Boff Whalley is an author and musician (you may remember his old band Chumbawamba and their global hit \"Tubthumping\"),who put \"Fell Runner\" as occupation on his daughter's birth certificate. Gary Devine is his mate from the Leeds punk scene of the 1980s, who is a former British champion fell runner. \"Faster! Louder!\" is Boff's new book, all about Gary, and fell running, and punk rock. It is a damn good book, because Boff is a damn good author.
Beaming in from the Yorkshire Dales (Boff) and the Swiss Alps (where Gary now lives) to the base of the Catskill Mountains (where host Tony Fletcher resides), they answer the question on every non fell-runner's lips:
They also answer the question:
And over the course of a fun-filled conversation, they also discuss
Throughout, Tony resists asking Boff what a fell runner should do if he gets knocked down.
\"Faster! Louder! How a punk rocker from Yorkshire became British Champion Fell Runner\" is available through Great Northern Books.
Boff Whalley can be found at https://www.facebook.com/boff.whalley if you ask nicely
Gary Devine can be found running up the French Alps, if you can catch him.
Tony Fletcher will be found running again, if he recovers from his fractured knee. His website is tonyfletcher.net
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