Travs, The hint is in the foregoing thread.Originally Posted by Travs
The narrowest victory yet was achieved in 1993 by the Thirlmere shepherd, Gavin Bland (Borrowdale), over another Cumbrian athlete, Mark Roberts (Kendal). Mark Croasdale (Lancaster & Morecambe) had actually held a 5 minute lead on Ingleborough but had then faded to eventually finish 4th, though he was to later redeem himself by winning the 1999 race. Meanwhile, the strongly-running Bland had surged into the lead to finally pip Roberts by only 4 seconds with a time of 3.05.17. (Bill Smith)
Bill wrote the above in 2004 but in 1991 he had written a prescient Profile of Mark for the October 1991 Fellrunner which preceded Mark's later great victories.
Lots of runners "lose" big leads by not everyone has it captured on film for television. As I said, Mark is one of the nicest people I ever worked with in fell running and he was teased about 1993 for years.
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