June

[Nigel]

Interesting computations on the time, Andy, but no dice. My time has been officially ratified by the IAAF, so you're stuck with it now.

Meanwhile, that Dorney pace clearly does me good. Two days after the great event, I ran a swift hilly five up to Epsom Downs this lunchtime. Once I had survived the awful pain of flogging my way up a mountain to reach the racecourse, I could have beaten any PB in my repertoire on the way back.

Only slightly marred by the fact that it was raining cats and dogs for much of the way, the outing developed into one of those perfect runs that you so rarely enjoy, but which keeps you going for weeks.

Mind you, it was steeply downhill for a solid two miles. But let's treat that information as marginal to the facts, shall we ?

Meanwhile, my Garmin mendaciously recorded just 2.21 miles. Unless I set it to read altitude gain by mistake, it surely proves that you can't trust those infernal contraptions to tell the truth.

Which is lucky.