Quote Originally Posted by AJF View Post

So I have not done the event before? So what? If it never got fresh blood the event would have died off long ago.
Way back the PPP used to regularly get over 1000 applications and entries were restricted to say 400, so a LOT of people were turned away.

Times changed and by 2003, which is not that long ago, there were just 205 finishers and the organising committee (of which I was a member) could extrapolate the continuous decline in interest to oblivion.

But a little bit of hoopla and hey! entries are hotter than a Led Zeppelin concert ticket.

Funny old world.