Joe Lee Computing - Results service from Lancashire based outfit. Also sell software for use with both road races and track and field.
SportSoft Race Results - Graham Fecitt's Road and Cross-Country results service primarily focused on the North of England. Includes results of several area championships.
Roadraces - Dave Clarke's race results service focused on club events in the North West of England.
Entry Forms.org.uk - North West England running site listing the areas leading fixtures. Includes downloadable entry forms.
Running Diary - Searchable diary of running & track and field events in the UK and Republic or Ireland.
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fixtures and Results "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fixtures and Results
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Fixtures and Results "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fixtures and Results Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fixtures and Results
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
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- Oscar Wilde "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Fixtures and Results Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Fixtures and Results
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Fixtures and Results The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
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-- George Santayana I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Fixtures and Results
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Fixtures and Results "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Fixtures and Results
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
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-- John Murray Fixtures and Results "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Fixtures and Results
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Fixtures and Results "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Fixtures and Results
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Fixtures and Results The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Fixtures and Results
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Fixtures and Results They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Fixtures and Results
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Fixtures and Results "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Fixtures and Results
