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:
  • The Start
  • The Course
  • The Finish
• To understand an Endurance Official’s roles and responsibilities including:
  • Sector MarshallRace RefereeStart Director and Finish DirectorCourse Director
  • Judging and Recorder

• Health & Safety

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

• Attendance at the Risk Awareness Course
• Ensure you have uploaded your licence photo to the myAthletics portal (head shot on a white background).
• Complete an Access NI check
• Complete the self-taught Safeguarding module
• Complete the Level 1 application form and send to officials@athleticsni.org