RANT - Online Entry Fever!

[Luv Shack]

Broadsheets are the papers of bankers, so im told, they're the intellectual elite - another discussion point on 5 live, please do keep up chaps.

Very few Bankers about Kinder today....
Plenty of Red Tops, in search of Green Spikey bits...
Lots of fun.... well mostly, depending on order'ish...
Hope you & young N' might make it next year!
I'm aiming to avoid clashing too... much!?

[Vince]

Going back to the online part of the thread, I can see how it angers people if they open it early. Fair enough if you are on holiday/didn't know about it. I feel for anyone caught out that way.

[jodg]

Surely for events that are going to be popular (e.g. PPP) the orgainsers can keep a quote of places aside for postal entries???

I was jammy enough to get in last year's PPP but that was only on account of being sat in front of the PC on the morning that online entries opened.

Tough that if you miss it on account of simply not being able to get on t'interweb.

[Penguin]

It is getting increasingly annoying that you find you have to enter events 6-9 months in advance, on the day (or before!) they open entries to get a run. And what's even more annoying is that despite the entry being full only about 85% actually bother turning up.....

yes i can understand you problem, even worse when only 3/4 of the field turn up! even worse is that some races won't offer subs, which is a real piss take..

there could be a comprimise of 50% of the entrys are through the post and the other 50% online?

[trilathon]

I think they're rwere only 100 pleaces in the swimming thang, so only the most keen/in the know/lucky had a chance...

from my little fell running experience, it doesn't seem to suffer to the same extent of mania of the Fred Whitton or Etape du Dales bike rides and some of the easy Ironman events, or road running etc etc

not sure why as I reckon it's tougher, cheaper, more risky and more satisfying !

[Norman Bates]

I can understand the problem with online entries especially if you have missed out on a event you really want to do but from an event organisers point of view, and most race organisers are runners themselves, using the online entry system can save them an awful lot of work (freeing them up to get out there and run).....I sometimes think we forget about the people who (usually) put on races on our behalf.

[Hanneke]

I have already set an alarm on my mobile for the Three Peaks Cyclocross... and will be pretty disappointed if I don't get in...

[Darth of The Dark Side]

Broadsheets are the papers of bankers, so im told, they're the intellectual elite - another discussion point on 5 live, please do keep up chaps.

Thanks for that Tim - thats the nicest thing you've ever said about me!

[trilathon]

Hanneke,

from my recollection of last year, the 3Pcx entry is postal, and everyone I know with some sort of appropriate experience who sent their form off on the morning it opened got in fine...

still quite a worry until you get the confirmation through though...good luck