Results now posted for the first of this year\u2019s Summer Sharpeners, in which a healthy field of 23 people found their way round Burbage with varying degrees of competence. Neil arrived a few minutes late and then breezed round clockwise without a compass to steal victory by a narrow margin from new boy Tim Burton \u2013 a sickener for Tim, who was leading at Higgar Tor but didn\u2019t know the high level route along the fence to finish. Most people went the other way round, which I thought gave them a much tougher line of attack for the boulder in the gulley near Houndkirk Road. Martha Hart and Maurice Musson hit it bang-on to prove that sharp thinking is just as important as speed in this kind of event. More than can be said for the quartet who spent much of the evening wandering aimlessly from one divot to another. It would be invidious to name them, but if you look for those who finished equal twelfth you won\u2019t be far wrong. More fun next week, when I might ramp up the decision-making pressure. <\/p>\n
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