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Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run
As much as I like the forum I do think the facebook page has its merits. The forum seems to have quietened right off this past year or so, once upon a time there was many many posts about the numerous fell races, epecially the classics, but now they are few and far between.
I dont think there was one solitary post about the recent Ennerdale race, in the past there has been pages and pages, both in the build up to it and afterwards, thats just one example, many well established races come and go without even a mention on here. Whereas on facebook there is often loads of photos and many accounts of peoples experience. I think this generally has a lot to do with it been a newer and younger audience, many first timers who have many questions, and I agree that some of the questions people post seem quite tedious, it does offer up some lively debate. It often reminds me of the forum from a few years ago.
I was in USA for a few weeks and when forum went down, lost a daily fix of fell running news. kept thinking I was going to miss some historic BGR action!! Similar to others don't really like FB as you have to scroll through endless posts of shizzle, where at least here the shizzle is all listed in the contents lists!1 Great to have the forum back.
Hadn't noticed it had gone. My pc had to go in for emergency surgery recently, so not been around.
Luke Appleyard (Wharfedale)- quick on the dissent
Afraid the forum has lost the "critical mass". It is no longer the "goto" place for up to date info on fell running, which is a great pity as it is a far superior resource for fell running info. I learned so much on here during my BG attempt a couple of years ago.
I think we need to make a concerted effort to use the forum more as it is far far better than fb for information. I'm as guilty as the next person of looking at this forum on a daily basis to catch up but not actually posting. It is a far superior fell running resource to fb. I did not realise just how much I used it until it was unavailable. Well done Brett on that perfect marketing trick there ;-)