The Eccentric Marathon Man

Jim Emerton

This species inhabits The Barcelona International in an attempt to realise hopes, dreams and wild ambitions. People may perceive this person as crazy or mad, when the irony is that great things can be done with great individual pigeons. Testing the boundaries of possibility, they aspire to take racing into a higher plane of experience. Minority become masters of this traditional art, philosophy and science. Because they crave to be different, they appear as eccentrics in the eyes of the mainstream, popular consciousness. The sport of pigeon racing absorbs every personality type and oddball, some of which have a touch of genius about them.

Multiple Barcelona International Birds

Experience in navigation from the marathon race point can be very important in the racing career of the pigeon. Birds home, yet out of time on their first attempt my improve the following year with one of ours-a big hen- flying it on 5 consecutive occasions with Agen as a yearling as well. Many of these 700 milers go on to add to the cultivation of a marathon strain all related by flights from Barcelona International. We value and admire the qualities of these individual birds, sentimentalise them and make them old favourites in the stock loft. The mind-set, methods and systems around these objectives, take careful planning, consideration and self-discipline. The corollary is that the whole philosophy of it is pleasurable