I was at Ambelside sports on Thursday - the man himself was there and had done the Rydal Round, but was in civvies as everyone else was limbering up for the Guides race! Something must be wrong, we all said! His excuse was a picture of a rather manky blister on his heel, courtesy of the Kong Blencathra race the evening before then ripped off by the Rydal Round.

Rob Hope finished 4th in the Guides Race then managed to secure a favourable handicap to win the handicap mile. Helen Smith (nee Glover?) won the Guides race and was (I think) 2nd in the Handicap Mile (it all got quite close at the end of that race - as it should!)