A middling sort of race

Didn't join the rest on Saturday morning as I'd decided to have a go at the Radcliffe 10k Trail Race today which is a counter in the club's road championship. I would have preferred to have done the LDWA walk encompassing the Three Peaks but as I was djing at Formby Hall last night a 6am meet-up for car-sharing was not attractive when I didn't expect to be home until 1.30am at the earliest this morning.
I did 4 miles yesterday afternoon and felt somewhat sluggish so, arriving at the start with only 5 minutes to spare, I wasn't expecting much. The course is certainly undulating with plenty of pot-holed and rutted surfaces to keep you on your toes. My initial plan was to follow Paul Murray and keep just behind him but of course I blew it going past him after about a mile or so and then focussed on catching Blandy. Similar to last week, I seemed to tire after about 3 miles where Paul overtook me and I hung on to finish in 46:32. If the course really was 10k then I am very happy because all the little climbs and descents and challenging surface will have add a minute or two. The race was won by one of TF's team-mates in 33:23 with the Horwich trio of Ali, Bell-boy and Colin Rigby taking the next three positions.
I finished 115th and there were 230 finishers so very much a middling run or to be more precise, a median run.

Hope YJ had a cracking marathon down in Brighton. Today was also the half marathon debut for my daughter Diane, who ran a very creditable 2:02:17 in Edinburgh this morning with nearly a third of the 3092 runners behind her. No doubt she will soon push this below two hours now she has experience of the distance and will be outpacing me.