10 at Leicester is a hard 940m long (licensed) runway. Your description was that the circuit was extremely busy. You were flying an aircraft, which will “out perform a Pitts”. A Typical Pitts would get airborne in less than 200m and has a R of C around 2500fpm. Was blocking the runway to backtrack 20m really in the spirit of things? Had you not backtracked the 20m, the Pits would not have pushed in and the runway usage would still have been optimised.
Rod1