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Conistoin 5th May, 7 mile, 3500' was Micah's hardest race being sorocky on a very hot day. Micah climbed well to gain a slight lead andpull away on the long rocky descent to win by nearly a minute -fromRobin again, whilst Gary dropped out.Clougha F'i ke 19th May, 5 mile, 1150'. Another warm sunny day, a -fastlong steady climb on an out and back course. Micah won again -fromRobin. After racing it was nice to watch the sheep dog trials andlisten to a heavily bearded Dark F'eaker, showing us where he cut his•fell running teeth as a youngster up Clougha Pike.Sadd1eworth Fel1 Races 3rd June, 3' miles, 950' steep climb anddescent. Robin didn't show but Gary Devine really came to the -fore onthe -fast rough descent to nearly catch Micah, but luckily couldn'tmaintain it on the -fast road section. Micah went on to -finish over aminute in hand.wasdale 14th July, 1.5 miles, 1000'. A dull heavy day. The junior raceis run up Lingmell, a very steep, smooth climb, with Micah reachingthe top in 8.27 and descending in 3 minutes, and winning by half aminute from Gary D. and Robin.Latrigg 5th August, 3 mile, 900'. This is where Micah first felt theeffects of a chest virus which was to dog him for the next 9 weeks.Micah led the field up the first half mile, then died; both Devine andBergstrand passed Micah on the climb. Micah caught Bergstrand on thedescent but not Devine who won by 5 seconds.Downham Vi11 age Race 5.5 miles, 1700' with temperatures well into theeighties! A long steep climb to the top of F'endle, after a colossalbonk and suffering from heatstroke, Micah dropped out. Devine won fromBergstrand.After this race Micah went on holiday missing the next tworaces, the Sedbergh and Pendleton, both won by Gareth Devine, whichbrought the points to Micah 5 wins to Devines 4. Micah needed one morewin to secure the Championship.Th_ievel_y F'i ke 29th September,. 4.5 miles, 900'. The juniors ran withthe seniors, as in the Latrigg. A cool overcast day, Bergstrand didn'trun and the virus was still hampering Micah's running, finishing avery tired third. Devine won by 2 minutes to bring the points levelwith one race left.Butter Crag 7th Oct, 1 mile, 700'. A short 50 metre dash across afield then straight up 700' with a Kami-Kaze type descent. Afterrunning a 2 mile leg in the northern road relays at Kendal theprevious day, and feeling a lot stronger, Micah was looking forward toa good 'eyeballs out' with Gareth Devine, but unfortunately he didn'tturn up. Still Micah came within 20 seconds of the record, winning byover half a minute from the record holder to become the first BritishJunior Fell Running Champion.BillyWi1 son.THE BURROWS SOUTH DOWNS '80'Harry Townsend and Fellbridge Juniors RFC are to becongratulated on staging the 3rd successive ultra down south, on whatis becoming recognised as a classic of its sort. There is not muchelse to compare with this route anywhere, leaving aside the obviouslack of grand mountain scenery. Instead, you have the quintessentialEngland of the rolling chalk downland in high summer. A lovelyexperience just to traverse the ancient flinty trackways which riseand fall more than B000 feet between F'etersfield and Eastbourne.There were 400 entrants, Dark F'eak taking the winning honours in23
a new record time o-f 1 1. u 1 . 40. Mar t i n Greaves (posing as an ex membero-f Horsham Blue Star, but in reality a genuine paid up Dark Peaker.)and I were the duo who collected some handsome hardware presented byBurroughs. (No I wasn't pot hunting, honestly.)FrankThomas.RESULTS1= M.Greaves. 11.01.40 4= B.Hamilton. Chelt. 12.35.361= F.Thomas. " T.Judd. "3 D.Walker. Ox.AC 11.41.42 D.Rudman.« » «»•*#»*#* «* • ««»*»*»»**•..»«*****« *«««*#•#**«««*«««*»***»**« »**»*•***DASHING DOWN DOVE DALE WITH DAVID"The river", they said, "is very high and dangerous. Pleasecross by the -footbridge downstream".My IAmu-diate reaction on viewing the Dove in spate was to agreewholeheartedly. A broad stretch of grey swirling water o-f unknowndepth rushed by at thi end of Lin Dale. I sought out David, (agedtwelve, and running -for that other club )."David," I said, "the river is very high and dangerous. You mustcross by the footbridge downstream"."Yes, Mum ", said Dnvid (Those o-f you who are parents willrealise that I nive here an abbreviated version o-f the conversation.)"That's worth a few minutes on him ", I thought, for here wasone of those rare occasions when maternal solicitude also results in adistinct advantage to the mother.We lined up together at the official start at the bottom of thehill. Large numbers of other runners, preferring a downhill startremained further forward, at the top of the hill. Suddenly, the 'hilltoppers' were off, leaving us with a very fierce climb to get intoanything lile contention. The chaos at the start was made worse by thepresence of beleaguered spectators and the odd parked car!After a lung-bursting age I could at last see the narrow LinDale, packed with runners funnelling down to the river. I realisedthat if I got trapped in that procession I would have to make anenormous effort to work my way forward, once the river was crossed. Adesperate situation called for desperate measures. The jam was too bigfor my usual tactics - a dignified, but commanding call of "Ladiesfirst!" (which has been known to gain at least twenty places at acertain notorious bottleneck in the Nottingham marathon)To my left a barbed wire fence separated the masses from thelower slopes of Thorpe Cloud. Only a handful of runners were makingrapid progress to the river by this route. Now, I have crossed severalbarbed wire fences recently, especially during the Karrimor. But thesehave been traversed with much assistance, and colourful verbalinstructions, from Peter. This one, I vaulted, solo, and found myselfhurtling down through the water cress (Rorippa nasturtium - aquaticum)to the river, passing hundreds of opponents sliding about in the mudon the other side of the fence.At the river, the children and faint—hearted turned left towardsthe footbridge, but with '..(ores of others I plunged in. The water cameup to my Lottom, but I waded across with out any difficultly. (Itseems that all those childhood years spent surfing on the North Devoncoast are now enabling me to cope with some of the hazards of crosscountry running) Once on the other side there was a firm road surface24
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