Quote Originally Posted by GrahamB View Post
Mmmh. "sane" or "insane", and skipping lithely (oh I am very lithe) past the philosophical debate (eg was Nietsche sane? Not sure, but he wrote more profound words than one will ever read on this Forum) surely the point is that the organiser decides?

Did Nietsche organise many fell races?
Perhaps we should move off the sane or unsane and think about regulation. Who does any sort of vetting/ controlling / anything else you want to call it of organisers? In entering a race, we rely on them having made some good judgements. Yet as I understand it, anyone (who's probably mad enough!!!) can opt to be a race organiser. And now to be really controversial - didn't we have a thing about race officials with UKA a while back? Seemed to think it wasn't popular, but maybe we should have some sort of "qualification" for race organisers.