Endurance Officials Courses
The Endurance Officials qualifications are available for anyone aged 16 or over who is interested in assisting in off-track endurance events, including cross country, fell, hill and road running.
Endurance Officials Pathway
Level 1 Endurance Official 
This course covers all off-track endurance events and will last around 4 hours and will cover the following topics:
- What we mean by endurance
- To understand the skills, knowledge, experience, and aptitude of Endurance Officials
- What equipment an Endurance Official will need to bring to an event
- What the different areas of an endurance race are:
- To understand an Endurance Official’s roles and responsibilities including:
- Sector MarshallRace RefereeStart Director and Finish DirectorCourse Director
Next Steps
- Gain a minimum of four competition experiences, three differing experiences of which should be achieved from the following:
- Pre-race registration duties
- Assisting with the setting out a start / finish area pre-race
- Start line assisting / assembling athletes.
- Course marshalling
- Marshalling crossing points
- Marshalling at road junctions
- Assisting with the judging / recording at a race finish or equivalent
- Stewarding / Marshalling at finish or operating a finishing funnel
- Timekeeper recording
