Beinn Dubh hill race

A tough wee race, my first in this years midweek big n burn race series  4 miles and 2000' of up and down. 100 plus started, immediate thought is too fast! Jog wheezed up the steep start. Managed to get to the plateau without losing any more places. Ran up the plateau and up again, working better now catching one or two as the leaders come flying past on their way back down. Doesn't take long before I'm struggling again until the slope eases a bit and i can run the last couple of hundred yards to the top. Round the cairn and brakes off working hard trying to catch my three clubmates ahead. Past the first one in the first steep descent, ran out of gas a bit across the plateau then managed to pick up the pace on the final drop passing another clubmate on the run back to the start, happy to finish in about 53 minutes.