I was responsible for the cancellation of the End to End walk at one stage after the previous year's event had been held with just two officials. It was a health and safety nightmare and an unbearable strain upon those two officials - and nobody else (including me) was prepared to put in even more time in a period when the fixture list was even more crowded than now.
As a result of the cancellation, a lot of people agreed to help the year after and it was revived. But the risks remained and the helpers didn't. Manx Harriers cancelled the event for the second time.
Who would have thought that the event would rise from the ashes under new organisation and on a new course and hit the current heights.
Record times; record entries but it is the record number of helpers that is the most important factor in the success of the event. From those who (on the short marshaling points) give an hour or two to the principal officials who give up months of their time, they should be proud. And they should be thanked.
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