WHILE all attention was directed at the Virgin Money London Marathon, Northern Bere Alston Trekker Andy Cowden took part in the Blackpool Festival of Running in the 10k event.

It was a full weekend of running with a 10k, 5k and 2k set of races on the Saturday and a full and half marathon on the Sunday.

The 10k race was an a and back course run entirely on the promenade going out on the middle promenade and back on the upper promenade. Run under a cloudless sky in warm temperatures Andy finished 122nd out of 530 finishers in a time of 50 minutes 13 seconds.