It would be great but there are lots and LOTS of things to organise.
Being affiliated to the relevant authority for one....cant quite remember what it is called at the moment. They take a cut of the entry fee and provide insurance and proper certification of the race.
The course would have to be properly measured, I am not sure whether local orgaanisers could do it or whether they send real race curse measurers to do it.
Everybody is suggesting MAy, I honestly think late Aug or any weekend in September would be better. Oban half marathon is on first Sunday in October, any time before that...get in before them!
To get runners to travel here there would need to be an incentive. Runners like PBs, if the Campbeltown/Mull of Kintyre half marathon could offer a near certain PB it would be a real selling point.....that would mean a flat course, no hills, no beaches nothing to slow the hares at the front down...or the plodders behind!
How about starting out at Vestas or the Base fire station? back in the Moss Road, pavement from Stewarton in to town, thendown Big Kiln, along Argyll St then away down towards Killdaloig as far as need be to make the return from there along the Quarry Green path, past the Ferrry Terminal and along Kinloch Road to the new Swimming pool add up to exactly 13.1 miles
That would mean very few up hills, just a wee bits between NATO Jetty and the graveyard...a guaranteed PB.
Of course that would mean buses from town out to the start....we would be looking for near 100 runners, maybe 80 of them needing transportation to the start.......
Maybe a dozen or more stewards would be required as well.......
Lots of sponsorship and help would need to found and much effort out in.
But I am sure it would be a real goer and a great success.
Did not mean to write all this tonight and I have not put things down as well as I meant to be you get the idea anyway.
I will be at Oban 1/2 on 2nd October and will keep a close eye on how they do it...under cover agent sort of thing
That is a fine event and I enjoy it every year...between 70 and 100 runners...slow, hilly course though.