Should Porky run Long or Short Courses next year?

[PorkyFatBoy]

Next year I'll be moving up to M40 and at least two of the local gallopen events are badge events, so if I run short, then I can only half the points.

So do I run long to get the points, and carry on throughout the year and struggle to get a bronze standard because of the extra distance, or

running short at badge events, get half points in the gallopen and possibly get silver standard ?

[bendover]

do whichever course you think you are going to enjoy the most. unless that means doing the string course.

[Mr. Furness]

If you can cope with it, long. you'll probably end up fitter, and you get to visit parts of the area shorter courses don't reach. the technical standard will proably be better as well even though it shouldn't be.

always do the string course.

[Mrs H.]

Well Porky, as you know, I go up to W50 next year and i have decided to run more long courses because the short courses stay the same as for W45 - which are actually pretty short and at which i do quite well - but the long courses get shorter so i think i'll manage ok but i won't be winning anything. the one proviso is that i will still run short at multi days because it just builds up on me and unlike a lot of my W50 contemporaries i still have some quite young children who need feeding and sorting and looking after - which is also quite tiring especially when you're camping - but at least we are not running split starts now - which would have been quite impossible if we had both run long as the day would simply not have been long enough so i say go with the long at the gallopen stuff - the points don't matter (yes I could also score more points running short - Lt Green - than long - green in the WM gallopen - but who wants to run a lt green? No doubt gross will find something offensive to say about that!)

[Simon]

Go with whichever course you will enjoy more. Set a personal target on the results and run well.

Well Porky, as you know, I go up to W50 next year and i have decided to run more long courses because the short courses stay the same as for W45 - which are actually pretty short and at which i do quite well - but the long courses get shorter so i think i'll manage ok but i won't be winning anything.

At most badge events this year W45L and W50L have been the same course (course 5).