Quote Originally Posted by Stagger View Post
What a daft statment. All who started were there because they wanted to be.
If they had been left alone they would have finished Sunday with a great experience and awaiting their next OMM.
God some of you lot are not very nuanced, are you? If you read what I wrote, it was by implication that the mountain marathon world was coming apart, and whether it did or not was neither here nor there. I was writing about perception, and last time I looked the public's perception of the MM world was, while completely erroneous, very much in the negative frame. That was the point about Baggins (obviously far too subtle and thus completely missed by some of you)...his trot round Ennerdale at the same time OMM was being cancelled precisely proved the point that in reality, nothing was coming apart at all. If taking comments in a completely literal vein is the best you can do, it's no wonder so much defensive, knee-jerk gibberish has been written here.