Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15404 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Frank Graham, Sunday Times Sports Book of the Week
A minor masterpiece that will surely find itself among the William Hill contenders [for] Book of the Year.

Blake Morrison, Guardian Summer Reading
Sports book of the season - a terrific story of fell-running and obsession.

Christopher Bray, Sunday Times Culture
A rousingly readable chronicle... The book wants for nothing in terms of rhythm and drama and tug.

Customer Reviews

A lighthearted, un-put-down-able look at the history of fell-running
This is a fantastic book for anyone needing motivation to get the trainers on and pound a few miles.

Askwith humorously mixes the sport's history with personal stories from British fell-running legends like Billy Bland and Iron Joss, but also involves the reader in his own trials to complete the infamously-hard Bob Graham round.

The Scenes from a Fell Running Year also demonstrate how accessible this little-appreciated sport still is.

Unlike most training manuals, which try, usually unsuccessfully in my case, to provide motivation to keep going, this book effortlessly brings on a warm love affair with my trainers. I've read it time and time again when I feel the motivation sapping...

Never finished..
I got this book about 8 months ago. Although I've started it several time, I haven't finished it once. It is one of my favourite books but I can't bear it ending. So I read about 3/4's of it, put it to one side, and leave it for a month or so. And then I do the same thing again.
It definitely is a 'desert island' book for me.

Life changing
I first read the book, without ever walking or running on a fell, and found it awe inspiring and, as an overweight jogger, inspirational.
Since then I have walked up Ingleborough and jogged down.
My first impression of the men and women in the book were wrong.
They are the true sporting superstars.
A copy of this book should be sent to every pampered athlete and footballer. The playstaion generation should read it and then run up a hill, any hill, and start living.