The Ben Race

[Pike]

This minimum of 10 letters in a post is a pain!

It will stop Penguin racking up a huge post count simply by replying "True" to everything

[brett]

5 now!

This minimum of 10 letters in a post is a pain!

[clodhopper]

5 now!

Cant you make it 3 so JJ can say

WOT

[Joliver Jim]

Wot??

Cant you make it 3 so JJ can say

WOT

[Joliver Jim]

Ah right. That's the way to do it.

[Tomsk]

Marvin, well done for re-opening this thread. Good to see it back. Going to take some to keep it going until September !!!!
Glad to see that the list of forumite entries is groing.

Keep the thread going !!!

[theNoor]

Did everyone who I posted too get the DVD of the race, can't remember who I all posted too!!

Mick-oi!

Thank you tres muchos.

DVD arrived. It is grand. I have watched it twice already.

Still don't want to go and do it though.

Too much steep, fast doonhill for me!

[gaz77]

A bit late for this year, but I think that if you just don't turn up, you shouldn't be allowed an entry for the following couple of years.

YES i do too! i heard 3 lads at the pub saying that there couldnt be bothered to race

[Marvin]

YES i do too! i heard 3 lads at the pub saying that there couldnt be bothered to race

Shame. Thoughtless - probably didn't appreciate how much demand there was for their places, or that there was a mechanism to allow someone else to take their place.

Mind you, the number of participants has been pretty consistent over the last few years at 350 to 400 hasn't it? The organisers probably rely on a high rate of attrition. How congested would it be if 500 did take part?

[grifter]

If you think about it its quite a clever way of raising more revenue as runners pull out who have paid somebody else takes their place and pays again !
The earlier the entries become available the more chance of people pulling out.