First leg amputee and first frontal lobotomy patient...I can't believe I missed the entry date. :mad:
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Dear GrahamB
Oops how embarrassing - must have confused you with my father-in-law! :o
I'm still up tight about not getting an entry, but ...
... I've just got home from a Cumbria League X-country race in Maryport, where there must have been 20 of us in the Senior Race. It wasn't very hilly but we enjoyed four muddy laps round the playing fields, there were people entering with 5 minutes to go before the start, lots of primary school kids running, and all for £1.50.
Seeing the effort that people (like Brampton's Noel Hakeman) put into organising races like the one today put the PPP fiasco into perspective. I still think that the organising team have handled the entry system badly, but I'm sure it was done in good faith. They invest a lot of time and effort into making the race the annual highlight that it is, so who am I to complain?
blen wot ever u name wot has your last post got to do with 3 peaks
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Hi,
I know most of the organising team very well (I was a member for a year or two building up to the 50th Anniv) and I have the utmost respect for people like Dave Hodgson, Wendy Dodds, Bill Wade, Bryan Speight, etc. These people know and have done it all.
I am sure they are stunned that the PPP has filled so quickly.
I am also sure that elite athletes will not be punished because they did not get through the window eg Angela Mudge is the greatest mountain runner to emerge from the British Isles and is currently running the Everest marathon. I really doubt the PPP organisers will turn her away if she wants to run?
And if they do she can have my place.
GrahamB
The PPP organisers do a great job and were probably as suprised as everyone else about how quickly the entries filled up. I'm sure they will not be turning any elite athletes away that missed the online entry system. Given that this is such a big event next year maybe they should have allocated so many places for elite athletes, so many places for online entries e.g. first 250 places and then the rest through the standard postal system. However I'm not complaining they filled up very quickly and I'm sure it is going to be a fantastic day. Good luck to everyone that has got a place!!!