, 2nd or 3rd in the final round of each male/female age-group event.