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Richard Hawley walking his dogs whilst I was on my morning run. He lives just across the valley in Greystones so was wondering when I might bump into him.
Also Hazel Irvine and Steve Davies, but snooker types pretty much a given if you wander to the Winter Gardens at this time of year
Love Richard Hawley! Good spot that man!
What dogs does he have? I’m guessing whippets and not just because of the flat cap Tyke stereotype
I was at school with Richard!
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Originally Posted by ba-ba
I heard he tells people he was at school with you!Quote:
Originally Posted by brett
Eric Clapton was telling me recently (we often chat about rock music using social media) that he knew a very famous fell runner. Some tousle haired rocker from the edge of the dales. Can’t remember who it was though
Wow DT! Such people are like - surreal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
When I used to listen to Paul Jones do his blues radio problem I would wonder if he remembered the advice I gave him, way back when, on how he should sing Smokestack Lightnin', as he signed my copy of The Five Faces of Manfred Mann - and if he still includes a CND symbol in his autograph.
But as for your being a confidante of EC. So cool! ;)
Hawley has a springer and a collie, so maybe there's a latent fell runner in him somewhere!
Who's Richard Hawley when 'e's at 'ome?
Is there no mention of seeing me last Sunday in Hayfield? ;) :p
Probably some lesser celebrity who's revered by them there Yorkies.Quote:
Originally Posted by BritNick
I can top it though; Joss presenting the prizes at AW / TWA, last Saturday afternoon.
Ah he'd turn up at the opening of a door if you asked him ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by wheezing donkey
you can play 'name that part of the Peak District' from one of his videos.
Although it did make me realise how far drone technology has come in 2 years!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr2JTS0XQ5Y
I love that. Thanks for sharing. Ran or walked most of it. Our home :-)
Ahhh he's a Derbyshire drone operator.
Love the Rosebay Willowherb!
Yes, lovely video of the Peak District, and happy people enjoying the countryside. Not sure what the musical accompaniment was for, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by RaceTheSweeper
I'm not one to drop names but Hilary Mantel the Booker prize winner and author of Wolf Hall is my wife's step sister's ex sister in law. I've seen her at a family wedding but not on the fells.
I've met that sweary chef bloke Gordon watsisname at Comrades 2004, Dean Karnazes at Western States 2006 and Sage Canaday at Tarawera 2013, and ba-ba. They all beat me, even sweary, and he wasn't so slim back then. :rolleyes:
This Richard Hawey ;)
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Originally Posted by brett
This thread reminds me of an incident in around 2005, when I failed to spot a Famous Person.
It was a Sunday morning, and I was cycling to church with my son, who would have been about 7 then. Keeping my eyes on the road, I was only vaguely aware of the tall, blonde woman running past in the opposite direction. My son piped up: "That was the Olympic runner". Somehow, I don't think that would be Paula Radcliffe's preferred description of herself, given her record in the Olympics.
tom heap off countryfile lives a few doors away from me , goes for the occasional run and has an allotment
Cycling legend Eric Vanderaerden, what a nice guy :D
I've seen Billy Bland each of the last 2 days at the ToB.
On his bike with the Honister lads I take it :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ba-ba
Chatted to an older woman in a wheelchair at a canoe slalom event last weekend. Watched Question of Sport last night and the mystery guest was the same person, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson. Multi Olympics medalist. Afraid I had never heard of her, very nice lady.
I saw DTGT a few years ago at Amsterdam airport. It was the Friday before the Hobble. No-one seemed to know who she was but I caught her eye and smiled. She went zooming off very quickly a short while afterwards
Older woman? She's 49, Pat!Quote:
Originally Posted by DrPatrickBarry
On the same sort of topic, though, I stood behind Dame Sarah Storey in the checkout queue at Whaley Bridge Tesco a few months ago.
If you'd gone to the coop it would have been Edwina Curry!
Ya, I saw that when I looked her up on wikipedia. Badly worded what I meant was not a current competitor.Quote:
Originally Posted by GeoffB
She was in a racing chair, as she had just got back from a session around the regatta lake, and I went up to her to have a chat about it. Then spoke to her again later on in the car park. She has a very fancy van.
She was telling me the wheelchair marathon record is 1:20, could not believe it was that fast.
She is right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...s_in_athletics
Absolutely. As Chris Lee will tell you, we were at a Pennine member's party in Whitehough (Chinley) a few years ago, and Edwina was there. I wanted to ask her about eggs, but I'd probably had too much to drink and my brain was scrambled!Quote:
Originally Posted by ba-ba
A somewhat predictable sighting, but here goes . . .
We have had a lodger for a few months, a postgraduate student who needed accommodation between finishing her course and her graduation. She got some extra tickets for the graduation, so invited my wife and me. The ceremony was presided over by the Chancellor of Loughborough University, a bloke who used to do a bit of running: Sebastian Coe.
Now AnthonyQuote:
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I am sure the Chancellor at your graduation was more esteemed than that failed politician and corrupt ("I see no evil") athletics administrator! :)
Victoria Wilkinson.
Mayfield Valley this morning.
Danny Hope on the Bridgewater canal this lunchtime.
Is that the "Delicious" Danny Hope?Quote:
Originally Posted by noel
He was looking very chilled at the time. Probably on a relaxing lunchtime trot. He was running the other way to me, or I would have said hello. I think I was "blowing" somewhat at the time, trying to keep my pace up for the last mile and a half.