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if the race starts at 9pm. then surely on a race this size the water would have been delivered yesterday ready to be put out early tomorrow.......
unbelievable
At the Reading half that I did a few years ago -householders set up stalls outside there homes with water , jelly babies and even at some you could use there loos !!!
exactly my thoughts seren.
I've helped organise lots of races and water is always planned way in advance even for small 5k races, there are no excuses here !
The water situation should have been checked and re checked long before the race start.
Video of the announcement being made at the start now up on the BBC site. Very funny to see people just shrug and head off anyway.
Well done to the runners that carried on regardless, having been stood around in the cold for up to an hour beforehand.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-26910318
I was in a water controversy race about 10 years ago.... the infamous Blackpool Marathon when the hottest ever day in june (or something like it) co-incided with the organisers losing a couple of pallets of water. It was unfortunate,and this incident possibly did represent a H&S issue for those at the back.
The race did go ahead, without any communication to runners whatsoever about the situation. ... but in the post race finger pointing the organisers became outrageously defensive, blaming the otherwise non-plussed leading runners of drinking/using too much water.
I reckon these poor bods who put on races will crumble under pressure as ultimately they are very well meaning volunteers and amateurs - or chancers with no real idea what they are doing.
Still can't help thinking the police, with their experience, should have been able to easily rescue the situation - had they wanted to.
What chaos at the start, but decided to carry on anyway as I was running with a friend who was doing her first half marathon. The first couple of miles was very subdued as people didn't know what was happening, none of the usual fun atmosphere.
But the supporters were brilliant, handing out water they had bought themselves, runners sharing water, the cheering and support on Ecci Road was better than ever, and I will definitely run my local race again, and just to add I much preferred the finish at the Don Valley Bowl as families could get close to their relatives as they cheered them home.
Thanks to the marshals etc for sticking with it,
The water suppliers should be named and shamed though!!
On New Years Day I was challenged to do this run and having not had a beer for 3 months you can imagine I was flipping gutted when they said race was off so when people in front just setoff I followed. Just kept going and thanks to the locals for handing out drinks. Got round and was really happy with my time but guess it doesn't count seeing as the race was cancelled ?
Organasation was a shambles and those involved should be named and shamed
If it was a profit making organisation that organised this I would want a full refund!!
What a fiasco, I presume everyone will be refunded.
Well done you run rebels but shame on Sheff. We were near SUFC handing out jelly babies!
Is it wrong to assume that they should have a contingency plan for things like this?
Loz it's a fact that the Police thought about stopping the race with road blocks.
Guess that would be vehicles or line of police either way glad someone high up came to their senses in time, can only imagine what would have happened if they had tried to stop 4000 runners.
Yep a lot of sore noses.
I guess the organisers had no choice - don't UKA rules specify that there must be water stations every x miles? If that couldn't be guaranteed then the race presumably had to be cancelled. But then once it was, the participants just became a large group of people out for a Sunday morning run, and the police had no business trying to stop them.
Knowing that 4000 people were still running regardless the easiest option for the police was just to leave everything as it was,.
Common sense going out the window there then, the roads would have been close anyway so why bother opening when they knew there were thousands out there running.
Probably not. The Roads are closed for a set period of time. I'm pretty sure it is slightly more involved than just declaring them open again.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-26920499
Don't think this news is going to go down well.
Does it matter ? Jeez.
The other one is about the only thread Karen's ever created that's topical and about running, I think people should be encouraged to post on it.
How do you `bump` a thread?
And what`s a `thread`?
/geek alert
"as people will appreciate, the infrastructure we had to put in place we still have to pay for"
Bit of a pisstake when the failing of the infrastructure is what caused the cancellation...
Is it just me, or the fact that the organsiers haven't named the water supplier (which would divert a lot of the negative publicity away from them) a little odd. I have a suspicion it is not all as they claim...