We had 2 teams in this year, we normally have 7. All the faster lads and faster vets had other agendas, me included. I could pick from 4 or 5 races that weekend in May which are more my cup of tea than the calderdale relay. I compete in the Hodgson, Fra relays and PBR as they fit nicely round other races. As for the benefit of the team i don't really see your point. The relay team i normally run with would be fragmented, making it a bit pointlessOriginally Posted by Paulh
i think then i must be an exception to everyone else in suggesting that i'd put relays first ahead of other races! For the TEAM!
All the faster lads Stanners? That's something of a disservice to the team that finished 7th, including Brendan and Grant who smashed the field on leg 2. I understand your point regarding the Vets which is why we didn't have one in May but I think these comments on quality/availability are premature and a bit dismissive really!
Having said that, the added spice of starting in darkness, battling against the elements etc seemed to define the CWR so the move is a shame.
I'll be up for running it though. Love the relays!
Personally i thought we could've done better than 7th, considering some of the quicker teams were'nt running. Brendan and Grant had a cracking run, even so the A team was under strength. They even had me in the A team until pulled out to do needed Paddy Buckley training. Now that's how desperate they were to fill the team.
Bit dismissive my arse, i have my opinion you have yours. I do 50 to 60 races a year and have a right to chose what i want to do, just like you do. Enjoy your relays whoever you are. [/I]
Ye, Stanners. You probably went faster on your Paddy Buckley training than you would in the race! I know what you mean about the event date changing, but for those who organise the races we have to give them all the support we can. Look what's happened to our relay. Lefty and all those who worked so hard were let down by a few who couldn't close a gate.
Can't see the part where I've questioned your 'right to choose' as you've put it! And I will enjoy all the races I decide to enter be they fell, road or the relatively few relays on offer throughout the course of the year.
Oh and I see you're being even more dismissive about being dismissive!
Nice to see you've come out of the closet to post on the forum pal, did we have stage fright?
Was it the same nervousness you had when you bottled the 3 peaks? I'd stick to racing within your limits mate with your little popsocks. The Rossy forum might be more your cup of tea mate, i personally wouldn't want you getting bogged down with fell running issues you may struggle to grasp.
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Not got a problem personally with the change in date to May - think it's actually a good thing because it'll make Halifax's job much easier to organise the event.
However, and this is a big however, I would advocate that the ROs take account that some runners may also wish to run the Leeds and Sheffield Half marathons and avoid these dates - both are big city HMs which generally take place at the end of April/beginning of May (esp Leeds) - a lot of the clubs supporting the CWR will have runners in these races or will be supporting them with marshals etc...
And before someone comes back at me that fell runners will always want to run fell races ahead of everything else - this is an erroneous assumption that is actually probably only true for a minority of fell runners - I suspect quite a lot are happy to run a mixture of events. And even if they don't run, then I know at Abbey we provide a minimum of 20 marshals to do the start and finish for the Leeds HM, which will obviously also impact our CWR teams and other clubs in Leeds will similarly be affected.
Last edited by fozzy; 27-06-2011 at 11:00 PM. Reason: grammar
Re: Calderdale Way Relay
[QUOTE=Stanners;420669]Nice to see you've come out of the closet to post on the forum pal, did we have stage fright?
Was it the same nervousness you had when you bottled the 3 peaks? I'd stick to racing within your limits mate with your little popsocks. The Rossy forum might be more your cup of tea mate, i personally wouldn't want you getting bogged down with fell running issues you may struggle to grasp.
You're right buddy; I'm not worthy :thunbdown:
I'll never be a 'Senior Member' :boohoo:
Can some of you lot stop using this forum for slagging each other off. Just PM each other please. I don't want to read all this rubbish. It's going to be difficult to avoid clashing with road and fell races in May. Halifax have picked a weekend that will be the same every year and I'm afraid if it's the same weekend as some big road marathons well so be it. This is the difficulty that the CW now faces with changing the relay to May. I don't think that there will be the same demand for teams now but I'm sure alot of clubs will still manage to get out there. We are lucky in that we only do fell and being local we will still be fielding a fair few teams but I'm not so sure quite as many as before. The relay will impact on other fell races on that same weekend. I have very mixed feeling about the change but in my heart of hearts I did prefer December. Although sitting in the sun with a beer at the end this year had a certain appeal
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