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Pennine Winter Handicap 2009/2010 Race 3 Chunal - Saturday 5th December 2009
A small but dedicated field of thirteen, no doubt courtesy of Tanky's the next day, arrived at the Grouse to contest
Ian's new route. Once the twin perils of the landlord's rottweiller (you really don't want to mess with a rottweiler called
Tyson!!) and the christmas tree salesmen had been surmounted the runners set off one by one into a sort of nonedescriptly
grey morning.
Mark Smith, to his great delight, came home first and had obviously tried VERY hard indeed as he notched up the second fastest time behind Lloyd Taggart, who finished in third place just one minute behind second-placed Frank Fielding. Ian Warhurst, as befits an organiser, collected the third fastest time; nobody got lost or retired and everyone enjoyed both the event and the Grouse's hospitality. Despite this being the third race in the series nobody has completed all three, so we don?t as yet have a series leader and it's all up for grabs at Tintwistle for Simon's event on Saturday 9th January. Many thanks to Ian for organising things and I suspect the same route might appear again next year Dave Jones
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