Number 1: Were you at Borrowdale. A wide variety of lines? Maybe once we hit scafell the route choice varied, but the first third and last 1/4 I'd say 90% of us took near identical lines.

Number 2: Of course it would, you are talking of an almost 50% increase in numbers, as it was parking was just about full. Another 50% and I think we may have had trouble.

Number 3: I actually think any race should donate some money (from the runners fee) to the local conservation/footpath repairs.

Number 4: there's benefitting locals and there is full stop pissing them off by blocking roads, toilets and taking over an area.

Number 5: Yes I ran snowdon, jump over my back wall and I start running up it. No it isn't, its run as one race, but only 500 ran, like at borrowdale, make it a one off race and I doubt it would cope, I doubt many races could cope. Locals must be considered to a point, sadly without landowners say so races are tricky to organise. Read the CRoW act. And yes I think a large number of runners care about their environmental impact.

And I agree, I thought Borrowdale passed well. I've not heard of any runners who failed to get entry in the end. It was a nice size, a large race, but the start could tolerate it, and the start/finish area could too.