First race of the year

Just run the Alton Water 10k in a quite pedestrian time of 1:15:40.  Five minutes longer than my pb set last November but around what I was expecting.  Run mostly on trails and with too many ups (and obviously downs) it is a  beautiful course around the reservoir. Just after the start you run across the dam, up though some lovely woods with the blubells in full bloom, on to a road where the rape in the nearby fields was it's brilliant yellow, down to Lemons Hill Bridge and back though some more woods to the finish.  On a nice sunny day it would be a great day out, but it was a bit wet at the start and cool all day but fun all the same.  Looking forward to doing this one again next year.