Untitled - Dark Peak Fell Runners

junior title in a nailbiting -finish at Butter Crag. Male
Patterson performed superbly in all the races he participated in
(including the Internaticnal in Italy.) and ore wonders whether
if he took it seriously he could beat Kenny Stuart and give Dark
Feak a clean sweep o-f the mens titles. In -fact thinking about
the female talent (mmmhh 1 1 ) there's no reason why we shouldn't
take the lot!
So what about the team? Well, I reckon our participation
was a success. We finished 5th out of about 50 clubs. I'm sure
no one felt under pres&ure to race for the club so the majority
of the objections were unfounded. In fact syelv it gave more
purpose and pleasure than any problems it would have caused.
Being someone who is never going to win an individual
prize (my ambition is to get one championship point, just one.)
one thing I can really aspire to is a place in the Dark Peak
team. This means nothing in terms of Kudos or gain, it is purely
an added satisfaction to aim at in a race, and to represent the
club in a constructive way. To us scrubbers it is a valuable and
uplifting facet to our running which anyone in the club can aim
at, deprnding on who turns up at the various races.
Many members counted in Dark F'eaks excel lant performance
in this years championship. I don't have a comprehensive list
but obviously people, other than the ones mentioned earlier,
like Andy Harmer, Tony Farnell were major contributors, but the
also-rans like Neil Goldsmith, Nigel Robinson, Pete Griffies,
Dave Liveiey and myself, all counted in variouE races as well as
more obvious candidates like our noble Eddie Torr, Dave Sant,
Graham Berry etc.... Even Dick: Howarth undoubtedly pushed other
teams further down the field. He missed the team by only one
place at Moel Sii.bod!
All hel ped to give Dark Peal: its high position in the
championship and can rightly feel a measure of pride and purpose
in their personal achievement. They were the men on the day.
Long live team races!
Alan
Evans.