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Yeah and I think you're right that an Ultra or smaller event will be fine. I was more concerned about my choice of marathon. I'm supposed to be doing the Dursley 12 miler in 1st week of November and fully expect that to be on.

Hi Harry, welcome to the fastest growing football forum running club in South Bristol! You get team number 21. Wear it with pride! With a 1 year old, I know full well the limits that kids can place on running time. Life used to be so simple with so much time and O took it for granted. Why didn't I run more when I was single! It sounds like you are clocking up some serious mileage (I only work in miles!). Keep up the good work!

I'm intrigued to know if races will go ahead in the Autumn. I was tempted to run Manchester Marathon in October, safe in the knowledge that if it is postponed to next year I'd keep my place. Then I thought that maybe it would be irresponsible of me to run such a crowded marathon, even if it does go ahead this year. Would I be contributing to a 2nd wave? Smaller races, bo problem, but popular ones just don't seem feasible.

Whichever basement team wins League 2 this season, knows in their hearts it doesn't really count.

Boom! 20 runners in the club.

Hi Marcus, I'll try to address your points: Testing frontline staff is the responsibility of the government. Testing footballers would be the duty of care of the EFL. If the govt is not fulfilling its duty we should look at them, not the EFL for managing to do their job. Regards not trusting fans, I agree there could he isolated incidents but I don't think we can approach this with a distrust of our community. It will be important to share the right message and take some practical measures (plus threat of terrorism offences!) And you mentioned that it would be odd if people can't see family members whilst footballers can play football... Well by mid June, the lockdown will likely have relaxed, and meeting both parents would probably be tolerated. By then, we will likely be moving to a social distancing approach again with shops, cafes and restaurants opening. Only the vulnerable should be in lockdown by the time football is played. Footballers are very low risk, and will receive VIP testing and treatment.

Welcome to another new member! 19 of us now

So you've got a Kenyan style? Nice!

Just to scrutinise this a bit... What is Aguero afraid of? He's not only in a low risk demographic, but he has elite level health and fitness. We know his family (inc wife and child) live in Argentina. What are the chances of anything perilous befalling either him or his family? I think that's a fair question. Even Danny Rose... fair enough he might not want to catch the virus off an opponent and then spread it round his household, but not only will players be tested prior to competing, they will also be able to diagnose and treat infection almost immediately. That's VIP treatment that the rest of us won't get. The bricklayers on a construction site are going to be far more at risk. Rose also said that numbers need to be down before we think about football. Well that's the whole point; the numbers are projected to be down in mid June. Hence we're talking about resumption. I'm sure the concerns of these few players is genuine, but I'm not quite convinced they need to be so worried. The problem for me is more a practicality issue. I half joked to someone on the weekend that the players questioning whether the season should resume will be the players that wear gloves during games when it's cold. It's a harsh and probably insensitive joke, but I almost expect players to have a careless (perhaps foolish) desire to compete.

I think the Championship will be given maximum opportunity to justify resumption, on the basis that such a huge windfall is at stake. The EFL can essentially see what the Premier League lands on and then examine whether that can be replicated in the Champ. If not, PPG would presumably be Plan B.

Don't know if we've covered this, but particularly relevant in lockdown: running books! I've just read Running With The Kenyans, and now moving onto Finn's 2nd book, The Way of the Runner, with his 3rd book about ultra running lines up. They're an easy read. A combo of travel writing and running story. I've also got Dean Karnazes Ultramarathon Man lined up which is supposed to be good. Any others of note?

No, Oktoberfest is about as close as it comes! I thought we had all accepted that football will be behind closed doors for the rest of year minimum? So the point stands that if a pub can open, with people shoulder to shoulder, from July perhaps, then a bunch of blokes who adhere to social distancing guidelines should be able to play a game of footy.

If pubs and restaurants are open in July, why not play football?

30th August sounds like a good date for our challenge. OTIB runners up for that?

Welcome to the team Marcus! Wow - that's impressive progress, and what an achievement 50 miles would be, especially if not even in a race. I live that dedication to head out before 6am! I'll keep an eye on strava, and let us know how you're getting on. We've got 18 runners now. Not bad going. A couple more would be nice. Towards the end of the summer I think we'll schedule a marathon day where we try to reach an overall mileage on a particular Sunday. I wonder what 18 runners could amass? 250 miles easy. 350 miles more difficult. Marcus, we'll need 50 from you! But if we can get a few more runners, it would be amazing to smash 500 miles between us...

Yeah and my criticism goes to both the clubs selfishly pushing for a restart becausethey have somethingto play for, and the bottom 6 and their blatant self-preservation scheming. Also Man City who have wheeled out players to add doubts to the restart, surely just to scupper their rivals. In mid table there might actually be a few clubs who just want what is correct and proper in a difficult environment (but maybe they just want some TV income!)

Yes, but isn't the pressure referred to in this story it in response to the bottom 6 trying to corral to impart their self interest?

The lobbying and self-interested scheming is embarrassing. Particularly when disguised as ethical concern.

Here's a scenario from my imagination: What if Everton wanted to sign Delofeu from Watford, so they promise to vote for null and void if they get first refusal on the player?

Goes to show that resumption will be wholly dependent on a testing programme.

Incredible. Give yourself 3 years rest after that!

I would argue that a beer garden poses more viral threat to society than a behind closed doors football game. The same goes for plenty of non-essential public activities. So if we're serious about shutting down non-essential public businesses whereby social distancing cannot be enforced, it should be done across the board, not just the preferred business type. I think you make a very sensible points by the way, but I'm still inclined to think resumption can work.

What would annoy me is if football gets cancelled but then in June we have people shoulder to shoulder in shops, pubs and cafes again. That's my two wrongs make a right argument.

Merde...

Maybe this is an example of them running the club right!