This is the e-mail we've been sending out today - lots of them!!!!!!
Dear (fill in your own name),
I am an also ran, runner. I received the 2006 calendar which was sent out to everyone at the same time, decided what races I wanted to do in the year and sent my entries in, then went to the pub. It’s not important whether I ran or not, it’s just summat I wanted to do so I got it sorted. At the back end of the season I bust my arm, so contacted the race organiser of the last two races I’d pre-entered and told them I would not be running. I dunno if the places were reallocated, but the oportunity was given.
This year, when I came back to work after the Christmas hols, there were a lot of paper entry forms & cheques waiting for me which were put on the 2007 Entry list.
THEN we opened the online Entries.
As the maximum number of entries allowed by the National Truss and the PeakPark is 500 we closed the online entries at 450 and the final 50 entries were postal as were the first ones.
If it was important that I ran, I would have entered as soon as possible (like I have for the Ben Nevis) to avoid disappointment.
It’s a shame that runners wanting to take part in the race because they are entering the English Champs, or have a particular score to settle, have failed to get an entry. If it is that important, they should have thought about this earlier shouldn't they / you?
If the FRA wanted us to keep a certain number of places available for English Champs competitors, that’s fine. But, like the individuals who have asked too late, so have they.
There’s no bargaining / horse trading / bribing going off. We will put the Entry list on the DarkPeak website in the next couple of days.
When EVERYONE in DarkPeak involved in this has agreed, we will make a decision on substitutions. It is most likely we will allow substitutions within clubs. Until then, the entry list is full and until it is disclosed everyone will just have to sweat it out!
In the interim you could do worse than look at this …………
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Jim Fulton & Chris Barber AKA [email protected] and [email protected]
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