I just contacted the local police to ok arrangements for our 10k on Sunday. They said everything was fine, but the local churches and British Legion may be having a Remembrance Parade on the same day, and the guy organising that thought it was wrong we were having a road race on the same day.
I hadn't really thought of it as being bad form due to:-
1. Today is Remembrance Day to me - the anniversary of the day WW1 finished. We had the 2 mins silence in school.
2. Life generally carrying on as normal that day.
3. Races taking place on other significant days - Good Friday, Easter Sunday etc.
Anyone else come across this?
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The Sodbury Slog's on Sunday.
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Today is Remembrance day - 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. As Jj points out, the churches hold their own services on the Sunday following this day. I would have been running the Bexhill 1/2 on Sunday if I wasn't injured :-(
I could see it might be a disturbance to the veterans if you all ran past while they were laying their wreathes (sp?), but if it at a different time/place, I can't see that it is bad form.
After all, our freedom to do such things is part of what those we remember died for.
shouldn't laugh, but...
I am.
Another thought - I don't see football or rugby matches being cancelled.
Would be kind of a problem if we had to move it. The race starts at 11:02 after observing the 2 minutes silence, no danger of bumping into a parade since it is entirely on country lanes.
I see no problem with it, they certainly don't close the shops or as BR points out any other sports.
It's ridiculous that someone completely unconnected with your event should impose their own idea of what constitutes a right or a wrong activity on Sunday. Run on, BR.
Cougie - wasn't Blaenau Festiniog by any chance? A few years ago a group of us ran off the hills into town and into the parade - don't remember any bikers though. Perhaps they're just used to it by now - but it did explain why we thought we could hear a band whilst high on the hills, which had previously been put down to hallucination!
Boy Wonder - noo, Llangollen, but the descent into Blaenau is good too. Sooo pretty up there on the tops.
Might be worth bearing in mind if repeating it next year.
Good luck with the race.
Unfortunatley race start time is 10.30 am, and I'll be hopefully past the 5 mile marker at 11am - I promise not to say anything for 2 mins:-)
The most disgraceful minute's silence I've ever witnessed was this year's GNR effort for the people who died in the school siege in Beslan. I don't blame the vast numbers of the crowd who weren't silent - they probably never heard the announcement - but I certainly wasn't impressed with the DJ who announced the whole thing like he was introducing the Number 1 on Top of the Pops. A bit of sombre decorum might have been more appropriate. And then he played music for the minute's silence.
:-)
I think the race should have a minutes silence before the though, whatever the time, I did a cancer research 10k race and they did a 1 minute silence for cancer sufferers/victims, can't see why this can't be done for remembrance day.
Of course, today is remembrance day - we had the two inutes silence at school, and , as usual, the kids were brilliant and thoughtful.
Observe a short silence before the start, invite competitors to pin a poppy to their running vests (if they wish)- but by all means the race should go ahead.
BR by all means copy this to your objector.