Tom Gibbs was putting on the annual Quantocks fell race in Somerset at the weekend, and we made it down to have a bash. Not counting mountain marathons then this was my first proper fell race, but I didn’t think it was going to go too well as I lay on the sofa the night before, sure that I was coming down with the lurgy. A good nights sleep later and I still felt not quite right, but gave the race a go anyway. Was therefore very pleasantly surprised to be holding onto Gareth’s coat tails for the first climb and eventually held on for 5th place, while G won the thing. It’s looking good for the coming XXX if I can feel that bad and still manage a good result…. It looks few of the ‘big’ teams are racing so it could well be the race where we make our breakthrough. Here’s hoping…