Championship Races 2023

[noel]

I voted for option 2. I like the idea of having a short and a long category. It always seemed strange to me that those runners who excel at short fell races (which are akin to a 10k race), or those that excel at long fell races (which are more like a marathon) can't be champions at that distance.

[Llani Boy]

I never got a vote or even knew about it. One of the downsides of not being a Facebook Warrior, or whatever it’s called these days�

[PeteS]

I never got a vote or even knew about it. One of the downsides of not being a Facebook Warrior, or whatever it’s called these days�

I get this. There are plenty of us who can't use Facebook for professional reasons and probably an equal amount who just prefer not to. How can anything be declared a democratic decision when you don't inform the entire electorate?

[Travs]

I don't actually think its a "vote".

It was just a survey and you could indicate your preference at the end.

But your points still stand.... i'll try and post the survey up on here....

[Travs]

Proposals...

Edit: It appears you do need to be logged into facebook to read the proposals document.


Survey....

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...gwqXg/viewform

For anyone who wants to complete the survey, then the final question...

MRAG Proposal Option 1: A one-off race over something like medium distance.

MRAG Proposal Option 2: A separate Long & Short race, one in England, and the other rotating the other nations each year.

[noel]

I'm not on facebook. It's on the front page of the fellrunner site as a news item:
https://www.fellrunner.org.uk/news/2...onships-format

[ba-ba]

I'm not on facebook. It's on the front page of the fellrunner site as a news item:
https://www.fellrunner.org.uk/news/2...onships-format

Yes, front page of the FRA website, went up at the same time as the Faceache post. Should be sufficient to catch as many eyes as possible. It'll be bumped again a few times between now and end of March. Figured it'd make its way here pretty quickly anyway and the wider populace could drive the discussion.

[benshep]

Thanks for sharing the link. To me, that's a well thought out and reasoned consultation, r3ecommendations and survey. There will be a range of views and it is not possible to please everyone, so it is good to see that the rationale for change is explained and the survey is seemingly designed to gather information about preferences and priorities and not merely a choice between the two recommendations.

[mr brightside]

The thing that has ground my gears the most about the FRA English and British is that you can't enter it unless you can run long distance. Secondary to this is the issue of all races being Cat A, which i think is a mistake, so i've explained that in the survey. If the British was one race at medium length i'd probably do it.

[Witton Park]

The thing that has ground my gears the most about the FRA English and British is that you can't enter it unless you can run long distance. Secondary to this is the issue of all races being Cat A, which i think is a mistake, so i've explained that in the survey. If the British was one race at medium length i'd probably do it.

1 x S
1 x M
1 x L

For Club and Individual at venues that can support minimum 500 runners. I would aim for them to be A Cat, but can see that there are some good B Cat that could be considered such as Stan Bradshaw local to me.

All individual Champs races and then possibly have an overall for combination of all 3 for individuals only.

Wouldn't that work? We have differing endurance distances on road and track.