Great race. Thanks to all who organised and marshalled! Enjoyed the man's commentary as we were queueing to register. One less entrant than last year and he says he puts it down to the bad weather!

I always hear that fell runners are a friendly bunch so I thought I'd approach one of the better ones, Carl Bell, when I saw him hanging around at the end. I said 'How did you do?' And he says, 'Yeah, not bad', or something like that. We spoke for a bit and it was only later when I looked at the results board that I saw that he'd won! Nothing he said suggested he'd done so well. Well done!

Hardly looked up enough to appreciate the views, but did glance back when I was near the top of Wetherlam and it was amazing.

Great day.