Prasad

I was speaking to Prasad on the phone last night and he said that he could not make the County - if he could he wouldn't have done the Lanarkshires! - but he'll be OK for the District Championships and should be for the Hannah Cup as well the following week.

While I'm on, did anyone else see the TV film on Monday about the four minute mile as run by Bannister? Total rubbish - his Austrian Coach became a Northern Englishman in a wheelchair, instead of training at the King's Road Track, he trained in a huge hall with a 400m track marked out, etc. There have been some good films about athletics: the only one can think of about sprinting is 'Chariots of Fire' which was excellent but there have been a whole series about distance running. The one that most athletes liked was 'Running Brave' about the American Indian Billy Mills who won the 10000 metres at the Tokyo Olympics. Then there was the over dramatised 'The Games' about three or four guys from different continents training for and racng in the Olympic Marathon - this one caused a wee stushie in the making when Michael Crawford (who played Harry Hayes, the British hope) jumped into the British Cross Country Championships half a mile from the finish and actally 'won' it! There was a good one about the US College Boy Wonder 'Pre' about Steve Prefontaine who died tragically early in a car crash. The 'Tokyo Olympiad' was made up of ten segments all made by a different film maker and included a super section on the Marathon won by Abebe Bikila. Who have I missed?