Re: The FRA and the Media
Originally Posted by
Witton Park
No one has ever said it was a fell race - it was a trial for the World Mountain Running Champs. The race profile was very similar to the race profile of the actual Champs race and that is the same for the Euro and World Trials at Sedbergh and Glenridding this year.
We've had the debate before on this forum many times, is there a typical fell race? I think not. All you can really say about our races that we frequent, is that they tend to be mainly off road and include an element of ascent & descent.
Witton was a well organised trial, with fantastic racing and who would have thought you could get A category race stats at Witton Park?
To quote one top GB and England Runner who came to the trial as closely as I can(he has won races on all types of fell terrain and long and short)
Richard, you've broken me in to little pieces
which at least satisfied me that it was tough
Any run can be tough (like running a mile in 4 mins on a track) and you can probably get Cat A figures on any old flight of stairs but that doesn't make them fell races.
As you more or less said, there is no typical fell race - and definition is impossible. However, we know what is and isn't and the FRA fixture secretary has always been good at deciding, subjectively, what is and what isn't, so there's no need for a debate.
I just thought Wheeze's question was funny. I live very close to Witton Park (the place) and have never thought of going fellrunning there... 
The artist formerly known as Trundler.. AKA Andy W
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