My first race in months, in fact my first race since the Adam Cole Foundation way back in September 2009.
So I was a little bit rusty.
The race is a bit of whopper, around 25000 runners, and in its 10th year. I was given a place at the last minute from the lovely people at NCB, so a huge thank you to them for that.
A free for all at the start meant spending the first couple of miles dodging and weaving through slower runners. Not ideal for a relatively short race. Organisers might want to spend less on marching bands (?) and more on the runner experience. Timing pens would be a a good idea for a race this size.
That niggle aside there was plenty of water on the course and the crowds turned out on a beautiful day.
Wide open roads in the last half mile line gave me a chance to muster a good sprint finish. Not that it made much of a difference to the time. My slowest ever.
Nice to be back though.