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IMRA Season 2019
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09-01-2019 7:14pm#1
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The Noble Nudge wrote: »Signed up...Just a quick one for you IMRA peeps..
I'm thinking about Maurice Mullins Ultra do I need to have ran in an IMRA event before hand to qualify to enter?
No, you just have to be mad, you qualify
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DubOnHoliday wrote: »No, you just have to be mad, you qualify
Looking at the Maurice Mullins Half - is it fairly obvious where to go? Don't see anything bout map/compass being required0 -
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Volunteer yourself so and get them up quicker.
Results up within a week is perfectly acceptable. Can’t see how it takes away from the actual race.
Complaining of a 2 and 1/2 day delay? Perhaps IMRA and it’s ethos isn’t for you.
Comparisons to Parkruns are bogus. They run the same 5k course every single week.
Doesn’t require people going out during week to mark a 10km course, demark it, sort out parking/permits etc.
Given all work involved, people are entitled to enjoy their weekend without someone moaning about lack of results on a Monday evening.
God, that's a fierce over-defensive post, and a shoddy defence at that.
The poster was only expressing an opinion, the first thing they said was that the races are well ran.
Having varying courses does not increase the complexity of recording and uploading results, so no, the parkrun comparison is not "bogus".
Also, do the people who mark the course and sort out the parking also record the results? These are completely separate things and to be fair, parkrun courses also need to be marked / demarked and stewards are required. Usually it's the same handful of people week in week out too, I'm guilty myself of not volunteering enough for my local one.
IMO it's fairly shameful to attack and gang up on somebody who makes a valid point. It doesn't exactly make imra seem like an attractive place for newcomers.
And yes, in this day and age a week is a ridiculous amount of time to take for results to be made available
@woke hogan, hope this doesn't put you off, I'm sure there are plenty of people who share your opinion0 -
Supernintento Chalmers wrote: »God, that's a fierce over-defensive post, and a shoddy defence at that.
The poster was only expressing an opinion, the first thing they said was that the races are well ran.
Having varying courses does not increase the complexity of recording and uploading results, so no, the parkrun comparison is not "bogus".
Also, do the people who mark the course and sort out the parking also record the results? These are completely separate things and to be fair, parkrun courses also need to be marked / demarked and stewards are required. Usually it's the same handful of people week in week out too, I'm guilty myself of not volunteering enough for my local one.
IMO it's fairly shameful to attack and gang up on somebody who makes a valid point. It doesn't exactly make imra seem like an attractive place for newcomers.
And yes, in this day and age a week is a ridiculous amount of time to take for results to be made available
@woke hogan, hope this doesn't put you off, I'm sure there are plenty of people who share your opinion
Most of this is nonsense. I mean it’s been less than 3 days since race but you’re waffling on about a week!
No-one attacked the poster. He was moaning about volunteers not posting his results within 72 hours.
If you feel “in this day and age” that 3 days is too long to wait, perhaps IMRA isn’t for you.
Marking a 5km fun run in a local park that takes place every week is completely different than marking a mountain. Baffling that this needs to be pointed out. Takes more people, more time, more research, more tape etc.
Recording results for a mtn race is also completely different than a park run. You have to account for early starters, complications if people have gone wrong, which completely jumbles up the results.
Of course, anyone who volunteers, knows this and doesn’t immediately go on a public forum to complain about volunteers.0 -
Supernintento Chalmers wrote: »God, that's a fierce over-defensive post, and a shoddy defence at that.
The poster was only expressing an opinion, the first thing they said was that the races are well ran.
Having varying courses does not increase the complexity of recording and uploading results, so no, the parkrun comparison is not "bogus".
Also, do the people who mark the course and sort out the parking also record the results? These are completely separate things and to be fair, parkrun courses also need to be marked / demarked and stewards are required. Usually it's the same handful of people week in week out too, I'm guilty myself of not volunteering enough for my local one.
IMO it's fairly shameful to attack and gang up on somebody who makes a valid point. It doesn't exactly make imra seem like an attractive place for newcomers.
And yes, in this day and age a week is a ridiculous amount of time to take for results to be made available
@woke hogan, hope this doesn't put you off, I'm sure there are plenty of people who share your opinion
It’s alright, I can handle it. I didn’t know I was interrupting a backslapping session though :rolleyes:0 -
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The Parkrun comparison comes up a lot. 2 very good volunteer led organisations, both with sexy and functional websites. Parkrun is "better" in that it usually has a core team of volunteers visiting the same place every weekend with experience.
By it's nature IMRA struggles with volunteers, they are often willing but inexperienced and they are sometimes just not there.
Every single week with IMRA you could have an entirely different set of volunteers in place - typically a different place, there is no chance of continuity unless the poor unfortunate committee take it upon themselves to personally visit every race, and that leads to burnout.
That's just the nature of the beast and it's difficult to see that unless you volunteer.
So it is a weakness and yes the results are sometimes frustratingly slow but the pluses are many and hopefully see ye at Trooperstown for a big plus, a race in the hills for a fiver
So complaining about the tardy results is valid but having to listen to loads of people react about it (and your volunteering record) is the price0 -
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