Introducing The Solar System Way 50km pilot race.

The York Solar System model is a scale model of our Solar System, spread out along 10km of the old East Coast mainline railway. Along it you can find scale models of all the planets in our solar system as well as models of the Cassini and Voyager spacecraft. The scale of our model is 575,872,239 to 1, so every 100 metres along the track corresponds to more than 57 million kilometres in space.

The race is a 'shuttle' run to each planet and then back to the Sun until all planets have been reached.

DIstances

Sun to...
Mercury 100m (58 million km) = 200m
Venus 190m (108 million km) = 416m
Earth 260m (150 million km) = 936m
Mars 400m (228 million km) = 1.7km
Jupiter 1.4km (778 million km)  = 4.5km
Saturn 2.5km (1427 million km) = 9.5km
Uranus 5km (2870 million km) = 19.5km
Neptune 7.8km (4500 million km) = 35km
Pluto 10.2km (5913 million km) = 55.5km

Total Distance 55km approx

The Course

The course is pancake flat and on 99% public footpath with a great surface for fast running.
There is also a very small residential road section between Mars and Jupiter (The Asteroid Belt)
Runners will be required to touch the chalk line at the first four planets and then touch Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
We will have a couple of roaming marshal at the front and back of the pack, and a marshal at the lead planet.

Aid Stations

We will have our HQ at the Sun and a water station nr Uranus. Each time you return to the sun you will have access to your bags, water and snacks.

Cut Off

Time Limit 7 hours based on 7km per hour.
Cut off at Sun 5 hours