According to something my wife heard in the visitor centre the race came very close to being called off due to the weather - that would have been a real shame. I suppose there would have been a repeat of the earlier occasion when it was cancelled and a lot of us would have had a wee run up anyway but it wouldn't have been the same of course. Also sorry to see (yawn - I know its a regular gripe) that about 125 people didn't start - I fully accept that things happen and people cant make it for loads of genuine reasons but when a whole fifth of the field doesn't make the start in a race which is notoriously difficult to enter somethings not right somewhere - its a bit like missing every fifth race and surely there aren't that many people who are that regularly injured etc.