Originally Posted by
Lecky
How is this to happen at a typical A Long with no road crossings? You have 200 runners, all of whom set off at the same time. A fast runner passes CP1 and 2 fine, but goes off course on the way to CP3. He loses 30 minutes, but carries on. Rather than being in tenth he is now 150th. What systems that we normally use are going to locate him? CP3 has runners coming through from 60' in to 180' in to the race. Marshals are taking numbers the whole time. When can they communicate back to the Race HQ about who has gone through?
I asked a question once Ian. Never got an answer. If a runner went off route across brown knoll in thick clag headed towards mount famine from mam nick , ending up at the hayfield road a long time later, getting back to edale many hours late at the end - how long would it be in practice before you deemed it necessary to call out search? What is your policy? Not a trick question , just interested. It is complicated by the overtaking - I have overtaken scores of people across that section in the past because I start slow and the ones who start too fast pay for it there as a queue of walking dead sothe order gets shaken up I Imagine, But at what point do you decide to act?
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