Race 3 of the Tempo Events Winter Series 2015, but the first time in several years that Simkiss had made an appearance at one of the ‘near as dammit’ 10k’s in Ilmington, the road runners equivalent of fell running/XC (namely a f#cking huge climb and descent). Our athlete faired better than his own expectations…

Leeds Abbey Dash was a disaster… it really was – So pants was it in fact, that I’ve stricken it from memory. I can’t even remember what my time was; only that it was 33-‘something’, and that’s a long way short of where I was hoping and expecting to be… I needed to take a…