Greater Manchester Marathon 2012
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May 2012
7:17pm, 2 May 2012
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pato1967
nelly - out of interest did he give any indication over what went wrong with the baggage system?
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May 2012
7:41pm, 2 May 2012
876 posts
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Theboybarry
Pat - what's your obsession with the baggage when there has been a clear case of number mix up here  I was going to do Wythy this Saturday but the thought of offering encouragement in the same manner you offered it to me last Saturday, I may just show my face at Woodbank. On the Saturday night I drove over to Dunham to check the road closures to make sure we could get parked up. The 'trail' bit was cut up in places then but a ranger type fella said that they were going to put hay down and put wood across the mud right at the end of the lane when you took a sharp right. That bit turned into It's a knockout later on with people constantly slipping. When we arrived on Sunday they were having real problems getting the gate out of Dunham open. Maybe they didn't get a chance to do this because of that. |
May 2012
8:19pm, 2 May 2012
4,451 posts
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JamieKai *chameleon*
So they'll sort the baggage out for next year - good. What they need is to put down some walkways on the park too, just in case the weather turns all Mancunian again next year... I'll probably hold off on entering next year until I get a nice magazine in October, but either way I shall be either running or supporting again - my voice was still a bit croaky in work today when I had to prosecute a few cases! |
May 2012
8:21pm, 2 May 2012
417 posts
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Nelly
Pat - they said they took full responsibility for it and put it down to a number of issues primarily the tent wasn't big enough, then when it started to become an issue the cadets started to be verbally abused so left, and this was made worse by the weather. So nothing we didn't know already.
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May 2012
8:30pm, 2 May 2012
1,195 posts
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pato1967
So basically the foul mouthed faster runners spoiled it for the rest of us
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May 2012
8:37pm, 2 May 2012
418 posts
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Nelly
Yeah, blame it on the sub 3:15ers!
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May 2012
9:43pm, 2 May 2012
2,690 posts
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Battlecat
I've just realised that there's 2 videos at the finish. My finish line one shows me cross the line and look at my watch, then put my head in my hands as I realise I've hit 3.50 on the nose and it all comes down to the chip time. I just go out of shot as the floods of tears come!
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May 2012
11:30pm, 2 May 2012
5 posts
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GazOC
Nelly, I was in at 3:15:56 so that lets me off the hook! I was there when the situation was really deterioating. I didn't hear any verbal abuse but the situation was getting tense and tempers getting frayed. I wouldn't be surprised if it did go down hill after that but, to be honest, the "system" had collapsed before that point. If there was verbal abuse it was the cause of the problem, it was a symptom. Thats not excusing any abuse the cadets got, just saying that shouldn't be blamed for the baggage problem IMHO. |
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May 2012
11:32pm, 2 May 2012
6 posts
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GazOC
Should read: If there was verbal abuse it wasn't the cause of the problem, it was a symptom. Doh! |
May 2012
7:18am, 3 May 2012
41,678 posts
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plodding hippo
good to hear theis nelly A few pics flickr.com |
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