There is some talk in my club Addiscombe CC about organising a sportive. I have suggested an audax with a view to possibly resurrecting the Brass Monkey and/or the Battle and Back. I appreciate that Tim Wainwright organised them and has had a bit of a sabbatical.
What would be be the best way to do this after talking with Tim? Does this go against any Audax etiquette that I don't know about?
Any thoughts advice/welcome.
I was going to take over the Battle and Back. I basically got Tim's blessing at the 2008 AGM to take it over. He passed over the route sheets etc and was more than happy that the event might live on with a new organiser.
On looking at the shortest distance route, it was going to be a right faff getting it to the minimum 200km distance. Bear in mind, Tim's route was authorised in the days when certain leeway/discretion was given to organisers and underdistance events were possible. To cut a long story short, informal soundings led me to believe that new scrutiny of the route by the local area organiser would require more controls. Despite trying, I was finding it very difficult to maintain the integrity of the route whilst having a reasonable number of infos/checkpoints. In the end, I gave up and ditched the idea of resurrecting the event.
Despite this, you (or someone else) might be able to make it work. I'd suggest contacting Tim.
Tim is, I recall, aware of my decision not to go ahead with organising the event. It may be someone else has expressed an interest though.
As an aside, the inability to sort out the B&B partly inspired my William the Conkerer 200km event that is now in the calendar. If that event runs smoothly, I was intending on moving it to around about the time the B&B was on (to plug a hole in the GdS calendar). If B&B is resurrected, then calendars would need to be managed (I'd happily keep my 200 in September if the B&B were to be reborn in mid-Summer).
