11/08/2021
Dear runners,
last year was extremely challenging for us, we had to cancel the event for the first time since we organize our event. Every organizer knows that these decisions are always hard to except. We are a small organizer with a small team which is working really hard to organize the event on the highest possible level. We also have the best volunteers, more than 100, who are always helping us to get the event to that level and without them, the event simply isn’t possible to organize.
In the last two months we’ve put a lot of effort to organize the event in the most normal conditions possible. Things are changing a lot again, organizers are already having a hard time to organize the events in a safe environment, not just for the runners, but also for all the hart and souls who are helping to organize the events. We are again in an uncertain position what will happen in the next few weeks.
Organizing an event like Pohorje Ultra Trail, in normal conditions, is an extremely challenging work. Now we have even more rules that we have to comply with and follow. This is a big responsibility for us that we must be able to carry, but with poor predictions and unclear rules we have to follow, we cannot handle this kind of responsibility. With all the COVID-19 complications in this year we had to make another hard decision and cancel PUT 2021.
All runners who are registered (also the ones from last year) will get a refund. Expect all the information about the refunds in the next couple of days in your e-mail inbox.
The PUT 2021 organizing team would like to thank you for your understanding. We would like to thank all the registered runners and also all the volunteers who already pledged to help us in this year.
We hope that the year 2022 will be in our favor, so we can meet on Pohorje again.
Best regards,
Team Pohorje Ultra Trail
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Drage tekačice, dragi tekači
lansko leto je bilo za nas izjemno zahtevno, saj smo morali prvič, odkar organiziramo trail tekaški dogodek na našem Pohorju, zaradi poslabšane epidemiološke slike odpovedati. Vsak organizator ve, da so takšne odločitve vedno izjemno težke. Smo malo društvo, z malo organizacijsko ekipo, ki se vsako leto trudi, da dogodek izpelje na najvišji možni ravni. Imamo tudi najboljše prostovoljce, preko 100, brez katerih dogodek sploh ne bi bilo možno izpeljati in nam vsako leto priskočijo na pomoč.
V zadnjih dveh mesecih je bilo vloženega ogromno truda, da bi lahko dogodek PUT 2021 izpeljali v čim bolj normalnih razmerah. Zadeve se ponovno spreminjajo na slabše, organizatorji imajo že sedaj izredno oteženo delo zaradi zagotavljanja visoke ravni varnosti tako za tekmovalce, kot tudi za vse tiste, ki dogodek pomagajo organizirati in ponovno smo se znašli v stanju izredne negotovosti, kaj se bo v prihodnjih tednih zgodilo.
Organizacija dogodka kot je Pohorje Ultra Trail je že v normalnih pogojih ogromen zalogaj, kot veste imamo kot organizator določena pravila, ki se jih moramo držati in upoštevati. Za nas je to velika odgovornost, ki jo moramo biti sposobni nositi, vendar zaradi vedno slabših napovedi, predvsem pa nejasnosti okrog zahtev, ki jih moramo kot organizator upoštevati, takšnega bremena enostavno nismo sposobni prenesti. PUT 2021 smo zaradi s COVID-19 povezanih zapletov v letošnjem letu z zelo težkim srcem ponovno primorani odpovedati.
Vsi prijavljeni tekači (tudi tisti iz leta 2020) boste v prihodnjih dneh obveščeni o tem kako vam bomo povrnili štartnine. V prihodnjih dneh boste na e-mail naslov, s katerim ste se prijavili, dobili vsa navodila kako bodo vračila potekala.
Organizacijski odbor PUT 2021 sem vam zahvaljuje za razumevanje, bi se pa na tem mestu tudi zahvalili vsem, ki ste se že prijavili, tako kot tudi vsem prostovoljcem, ki so nam bili ponovno pripravljeni priskočiti na pomoč.
Upamo, da nam bo leto 2022 končno naklonjeno, da se ponovno vidimo na Pohorju.
Lep športni pozdrav,
Organizacijski odbor Pohorje Ultra Trail
