PUBLICATIONS

BOOK LAUNCH and RUN
6th April, Birnam Institute, Birnam/Dunkeld Perthshire
6pm Enjoy a "Perfect Run" on the Banks of the Tay
5km Trail Run (£2) pay on the day(over 16y),  and free 3km Family Fun Run
Entries by e-mail-
Trail Run  - name, age group, expected running time for 5km
Fun Run - Family name, how many
to  running.wild@btinternet.com
7pm Book Launch - author Bill Melville chats about his writing career and answers questions.

THE BOOK -   Retired sports journalist Bill Melville makes his own bid for sporting success.
At an age when most go pottering in the garden or taking the dog for a walk to "keep fit" the Birnam based Scot, a one time road runner before injury forced him off the hard tarmac, and for many years now an orienteer, travels across Britain and into continental Europe as he goes all out to score a perfect run.
Having given himself a year, to do it once or even make it a habit, his autobiography charts his travels, his successes and his failures.
He covers the problems facing the aging competitor,  investigating the science of performance run-down.
A "must read" for every sports person over forty.
At the same time it looks at running sports and runners, the greats and not so greats, comments on the changes athletics and orienteering have seen, and on the world in general.
"I enjoyed writing it," he says. "I hope it is a joy to read."

LAUNCH -  The projected launch on April 6th 2012 coincides with the Jan Kjellsrtom Orienteering Festival in Perthshire (SEE )

BILL MELVILLE -
During twenty years in sports journalism he covered a broad spectrum of sport..........Athletics, Badminton, Canoeing, Curling, Cycling, Gymnastics,Judo, Mountain running, Mountain biking, Netball, Orienteering, Rowing, Skating, Snow sport, Squash, Swimming, Tennis, Triathlon, Wrestling, many to world championship level, plus occasion basketball, boxing, football, golf, pentathlon, rugby and show jumping.
He supplied material to a large number of outlets including BBC Radio, Belfast Telegraph, Birmingham Post, Courier, Daily Mail, Express, Guardian, Herald (+Sunday), Independent, Irish Independent, Irish Radio, Irish Times, Mirror, Newcastle Chronicle and Sun, News of the World, Press and Journal, Record, Scotland on Sunday, Scotsman, Sun, Telegraph (+ Sunday), Times (+Sunday), Western Mail  plus newspapers and press agencies in Australia, Canada, Iceland, Finland, France, New Zealand, Spain,