Quote Originally Posted by benshep View Post
Thanks for sharing the link. To me, that's a well thought out and reasoned consultation, r3ecommendations and survey. There will be a range of views and it is not possible to please everyone, so it is good to see that the rationale for change is explained and the survey is seemingly designed to gather information about preferences and priorities and not merely a choice between the two recommendations.
I agree. I thought it was a useful illustration of the issues.

Like everyone else I have an opinion on what a Fell Running Championship should test and once upon a time I had some influence on that. Twenty years ago a championship which didn't include Wasdale or Duddon Valley etc wouldn't have been worthy of the name but times change and the task for MRAG is to come up with a formula that today's runners will turn up and support - and then to denote that formula as The Championship.

Purity is fine but it is usually trumped by pragmatism.