Quote Originally Posted by Travs View Post
To me, trail or "hilly road races" just don't serve a purpose...

Obviously fell is my priority, but if i'm doing a standard distance, 5km/10km/10mile/etc, then i'm looking for a time and prefer to do it on the fastest circuit possible, so either a known quick road course, or the track.

Obviously that is quite irrelevant to your original issue of disliking roads in general!!
We clearly have very different objectives in our running. Standard distances mean nothing to me; I just want to run over interesting terrain in pleasant surroundings. So I might compare my times in the same race over different years, but not in races of a particular distance.