2014-04-06 The London Classic

JB,
While I am posting was going to comment on the negative posts about signage which to be honest I was offended by. The London Classic is entirely voluntary run and the people who came out and did the signage did a great job short of patrolling the whole route all night there is nothing we can do if some signs are lost over night. I would have taken the comments better if the people making the comments had actually done something on the day but actually it was just nasty sniping from the side lines

Adam

I have seen negative comment on a couple of London CC forums. For the first classic somebody complained quite vociferously that we did the route guide in colour and if we'd gone in b&w we could have given more to charity. They then listed several other issues. I invited them to run their own event but to my knowledge this hasn't happened.

After the second one we had a page feature in the comic and their review had PROS:route and atmosphere CONS:signs. That year the signs were shit hot, nobody complained and I collected maybe 95=+% the week after.

Its just the times we live in. People expect 100% uptime, supermarkets the size of towns selling kettles for £4 open 24/7, everything streamed to their phone and nanoblogs on what colour fluff they picked outta their navel that morning. All the feedback I personally received was good and I have a lot of emails from people who seemed to have had a great time.

The event can't run without volunteers. For my part I think I let down volunteers by giving them lightweight signs to put up but I had an eye on cost and every last bean goes to the evelina so I have to justify all spend to myself first. In retrospect I should buy some more corrugated plastic signs. But if I dwelled on that I would feel negatively about the event and honestly I am blown away every year by the goodwill of most people and their generosity.

I would urge you not to be insulted Adam, you did a massive turn on the front and so many have benefited from that.