Really good fun race today - enjoyed it a lot. Thanks to everyone at Keswick AC for organising and a special thanks to the marshals at the summit CP - I would not have wanted to do that job today.

Got a really painful spot right in the middle of my left heel (on the bottom) from something pressing into it constantly on the descent - might have been a small stone or something - not sure, but need to sort that before Snowdon. Other than that, I enjoyed the descending, although I was better on the track than down the grassy bit - I found that hard!

My quads were mashed by the bottom of Jenkin Hill - trying to get them to power me up that little incline was impossible and round Latrigg it felt like I was running through treacle.

That wind was brutal as well - I went from being very warm on the last bit of climb to cold very quickly. Had I realised the plateau was quite so long, I might have put my jacket on (I was only wearing a vest), but I figured it would take me longer to stop, get it out, wrestle to get it on in the wind, than to get up to the summit and then get off as fast as I could. I was warm by the time we hit the fence line at the bottom of the first drop again though, so it would only have come off again.

Think the wind was at least as strong as at the top of Whernside on the 3P last year (2011) if not stronger - that was blowing me across the path, much like today. The strongest I've encountered was on Mam Tor - reccing the Edale Skyline - nearly got blown off my feet at one point, and actually considered getting down on hands and knees to get down to Mam Nick that day.