The Standard Chartered Great City Race 2010, London

I like to think that it's reasonable to expect much less from my races now that I've stopped running. I started this year's Great City race after doing zero training; needless to say I was quite worried about how it would go. On the other hand, this lack of self-expectation made the whole thing more approachable and less daunting, and I think I enjoyed the actual run more than I usually do.

My official time came in as 26:41, a whopping three minutes down on last year's time, but still placing third in the company. If there's any evidence that I'm getting old... it's my ever decreasing fitness and speed around a course.