First attempt at the race today - justifiably a classic as someone has said. Climbs were fine until the last but glad I jogged the first 45 mins - unlike some. I'll be back. The xtalons held out and my feet only started hurting once we reached the road section!

Marshalls were great and the course worked really well. Bit hard to work out where you were in the race with all the early starters. I ended up 9th but thought I was about 20th!

Some problems with results? Looked like a combination of two starts (10:00am and 10:30am) and no tags for 40 runners? Can't see the point of the tags if everyone doesn't have them! Sportident would be an ideal solution for a race like this.

Great day all the same.