Welcome to the club Dom. Bit of friednly rivalry is great for improving your times. There are plenty of members around your ability on here so I'm sure you can enter some banter with others as well as Matt.
Thanks everyone for your warm welcome, advice and heads up on future races. I certainly hope to get along to a few of them. A couple of local ones for anyone interested :-
I'm sure you will fit in a few runs somewhere I did exactly the same last weekend whilst away in Devon, although it was supposed to be a non-running weekend
_________________________________________________ "The will to win is worthless, without the will to prepare."