Quote Originally Posted by ChevinbyTorchlight View Post
...I can now no longer just check the FRA calendar to see what races are on, I have to check FRA, SHR, WFRA & every individual club website to check for races such as Pendle Cloughs etc. A ridiculous situation i'm sure a fair few others within the sport agree with. It's starting to make the pro/amateur debacle look good.
Regarding fragmentation, there is already a large amount of fragmentation due to the fact that the FRA is so arrogant that it dismisses "lesser" organisations as insignificant and only seems interested in bombastically declaring itself the be all and end all of fell and hill running in the UK.

It now seems to have begun a policy of excluding races that are not FRA registered from it's calender so we can presumably expect to see Scottish and Welsh races disappearing from the list before long.

Wouldn't it be better if all the race-promoting bodies nationwide worked together to further the aims of fell runners and race organisers? WFRA, and SHR are amenable to that but the FRA is too full of it's own importance and too determined to lay down the law on it's own terms.

THAT's the problem!