While clambering over the boulders on the path below the screes, it reminded me of another location that should have had a race today, which was cancelled: the summit ridge of Elidir Fawr. Anyway, the people (and a dog) on the paddle-boards on the lake were certainly making easier progress than I was on the "path".
I should have mentioned that the winner of the Scafell Pike race was Loughborough graduate Joseph Dugdale.