On 10 May 2006, This race was my first ever race for Doncaster AC, my former colleague and friend Max McNally told me to arrive and he introduced me to Dave Grayson who asked if I was any good, I finished the race in 35:15.

Back to today – a few days before this race I pulled my right calf which forced a rest – I even missed a parkrun, I was limping for a couple of days but decided to do my first bike ride of the year as this did not hurt, only 6 miles but I wanted to do something.  I also did some rowing on my rowing machine.

I had a check up with Eddie Fletcher and he worked on my calf and hamstrings.  My previous best time at this race was 30:47, given the hilly nature of the race I thought I would be pleased to break 30 minutes, so I was delighted to finish in 29:13.  I finished 11th overall so an improvement on the last race where I finished in 18th place.

I am in close competition with Barnsley Harrier, Alan Ford in the V40 competition.  We both ran the London Marathon so we will have to see how well we can recover in 3 days.

A tune from the 90’s, belting hard trance.