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Local events

Some thoughts from over here.Perhaps the days of the Colour Coded/District event as an all things to all men are numbered. Having more local events, with a smaller target audience (perhaps even a niche market), might be the way forward, and could provide the progression (particularly for juniors) that we…
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currently try and offer within one event type - the standard white-to-brown CC/District event.So for instance, we have the schools events and park based sprint races catering for the youngsters and inexperienced, the terrain based sprint races and permanent course summer series events for the next level, the terrain based summer series events for the next level etc (the series of middle distance races followed by junior squad-type junior training could be the next level after that).I like the idea of a variety of people each taking ownership over a series of similar events for which they have a particular…

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