The organisers at the finish were unaware that the outgoing runners were set off before both of the incoming arrived............the results will be amended and team number 48 will be disqualified.
(From Graham Wright event organiser)
The organisers at the finish were unaware that the outgoing runners were set off before both of the incoming arrived............the results will be amended and team number 48 will be disqualified.
(From Graham Wright event organiser)
Spot on Disco Smurf. Got ambushed by little fairies hitting my legs with baseball bats, hiding behind a wall at the bottom of the descent. Funny how they looked a bit like witton Park?Originally Posted by disco stan
Are we running a book on what mile Pudgy will bonk?
My bets mile 7.
Are you refering to the cramp fairies...they got me on the final 200meters!
I gave you & The Master nothing but support - the pair of you looked perfectly serene as you came past.
Serene? Gracefully gliding past on all fours, I guess. How did you get to attack AF as well. God you can move fast for an oldster! And as for the 3 peaks! Where do you hide that baseball bat?
The results have now been amended on the event website although not on any other sites where they might be seen to show that team number 48 have been disq, they were allowed to set off before both incoming runners arrived which as pointed out by Vince is against the rules. This is probably the fault of the organiser for not fully briefing the c/o marshal not to allow this to happen.
I consider this very unsporting. Surely the whole point of a relay is that teams are allowed to set off when they feel like it, and if they wish to stop off for refreshment or to survey the views en route: this should all be factored in.
Isn't the very idea of runners only being allowed to set off when a map or stick or some other touchy-feely stuff has been gone through rather, well, intimate if not risible?
It is applying arcane rules such as are referred to above that has spoilt many relay races in other low key events such as the Olympic Games.
Now that's what I call heavy handed sarcasm. To my mind there was a cock up. It was pointed out. It was sorted. End of.
I would hate Rossendale to have any qualms about the further running of this fantastic event due to any fall out over this very small incident.
Though I agree , I think that it is inevitable that the most freely proclaimed spirits conform and buckle down to what they intially see as restrictive practice, for example the Fell Ponies (the non club) entered a team for this race - unless of course they were practicing double standards.
I call it levity.
My first relay (Calderdale) was in 1985 and it seems to me that over the last 20 years it is the hilarity of these events that people remember and still talk about, not recollecting the performances of well-oiled machines of soul-less superstars.
Skyrac once came 4th in the Calderdale but a much better story is how a Skyrac leg 5 runner ran across the road at the very start of his leg, fell off the stile and broke his leg.
Brilliant!
Or the year one pair were still in the tea tent as the previous leg runners came powering in.
Or watching the runner who ran his leg after being concussed and had lost his sense of balance so was swaying from side to side.
Or the chap who turned up and asked his partner to go easy because he had run the 50 mile Round Rotherham Race the previous day.
Or...
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