My Running Journey

In our local running club we have the Grand Prix races that some of us compete in each year. Typically it is 10 races and had not changed much in 3 years. After this season some of us more competitive runners (anything for hardware) approach the Board Race director and recommended we change the races up and spread them out. The GP typically had 3 races in November (a 10K, half and then a 5K) in consecutive weeks and by the time of the 5K we usually tired and not at our peak to excel in the 5K.

So after the group discussed this issue we dropped two races and added two races. The two that were dropped were the two biggest in town (Tri Span 10K in July and I hate that one) and the Battleship half marathon in November. Now we have everyone bitching and complaining about it. The kicker is nothing stops them from running it, it will just not be part of the GP series this year and many of them just participate in a few of the races with no opportunity to win an age group or overall awards.

The result is at the next board meeting (January 10th) the GP races will be debated again even though the first event is this Saturday and the schedule has been published.
It is interesting how little things tend to rile up runners when most of them will not even participate in the events. Should be a very interesting board meeting next Wednesday.

Enjoy the day everyone.