I only found out that the online entry system was open this morning, by which time it was too late.

As a regular 3 Peak entrant (every year since 95 except for foot and mouth and one injured year) I'm 100% p!ssed off about missing out on the 2008 race.

You may say it's my own fault for not glueing myself to the computer every day since the start of November, and I know that the process is the same for every potential entrant so it's fair in that sense, but in the good old days every finisher in the top 50 was guaranteed a place the following year.

I've been out for my 5 mile lunchtime run and come back just as mad as when I left the office. At the moment it's making me seriously question whether I'll enter again.