Dear Blog,
Photograph Quiz:
Photo no. 130 to 142:- My carer tells me that if you click on the above you will get a display of today’s runners at Stafford Common in the Midland Cross Country Championships. Now is that clever Blog, or is that clever. I shall miss walking to the chemist to hand in my film for developing and then popping back next week to pick up the photographs. What will they think of next. How about letters without stamps? Boy. That would be really clever. Sort of 1984 all over again, know what I mean Blog?
I think everyone who went to the Midland Cross Country Championships should say a BIG thank you to Stafford Harriers for all their hard work. And a big thumbs down for all those athletes and team managers, including some from my own club, who critised the early day problems encountered by the officials and marshals. That is a little short of disgraceful with a capital ‘DISGRACEFUL’. They should recognise how refreshing it is for a club to solve a problem in these days of ‘Health and Safety’ rather than accept a little local difficulty and give up the ghost like the Sofety Southern Cross Country Association. Well done Stafford. And I’ll tell you about a little bonus Blog. ‘Derby Runner’ sports shop were At the event selling athletic gear. The shoes were only £20!!!! £20!!!!!!!!!!!! Now even if they were not the correct size and they didn’t fit, at £20 how could you not buy a pair???? I take a size 11 but a size 8 for £20, no problem. That is only £10 a shoe, or £2 per toe. A bargain, with a capital ‘B’. Put it another way, it is only 25p a toe nail. I’ll have some of that, Blog. So I purchased a pair. If Phillip Ardes can run for his club Athens A.C, against the Sparta Harriers in their annual inter club with his toes cut out of his shoes to make sandals, then I can do the same. No problem there then Blog. The new size eleven is size eight. Just a Stanley knife with a slash here, there and everywhere and I am fixed up for many, many trudges here, there and everywhere. Better than barefoot running. Although with all this talk about barefoot running in the magazines these days, I am fully expecting a phone call asking me if I would be kind enough to relate the time I ran a steeplechase barefoot. I would not charge too many quids. Remember in the sixties, it was all about showing how tough you were, and even Wilson or Alf Tupper never ran a steeplechase barefoot. So move over Ronnie and Brucie, make room for Colin!!!!!
You have to admire the confidence of the Midland Cross Country Officials … the runners were required to wear a chip for position and finishing time. If that system failed they had the back up of a number worn on the front of the vest for position and finishing time. If the front number system failed they had the back up of a number worn on the back of the vest for position and finishing time. And if that system failed they had the photographer recording all the runners as they completed the course. And if that system failed, for a small few quids, they can ask for my help??
Colin
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