Back to some fell racing

I had been back in the UK for 48hrs before I was tempted into running a race. Shining Tor is a race of varying length from what I've heard, but it has settled on 5.9miles with 1600ft climb for the last few years. The last time I ran it was 2006 when it was over 7miles!
The race sets off on road before a gruelling climb up to shining tor. You then loose all the height you gained and cross the route you went up, before climbing again. There is then a long descent down to the dam at the bottom and finally a steep 150m up the dam wall!
I set off strongly and just under 20minutes later was at the top of shining tor as 1st woman. At the start of the descent I glanced over my shoulder and saw Steph Curtis (hope the googling works again steph :-P) so put the boot in a bit! However, within a minute of setting off downhill my left ankle really hurt and I remembered the colour my ankle had been before going to Portugal. In the grindleford fell race I went over on it so badly I couldnt walk on it for 24hrs and it was beautifully blue! I got mountain rescued off and had concentrated on being able to ride a bike pretty quickly. It hadn't complained whilst riding in Portugal so I assumed it would be ok, but apparently it can't hack downhill running yet!
Steph and another lady from Altrincham passed me on the descent and I thought that was the last I'd seen of them. However the course then went uphill again and I caught back up to Steph just before the top. For the first time ever I could have done with it being an uphill finish, Steph quickly dissappeared down the hill and I just had to hold on and hope that the Altrincham runner was not in the mass of people pelting past me! She wasn't and I held onto 2nd, 1st U23 and part of the winning ladies team :-).
Time to get the ankle sorted out properly before the terrex now!