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Jan 2013
9:00pm, 6 Jan 2013
1,891 posts
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ndellar
Our results are out from Worcs yesterday, there didnt seem a lot there but only 48 ladies, no U20 ladies and no full U17 ladies teams. Only 80 or so in the men's race. We never have massive numbers but this seems tiny. Wonder why.
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Jan 2013
10:17pm, 6 Jan 2013
5,682 posts
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RichHL
'Cos Worcs are a bunch of wusses, present company excepted.
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Jan 2013
6:52am, 7 Jan 2013
1,960 posts
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corned beef keith
Thought the same about the Yorkshire Champs on Saturday, ndellar, 240 senior men and 125 senior women, which isn't many to say the number of clubs in such a large county. Poor turnout really.
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Jan 2013
12:50pm, 7 Jan 2013
1,228 posts
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Lisa T
We only had 121 women in the NorthEast Champs. I think often the women avoid them as they think everyone's going to be super fast - which obviously they are! We get a lot more women that do the local Harrier League xc regularly. Not from my club like ... can't get the women to run. They seem to be allergic to mud! Boo 
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Jan 2013
2:02pm, 7 Jan 2013
1,426 posts
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Curly45
we didnt field a team as one of ours was ill! However, one of the problems with xc down here is the fixtures are too close together. Most people dont want to race 5 or 6 hard muddy miles every week...so you can understand fewer turning out.
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Jan 2013
3:05pm, 7 Jan 2013
1,229 posts
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Lisa T
Yeah, that's true. Ours was the same actually.
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Jan 2013
7:38pm, 7 Jan 2013
17,832 posts
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SPR
I did the champs and the league fixture the week after last year and the year before. This year I skipped the champs due to the amount of training I'd done. I always skip the Midlands champs as three in four weekends is too much (and it's long ;-)).
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Jan 2013
8:10pm, 7 Jan 2013
2,280 posts
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Garfield
We had a team with the four counter being speedy...as I would have done them no favours! 7th for senior women at Surrey on Saturday and the daughter of one of the ladies will be running for Surrey in April!
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Jan 2013
12:04pm, 8 Jan 2013
17 posts
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Dan1006
We constantly have to badger people to run for our team and mostly the fastest runners we can get are all Veterans. A lot of our best V40's won't do them now that V35's are classed as Veterans also and therefore don't see the point.
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Jan 2013
1:44pm, 8 Jan 2013
1,430 posts
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Curly45
We only have one fast woman, two of us who are alright and the others rotate. I like it when we have a team, but I know other people have different priorities. Part of the problem is this in my eyes:
the spring mara used to be London, XC is built around that. Most of us dont do London anymore, so it becomes far more difficult to fit the complete season in before you have to get deep into mara training.
Its impossible to spread the season out further but I would like to see some of the events pruned from the calendar (probably for us that would be mob matches), we have a race every week for about 15 weeks
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