aid stations

[gerry]

hi guys i would just like to give some feedback on this years run, again it was a fantastic course with breathtaking scenery and it was wild and almost out of control on the ridges but that is what you pay your money for in this run. points i would like to make
1--dean karazes---- absolute legend --spoke to everyone with such down to earth manner sighned books t shirts and anything else you had  and he had time for everyone--a true sporting legend
2--i arrived at aid stationns 1 and 2 and no endura sports drink to be seen and only the dregs in 2 buckets  for about 12 people--- not good enough guys!!!!
3--at the 2 triple extension ladders i had to wait for one hour and ten minutes top to bottom--- some of the people around me were going blue with cold even with all their gear on( apparently a girl had frozen going down the ladders) so when i arrived there there were about a hundred people on one of the most exposed pieces of ground on the course just freezing their buts of. i never really felt good after this and had to pull out at the aid station 4 i am not using this as an excuse as to why i did not finish but both point 2 and 3 did not help any
i also believe if anyone did finish the run in under 21 hrs they should be entitled to a buckle as if you lost an hour you still ran it in under 20 hrs.

good luck to anyone trying this run next year --- its a brute but thats what makes it so special
gerry

[Gene]

Hello,
first let me say thanks to the people whom made this run possible.
congrats to anyone who was able to complete the very very hard run, i had pulled out at 55km (much more training need to finish)
About the ladder. sure there maybe other ways to get down these sections, but its single trail at the start and people need to put a big effort to get ahead of the crowd befroe it comes. i waited less then 2 mins and was happy with the safety/ care taken by other runners and offical in this area..

The easiest way to fix the problem is to cap the event numbers of runners or have a two way opposite direction two way start. which would invloe half the feild running the other way having a straight cross over gate( sounds hard but would be easy to arrange and complete). Trust me it would save a lot of troulbe. you can have my idea that fine.

Mantadory gear was over the top and should be revisded, in an event like this people should have an understanding of they ablity and have gear that is needed over the run.

Again congrats to everyone hope to see you there next year.

[Ed]

Big thanks to the organisers and everyone else involved in this race. it was awesome. A brutal course but that what made it such an achievement.

I had a 40 min wait at the ladders and yes came down off them feeling cold and sick and took ages to get back into my stride. Maybe a wave start would help spread the field a little bit more.  But to be honest that ladder wait is the only negative thing I could say about the whole event and that's pretty good for a 100K and 19hr racing!!!

The support and aid stations were fantastic, the course was marked really well, my parent in the UK got my 89k checkpoint time off the web when I hit 95K (how cool is that!) etc, etc,

As far as the manatory gear is concerned I think it was spot on. Having seen people on the ground on the six foot track waiting to be taken out with all the gear on and space blankets wrapped round etc and still shivering. At the start of the race no-one probably thought they would be laying on the ground in the dark waiting for first aid to get to them. So may not have taken a thermal top/bottoms, space blanket. And the only way  to get experience of what gear you need is to do races like this! And I for one didn't appreciate how cold it got in the bluies despite having done numerous mountain marathons in the UK winter times.

Thanks Tom et al. Great event.