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It is interesting to click on the My Forum tab on the Blackpool Marathon Race Office profile. There you can read Ron’s posting apologising for the shortcomings of the 2005 race, i.e. the lack of water and the late start.
He sets out a twelve step plan for future races to avoid a recurrence of the problems. Point number 12 is the introduction of chip timing.
As far as I am aware this has still not been implemented.
Hilly
Sorry for spelling your name wrong (and you are not Critchell anymore) we were told by your club that you had married Barnsley Runner (John Broom) ??? and are now Dawn Broomand yes I have re validated to answer constructive critisism by RW. we will only answer questions related to events my team organise.
Hi Soup (youdn't they just like to know who you are????) This is the only time we will respond to your stupid comments on ( and we don't even know whu we are bothering) past events, they have gone (by the way you are wrong again, the so called short course was not in 2005) I have been man enough to accept past problems and have endevoured to put them right, but then again you never comment on good things. Time to move on, stop being so bitter and twisted over 2000 people will be in Blackpool next week and have a great time, glad you are not entered and I have checked.
Advanced information re race day.
There is to be (weather permitting) a car parking facility at the Hilton Hotel, north side, on the adjoining field. This facility will accommodate 150 + cars and is just 30 metres from the start line. Access to this site will close at 8.00 am when the promenade will be closed and all road junctions coned for the duration of the event. ARRIVE EARLY. The event toilets will also be sited on this field.All other car parking will be at 1) Gynn Square 400 metres north of the hotel, sourounding side roads (FREE) do not obstruct residents driveways,2) central car parks behind the Tower, follow signs from the end of the M55 motorway, this facilitity is 1 mile from the Hilton.
Baggage store, 1) at the Race HQ in the Queens Suite access from the two metal doors to the right of the main entrance ( 20 metres from the start line) (no access via the hotel foyer) Once this area safely full it will be closed , 2) additional baggage storeage will be at the rear of the hotel Lower Ground floor in Springs Night Club were changing for both men & women is available. Showers are also available here (£1 donation to the Hilton Foundation charity taken at the Leisure Centre reception desk)
No access to the Hotels main foyer or ground floor toilets will be allowed, we have to respect the resident and the hotel is full over the weekend of the marathon.
If anyone has any problems leading up to the big day please email lewis@blackpoolmarathon.com
Ron
1. Please take the time to read Soup's post properly. He clearly states that the 2005 problems were the late start and lack of water.
2. I am concerned that you have been contacting officials at Holmfirth Harriers to find personal information about Hilly. This takes your behaviour to a new level. Arguing about races is one thing - stalking is another and raises serious safeguarding issues. I shall be contacting our club secretary and membership secretary to see if they have been approached by you for personal information.
i have zero sympathy for you scott ward. you should have done your research on the organisers of this event before entering, then done the required training. sticking your head in the sand and denying there might be problems won't make the problems with srh just go away.
Warrington road runner, no, the other issues weren't just "minor issues". A group of people finishing their race to find the finish line abandoned and the organisers down the pub is NOT a minor issue. nor is the lack of permits, course measurements and lies about having chip timing, etc etc etc.
i thought you couldn't post on here ron? you keep telling people you have blocked your computers so can't post, which was bollox as you've been posting under several different names for years, mainly to abuse, bully and humiliate the runners whose race you ruined. and on several occasions posting as bugsy and "not happy" to say "what a nice man ron mcandrew is". now that is sad sad sad!
i can see what is happening here. ron mcandrew craves attention, even when it is really bad publicity. he would rather have people like BR slating him, than be ignored. whenever this thread dies down, and people go back to just talking about their training, and not him, and how poor his races are, he misses the attention, and does something to inflame the situation again. either by making people post things on here to stir things up again, or getting his mates to post for him (nice, getting your mates to take the flack for you) and now posting as blackpool marathon office, stirring things up YET AGAIN. he seems to believe any publicity is good publicity, and craves the attention from people slating his crap races. i do find this a bit disturbing, along with the fact he now seems to be stalking people, trying to find out about their private lives. ron, if you have enough time on your hands to track down info on hilly's private life, you have enough time to start getting your finger out and trying to organise a decent race, for the first time in your life.
I'm just not interested in whether or not it would mean I can qualify for Boston or London. I chose Blackpool because I enjoyed the half.
Ummm well to be honest I've been running for a few months and I've done two halves that were both under two hours. I do probably about 30 miles a week with 15 of them being on a Sunday. I felt really fresh after the Liverpool Half yesterday and I figure that if I hydrate and keep myself fuelled I could finish. I was running 9 minute miles for most of the race and felt like I could go all day. I just keep hearing talk of the "wall" and it worries me lol
Peeps - if you are bored of the debates - make use (as Hilly very rightfully suggested) of the 'ignore' button
Looking forward to this on...still feeling nervous about the target and the possible wind but enjoying the tapering now it has started - off out tonight for 4 miles at MP...hope everyone else is relaxing well too!
Really not sure what your worry is about this race BR, maybe I am not as public spirited as you and some others but over the coming years I really couldn't care less whether a race I have no intention of ever running has difficulties, I'm really not sure why you do.
You'll do fine Scott, it'll be a good event. You'll be like me when i finished, it all went well with enough drinks and you'll go off and have fish n chips.
Read the reviews of last years events, lots of positive experiences.
R
Ron you have no right what so ever to ask anybody who I am married to or anything else about my personal life. It's a dangerous road to go down stalking females!
If I find I have been stalked I will be informing the relevant organisations! I do not like to think there is somebody out there who is making public my personal details and it must be questioned what your motive is.
I would never dream of tracing somebody, finding out personal information and posting it online! What gives you the right to think you have the authority to do it?
