Quote Originally Posted by ba-ba View Post
The Intercounties is now (and has been for a while?) the 'Intercounties Mountain Running Championships' and as such is now more fully marked and traily than it might once have been, and sometimes used as a Trials race.

As has been mentioned, it's a balance between purity and pragmatism. We don't expect a nice simple answer from the survey, but we need to get people's viewpoints. It also means that there's eyes on this proposal and people know what's happening - I wouldn't want something like this to be perceived as being 'snuck through' - by FRA or MRAG!
Alan Barlow was the co-ordinator when I hosted in 2014. It was still fell then. although people would contest the venue as being fell, but I did talk to him about the purists complaining.

His view (I paraphrase) was that there were other championship events out there for purist fell runners, but when it came to Inters, consideration had to be given to counties with less of a fell pedigree and little ability to recce who might have to co-opt in general endurance runners.

Typically around 20 Mens Counties finished teams and maybe 10+ ladies teams. That could have halved if we tried to send them around a typical AM where NS, ER and particularly LK are advised.