After a couple of weeks off due to snow (both in Bristol and in York where I found myself last week), and having dropped my treadmill running to protect I slightly iffy knee, it was back to the slopes of Ashton Court again this week.

I had one of my fastest starts yet and managed to maintain more speed up the hill for a change, but my breathing once again let me down and I started getting a stitch in the final km. But for that I might have been able to crack the 25minute barrier that’s this year’s aim.

All good training for the Bristol 10km in May though.

I finished 82nd out of 192, was 12th lady and 3rd in my age category.