Race Walking in North of England

I was looking for something else on http://www.athleticsdata.com/ and I stumbled upon the result of the Northern 20km Championships (copied below). It is terribly sad to see (unless I am missing something and this was actually a veterans championship) that every single finisher was a veteran. I found the result from 1978 (when I competed before I started training regularly) and our good friend Mark Byrne (who finished second yesterday) would only have finished 37th out of the 42 that year. The 1978 result is above.

Results from today's NARWA Championship 20km race walk at Simister 1. Paul Evenett (Redcar RWC) 1h40.32 M402. Mark Byrne (Redcar RWC) 2h03.16 M453. Tony Bell (Lancashire WC) 2h05.15 M454. Joe Hardy (Lancashire WC) 2h06.13 M655. David Crompton (Lancashire WC) 2h07.28 M456. Stephen Sargent (Lancashire WC) 2h08.11 M607. David Jones (Redcar WC) 2h09.09 M608. Keith French (Yorkshire RWC) 2h14.46 M659. John Payn (Lancashire WC) 2h20.15 M7510. Stephen Walker (Lancashire WC) 2h20.29 M5011. Roy Gunnett (Lancashire WC) 2h20.52 M6012. Helen Starling (Redcar WC) 2h28.25 1st lady W45