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END TO END WALK MAIN FEATURE
END TO END WALK DATABASE - ALL THE RESULTS 2002-2007
Geoff Kinvig was
finding the Howe hill a bit daunting but brightened up when he suddenly realised
who was manning the last water station. He was
eventually dispatched up the hill for the last 1.8 miles to the Sound to finish
159th in 10.27.43. (Photo by Eammon Harkin) NB For those who don't know, it was Robbie Callister and Sean Hands who between them have won seven Parish Walks, 2 British 100 mile walks and 6 End to End Walks.
Electronic timing was introduced for the White and Healthy End to End Walk this year but nobody expected Kenny Valerga to be clocked at a world record 18 miles per hour at Kirk Michael! The 2006 Parish Walk finisher completed the End to End course for the first time in 20th position. (Picture by Murray Lambden)
The Sunday service was taking place at Kirk Michael Methodist Church as Steam Packet Captain (and Parish Walk history author) Dermot O'Toole passed by. Was Dermot praying for the Seacat sailings to Liverpool to be cancelled today in case he was too stiff? They were. (ML)
END TO END WALK COVERAGE TO BE CONCLUDED TUESDAY EVENING ...
before your website editor departs here ...in the interests of meeting his new work colleagues of course!
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And a bit of nostalgia! Website editor Murray Lambden just beats 7.30 in his End to End Walk debut aged 17 in 1974. Time keeping was the late Kevin Madigan but notice the absence of any crowd! (Bill Lambden slide)
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Colin Moore (240) was the fastest man in the field but not as a walker. He is ranked as the 46th best 10,000 metres runner ever in British with his 28.13 clocking on the track in 1990 when aged 29. A member of Bingley Harriers, who dominated the road running scene in the 90s, he moved to the Isle of Man in the late 90s. Although he continued to represent his home town club, he ran for the Isle of Man (and took gold) in the 2001 Island Games Half Marathon before injury curtailed his career. Stats from www.gbrathletics.com/uk/mc99.htm
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The other Colin Moore (the Manx one) is best known as the Peel Football Club statistician spending hundreds of hours at the museum - that will be his anorak around his waist! Seriously, without the club secretary's research footballers would not have access to the vital statistics.
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And talking about statistics, here is a man (Ron Ronan) who walked the old End to End Course 25 times between 1973 and 2001. He tried to make it 26 last year only for the walk to be stopped at Eairy Cushlin. He made in 26 this year. Robbie Lambie's feature on the Castletown High School Old Scholars
Photos by Murray Lambden
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