I'm beginning to think that for popular oversubscribed events like the WHW, Ben Nevis etc, it would be a lot fairer to have a rule whereby you can't enter more than 2 years out of three or even 2 years out of 4.

This would give race addicts a chance to have a year out and DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT! It would also free up a lot of race regulars for marshalling duties and give them a chance to give something back to a race that they may have run many times but not helped in the running of.

This would create more spaces for first time runners and I think we'd probably aggree that all great races need new runners as well as regulars.