An Athletics Compendium

Walking F 216-227 # Additional References 216 Rochdale and the Vale oWf hitworth: its moorlands, favourite nooks, green lanes, and scenery-being a companion volume to Old and NReowchdale / William Robertson. Rochdale: The author, 1897. viii, 396p; illus Also publishedin facsimile:Uttlehorough: GeorgeKelsall, 1992. ISBN: 0-946571-21-X • 0-946571-22-8 (leather binding) BL: YK.1994.a.2535 A key source on oldWhitworth races and runners. 217Twenty years on Ben Nevis:being a brief account othf e life, work, and experiences of the observers at the hig st meteorological station tihne British Isles/ William Thomas Kilgour. Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1905. 154p; illus BL; 010370.e.41 Includes six pages on the challenge foot-race f om the post office aFtort Williamto thteop of BenNevis and back, and the race toset an'authentic competitive record for the climbing Boefn Nevis'. ^ Subsequent ed. F218 218 Twenty yearson Ben Nevis: being barief account of the life, work, and experiences of the observers at the hig st meteorological station in the BritiIshles / William Thomas Kilgour. 2nd ed. Paisley: AlexanGdearrdner, 1906. 168p BL: 010370.e.48 ^ Previous ed. F217 219 I bought amountain / Thomas Firbank. London: Harrap, 1940. 319p BL: 10859.h.l7 Includes a detailedaccount of thaeuthor's traverosfe the Welsh Three Thousands in record time. 220 The Three Peaks / Norman Thornber. Clapham: Dalesman, 1949. 30p; illus; pbk (Dalesman pocket books; no. 7) BL;W .P .1301/7 221 The Three Peaks: introducing Whernside, Ingleborough and Penyghent / W. R. MitcheNllo,rman Thornber, Harry Watson &J. N. Frankland. Clapham vLiancaster: Dalesman, 1962. 32p; illus; pbk BL:X.809/564 Thornber contributes the section on The Three Peaks Walk (pp7-14), tracingits recordedhistory fromJuly ISS?, when two mastefrrsom Giggleswick School, KJ.. Wynne-Edwards and D. R. Smith, took 14 hours to cover an estimated27 miles route. 222 A physiological and biochemicapl rofile of thefell runner / D. SimpsonS.alford University, 1984. MSc thesis. 223 The Welsh Three Thousandsa: guide for walkers anfdell runners / Roy Clayton with editorial and historical assistance fromHarvey Lloyd; maps and drawings by John Gilham. Hoddlesden: Grey Stone, 1993. 79p; illus, maps; pbk ISBN: 0-9515996-3-1 BL:YK.1994.a.14355 224 The Welsh three thousand foot challenges: a guide for walkers and hilrlunners / Roy Clayton aRndonald Turnbull; with foreword and historyHabryvey Lloyd; maps and sketches by John Gillham. Hoddlesden: Grey Stone, 1997. 128p; illus, maps; pbk ISBN: 0-9515996-6-6 BL: YK.1997.a.4798 225 Lakeland mountain challenges: a guide for walkers and fellrunners / Ronald Turnbull Ranody Clayton; maps, sketches and line drawingbsy John Gillham. Hoddlesden: Grey Stone, 1999. 1 59p; illus, maps; pbk ISBN: 0-9515996-8-2 Walking 226Walking: a practical guide to pedestrianisfmor athletes and others / Charles Lang Neil with contributions by W. J. Sturgess and W. Griffin. London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1903. 122p; illus BL: 7912121 Chapters otnhe scienceof walking; athletic walking; training; and, records. 227 Walking, and the principlesof training / J. P. Sandlands. London: Smith's, 1903. xvi, 74p BL: 7404.e.25 The tone of this book, which was prompted by the walking of Dickinson of 600 miles in10 days under the writer's training, suggests that Sandlands was something of an eccentric. The book has little shape or style and makes difficult reading rambling inconclusively from one subject to another. 'The thought-this must be as much otherwise engaged. It [ 129 ]