Quote Originally Posted by wheezing donkey View Post
Absolutely! Sadly fell running was rooted in the local laird putting up prize money as an incentive to determine the fastest farmworker / shepherd / gamekeeper to run up and down the local But your comments above surely embrace the true grass roots attitude of the amateur code.
Not only that, the guides races were big gambling events too..... so would almost certainly have had an awful lot of fixed results and petty bribery. Anyway, that said, races and sports matches should be all about winning or, failing that, doing your absolute best. Sport is competition, that's the whole point.