Interesting, but Anthony - the report in The Fellrunner p27 September 1989 says he"... went off at the start with the speed one expects from road runners at the start of the Snowden Race! Unlike road runners, however, Colin kept the pace up all the way up and down the mountain!"
I suggest Anthony you are being modest in memory of your own performance or, if CD truly "...may not have been putting in maximum effort..." perhaps we should blame the correspondent (from Thames H & H ) for some journalistic license? .