CROSSFEST UK north 2025 - ATHLETE EMAIL
Hi Crossfesters,
We hope you’re all looking forward to Crossfest UK North 2025! We can’t wait to welcome your teams to the festivities so here is a quick email containing all the information you need about the event.
VENUE
Bowlers Exhibition CentreLongbridge Road, Trafford ParkStretford, Manchester M17 1SN
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FREE PARKING
There will be free parking available at the venue but prepare to find parking in the local area if the car park fills. The venue is situated just off the M60. The venue is close to the Trafford Centre for public transport links, including a Metrolink stop (Parkway) that will drop you a 10 minute walk away. The event will run until quite late so you may want to have a designated driver sorted!
ARRIVAL & WOD BRIEFING
Doors will open at 8:00am (no earlier) for registration and the intro for the day will be at 9:00am with a whole group warmup at 9:30am. Please be prompt as this will allow us to keep within our schedule for the competition.
All of the workouts will be released on the @crossfest_uk Instagram page prior to the event.
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REGISTRATION
Teams will be able to inform our registration desk of their arrival from 8:00am onwards, where you will be able to collect your name board. Can all teams that haven’t yet registered on Team Aretas please do so ASAP as you will not be able to compete if this isn’t done. Team Aretas registration also includes signing the waiver for the competition so please ensure that all athletes are registered.
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SCHEDULE
The first WOD will start at 09:45am and we aim to wrap up the competition part of the day by 18:00pm, after which our podium will take place and our post event social will close along with the event at 20:00pm. The competition will be made up of 4 WODs with the top three teams in each category earning places on the Crossfest UK podium. Our live acts will begin in the morning with our event DJs, DJ Sherman and SHWAR providing the first two DJ sets. The full schedule can be seen below.
TIMINGS FOR THE DAY
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Athlete Registration: 8:00am
Intro for the day: 9:00am
Group Warm Up: 9:30am
Workout 1: 09:45am
Workout 2: 12:00pm
Lunch Break: 13:50pm
Workout 3: 14:20pm
Gauntlet Workout 4: 16:40pm
Comp Finishing Time: 18:00pm
Podium: 18:30pm
Event close: 20:00pm
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SPECTATORS
Spectator tickets are £15 and can be booked online via the link below:
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https://team-aretas.com/competitions/spectate/1895
FOOD & DRINK
We will have food options outside the front entrance of the building, enabling you to grab some lunch throughout the day.
Bowlers Onsite Bar ​will be your one stop shop for beverages, providing a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
* We would advise you to bring cash along to the event as this speeds things up and ensures that you don’t miss out on anything.
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* Personal food and soft drinks are able to be brought in to the venue
* Please ensure that you do not bring alcohol to the event as this will not be allowed.
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CROSSFEST TRIBE OF THE COMP!
Along with the six teams that will make the podium, we will also be crowning one of the teams as ‘Tribe of the Comp’. This will be the tribe that embodies what Crossfest is about - cheers for others like its their own team, dances like they’re at a rave and makes the most noise when their squad are throwing down.
There will be a prize for ‘Tribe of the Comp’ provide by our partner Tenzing, in the form of a Tenzing branded drinks cooler, so put in that extra effort, come in the same gear, fancy dress, whatever you like! Remember, Crossfest is a Functional Fitness Competition AND a music festival...We’re looking forward to crowning our third ‘Tribe of the Comp’ this year so get in your whatsapp chats and let's get creative!
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CROSSFEST FANCY DRESS CONTEST
The Gauntlet workout (WOD 4) has always been the big finale at our Crossfest events and over the years it has organically become an opportunity to raid the fancy dress cupboard!
After the success of our 'Superbowl' themed fancy dress contest last year, we are bringing it back for 2025!
THEME - THE NOUGHTY NINETIES
It’s real simple! Fancy dress isn’t compulsory for The Gauntlet but it’s greatly encouraged and if you want to be in with a chance of winning, all you need to do is come up with the best idea possible for fancy dress and throw it on before your gauntlet wave starts! We will be watching and one team will be climbing on stage to claim their prize……it could be you!
Think anything related to the golden era of the 90s and 2000s for your fancy dress ideas and the comp and gauntlet in particular will be tyour opportunity to relive the good times!
We can’t wait to see what you guys come up with as everybody knows….Crossfesters are nothing if not creative!
EVENT PARTNERS
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Crossfest UK North 2025 is proud to be sponsored by the following amazing brands for this year's event:
BEVERAGE SPONSOR
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TENZING
APPAREL SPONSOR
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THE DEFIANT CO.
NUTRITION SPONSOR
EFECTIV
EQUIPMENT SPONSOR
BODY POWER
Any further questions, please don’t hesitate to send us an email at ​info@crossfest.co.uk​ or call on ​07590 331934. We wish you all the best of luck in your final preparation and see you all at Crossfest UK North 2025!
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