For the last three years I’ve used January to try and learn something new. Three years ago it was to try 31 days of exercise, two years ago it was 31 days of stretching, last year it was 31 days of learning to play the piano and this year it’s 31 days of… lunch.

Post race snacks this way, said the sign. We (Iain TwinBikeRun and I) had just finished the Nigel Barge 10k and were following our stomachs after collecting our finisher’s medals.

I love a good post race buffet. Both the Jimmy Irvine 10K and the Forth Road Bridge 10K have tables and tables of home cooking. This one was not so plentiful but it was varied and, more importantly, it didn’t have a queue.

We helped ourselves to tuna sandwiches (with the crusts already cut off) and selection of sweets before sitting down in a canteen in the Gascube sports centre and witnessing the queue floods open. By the time I eat one corner of my sandwich there were at least 20 people in the queue for food. More kept joining every minute.

“We must have been first and everyone else is just finishing the race,” said Iain TwinBikeRun.

“Were all the people in front of us disqualified and went home early?” I said.

“We must be a the tipping point,” he said.

“Between what?” I asked.

“The athletes who are cooling down and the folk who’s first thought after a race is “Can I now eat a caramel shortcake?”

No need to consider lunch today, it was provided by the race.

Bread: 10k ready

Ingredient: tune and mayonnaise

Taste: like athletic achievement