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List of Club races for Calendar

  • 20-05-2010 9:34am
    #1
    donothoponpop
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    I'm putting together a race calendar, over in the Events forum, which hopefully will be a linkable one stop look at upcoming races.
    For the moment, I'd be grateful if any AC Club Secretaries who would like their events listed, would PM me a link to their events, and I'll stick them up.
    The thread is locked just now, until I build it up a bit, after that we'll see, might be no harm having a bit of control on what gets listed. My personal opinion is that the hundreds of well-run club and association events, which often have minimal cost, and give something back to local athletics, should have priority over for-profit or for-charity events, but I'd be interested in peoples views on what they would like to see in a race calendar.


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  • #2
    RayCun
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    donothoponpop wrote: »
    My personal opinion is that the hundreds of well-run club and association events, which often have minimal cost, and give something back to local athletics, should have priority over for-profit or for-charity events, but I'd be interested in peoples views on what they would like to see in a race calendar.

    I think they should all be listed, but you could add notes to each - Club race, for profit, direct contribution to charity (ie, not a race where you are 'encouraged' to raise money for charity while the race itself gives nothing)


  • #3
    Krusty_Clown
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    I think it would be unfair to the reader to have a filtered list that includes only 'worthy' races, as many people would argue the point that the Connemarathon is great value (and I am one), while many others would find the cost completely disproportionate to the event.

    What I'd suggest: include all races in the calendar, however, show some deference to those races that are local club races (funding goes to the club), and inexpensive (e.g races under €20, etc.). Maybe embolden the non-commercial races, and include hyperlinks to their sign-up pages.

    So it might look something like:

    May
    Thurs 20th Eagle AC/Fota Cheetah Race (Cork)
    Fri 21th Fit4Life Round 5 Mile Challenge
    Sat 22nd IMRA- Fairy Chase Anniversary Race 6k
    Sat 22nd Some exorbitant race where the proceeds go to a private company
    Sat 22nd BHAA & Intel 10k
    Sat 22nd Tom Jordan - Portlaw 5 mile
    Sun 23rd Another really expensive private race
    Sun 23rd IMRA The Comeraghs (Waterford)


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