First fell running clubs

[Magpie]

What is the general consensus on the following questions:

1. Who were the very first fell running club?
2. Which is the most successful fell running club?
3. Do you think fell running should be an olympic sport?

[Flightless Bird]

1. Don't know
2. Don't know
3. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[daz h]

pennine for sure
or was it KFR??

Luvshack help

[IainR]

What is the general consensus on the following questions:

3. Do you think fell running should be an olympic sport?

I think Mountain Running is well on its way. Fell running never will be, and good IMO, but Mountain Running is certainly moving that way. Look at the Commonwealth Mountain Running Champs coming soon.

[Fellhound]

1. (I assume you mean a club called '...... fellrunners') must be CFR.

2. Borrowdale or Bingley

3. NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Graham Breeze]

SMOTS page 48

"..the 1970s also witnessed a development of clubs specialising in fellrunning, including new ones like Keswick AC, Dark Peak Fell Runners and CFR, the latter a direct extension of the CFRA, and already established clubs like Horwich RMI and Rossendale,....

[IainR]

1. (I assume you mean a club called '...... fellrunners') must be CFR.

2. Borrowdale or Bingley

3. NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Borrowdale is recent isn't it? Wasn't that a branch off from Keswick?

[Richard Head]

SMOTS page 48

"..the 1970s also witnessed a development of clubs specialising in fellrunning, including new ones like Keswick AC, Dark Peak Fell Runners and CFR, the latter a direct extension of the CFRA, and already established clubs like Horwich RMI and Rossendale,....

CFR were not formed until 1986

[Stagger]

What is the general consensus on the following questions:

1. Who were the very first fell running club?
2. Which is the most successful fell running club?
3. Do you think fell running should be an olympic sport?

Would the most successful fell running club be the one with the most amount of team wins in the Ian Hodgson, FRA Relays, CWR etc
or
The club with the most successfull individuals eg Joss, Billy, Jebby or Ian?

[wheezing donkey]

CFR were not formed until 1986

B*****ks. I started fell running in 1983 and Cumberland Fell Runners were far more prolific then than they are today! I think that they had been around for about 10 years then.