Any particular flavour?
Any particular flavour?
The future's bright........
Does this come under 9 (e) "emergency food (long races)" ?
Last edited by end; 26-12-2007 at 12:46 AM.
The future's GRAVYOriginally Posted by stringman
The future's bright........
Gravy flavoured fruit flan??? Eurghhh!!!!
They'd buy 'em in Yorkshire
101 uses for a mobile!
To anyone who may be interested, as the organiser of the Don Morrison Memorial Edale Skyline Fell Race with Chris Barber for many years and as this is an open forum I can say (within reason) what I like.
This has bugger all to do with me and Chris and I think it is effin' ridiculous
Now, how do I change my username?
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Well speaking as the other organiser of last year's Edale Skyline and having watched this thread with some amusement, I think, hell, what's the big issue! If Andy wants us to carry one then that's fine by me and it ain't no big deal really. I would add that I had a few soiled undergarment moments during last year's race and genuinely thought that we had "lost" (in the fatal sense) one person. A mobile phone number may have helped alleviate the threat to the state of my undergarments and would have given the MR team somewhere to look. Fortunately they had the good sense to head of the hills into the valley but took some time to reach the nearest marshall. Also in the race two years ago, we lost 2 people for 3 hours after their expected finishing time and it was only when they found someone with a mobile near Hayfield (yes, I know...) that we were able to call off the MR team, they were pretty experienced fell runners who had a "headless chicken" moment in the clag after Jacob's Ladder, so it can happen to the best (and I could give numerous examples of when in DPFR, it has. We award the "Pertex Trophy" each year for this and it's always keenly contested!)
Just run the bloody thing and don't worry about "progress" and fair play to you Andy.
Last edited by loxleychris; 02-01-2008 at 03:14 PM.
I got away with carrying a bramley apple pie at Giant's Tooth on New Year's Day.I'm organising a couple of races next year where I will insist you all carry a fruit flan.
We will be kit checking at the start and finish.
SM
It was in a bit of a sorry state by the finish!
Its a perfectly reasonable request. Just omit the word 'compulsory' and non of this would have happened. It's been an important debate.
I agree Wheeze.
None of the arguments about how mobile phones would have helped in this or that situation or how many "near misses" there were last year alters the fact that a precedent is being set here and it's a precedent that has the potential to alter the nature of our sport in an important way. It's such a big issue that it NEEDs debating.
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