Athletics Daily

I'm not sure whether I have mentioned the athleticsdaily website before but it has been brought to my attention again by a friend just this week because of a particular thread that I'm interested in. The address is http://athleticsdaily.proboards.com/ and is an unofficial British (mainly English) website on all matters related to athletics with a slight bias towards endurance running although there are very good - and long - boards dealing with Long Throws, Sprints, etc contained on it. If you look at 'The 400's Daily Chat' you'll get Longthrow's laughter lines which is a collection of jokes plus John Bicourt's Daily Discussions on middle distance training and tactics plus International Athletics plus a whole series of boards on ALL aspects of athletics from 100 metres to pole vaulting.

Wilf Paish has a whole board to himself and his articles on coaching events across the spectrum. Some are quite long bur are all informative and written in easily accessible language. And then there is the 'Dark Side of Athletics' one that you could say is in places critical of the Establishment.

It's a site that is certainly worth a look. Of the two unofficial Scottish websites, the http://z3.invisionfree.com/Unofficial_SAL has much more traffic than the www.saforum.org.uk one and there are rumours that the latter has links to SAL. Whatever the truth of that it is pretty well known that all three are infiltrated by the governing bodies who post the odd reply under a pen name. They're none the less interesting for that and there is a lot of interesting info on them all.