This is a website created by John Deaton, a retired computer programmer and retired athlete, just to contain various oddments of references to athletics (largely historic), and various similar items he feels like recording. The website is named in recognition of The first English Cross-Country Championship in 1876, declared null and void because the entire field of 32 went astray.
The sections of this website include:
- Athletics History
- Their times may have been slower and their kit rather drabber, but they were fellow-athletes, just no longer alive. Their activities give us a fascinating glimpse of one aspect of a long-gone society -- or was it really so different?
- Athletics Events
- Some athletics events which don't feature on the present-day Olympics programme. Maybe they should, maybe they shouldn't ...
- Athletics People
- Brief notes about some people who have been involved in athletics -- but not always the ones you expected ...
- The Admin Side
- Something about the rules and procedures of the sport of athletics. You may consider they're important, you might consider them just bureaucratic bunkum to keep some blazered buffoons in a post, but they're there ....
- Historic Quotes
- A section of quotes from, er, some time ago ...