Veteran athlete and statistician dies
VETERAN Grantham Athletic Club ultra-runner and statistician Ron Hindley has died.
He was a founding member of the club and also the 100km Association, of which he was the president for many years.
Ron organised the country's first 100km road race in 1980, which started at Harlaxton Manor with the half-way turn at Lincoln.
He was also a member of the national Road Runners Club, Ropsley Road Runners, and the Columbia Track Club, Missouri.
The American club adopted Ron's 'serial competition' computerised ranking system which he devised in the 1990s to record the achievements of runners in Lincolnshire.
He continued training and racing into his eighties and only announced his retirement from racing after last year's Newton's Fraction Half-marathon, aged 85.
The funeral will be at Grantham Crematorium chapel at 1.15pm on Monday, July 14, with arrangements by David Holland's.
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07 July 2008 10:23 AM
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