My Two Step Shuffle aka The Anniversary Waltz.

Saturday dawned bright & sunny, a relief after a dull cold Friday, as it was Anniversary Waltz race day. A drive via Penrith to pick up one of the other mugs, I mean runners, then on to Stair to join a long queue of traffic that we assumed were waiting to get parked as well. Eventually we made it on to the car park field & were very efficiently directed into our parking space, 'in there, backwards please'.
Numbers collected & pinned on, familiar faces greeted, old acquantances renewed, we made our to the start field. Now, whether people weren't listening or just didn't get the jist of what was going on with a lap of the field first to spread people out BUT it seemed to me all the fast people started at the back. I say this because for the next two & a half hours an endless stream of people went running past me no matter how hard I tried. In fact it was not until 30yards from the finsh when someone else had the temerity to try & get past that I said to myself, 'enough's enough, buggers not getting past me now' & sprinted past 2 other people in the final yards as well.
The bit in between the start & finish is all a bit vague other than loads of people passing me, I felt I got a quick start but not quick enough, the climb seemed to be immense but didn't last as long as I thought & the route was much longer than I imagined but only took 3 minutes longer than I'd estimated. I have however never felt as ill at the end of race, never not been able to face free food or free beer, maybe it was just too much sunshine. That's my excuse & I'm sticking to it.
Well done to the hundreds that took part & all my fellow Eden Runners. What next? More training I think.......!