Why my Mountain Lion recovery partition cannot boot ?

Hi
I cannot boot from the recovery partition on Mountain Lion.
I am only offered Internet Recovery - which is slow.
I installed Mountain Lion from scratch on my Mid-2010 macbook pro.
I was running Lion, got the Mountain Lion app from the app store and created an USB stick
I have no bootcamp but enabled filevault after installation.
The recovery HD appears to be there and to be ok - see output below.
So why am I forced into Interent Recovery?
Can I 'recover' the Recovery partition ?
Edoardos-MacBook-Pro:~ edoardo$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         499.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS MacOSX                 *498.9 GB   disk1
Using the DiskUtility debug option:
defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1
I can even mount it and list its contents:
Edoardos-MacBook-Pro:~ edoardo$ ls -la /Volumes/
MacOSX/      Recovery HD/
Edoardos-MacBook-Pro:~ edoardo$ ls -la /Volumes/Recovery\ HD/
total 0
drwxrwxr-x  11 root  wheel  442 31 Jul 23:00 .
drwxrwxrwt@  4 root  admin  136  2 Aug 13:19 ..
drwxrwxrwt@  3 root  wheel  102 31 Jul 11:54 .TemporaryItems
d-wx-wx-wt   3 root  wheel  102  2 Aug 13:19 .Trashes
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 31 Jul 11:54 .fseventsd
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    0 31 Jul 11:54 .metadata_never_index
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 31 Jul 12:38 System
drwxr-xr-x   5 root  wheel  170 31 Jul 23:00 com.apple.boot.S
drwxr-xr-x  10 root  wheel  340 31 Jul 11:54 com.apple.recovery.boot
Edoardos-MacBook-Pro:~ edoardo$ diskutil info disk0s3
   Device Identifier:        disk0s3
   Device Node:              /dev/disk0s3
   Part of Whole:            disk0
   Device / Media Name:      Recovery HD
   Volume Name:              Recovery HD
   Escaped with Unicode:     Recovery%FF%FE%20%00HD
   Mounted:                  Yes
   Mount Point:              /Volumes/Recovery HD
   Escaped with Unicode:     /Volumes/Recovery%FF%FE%20%00HD
   File System Personality:  Journaled HFS+
   Type (Bundle):            hfs
   Name (User Visible):      Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
   Journal:                  Journal size 8192 KB at offset 0x7000
   Owners:                   Enabled
   Partition Type:           Apple_Boot
   OS Can Be Installed:      Yes
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 SATA
   SMART Status:             Verified
   Volume UUID:              2FB278E4-2FC8-3CCB-8F6A-4EF280037F15
   Total Size:               650.0 MB (650002432 Bytes) (exactly 1269536 512-Byte-Blocks)
   Volume Free Space:        125.0 MB (125001728 Bytes) (exactly 244144 512-Byte-Blocks)
   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes
   Read-Only Media:          No
   Read-Only Volume:         No
   Ejectable:                No
   Whole:                    No
   Internal:                 Yes
   Solid State:              No

What if I need recovery on the road ??
Recovery HD
This version of the installer doesn’t actually include all of the necessary files and data, so installing Mountain Lion from within recovery mode requires an Internet connection to download the actual OS.
If you are worried about backups/being on the road, you should always create a bootable back up of your system onto a USB or Fireware drive. Use Carbon Copy Cloner, and it will automate the incremental backups and have a fully bootable running system if your internal should ever stop working.
If you download the installer from the store, make sure to create a bootable install disk also;

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