Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
I only mentioned elite sport, purely because it would (should!) be easier to police at that level.
I wouldn't envy a volunteer fell-running RO being faced with untangling such a complex issue, and perhaps rather than worrying about it, that issue can be sorted if/when it arises.
I do certainly think if the issue arose at English/British Champs level of fellrunning then that would need some urgent and direct guidelines and rules in place. However i don't think fellracing is the kind of sport where a theoretical situation would arise where a trans-woman would be looking to "take advantage" of their new status for personal glory...
I often look at race results and see where i would have came in the women's placings, but i don't think i'm yet at the stage where i'm considering it as a serious sporting choice!!
Me too. I'm now at the stage where I'm nowhere near, and I'm looking more towards competing with the MV60 category.
I've had a few tustles with Graham B when he's ventured across the Pennines from the dark side and he was a MV70 last time.
I'm destined to be tail end, DNF or timed out when racing starts up again unless there's a dramatic uptick in my form
That reminds me, whaven't seen Lantern Rouge on here for a while.
Last edited by Witton Park; 16-10-2020 at 06:36 PM.
Now this is weird. I quoted Noel, but somehow I've posted as Noel!
Spooky.
Noel - last edited by Witton Park
Could have some fun with this!
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
Can't say I've noticed. I never look at runners behind me.
And btw Burnsall is in glorious Yorkshire.,
But with Covid in mind: an interesting question I have encountered (to which you know the answer)
Q
If everyone stayed away from each other for a couple of weeks would the common cold be wiped out?
A
Apparently not because although rhinoviruses are fully cleared from a healthy body in about 10 days this does not apply to people with severely weakened immune systems so when people started mingling again the cold would spread in the normal way.
Does anyone have Boris's mobile number?
Last edited by Graham Breeze; 16-10-2020 at 08:16 PM.
"...as dry as the Atacama desert".
My honest answer to the initial question is no they shouldn't.
Perhaps sport in general should adopt the para games idea that your physical / biological
characteristics are measured rather than your disabilty and then you compete in the appropriate category.
Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run
In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen.
Jorge Luis Borges
I know very little of the details of the Lauren Jeska saga... My assumption would have been that at the time (was it around 2010-2012 time?), the fellracing powers-that-be were probably unaware of any issue at all...
I may well be wrong... Probably best left in the past.