Clonakilty Waterfront Marathon on Saturday cancelled

From the text above, it sounds like they're not cancelling, they're "just" downgrading the full marathon to a half (there already was a half scheduled). Now, maybe they're in the process of evaluating their options regarding refunds or deferrals, but if so, they should have communicated that in the announcement. At the moment, it sounds like you do the half or get nothing.

I would expect them to push on with the races on Sat and worry about sorting out the marathon mess early next week. Some runners may be happy to drop back to the half so there may not be too many holding out for the refund/deferral. I was planning to drive down for the marathon but the motivation to drive 3hrs for a half marathon just isn't there.

Website clearly states cancellation options in event of adverse weather so I'd be expecting that to be honoured. Bit of a strange text to send out, completely at odds to their website though. I'm sure they are up to their eyes trying to organise the reshuffle,

Correct decision to pull the marathon though, very unfortunate. Clon is always a great end of year marathon for me. Great part of the country. Hope they don't get any flak on the day

Yeah as usual people jumped straight to moaning and would lnt give them a minutes peace to catch their breath.

When you say backtracked, did they say in their comms specifically say that deferrals wouldn't be allowed?

You mean in your opinion there was no other interpretation?

I just think people should be cut some slack. Too often these days people are way to quick to go on witch hunts cos they don't have all of the information they want right this instant.

It was in their T&Cs/FAQs on their site previously that people would be deferred to the next year. Why wouldn't you just trust the website? And what they did years ago when the same thing happened?

Maybe they rushed their comms out. Maybe they thought the public would cut them a bit of slack.

When did everyone turn in to Veruca Salt?

My wife called them after I received the text message regarding the cancelation and transfer on Thursday evening. She left a message and asked for them to call back, and fair play to Bob that he did. He avoided the question re deferral and forcing people to do the half marathon and said that they would not give any answer regarding this until after tomorrow and said that they were only concentrating keeping the other 2 events open at the moment and he never once suggested that the marathon runners could run next year instead in the 10 or more minuets he was on the phone. He mentioned how much money he had lost in the previous cancellations and other stuff I won't go into here, and also the abuse he was getting from some of the calls.

I think it was deliberate ploy to see how many would defer to the half or 10k before giving into pressure and releasing the statement regarding deferral.

I signed up for the full, which was to be my first, I couldn't cancel the apartment as it was too short of a notice, so I went there anyway and did the 2nd half after on my own, which was some experience.