MOMENTS after she completed the 21.1km course on Sunday, Member for Mildura Jade Benham rated her finishing time in the Mildura half-marathon as “ordinary”.

But she was soon more kind to herself, saying it was her first long-distance race since having knee surgery six months ago.

“This is the first long race I’ve done since last October, when I blew my knee out and then had a partial rec...