Quote Originally Posted by Grouse View Post
I agree with Ian but, (off the point a little bit), one thing I have pondered is the emergency food that some RO's stipulate be carried - if you were to use it could it DQ you in the event of a kit check at the end of a race? In some cases it seems it would, but I think this is unfair - I have given the last of my food away to other runners in the past and I think if anyone used their emergency rations it would be unfair to disqualify for them for it (unless of course they did not carry enough and starved to death in which they would deserve all they got).
that food you handed me at dunmail weighed me down so much i collapsed under the strain
surely if you ran out of food you could eat a game bird or two