Southampton Urban and November Classic, 3-4 Nov

[Roger]

Yesterday I made my first controller's visit to Southampton. It's going to be great: don't miss it!
Saturday 3 November, with the November Classic to follow on Sunday at Kings Garn Gutter. Details on the SOC website; entries via fabian4.

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[Tim]

I'm looking forward to the Sunday at Kings Garn Gutter - a dozen miles from where I was brought up.

The BOF fixture list has the location as Kings Garn Gutter and Castle Malwood. Kings Garn Gutter was the bottom half of the 1982 British Champs area (my first British as an M11). Castle Malwood, to the south is, if anything, an even better area, being a bit of ancient woodland.

[Ali Wood]

Always glad to make the effort to travel 250-300 miles to the New Forest; it has always been one of my favourite areas, there is something magical about more-or-less 100% runnable woodland - we up North are hard pushed to find such terrain. Doubt whether we'll bother going to the Southampton event though. Towns are towns!

[Mrs H]

Yawn! Ali, how many urban events have you actually done?

[Ali Wood]

Enough. 2 in fact.
To be fair, couldn't make the event on Sat anyway without travelling down on Friday, it's just too far.

[Mrs H]

Which 2 were those?

[Ali Wood]

Both JKs - Sprints in SW (remember tripping over people's rose beds) and Belfast (ran down a 'track' which was actually a wall...)
Oh - and an AIRE evening event in Otley, where I couldn't see the purple circles on the map.
Not a great success rate...

[Mrs H]

So you haven't actually done a proper urban city race like Edinburgh, London, Cambridge, Sheffield, Lincoln etc only a couple of campus sprints and a dodgy street race?

[mharky]

Get a room

[Mrs H]

Your just jealous

[andypat]

I'd almost be tempted because its a mixed weekend. Unfortuantely my wife evtered me some godawful 16mile race through Glasgow on the same day - running in a city without a map - now that is daft!

[graeme]

Ah, the old "can't be any good because I stuffed it up" defence.
Yes, I also ran down a track that turned out to be a wall on my first ISSOM

[SeanC]

Will this weekend be possible by public transport? It might then attract some more of the (often M/W21-35) London types who don't have a car. Public transport info on the event details would be nice. With cheap flights into Southampton airport the weekend might even attract some runners from abroad?

[Ali Wood]

running in a city without a map - now that is daft!

so running in a city is transformed from a god awful race into a beautiful experience by having a map?

Ah, the old "can't be any good because I stuffed it up" defence.

I think I stuffed it up because I hated it so much! Just a Country Mouse, I suppose.

[andy]

If you don't like it, don't do it, but please don't moan about it in every thread about an urban event you won't go to. It isn't going away any time soon as there are a huge number of people who love the format.