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RooA Sep 2022 10:55pm, 13 Sep 2022 1,961 posts	0 RooA My parents are visiting then DQ and I can't bobby off to do a race if they've come all this way really. I did think about it!
K5 Gus Sep 2022 11:51am, 16 Sep 2022 5,379 posts	0 K5 Gus One maybe for Dvorak as he's local, or anyone else who's done it before, or knows Looking for a 10k in next few weeks, and date for Strathcarron Hospice fits well and is reasonably close. Thing is, it reads very much as if it's very heavily focussed as a fundraising exercise, you have to say on your entry form how much you're hoping to raise, they suggest you aim for £100. I don't really do fundraising, running is something I do for myself and don't want to go around begging to friends and neighbours to stump up just so I can go and enjoy myself, and I certainly don't have a £100 on top of entry fees to lob in myself. Would it be bang out of order to just pay entry fee and not raise anything ? I don't want to take part if I'm not entering into the spirit of things in the same way everyone is and will find something else. Or do loads of people turn up just to run and not raise anything ?
HappyG(rrr) Sep 2022 11:52am, 16 Sep 2022 43,883 posts	0 HappyG(rrr) I did Strathcarron, it was fun. I can't remember if I raised the £100. I'll check back. G
HappyG(rrr) Sep 2022 4:05pm, 16 Sep 2022 43,888 posts	0 HappyG(rrr) I've looked back Gus. I found the £10 race fee and my chat about getting a time within 30s of my PB and meeting some Falkirk Vics, but nothing about doing any additional fundraising. So I think it's optional! Either that or I'm just a terrible person! G
jda Sep 2022 4:08pm, 16 Sep 2022 13,404 posts	0 jda Unless entries are limited, 10 quid is still 10 quid they wouldn't otherwise have. That would be my attitude (I might well chuck in another tenner as a donation, don't think I'd do 100 though).
HappyG(rrr) Sep 2022 4:10pm, 16 Sep 2022 43,889 posts	0 HappyG(rrr) I seem to remember that's exactly what I did jda. They had cakes or something at the end and I bought one cake for £10 or something. Or just put money in a kid's tin. Can't remember. It was 2011. No blog about it either - as I was all about the marathon PB a few weeks later! G
Son of a Pronator Man Sep 2022 4:39pm, 16 Sep 2022 8,916 posts	0 Son of a Pronator Man I do think this race has changed in the last few years. It used to be a regular road 10k that raised funds for the local hospice to being a primarily fundraising event. This included moving it to Stirling University campus but I think it has now gone back to Denny. I’ve run it a few times in the past but wouldn’t do it now.
Ally-C Sep 2022 4:42pm, 16 Sep 2022 2,435 posts	0 Ally-C I do think this race has changed in the last few years. It used to be a regular road 10k that raised funds for the local hospice to being a primarily fundraising event. This included moving it to Stirling University campus but I think it has now gone back to Denny. I’ve run it a few times in the past but wouldn’t do it now. Iirc Stirling Uni was a calamity, a marshal was missing or in the wrong place then found & most of the field ran different distances.
Dvorak Sep 2022 4:44pm, 16 Sep 2022 25,968 posts	0 Dvorak It's changed from before. I've ran it several times (and cheered on G when I didn't.) However, although it runs right past my house, and the start is within walking distance, for the reasons given by K5 Gus, I'm unlikely to run it again. Originally, there was a sponsor form given out if you'd entered before and received a mailshot. Nothing afaik if you entered on the day. It used to sell out it's 800 places, including a fair number who walked it. However, numbers dwindled to about half (Great Scottish Run changed date to the same day, also Loch Ness Marathon grew) and the traffic management/ policing costs (which had not previously existed, but legislation was introduced) became a burden. It then moved to an off public road route at the University of Stirling, to save costs. The route was unappealing, it was no longer "our" local race, and on the day it apparently descended into farce with runners on the convoluted course being sent the wrong way (SooWoo?). There was now also a suggested £30 minimum fundraising. Runners numbers did not increase much, if at all. It ran again at Stirling, with afaik even lower numbers. By this time I don't think anyone I knew ran it, instead of the couple of dozen of before. And this year it's back in Denny/Bonnybridge, and I won't be running it, and that's a shame.
SooWoo Sep 2022 5:38pm, 16 Sep 2022 675 posts	0 SooWoo Thought I’d done it twice but checked back and turns out I’ve actually done it three times!! All at Stirling Uni so I can’t compare it to how it used to be. Dvorak is right that I did the first one held at the Uni and something did go wrong with the marshalling as I finished a mile short of 10km distance! I didn’t do any extra sponsorship but pretty sure I handed some cash over at the finish of the 2018 version as my Mum had just died and and made use of hospice care in Devon. As it was at the uni it is a very local race for me, so even though I run up there loads I think I entered as I felt I was supporting them with entry fee etc.