Feet in the Clouds

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Originally Posted by Feet in the Cowclaps

You mean it's all over?

And you couldn't tell me to my face?

You'll find all your Silsden matchday programmes and Human League records on the doorstep. Good riddance! :mad: :mad:

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Lol.
Although personally I think you deliberately named yourself FITC in the hope that someday someone would write a book called FITC so that Anorak could do that last post and then you could reply saying..........

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Originally Posted by Deejay

Lol.
Although personally I think you deliberately named yourself FITC in the hope that someday someone would write a book called FITC so that Anorak could do that last post and then you could reply saying..........

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It's a fair cop.... :D


One forum member I met at a race thought I was Askwith himself!

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Originally Posted by GrahamB

Askwith's book is OK: if you like that sort of thing.

However the most useful book ever written about fellrunning remains Sarah Rowell's "Off-Road Running" available from Amazon for £10.

Given that Sarah was a top marathon runner, a top International Mountain Runner, probably the second-best ever female fell runner, has a sports related PhD, is actively involved in International Selection, edits a sports-related magazine, has forgotten more about fell running than most Forum posters will ever know...

...well if you haven't got a copy you just aren't serious about fell running.

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Come on Breezie, you're just jealous you didn't write FITC yourself! Admit it! ;)

As for Sarah Rowell's book, it's definitely a good one, but you're not comparing like with like.

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Originally Posted by Mud

Blimey. I liked it too, but not to that extent.



I thought the bit in Part II, where Ron mentioned his post-race rectal temperature was pushing the detail a bit far.

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Did I seem over the top? Hmm I do get over enthusiastic. Last year I was scouring second hand bookshops for tomes on Fell Terriers. Don't recommend any, I've read em all!

Ron's great. He just goes on and on unrelentingly right through the two volumes. I love the bits where he lists the number of beers and ciders he's had then wonders what the flaw is in his training regime.

Feet in the Clouds is okay but not a patch on Jayne's Diary by the story so far.

I don't really understand why people are comparing SMOTS with FITC with SRORR (Sarah Rowell Off Road Running).

The three are completely different books. I've read two cover to cover and enjoyed them. I haven't read the other.

We finally get someone talking sense on this forum.

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Originally Posted by dominion

I don't really understand why people are comparing SMOTS with FITC with SRORR (Sarah Rowell Off Road Running).

The three are completely different books. I've read two cover to cover and enjoyed them. I haven't read the other.

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Originally Posted by Reginald Perrin

We finally get someone talking sense on this forum.

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Well that's a first for anything I've ever posted.... :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Eric Postlethwaite

Come on Breezie, you're just jealous you didn't write FITC yourself! Admit it! ;)

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Absolutely not although I admit I have read it twice. However:

I have zero interest in the BGR so thought that content tedious.

I thought the scenes from a fellrunning year were just filler: except for the complimentary references to the Lakeland Classics Trophy of course!

On the other hand the sections on the professional/ amateur problems of the past and interviews with people like Roger Ingham were very valuable and well worth placing on record.

Other good fell running books include:

Long Days In Lakeland by Ronald Turnbull

and the two books by Robert B. Boeder

Hardrock Fever and Beyond The Marathon