Coniston

A very respectable turn out on a spectacularly fine day, complete with excellent views and a cooling breeze on top. The descent off the Old Man seems to be the key to this one, with your correspondent doing particularly poorly in this department. Rob Hope just denied Ian Holmes his tenth victory, with Rhys coming in a very respectable seventh and Helen third woman. The vets thought they might have re-established the natural order of things by out-performing the young 'uns in the evening festivities - that is until we returned to the sports field some time after closing time only to find the latter still in full flow. Without naming names, it seems clear that large amounts of beer and strong showings in Lakeland fell races are not mutually exclusive phenomena.