Quote Originally Posted by Trundler View Post
'trail' is not interchangeable with any of those...
Trail can mean any off-road event in most places in the world.

The majority of fell races in the UK could be classed as trail races.

If one wants to apply a strict definition to a fell race then it should be limited to hills that are called fells within parts of England and Scotland.

However I do like the quirkiness of the English language that allows us to define many off-road races as fell races.

I think that is is unfortunate that the FRA failed to extend its control into all UK off-road races that were not classified as cross country.