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First published on Friday 15 September = 2000:

Running: Lake District Mountain Trial

NAVIGATIONAL know how and course familiarity secured Kendal = veteran=20 Phil Clark a second win in the Lake District Mountain Trial over = the=20 Duddon fells on Sunday.

Clark, 47, who last won the event when it was held in the = Langdales in=20 1996, said the conditions - humid, poor visibility with the cloud = base at=20 1,500ft - suited him and he certainly made the most of them by = finishing=20 almost 13 minutes clear of his nearest rival.

"It was my sort of weather and I know the Coniston area very = well,"=20 said Clark.

"It helps a bit having the hills in your head.

I did not make any mistakes and was running reasonably well and = got=20 some good routes."

The 19 mile course involved 8,000ft of climb and took the = runners over=20 Harter Fell, Crook Crag, Torver High Common, Low Water, Birk Fell, = Gaitscale Gill and Seathwaite Tarn.

Interval starts make it difficult for athletes to assess how = well they=20 are placed.

"I was the third person through at the checkpoint at = Tilberthwaite,=20 which is three quarters of the way round, so I knew I was doing = reasonably=20 well," said Clark.

"I got ahead of the two athletes in front of me by the time I = got to=20 the second to last checkpoint at Seathwaite Tarn but even then you = don't=20 know how well the runners who set off behind you are doing."

Glossopdale's Mark Seddon was was second followed home by = Borrowdale's=20 Andrew Schofield.

Alan Miller was third vet in eighth place and with the help of = Rick=20 Stuart's 14th position Kendal won the team prize.

Kendal's Jon Broxap completed his 21st mountain trial finishing = a=20 creditable 25th.

Meanwhile, Kendal's Sue Parkin, who is also 47, chalked up her = eighth=20 win in the mountain trial finishing over half an hour clear of = Kirsty=20 Bryan-Jones of Dark Peak.

She was very modest about her achievement saying: "The field is = never=20 very big and there are people who could do well who for various = reasons=20 don't enter."

The ladies' race covered 15 miles and 6,000ft of climb over = Harter=20 Fell, Crook Crag, Torver High Common, Low Water, Wet Side Edge and = Troutal=20 Fell.

"I did not pick good lines over a couple of the fells," said = Parkin,=20 who is a teacher at St Bernard's, Barrow.

"But other people got fouled up worse than I did."

Clayton's Wendy Dodds, who lives in Milnthorpe, was third = veteran in=20 fourth place.

First team was the Rucksack Club.

RESULTS: Men: 1 P Clark, Kendal, 4-57-57; 2 M Seddon, = Glossopdale,=20 5-10-31; 3 A Schofield, Borrowdale, 5-11-11; 4 Q Harding, Bowland, = 5-11-20; 5 J Hunt, CFR, 5-12-20; 6 K Harding, Tring, 5-17-50; 7 S = Bourne,=20 Altrincham, 5-22-19; 8 A Miller, Kendal, 5-33-47; 9 G Ackland, = Lothian,=20 5-36-58; 10 N Bunn, Thames Valley, 5-42-13; 14 R Stuart, Kendal, = 6-00-49;=20 18 J Lagoe, Ambleside, 6-19-34; 20 M Beresford, Kendal, 6-24-33; = 21 R=20 Jerram, Kendal, 6-28-27; 25 J Broxap, Kendal, 6-42-35; 30 R Blyth, = Kendal,=20 6-48-47; 40 M Berry, Black Combe, 7-07-04; 49 M Knowles, Lakeland = OC,=20 7-34-46; 50 D Mitchell, Kendal, 7-36-16; 51 S Milligan, Kendal, = 7-37-02;=20 53 R Cannon, Helm Hill, 7-48-41; 55 M Walford, Kendal, 7-52-44; 66 = D Owen,=20 Ambleside, 8-34-00; 70 D Hicks, Howgill, 8-53-53; 71 J Mayo, = Kendal,=20 8-55-01

Ladies: 1 S Parkin, Kendal, 4-39-19; 2 K Bryan-Jones, Dark = Peak,=20 5-13-45; 3 I Blunk, Rucksacks Club, 5-23-07; 4 W Dodds, Clayton, = 5-24-24;=20 7 C McNeill, Ambleside, 6-05-27.

TWO South Lakeland teenagers took part in the World Trophy = junior races=20 at Bergen, near Salzburg, in Germany over the weekend.

Kendal's Andrew Symonds, 19, who lives at Sedbergh, was 29th = and=20 Ambleside's Stephen Savage finished 53rd in an uphill only race = covering=20 9.6kms and 3,000ft of climb.

It attracted 79 athletes from 20 countries from all over the = globe.

Symonds, who was 18th last year, said he was disappointed with = his=20 performance.

"I had sore legs for the first couple of miles and by the time = I got=20 running I was back in about 35th position."

Symonds was third counter for thye English team behind James = Mason, of=20 Bingley, and John Parker, of Leicester.

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