Good day today. Enjoyable event, and although I don't really like road running, it's great to feel part of a team, as in fell races I'm on my own.

As for my run, I managed 22:45 which I was very pleased with, had been expecting to be a minute slower. I didn't use a stopwatch today, and just ran how I felt, which maybe helped. All advice went in one ear and out of the other, as I only had about 40secs head-start on our vets team, so I hammered it round the 'shrubbery' in order to ensure I was out of sight when the course stretched out. Didn't really notice the first hill, but was feeling it a bit on the run out to the turn.

Left enough in the tank for the final hill, having reccied the final km in the warm up, and managed to pull out 15 secs overall on our vets team. Unfortunately I think my team may be disqualified, as we apparently made a right Horlicks of one of the early changeovers, and I don't think they'll be generous and just give us a time penalty.

A good day for the club, the first team look to have made the top ten, and our vets team possibly top 3 or 5 vets team. Despite our team being way down on where we had anticipated, our times were what was expected, I think the expectation was just a bit high, and personally I was happy with my own run, bearing in mind it's my first road race in about 3 years.

Hope it went well gazb....?