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Oct 2010
5:03pm, 25 Oct 2010
13,433 posts
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Velociraptor
Or they could be ones who arrived very late, Clare 
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Oct 2010
5:04pm, 25 Oct 2010
1,125 posts
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clare1976
Had thought that as surely you could walk a mara in 3 and a half hours - but gun more or less matches chip so they must have started well before we did as mine is about 3 mins difference!!!!
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Oct 2010
5:16pm, 25 Oct 2010
13,434 posts
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Velociraptor
Maybe they were EDF execs and Birmingham City Council managers and had special start-at-the-front places
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Oct 2010
5:18pm, 25 Oct 2010
1,450 posts
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ndellar
For anyone interested I have detailed my days events in a blog, its not a moan (well maybe a little bit) just lists the facts wot I saw for posterity. Nothing you haven't heard before in the last 24-ish hours!
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Oct 2010
5:53pm, 25 Oct 2010
3,091 posts
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Sloggerian
Fair point by Clare there - although organisation was without doubt poor, there is an element of personal responsibility here - those people *chose* to stand in a pen that didn't relate to their time and thereby exacerbated the problem.
I remember a certain dinosaur advocating judicious use of roof top snipers to deal with people starting from the wrong pens last year
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Oct 2010
5:56pm, 25 Oct 2010
13,438 posts
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Velociraptor
I actually have nothing but sympathy for anyone who started in the wrong pen this year. I did, and with the orange top on my number folded back because that's how it came in the envelope
Seriously, it was such mayhem that for once I don't blame anyone who just dived through the first available gate into the pen, which is what we did. And once there, you couldn't move back or forward. So I wasn't deliberately clipping the ankles of fat sweaty blokes in pink hoodies yesterday.
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Oct 2010
6:00pm, 25 Oct 2010
3,092 posts
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Sloggerian
Surely if one is planning to run 3 hours plus, basic logic dictates that you should be stood more to the back than the front?
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Oct 2010
6:00pm, 25 Oct 2010
12,419 posts
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SPR™
Apparently some couldn't get in and were "allowed" to start at the front due to this (according to the FB link I posted earlier).
Agree in general though that each runner should be responsible for their own starting position.
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Oct 2010
6:08pm, 25 Oct 2010
13,439 posts
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Velociraptor
It wasn't entirely easy to see what was the back (and at this race, "the back" is about 90% of the field - 2:00:01 runners and 7-hour runners lumped together) and what was the front. And even if you could orientate yourself, the pavement outside the pen was so congested that I can understand anyone deciding to get into the pen while they could.
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Oct 2010
6:12pm, 25 Oct 2010
266 posts
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@nthony
They also gave out the wrong colour numbers in the packs which led to problems. I was given an orange bib despite me putting a 1:53 prediction down on the form, which was my PB then, that should have been the next colour down from Orange anyway.
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