New safety rules

[fellgazelle]

Sorry, cannot agree with you there. I absolutely hate the metric. I have no idea of comparative value. Why should I be disconnected from something I can understand?? Why not have both......PLEASE!!!

Agreed.
Once again Wheeze is the voice of reason.

[Witton Park]

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When did that last happen then?

[Witton Park]

So the FRA/Grump/Graham .

Aren't they all the same

[Woodzy]

Which is also what I did and many others as it was windy as you will well know and you come onto bessy at a bad angle. I agree with the majority of the new rules but numbers on shorts and vestless is just petty. joss, billy & many other top runners did and still do run vestless. also when the weathers bad number on the shorts makes perfect sense to me although im not allowed to use my common sense where health & safety is concerned im I !

Good point Woodzy.......watch what Jebby does though when he gets to the number takers and what he does.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ALDblJxHnWk&feature=plcp

[Britta]

Which is also what I did and many others as it was windy as you will well know and you come onto bessy at a bad angle. I agree with the majority of the new rules but numbers on shorts and vestless is just petty. joss, billy & many other top runners did and still do run vestless. also when the weathers bad number on the shorts makes perfect sense to me although im not allowed to use my common sense where health & safety is concerned im I !

Speaking from my own experience of taking numbers at checkpoints, which I've done a fair bit of since injury meant I'm not racing, then a few numbers on shorts are usually ok to cope with - but if everybody did it, it would be a nightmare! And there can't really be rules that say "the leaders can do with their numbers what they want, as long as they make sure they don't arrive in a big group; stragglers should be fine too..."!

If you've got a few hundred runners coming towards you, and need to be able to get all numbers right, even when they come at you thick and fast, then numbers on the chest are by far the easiest to read from a distance.

Britta

[Woodzy]

Not everyone does do it. as ive said myself I only do it when its hot and I run vestless usually with my no un folded on the front centre of my shorts, or when the weathers bad and im in a jacket or likely to be in it, in this case this must be safer for everyone? scoffer regularly runs vestless "RO" guess he doesn't see it as a problem? also rucksac straps help to hide numbers. I noticed on the pics of borrowdale 3-4 runners near the back end of the field with no number visible this is unacceptable.

[mr brightside]

Sorry, cannot agree with you there. I absolutely hate the metric. I have no idea of comparative value. Why should I be disconnected from something I can understand?? Why not have both......PLEASE!!!

I've gradually stopped using the calendar, the figures are meaningless to me. Thank goodness the website still has both on the listings, i don't know who is doing the legwork for it all, i suspect maybe Brett, but thankyou whoever you are.

Metric for money but not distance. I fell race for fun not to come face to face with irritating compliance with something imposed. I,ll eat my Walshes if the idea to co metric AND ONLY SHOW metric originated from within FRA.

Probably UKA, prompted by some sort of EU directive.

[mr brightside]

If you don't like the rules you could always just not register the race?

Or you could register it with ARC which continues to use a 4 year old 'cut and paste' of FRA rules without the new stuff? http://www.runningclubs.org.uk/ (Click on rules)

And they don't use this metric malarkey!

Cheers for the link there Dom.

[noel]

http://www.metric-conversions.org/le...s-to-miles.htm

Although it's a bit tricky to think about, and you do need to go "so how many miles is that", it's not really all that hard.

[mr brightside]

http://www.metric-conversions.org/le...s-to-miles.htm

Although it's a bit tricky to think about, and you do need to go "so how many miles is that", it's not really all that hard.

When i'm reading the calendar i won't be able to access that site becuase the calendar is not a tablet or a laptop.