once upon a lifetime, my 5k time would have given me a top 10/15 placing on Saturday . . nowadays, however, if you picture the first half a lap as a triangle, the leading runners ran the two long sides more quickly than I could run the short side . . (pause for breath) . . although admittedly I was dressed for standing still in the winter and carrying a couple of cameras . . which I wasn't when I thought 5k was much shorter than it seems to be now!!

and a quick look at Saturday's results shows that over 25% of the runners on Saturday would have been aged 8 or younger, or not even born, at about the time I'm thinking of . . fortunately I have a long memory!!

anyway . . with everyone running so fast it's not easy to suggest how to find your photo . . pages 1 and 2 are exclusively of the first lap . . but the remaining pages are of the 2 remaining laps in the order you all passed me by, as I slowly went along the bottom end of the park and up the hill to the finish . . mostly backwards . . carrying cameras . . ☺

there are 11 pages of thumbnail photos and clicking on each will take you to a page of more thumbnails. The runner show below is the first one on each page. Each page consists of between 30 and 40 thumbnails which when clicked on will open up a much larger version of each image . .