Another week, another race. I don't have another planned for over a month, so I'll have to find something else to write about in the meantime...

The weather has been changeable recently. Some rain some days, some sun often enough. Wednesday was rather stunningly blue-skied, so I couldn't resist heading off for a cycle down to Cramond, with a run afterwards. This morning I felt like I hadn't quite got that out of my legs, nor was I fresh after running Friday and Saturday, so I didn't expect much at the Forth Bridge 10k.

A decent warm up loosened me up a bit, but my legs still seemed lethargic. The start was somewhat congested, with an immediate downhill with corners, under the rail bridge then turning uphill. This seems to me to make for a faster start, and I thought at this point I was probably going far too fast, but I stuck with it, drifting past the odd person but broadly holding position.

At the bottom of another hill we came to the start of the Forth Road Bridge, and so a gentle uphill. At this point I felt fairly good, and started passing people. Past the middle and down to the Edinburgh side of the bridge, then up and down and around to an underpass to cross the road, up and around back up the bridge. Still passing people with a bit of effort now; I've come to the conclusion that to maintain pace I need to regularly pass people from about a third of the way in right up to the end, as they fade after starting too fast. It certainly feels good to be able to do that.

Finished in 38:55. The race was won in a ridiculous 30:53—winning by almost three minutes, the solitary figure I could see running back across the bridge during the race seems to have been in a race of his own.