The track was great and fun to run. If the Em could have totally controlled who crossed into the track it would have been fine. If he also had a few spotters to stop the short cut takers it would have been awesome. If the Em would have had a track like the one on LS it would have been epic.
If after the race the Em actually spoke to those he over looked many, many times... Being 4 legged but not actually on horse I was not allowed in the actual race. Next time EM, I will be a uni...
Argh, I hate that. How big was the track, and was it pure running around? After a couple of years, I gave up on JP Morgan's annual "corporate challenge" in Central Park for that reason. It's bad enough that pure walkers gather at the front and block the way for runners, but what infuriated me the most were those who cut corners.
What I'd do is a course involving temporary moongates as a type of checkpoint. Start off at, say, some point in Yew's guard zone, and only when the race starts does the EM say which directions to run to. To start the race, instruction are given to run in certain straight directions, for example, east, north, east, north, west, west, south. Racers go straight west to discover the cyan moongate, which takes them to a spot in Britain. After running straight north, racers see another moongate, which brings them to a spot in Minoc, and so on. All locations would be kept secret to prevent cheating. Perhaps there could be a box to double-click and get a non-transferable token (with a decay timer) as evidence that toon did visit the spot. Anyone claiming to be a winner would be snooped to ensure all the spots were visited.