I spent a lovely morning in the sun at Saffron Walden, but boy was I pleased I wasn't running!! I certainly didn't envy those of you who were!!

I've posted photos of many runners in K3 as you entered the Park . . I originally positioned myself a little further down the path, where the sun wouldn't be pointing straight at me, but someone told me the race didn't come past where I was, so I moved and had no time to get anywhere better. So quite a few of the photos I took didn't work. Should've had the courage of my convictions!!

Then I've posted photos of as many of you as possible, coming up that wicked hill in K9. Yep, I know it was mean, but I honestly didn't realise how steep it was until I got there, and knowing I'd got it wrong in 3K, I had to stay where I was . . . maybe, just maybe, some of you got a slightly quicker time because you saw the camera there and kept on running when you might have walked. That's what I hoped, anyway!!

I took lots of photos as I mooched around before the race, and I'm adding those photos on Tuesday night . . in the meantime . .

Here's some people we can't have our races without . . thanks to them . . and here's some Cake . . we can't have a race without that either!!

Saffron . .

for over 3,500 years it's been used as a seasoning, a fragrance, an expensive yellow dye, a medicine . . even an aphrodisiac . .

it's a crocus, and it's not the beautiful lilac flower that's caused all this fuss but the yellow stigma inside . . and nowadays it's apparently the world's most expensive herb . .

she's also of course a girl who Donovan was Mad About, way back when shorts lived up to their name . .

and it's part of the name of a medieval market town in Essex . . where saffron was cultivated in the 16th century and the locals ditched the name of Chipping Walden in favour of the far more intriguing Saffron Walden . .

and a few centuries later the town became home to Saffron Striders . . who host the Saffron 10k each September, which is where I was on the 27th, taking photos of the race, the runners, and the people who work together to allow the event to take place . .