Thanks Will. Good to have a new voice in the debate.
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Thanks Will. Good to have a new voice in the debate.
Cheers. I think the point you made about fellrunning/runners (for the most part) having a different mindset to that of conventional athletics/athletes is spot on. It's this that should be nurtured and is whats so appealing about the sport.
Encouraging kids to respect one anothers efforts, try hard, and to respect the environment: pick up/not drop litter etc, is as important as juniors funding and regulations etc.
I personally don't see what any of these qualities have to do with UKA affilliation at all... i myself probably wouldn't have been drawn to fell races if they were percieved as po-faced superserious events - and i don't mean to imply that top fell running athletes don't rank equal among the finest of any sport; of course they do, ...with or without UKA.
Kids learn by watching parents and those around them. My dad used to take me out with him mucking about around the Roaches nr Leek when i was very small ...some of the best times ever.
Ha! and I think I got my love of playing in the hills from my old man taking me on trips to Boston Park in Rotherham, Dovedale and places like Malham. Sticks in the ole DNA, don't it?!;)
Oh, and the other thing that made a lasting impression was a dim and distant memory of seeing John Noakes do a fell race for Blue Peter. Latency between seeing that and actually racing myself? About 20 years!
Noakesy was great - missed him in the fell race; wonder which one it was?
I was desparately trying to remember myself. I think it was at ambleside. Would have been 1970 or thereabouts. Of course, he came dead last but it was an admirable effort. From what i can remember they ran up a steep hillside to a flag and then dashed back.
Might it have been Grassmere Guides Race? I may have an ever so faint recollection of it - but I could be making it up.
I bet John Noakes would've made a pretty nippy fellrunner - he had the right build as far as i can remember.
...but he might've got a bit upset if he couldn't take the dog with him.
You know, I think it was the Grasmere Guides race. Since he clearly had not competed as a junior, he was utterly hopeless!!;)
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And that's why I had a bad run on Sunday! :D
Also, nice sensible posts Will :)
Now...On a different thread...well, actually, returning to the original thread...!...does anyone know when the result will be announced...and how?
Not sure, but I presume they'll be in the next 'fellrunner'. Bit of an emotive one...