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SPORTS Visit our new on-line shop at www.peteblandsports.co*uk 34A KIRKLAND,KENDAL,CUMBRIA,LA9 5AD TEL.01539 731012 L_ _ ^ U R U % % Advertising Rates: Bit at the Front - Neil Denby £160 Full Page. £100 Half Page So, farewell then long nights cutting and pasting; ‘I’m member 12345’ £55.00 Quarter Page. £30 Eighth Page farewell the fun of trying to decipher the hand-written ‘Fine, what can I do for you’ scrawls of the FRA membership (who seem to be ‘I’m member 12345 and I haven’t had my magazine Classified Advertisements: either illiterate or GPs - the effect is the same), yet’ These are not for people seeking commercial gain but farewell from me to The Fellrunner. ‘It’s not out till October’ designed to be runner to runner ads. Farewell to the imperious - ‘I have written this article; £2.00 for the first ten words, 15p per word thereafter. publish it in the next Fellrunner’; the technologically ‘I organise a race’ Advance payment necessary. deviant - ‘I have burnt this article into this DVD chip ‘What do you actually want?’ with a laser, please print it off’; the inept - ‘Please Colour Rates ‘Want, I don’t want anything, I’m Albert Bloggs’ find some photographs enclosed, I don’t know who Available on request from Tony Hulme the people are and have failed to put in my own name and similar surreal conversations. There must be a and address, but expect you to return them anyway’; world record somewhere for the most long winded The Fellrunner is published 3 times a year the hopeful - ‘I don’t know who the runner is but he way of saying ‘I’ve put it in the post’ and it’s member 1st week in June, October and February. was number 81 or 82 and if you contact the organiser 12345 that holds it! Deadline for articles, letters etc. I’m sure he will be able to tell you’; the deluded - ‘I But farewell also to the fantastic photographs which for the next issue is Jan 5th have written this brilliant poem and you must publish many go to such lengths to provide; to the articles, Send to Dave Jones it’. Farewell, too, to the late night phone call, which factual, humourous, serious, silly, libellous; to the Tel: 0161 485 1557 • 07950 440972 goes something like this - wealth of FRA talent that manifests itself in cartoons, E-mail: [email protected] ‘Hello, I’m Albert Bloggs’, facts, rumours, articles, pictures... Results and Race Reports to: ‘Hello’ The production of the mag. is a team effort; I forbear David Weatherhead, 16 Birchlands Grove, from listing the team as I’m bound to leave someone ‘Hello, this is Albert Bloggs here’ Wilsden, W. Yorkshire BD15 0HD (01535) 273508 out so suffice it to say a huge thank-you to all those ‘Yes, hello, what do you want’ who have assisted or contributed over the past ten Advertising Copy to: ‘I organise a race’ years. And I thank you all for your kind words to me Tony Hulme, 5 London Road, Alderley Edge, over the years. The new editor, providing the AGM ‘Is this to do with the Fellrunner?’ Cheshire SK9 7JT 01625 58213 approves his appointment, will be Dave Jones - currently fixtures secretary - contact details below. To him I bequeath the late night phone call; the five page OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS 1999-2000 blank paper fax (it’s called feeding it in the wrong Chairman Secretary MEMBERS REPRESENTATIVES way up); the empty disk (without accompanying hard Richard Day Mike Rose Brett Weeden Linda Hannah copy); the anonymous photograph and the 27 St. Mary's Road 15 New Park View 3 Dale View, Silsden 84 Ramsey Avenue increasingly terrifying new technology that will, I’m Little Haywood Farsley, Pudsey Keighley Bacup, Lancs Stafford Leeds West Yorks BD20 0JP OL13 9PJ sure, soon allow people to send themselves in person ST18 0QG LS285TZ Tel: 01535 654928 Tel: 01706 875899 down a telephone line! Tel: 01889 882238 Tel: 0113 2556603 Peter Dyke Neil Taylor Assistant Secretary Treasurer 13 Falkland Road 10 King Street JoAnne Prowse Tony Varley Sheffield Cononley, Keighley CONTENTS 42 St James Road 1 Kensington Drive Sll 7PL BD20 8LH Ilkley Horwich Tel: 0114 2662807 Tel: 01535 631237 Regulars West Yorkshire Bolton 3 News and Views DELEGATES TO ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION LS29 9PY BL66AE AAA of England North of England AA 5 Joss Naylor Lakeland Challenge Tel: 01943 602522 Tel: 01204 669570 Richard Day Mike Rose 7 Junior Training Membership Secretary Fixtures Secretary 27 St. Mary's Road 15 New ParkView 17 Peter Travis’ poem Pete Bland Dave Jones Little Haywood Farsley, Pudsey 34a Kirkland 12 Victoria Avenue Stafford ST 18 0QG Leeds LS28 5TZ 40 Martin Stone’s Long Distance News Kendal Cheadle Hulme Tel: 01889 882238 Tel: 0113 2556603 Features Cumbria Stockport, Cheshire LA 95AD SK85DL Midland Counties AA South of England AA 6 Three Peaks - HW Eccles Tel: 01539 731012 Tel: 0161 4851639 Bill Waine Sam Kirkpatrick 16 Great Moments in Fellrunning - Allan 36 Blandford Drive 35 Courtman Road, Champs Co-ordinator Magazine Editor Greenwood Coventry Mallows Grange, Stanwick Jon Broxap Neil Denby CV2 2JB Northants, NN9 6TG 18 30 Years Ago - Bill Smith 32 Castle Garth 13 Greenside Tel: 01203 603813 Tel: 01933 625309 Kendal Denby Dale 22 The Fellrunners Ultimate - Bill Smith Cumbria West Yorkshire DELEGATE TO WORLD MOUNTAIN 26 Beinn Fhionnlaidh’s Case - Jon Broxap LA 97AD HD8 8QY RUNNING ASSOCIATION 28 Three Peaks 1965 - Mike Davies Tel: 01539 720149 Tel: 01484 861812 Norman Matthews, 8 Snowdon Drive, Horwich, Bolton 31 The Ramsay Round - Gary Baum BL6 7DG. Tel: 01204 468390 Statistician Press Officer 35 Blisco Dash - James Rotherham Brian Martin Bill Waine OTHER ASSOCIATIONS 5 Sutton Hill Road 36 Blandford Drive NORTH OF ENGLAND DELEGATE TO Race reviews Bishop Sutton, Bristol Coventry FRA COMMITTEE 11 Yorkshire Championships BS39 5UT CV2 2JB Roger Lawton, 5 Jim Lane, Marsh, Huddersfield Tel: 01275 333482 Tel: 024 7660 3813 12 The Stoop Race - Dave Woodhead HD1 4QS. Tel: 01484 536066 14 Scottish Island Peaks - Rob Jebb ATHLETICS UK, POLICY AND SUPPORT TEAM Environment & Access 30 Oxenhope Straw Race - Sarah Rowell Robin Morris, 33 Momingside Road, Edinburgh Chris Knox, 38 St. John's Street, Keswick, Cumbria EH10 4DR. Tel: 0131 4478846 33 Hunshelf Amble- David Horsfall CA12 5AG. Tel: 01768 772922 N. IRELAND FELL RUNNERS ASSOCIATION Coach International lan Taylor, 52 Bladon Drive, Belfast BT9 5JN Norman Mattews, 8 Snowdon Drive, Horwich, Bolton, Lancs. 10 Teenager Games, Germany - James Mason Tel: 01232 280790 BL6 7DG. 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