{"id":685,"date":"2011-01-07T14:22:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T14:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/?p=685"},"modified":"2011-01-07T14:23:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T14:23:47","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/685","title":{"rendered":"Fond Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Recently I began thinking about fell running and the glorious time I had running with Dark Peak over the course of the winter of 92\/93.<\/p>\n<p>I received a Christmas email from Howard Swindells&nbsp; about the same time as I was booked for some surgery which, (the surgery not Howard&#39;s email), is bound to at least temporarily put a stop&nbsp; to any ambitions of ever attaining a level of fitness I enjoyed that year.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the fitness however is certain longing to once again just show up at the Sportsman, don a headtorch and follow with blind faith over the moors. It&#39;s an experience I have tried to recount many times with dismal success.&nbsp; Somehow cold rainy nights and running in the dark over remote tracts and has failed to enthrall the local audiences.&nbsp; On Dec. 22 I convinced a small group of running friends to trudge with me up a local hill.&nbsp; It was a clear night and we sipped some whiskey on the top though we did not sing Christmas Carols.&nbsp; Somewhere in a drawer I have a picture of the Wednesday before the Christmas of 92 and a group of Dark Peaker&#39;s in fine vocal form, I believe at the &quot;Cakes Of Bread&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve visited your website and am glad to see that your continued existence is at least confirmed in cyberspace.&nbsp; I noted with particular fondness that the next run is Jan.12 out of the Sportsman.&nbsp; I rather doubt that any of you would remember a Canadian that sifted around in your midst that year, but be assured I have inspired countless yawns in the past two decades recounting my experiences with fell running and Dark Peak!<\/p>\n<p>I hope to visit the Peak District and the Sheffield area in the spring of 2012.&nbsp; The Sportsman on a Wednesday evening will be prominent on my itinerary!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nRay Rogers<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I began thinking about fell running and the glorious time I had running with Dark Peak over the course of the winter of 92\/93. I received a Christmas email from Howard Swindells&nbsp; about the same time as I was booked for some surgery which, (the surgery not Howard&#39;s email), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}