Global warming my aristotle, thought my fingers were going to drop off on the Calf. Wasn't moving too fast at that point either due to overcooking it a bit on the way up and began to feel very negative and started swearing a lot.

For me the weather slowly ate away at my enjoyment of the event, it was my first AL and was hoping for easier conditions. Made a couple of novice errors, tried to jump the river at the base of Hazel hill but missed the opposite bank and strained something in the back of my knee which came back to haunt me around Calders, shouldn't take risks like that. Also fell hard on my knee trying to avoid peaty puddles, again-no need.

Witton Park; thought you didn't make it i couldn't see anyone in maroon tees at the finish, although my eyes weren't really working very well after being battered by raindrops doing 60mph on the Calf!