Along with race Registration forms,insurance information etc race organisers have now been sent a copy of the " new rules " and the draft has been available for everyone to look at and comment on for some time. My hope is that everyone agrees to comply with the rules rather than seek to get around them in some way. They should certainly help most race organisers enforce the safety aspect and hopefully most competitors will accept them in the spirit in which they have been written i.e. For their own safety.
There is no doubting the motives of the FRA in revising the rules nor the expertise of the people who drafted them.
Fell running though is a safe sport. Whilst 1 fatality is too many, considering the number of events/races held each year, the nature of the terrain, adverse weather etc and the severity of the sport to my knowledge there have only been a handful of fatalities ( I have been unfortunate to have been running in 3 of those races ! )whether the " new rules " may have prevented any of those fatalities is debatable we shall never know but if life and limb can be saved in the future I'm all for it.
