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Wasdale on Sat 11th Jul 1998

81 startersConditions were most unsuited for the Wasdale and the organisers must have been considering cancelling, or at best extending the course. Thin, high cloud and a cool breeze made the day out a pleasure rather than the usual battle against gales and rain that one normally expects. There weren\'t many fresh legs among the Dark Peak contingent: Will was only three weeks after his Bob Graham , Dave was limping about the start field on trashed knees, I\'d done the Saunders the week before, Pete mentioned his most recent epic, done the weekend before and Barry was still making his way back from injury. All hopes lay with Mark Hayman.
Mark set off well, shadowing the leading group as far as Seatallan but he lost them on the traverse to Pillar, and as nobody else caught him he found himself running on his own. Feeling lonely at Beck Head he dropped out. 1 tracked Will round as far as Pillar when Dave came past and so 1 followed him instead. Will continued to pull away until Esk Hause but we must have closed the gap on the climb to Scafell as we suddenly had him in our sights again on the final leg jellifying descent. We did what we could, but couldn\'t catch him.
Also out on the race, fresh from breaking Stan Bradshaw\'s age record for the B.G. was Brian Leathley. Unfortunately Brian was timed out on Great Gable.

Rick Ansell

Position	Name	Club	Class	Time	Comment	Bonus
1	J. Davies	Borrowdale		03:46:07
16	W. Sullivan			04:50:18
18	Dave Tait	Dark Peak	MV50	04:51:41	1st MV50
42	P. Simpson			05:39:51