A FAIRY WITHOUT A TREE IS LIKE A RUNNER WITHOUT LIFA HELLY HANSEN LIFA WEAR Long Sleeve Tops Navy, Red, Royal, S/M/L £12.95 Long Sleeve Tops Navy Extra Small only £4.95 Long Sleeve Polo Neck Navy S/M/L £14.85 Long Johns Navy (Seconds) M/L £5.95 Long Johns Navy Extra Small only £3.95 Long Johns White Fantastic Bargain M/L £2.95 Balaclava Navy One Size £3.95 Gloves Navy, Red, Yellow One Size £3.95 Socks Navy S/M/L £5.30 Briefs Navy S/M/L £7.95 FOR ALL YOUR FELL RUNNING EQUIPMENT. MAJOR STOCKISTS OF WALSH SHOES (PB’S). FAST EFFICIENT MAIL ORDER SERVICE. ACCESS AND VISA TELEPHONE ORDERS TAKEN. WRITE OR PHONE FOR PRICE LIST. 34A KIRKLAND, KENDAL CUMBRIA LA95AD TEL: 0539 731012 CONTENTS Editorial 1 Letters 2 EDITORIAL British Championship Update 4 English Championship Results 4 World Cup Committee News 5 It seems as Dave Hodgson says in his article below that we are not in a Championships 1991 6 position to disassociate ourselves from the World Cup. It may be that First Aid on the Mountains 6 the dedicated man in Walshes, feels that he is not getting the best value Back Issues 6 out of the FRA when he reads Andy Styan’s article in the last issue and FRA Medal Design Competition 7 hears about selection races and weekends for the elite. The English World Cup for Mountain Racing 7 AlAAs receives invitation to send teams to the Mountain Running World 2nd Edale FRA/DPFR Navigation, Training, Safety Course 7 Cup and these are passed to the FRA. The FRA also receives a few International Selection 7 invitations to send teams to other international events. In order to Joe Long 8 prevent all the FRA committee from being involved with satisfying these Book Review 8 invitations we have set up a selection committee for the English World Communion 8 Cup team and another for British invitations. We are also opening an The Ben (Nevis) 8 extra account for World Cup and international activities which will not use membership subscriptions. In this way World Cup activities may be International News 9 delegated and become a discernible separate activity. Just Another Road Race? 9 There are still questions about where the funds come from and whither Davos Alpine Marathon/Results 9 they may include some or all of the profits from the 1988 Keswick World Swiss Karrimor 10 Cup and also whither the FRA should send a team of regular Fell 27th Trofeo Terza Punta Monte Morello - Italy 11 Runners, or those who perform well ONLY at road or Alpine style FRA Dinner Menu 11 selection races. There will be an opportunity to discuss both these questions at the FRA AGM after Langdale. Results 11 Experiences of the Run 28 Editorship The Record Has Stood ... 28 This magazine has been produced differently in order to ensure that it is Bamoldswick Weets Fell Race 28 published before the AGM. After the AGM I intend to concentrate my A Sad Tale ... 29 writing and none-running running related activities in other directions The Jackson Family 29 and will be stepping down from being the principal editor of the Fell T. Pat Campbell 30 Runner. No doubt some of you will still be ringing me up at 10.30 p.m. Rumour Has It 31 asking about races in Switzerland and France even if! leave the editorial Evening Run Back o’ Skidda 31 team. There are already one or two people who have expressed interest in the editorish or in joining the editorial team and I will he prepared to Welsh Raiders 32 tell anyone else interested what is involved and show them into the job. Long Distance Summary 34 PS...Selwyn has asked me to say something about entries to Ben Nevis. If you really want to be sure of getting in, make a new year resolution to Long Distance News 36 run the Ben. Then when you've sobered up, or before, write to Uncle From Ben Hope to Brandon 36 George in Fort William at the same time as you thank your Aunt for the 277 Munros Relay 36 wool socks you won't have to win at the Bens of Jura 3 Peaks of Great Britain Run 37 One Round Too Many 37 Cuillin Ridge Run 39 Caption Contest Late Results 39 Due to the underwhelming response and difficulty in appointment of suitable adjudicators, the June Issue A Neighbourly Challenge to Ben Nevis 39 (Whinberry Naze: Boxing Day ‘89) contest is still open to all comers. (Closing date now 1st December) Gripping Yarns 40 Front Cover: Chris Lyon (Horwich) being chased up the big climb at Clitheroe by Back Cover: Brendan Taylor on the ascent in the Junior Coniston Fell Race, eventual winner Garry Wilkinson (Clayton). Photo: Peter Hartley Photo: W.S. 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The first I do not pretend that I am perfect LETTERS reason is untenable, and the second is and I must own up to a muted erroneous since at least footpaths are ‘bollocks’ when I turned an ankle subject to maintenance. Now I would whilst descending Beinn Shiantaidh on be the first to agree that we must not the Bens of Jura. In mitigation I must sanitize our races, but common-sense say that I was at the back of a strung The British Evaluation of must prevail if the under-foot out field with no other living soul for conditions are delicate and not subject miles but may I offer an unreserved Championship and Damage to the to repair. apology for this momentary lapse. In South Wales, where fields Please let us suffer in silence. The World Cup Environment average 50, we have had considerable STAN WIMOCK After last year’s eventful World Colin Pritchard raised the question of difficulty with the National Parks BINGLEY HARRIERS Cup I decided to take twelve how we can defend the sport of fell authority over the erosion issue resulting in the cancellation of two months out from competitive running when it clearly causes erosion. races. Both have been re-instated, but No Rejects Running racing. Since then I’ve done His friends saw the erosion of 300 pairs of Walshes. not without considerable effort, and the Three Peaks Please everything for the pure pleasure of future is obviously volatile. Almost any use of the environment Whatever the strict legal position, this it. Mind you doing Borrowdale The writing is on the wall for all causes damage and this needs to be Association believes that it has at least for the first time this year wasn’t of us, and I suggest that it is time for evaluated in two ways. a moral duty to do what it can to entirely pleasurable. At the same our committee to come up with some 1. What are the benefits of the use? safeguard competitors and bearing in firm directives on this issue, or else all time I’ve done a bit of thinking Fell running enables a lot of people to mind the nature of the race, the terrain the time they spend discussing the about the state of domestic and enjoy the hills, to take exercise and is and climatic conditions that is a World Cup will be wasted, as our international racing, neither came not exclusive - we don’t close the fell complex task. access to our own training grounds will to everyone else (unlike shooters). We start by vetting the entries to out that favourable. Foremost I be denied! 2. Is the damage significant? The ensure that competitors have the found it strange for the British This over the top point of view is Langdale Race takes place only once a experience and sill necessary to reduce Championship to be changed from really only a way to link up with the year. Walkers use the same paths risk to a minimum but even so what seem a good system. second point of this letter, and that is a every day of the year and over the year accidents do happen. In fact, about Secondly, I thought how both the comment on Andy Styans “kiss and cause many times more ‘damage’. The 10% of those who start the race will quality of the British and World tell” article in the last issue. How much net result is that the path becomes become casualties and competitors do I agree with most of the points he Cup could be improved. rather wide and rocky or boggy. Does become lost (two this year). When makes, but I must take him to task over The British Championship this matter when it is only a tiny that happens things can go very wrong his contention that “If you are system has always been changed percentage of the whole mountain (1% very quickly.