After all the rain and cloudy weather we've had for the past few weeks, yesterday dawned clear, cool and calm! What a difference – low humidity, no cloud, no rain, no wind – doesn't get much better than that! The result was that, after 390 had signed up for the race by Friday evening, a bunch more showed up and we had over 500 runners all told.

And what a great run it was. I found I had time to chat with a couple of runners on the way (mostly while we were walking up the steeper hills!)...