A fair bit tougher than I remember it being in the past, but soldiered on. Pretty happy to be within a minute of the big man in that kind of terrain, although it would be interesting to see what time he could have ran if he'd raced. Had a good race myself, took some route choices and found all of the controls and ran hard.
Pretty speedy run out Shadwell, Bardsey, along some dismantled railway, Birkby Hill and back. Not a bad wee loop and I felt pretty good too. I even wore shorts and no windproof and felt faily warm.
IW felt quite good. It's interesting that I can do this run in 28 minutes without my heartrate going over one hundred and something, and I can run under 16mins for 5km and I can run a half-marathon in about 73 minutes and I can run 100m in less than 20 seconds, yet some of those things felt harder and required more training than others.