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May 2019
10:15pm, 13 May 2019
2,094 posts
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IanS
zp - you skirt round the firing range on the Skyline, but if the red flag is flying I wouldn't go up Castlelaw. Only other access issue is around Hare Hill because of landowner getting concerned about erosion so you need to skirt to the right rather than dropping straight down
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May 2019
7:06am, 14 May 2019
438 posts
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zp
That’s brilliant Ian, cheers! Hopefully get over that way for a run later this week 
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May 2019
10:07am, 14 May 2019
17,572 posts
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Dvorak
I wasn't having a go at the Kirkcaldy organiser or accusing them of profiteering. However ...
A statement oft heard is "Great Run, they're expensive". Often followed by "commercial/ greedy/ profit driven". Glasgow half is £35. So I don't think that you can make the argument that, whatever the reasons, the Kirkcaldy Half is not at the high end of Scottish race pricing.
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May 2019
10:12am, 14 May 2019
31,376 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
It will be quite a nice place to do a half, but to be honest, I'm not paying that kind of money. And I'm incredibly lucky that I have that kind of money to pay if I have to, but I choose not to. Clubs managed to organise half marathon for less than half that(Loch Leven by my own KRR this weekend £16/14 for instance).
Road closures are all well and good but the council should chip in for that, surely, if they want to promote activity, and the town, not the individual participants? Otherwise, it prices local people out of taking part?
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May 2019
10:13am, 14 May 2019
31,377 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Actually, I admit, I haven't thought this through - maybe councils have higher priorities... hmmm
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May 2019
10:31am, 14 May 2019
7,570 posts
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LouLou
The Neil Mc Cover half was good when I ran it - hilly beast but downhill finish. And - risking being called a pot hunter - had very generous prize structure. Not that I’ll trouble that end of the field again!!
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May 2019
10:58am, 14 May 2019
53 posts
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Deinonychus
I think the difference might come down to location. The cheaper races (Neil McCover, Loch Leven, Alloa, etc) all run largely through countryside, and in some cases on open roads. Kirkcaldy is run on closed roads (for the entire course, as far as I can work out), and this must surely account for a large part of the cost. All being said, I’ll happily pay £35, to a local organiser, knowing the money will benefit the local running community. I would be reluctant to pay that to a profit making organisation like Great Run, or GSi.
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May 2019
10:59am, 14 May 2019
54 posts
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Deinonychus
I do however regularly run the EMF 10K for old times sake, as it was my first ever race, and I enjoy revisiting it
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May 2019
5:38pm, 14 May 2019
452 posts
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Scorge
HG - council budgets are squeezed all over the place, and any opportunity for them to take money in from events will be feverishly pursued i reckon.
i've always felt 20 quid for a big-city 10k like baker is the top end, 30 for a half (smaller club events which don't rely on TMO 's and run for non-profit will obviously be cheaper).
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May 2019
6:22pm, 14 May 2019
9,689 posts
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mrs shanksi
One of my parkrun friends said Baker Hughes was over £30 to enter this year so she didn't bother.
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