Shite Hawk wrote:
Good for business. wrote:Mark Hewlett might be a good bloke just as Shite Hawk says he is, but he was in on it.
Why?, good for business, he could see it snow balling and going viral, it already had to some degree, notice all the photos credited to 'Photograph: Mark Hewlett' in the articles.
Imagine if Dave had got away with it and became a hero and travelling ambassador for WWTW, gets invites to special functions, motivational seminars, schools, etc, etc around the country on the WWTW expense account, perhaps even overseas, meets people like the patron of WWTW Prince Harry, now that would be good for business for any photographer.
And who's always there to photograph and perhaps even write an article to distribute to the media and online, probably also on WWTW expense account?, yep, definitely good for business. As he says "Commissions accepted."
Dave and Mark were scratching each others back to the benefit of each.
Joe the driver, not so sure, he threatened to bail out on day two when he realized fully that it was a sham, wouldn't have been any other reason and probably threatened to out Dave, definitely out Dave, possibly Mark. The rest is history.
But this thread ain't dead yet.
The only complete run that our Dave did without cheating was the one between the two Sportlink shops. This was Joe's first drive with them. Thereafter, our Dave used to do 50 miles at a time, riding in the van, hopping out only to do a piece-to-camera. Mark and Joe were fully in on this, not innocent as I initially said. There were buckets that were opened from the London run, by "he's" wife, namely the lovely Terrie.
The Norwich 10k appears to have been legitimately run by our Dave. The half and marathons are all extremely suspect.
You're right, this thread is far from dead.
Shite Hawk, earlier in the thread you said Dave and film crew turned up unannounced at Neil's shop and he felt obliged to go along with it, fair enough he seems like a good bloke.
Next time you see him make sure you tell him it wasn't Dave who organized it, (FMD that bloke couldn't organize a piss up in a brewery) it was Mark Hewlett, as mentioned earlier Mark was the organ grinder, Dave was the monkey.