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Dark Peak News October 2007 page 28Dark Peak adventures in time...10 years ago...There were tributes to former club chairman TonyTrowbridge, who had died in his sleep from extensive butundiagnosed heart disease, aged 54. Just hours earlier, he hadcompleted a gruelling hill session with Clare Crofts, whohe was coaching at the time. Graham Berry paid tributeat the funeral, praising Tony’s generosity, determination,thoughtfulness and commitment. The AGM approved a TonyTrowbridge Memorial Trophy, which would be awarded tothe first V50 in the Edale Skyline. Howard Swindells stooddown as Equipment Officer. His parting gift to new manRichard Hakes was the “Baumeister Box”, containing thelast remaining DPFR white tracksuit top. The AGM reinstated the Triple Crossing forevery third club championship, with the two intervening years being run as a “mountaintrial”. Colin Lago completed only the fourth DPFR circuit of the “Eleven Trigs” on theHarveys White Peak map. He clocked the second fastest time: 10hrs 40mins.20 years ago...The “slow group” found bullets whistling over their headson a Wednesday night run near the Headstone. The farmerwas shouting that he had shooting rights and had chosen toexercise them. This was the latest of several confrontationsover trespassing around the conduit between Redmires andMoscar. The club decided to run elsewhere pending talksto try to thaw relations. Dark Peak News was just going toprint when news came in of Andy Harmer’s record for the15 Trigs: “On a fine sunny day with a cool breeze and thegoing good-to-firm, Andy stormed around the trigs in 10hours, four minutes and 23 seconds, knocking 54 minutes offBob Berzins’ record.” Andy’s superb run prompted suggestions that a sub ten hourmight be possible. Twenty years on, the record still stands. Will McLewin reported onthe inaugural “Four Corners Race”, in which teams travelled to the four corners of theOS Dark Peak map and then raced to the centre. It was part of the club’s tenth birthdaycelebrations. A re-run was mooted for the twentieth birthday. Did it ever happen?
Dark Peak News October 2007 page 29The Dog’s DiaryPhil Crowson has chalked up a Dark Peak first by managing to get lost betweenregistration and the start of a race. Mike Nolan took pity on the witless Philand gave him detailed instructions for negotiating the half-mile to the start of theMount Famine race. He then rather foolishly let him out of his site, whereupon Philnipped into some woods to lighten his load, lost touch with the rest of the runnersand missed the start after going walkabout. He was later seen trying to regain thequarter-mile he lost on the rest of the field on the first hands-and-knees climb.You’d never catch Kev Saville being so disorganised. He drove up to the Lakes in suchgood time for the Dunmail to Wasdale leg of the Bob Graham Round that he had timeto get his head down in the car for some kip before the runners arrived. Unfortunately,he parked a little too far away from the point where the runners cross the road. Sofar away, in fact, that nobody knew he was there. The runners came through, got fedand watered, changed their supporters and headed off up Steel Fell while Kevin sleptblissfully on before waking alone some hours later.My ear has been bent by club chairman Andrew Moore. He felt - strongly - thatthe reference in the last edition to his reckless custody of the Skyline timekeepingequipment was, to quote, “a pack of lies”. Harsh, and not something I take lightly.I have been back to my sources, (there were several), who insist that my account ofevents was, well, broadly accurate. All I can do really is leave you to make your ownminds up. I do not wish to damage Mr Moore’s reputation, and should probably nowleave him alone for a while. But I can’t resist passing on a snippet that reached merecently about his early career aspirations. It seems he tried to get into the RAF butfailed to pass some key tests. The job he was after? You guessed it... a navigator.Interesting new Bob Graham diet technique from Mark Harvey. I’m told his intakeon the hills was next to nothing, augmented with a chicken curry at Wasdale whilethe other contenders walloped down the traditional stodge. This lack of carbohydrateinduced the mother of all bonks, with Mark simultaneously losing the powers ofmovement, speech and thought. His supporters had to keep themselves amused whileMark ambled aimlessly behind them like a trappist zombie. If you’ve not yet seen thevideo of his trance-like meanderings on the hills, treat yourself now:http://www.youtube.com/user/FellrunnerJimWuffThe Dog’s Diary consists of assorted snippets collected by Chase the dog while out running.Whisper your titbits in his ear, or e-mail him in his kennel: holmesloxley@blueyonder.co.uk
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