Training Log Archive: SarahD

VHI relays at Longshaw. Well - what a fiasco. Was meant to be anchoring one of our top 2 teams with Ben, Donald and Chris, running the last short leg. Unfortunately Ben, meant to be on long 1st leg was issued with a short leg map and returned after 18' at which stage Donald was still warming up and plugged into his earphones. After a hasty change Donald, meant to be on the medium leg, disappeared on the long leg. Decided it was best for me to swap with Chris to run the missing medium leg 3rd, so had a hasty over-hyped warm-up before deciding I needed to focus more on calming down.
Once I got going I ran pretty clean with only a few little hesitations in some rather under-mapped terrain and came back to hand-over to Chris in a close 4th. Unfortunately Chris was up against some strong younger runners on last leg and did well to bring us back in 6th - I reckon pretty impressive considering we'd all run the wrong legs. Pretty sure I'd have had a chance to fight it out with Liz and Jen for the lead if we'd run the right legs.
The mess-up was the organiser's error and I'm afraid it did really spoil my day.

Rather less than satisfactory race prep.