Managing erosion and numbers

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Originally Posted by Antisocial

Apology accepted, though I don't apologise for deliberately misinterpreting your post about my post that was a response to your post about my first post.

Re topic - I will take that as a compliment as well - thanks ;)

Time to wind this one up now I think

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Yeah, feck off on your bike mate. That way the only erosion you will cause will be to t old ashalt. :D

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Originally Posted by Antisocial

Time to wind this one up now I think

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You have been winding everyone up:rolleyes::D

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Originally Posted by XRunner

You have been winding everyone up:rolleyes::D

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It's what he loves to do, but underneath it all, he's a good chap;)

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Originally Posted by XRunner

You have been winding everyone up:rolleyes::D

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Not on this one you have done it yourselves

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Originally Posted by Antisocial

Given the concerns about many new people coming into the sport and how this will affect numbers and the landscape perhaps the answer to is to ban anyone under 45 from entering a race. That way numbers will stay manageable, you will get wiser older heads running and the kids can go off and do skateboarding, competitive yo yo ing, Olympic happy slapping or whatever takes their fancy. Al could offer his services as a pole in the long jump.

Bofra can still do their junior section but only for 30+ people, that way their will be no CRB or chaperone issues and they can have a drink and a late night if they want one.

Also most of the field being 45+ they will be so addled following years on Timmy Taylors or Pendle Witches that as they will have no young uns to follow they will forge brand new routes in all directions in established races like Pendle.

What do people think?

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Can't believe I missed this thread. AS, that's a great idea but it has one fatal flaw. However, suitably adapted, it could work wonders.

There has been talk about fellrunning becoming increasingly an old-man's/bird's game. Well, we can sort this out in one fell swoop. In what i like to call the 'Eskimo' plan, we simply enforce a retirement age of, ooh let me think, 37, leaving the sport to revel in its youthfulness and reducing numbers, erosion and cantankerousness (is that a word?). That would get me off my skateboard and outta da hood in no time and the oldies can simply spectate. And hand out Wurthers during races to the young uns.

Oh, the retirement age should increase by one year each year too.

AS you are a genius :D

Yours,

ST

Aged 36 and 3/4s

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Originally Posted by Swiss Toni

Can't believe I missed this thread. AS, that's a great idea but it has one fatal flaw. However, suitably adapted, it could work wonders.

There has been talk about fellrunning becoming increasingly an old-man's/bird's game. Well, we can sort this out in one fell swoop. In what i like to call the 'Eskimo' plan, we simply enforce a retirement age of, ooh let me think, 37, leaving the sport to revel in its youthfulness and reducing numbers, erosion and cantankerousness (is that a word?). That would get me off my skateboard and outta da hood in no time and the oldies can simply spectate. And hand out Wurthers during races to the young uns.

Oh, the retirement age should increase by one year each year too.

AS you are a genius :D

Yours,

ST

Aged 36 and 3/4s

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Thank you, but I cannot take this compliment as I do not truly believe it, though I am sure there are one or 2 on the forum who believe they are indeed touched by genius who would welcome your praise.

However you have missed the central premise of my idea, that most over 45 fell runners are so addled by booze that if there were no younger faster people in front of them who follow the well trod lines , they would bumble off in all directions onto less eroded soil.

Was going to stop posting on this but i have just come up the REAL solution after surfing the threads - its so obvious.


Want to reduce numbers and erosion - Ban TEACHERS from fell running, numbers will over halve. Why has nobody thought of this before!!

Obviously it would be difficult to enforce initially so you could make them have proper holidays like the rest of us instead of half the year off and stop teacher training days - they will not have enough time to run then/. (Well known fact teachers have to train twice as hard as the rest of us to get anywhere).

Swiss Toni is right - I am a genius.

Are you related to Mr Bean?

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Originally Posted by So Wood

Are you related to Mr Bean?

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you are a very new member aren't you?

Yes, but i am the handsome one

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Originally Posted by Antisocial

you are a very new member aren't you?

Yes, but i am the handsome one

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Hee Hee!

New members eh!

Heard it all before eh AS?...........still makes me smile though:D