sorry to miss Socks, T&C and MrsS - I was wearing my fluo-green Fell Ponies vest though, so don't know what else I have to do to get noticed!

Nick - Many Congratulations on your sub-12, you must be well chuffed
however, I repeat my question: if you finished at midnight, what were you still doing there at 5am!?

I also had a great run, I normally grind to a halt, especially on the flat, but was still able to "lift" a bit all the way in from Bollington

we (the 2 Bristol Boys and myself) worked out at Walker Barn that if we concentrated a bit we could get a sub-17
we did the section to Whiteley Green at about 17min/miling
leaving us needing to do 15min/miling for the last 5.5M section
we got to Coppice car park on schedule, but started to tie up on Towers Lane
we ended up doing the last kilometre up the A6 in 7mins (equates to 10.5min/miling), which felt like sprinting at the time, and burst through the doors of the scout hut with the official time showing 4:59, but by the time the timekeeper got to us it had ticked over to 5:00! we were quite insistent about being logged as 16:59 though