I am investigating this matter.
Gosh that was fun reading! Happy Monday all!
this thread is truly hilarious reading.
People harping back to a race from 2005...we're in 2010 for....
sake
People for some reason taking an over keen interest in a race they have no interest in actually running.
Accusations that a race director posts under different aliases to compliment himself?!
Accusations of stalking just because a race director checked on someone's name, after being told by the people themselves that he had the ladies name wrong!
If this is really just about some race I'm Father Christmas!
That said...I read on with interest as the last half marathon I did in the south screwed up the timing completely...costing everyone a mimimum of 7-8seconds...and I suspect at least double that..so maybe repeatedly hassling the race director is the way to go...
Jay0007
Yet another idiot that has now come on to the forums and does not give his name (I do and get many kind emails and telephone calls from good ruuners out there. If you want to come on here, please get your facts right and do not jump on the band waggon of 2005 complaints. I can assure you after organising over 150 races, most of which were for the North of England AA & England Road Running, relays & championships since 1992 , not one complaint from the many clubs and individuals taking park, all on record. Yes we have had a few problems with our events on the Fylde Coast some self inflicted, most installed upon us by other. We have put to bed any complaints, put right their problems and now look forward to the future. Just a few points, which you have obviously picked up from the three wise men (and woman) of the forums,1) we have only once offered (not promise) chip timing for an event, then decided 4 weeks before not to use this system, everyone was notified in the final instructions, 2) we have never abandoned anyone at the finish of an event and dissapeared down to the pub (don't drink & run) the event in question was the Boxing day 10K in Blackpool 2008, yes we packed up the finish being told by who we thought was the last runners, then went 30 yards to the race HQ a cafe' at the Pier, 3) take another look at your forum reply, check things before you make such brash statements most of them are incorrect. email me your real problem and I will respond in the only way suitable, honestly, but then again your not such a nice person to be fighting out of your depth.
Hilly, stalking, you should be so lucky. I was given the information by a fellow runner after seeing you in the results of the recent Spen 20, no real need to delve into anything, stuck out a mile. I was criticised for hiding behind an assumed name, I was m noble enough to come on here with my full name & details, some people don't It is easy to find out names who post on RW as I have found out by going down the legal route. I have no argument with you whatsoever, just want you to realise we put races on for you all out there, if you choose not to come to any of them, then stop criticising.
I would like to invite yourself, BR, Soup Man, jay 0007 to join me on 11th April, work with me (can never stop learning from others)I I am a proud person with a reponsible full time job, volunteer race organiser and 14 handicap golfer, I do not think for one moment you will accept this offer either of you, then again I have known pink elephants to fly over Blackpool in the past I
I rest my case(s) and will not again respond to idiotic forum postings. Keep up the good work all out there.
Barnsley runner has done races he has posted on ie the spen 20 and he is a good runner and good to talk to
I am doing Chester mararthon as I like to go to new races now
ron, why are you asking me to e-mail you when you know you don't respond to e-mails? well, certainly not e-mails asking awkward questions. you know my sister e-mailed you numerous times after the 2008 marathon, as she wanted to know if she had run a short marathon, and therefore had no pb. you never replied to anything.
how you have the brass neck cheek to come on here and criticise ME for not displaying my surname in my username is beyond belief! how many accounts do you have on here ron/bugsy mallone/not happy/proud preston/cloud nine/dave hitchin? most accounts set up just to bully the runnners you let down and post about what a great guy you are!
And weather you were in the pub or a cafe at the race you abandoned is totally irrelevant. you closed a race down leaving runners still racing, and went and socialised, on boxing day of all days, when people had given up their xmas celebrations to do your race.
i've done several of your races years ago as i've already posted on here. all were a fiasco, with different start times given and marshalls sending people the wrong way.
i have already answered an identical post to this jpenno. i am bored hearing this weak argument. you do not have to be a race organiser before you have the right to comment on a poor race that you or your friends or family have paid good money to do.
srh is a professional money making business, and as such, we have the right to comment whenever they get it wrong.
LOL at ron declaring himself "noble"! i've heard it all now.
<Sigh>
1. Ron, please refrain from calling people idiots. It does nothing to develop the discussion.
2. Yes I took part in a 12 Stage Road Relay a while back which you had put together with no problems at all, so yes you obviously have organised problem free events.
3. I would beg to differ that you have put to bed all complaints and can now move forward. You have done so by sidestepping good race practice and choosing to organise self-admitted `fun runs' outside the jurisdiction of UKA / RRC without course accuracy certificates etc.
4. In a previous post you said you had approached our club for information about Hilly. Now you switch the story to a mysterious `fellow runner'. Stalking is not a laughing matter.
5. I have made no secret of my name and details and have no problem with you posting my name and club repeatedly on these threads (although I find it a little odd that you persist in doing so). No need to go down any `legal route' whatever that may mean. It was not noble of you to post under all those pseudonyms telling us all what a great guy you are. One does wonder at the rationale of such actions.
6. Unfortunately on April 11th Hilly and I are doing the Taunton Marathon - a B.A.R.R. Gold rated event. Water and sponges only. But then it was £16 not £28. SEAA licence number and course accuracy certificate on their website. Can't speak for anyone else.
As I've said before, I'm sure most people will have a good time at the Blackpool races. It did however take me and others two years to get an admission that the 2008 course was short. Why could you just not have said that at the time, which would have saved a lot of argument and forum strife? I would like to think that, as you say, you can never stop learning from others, that these debates have helped you along the path to enlightenment and the runners on the Fylde Coast will now get a better deal than those in the recent past.
good luck for your mararthon and hope you get what you set out to do