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It was our local Marafun event today. 5 leg relay covering the marathon, so ~8.2km each with eight loops round town.
Originally I had absolutely no plan on running it as I've a 30 mile race next Saturday. I hate running loops round town and I hate the pressure of a relay.
Anyway the expected happened and the team went to rat shit, with none of the runners originally entered making the start due to various injuries and I wasn't broken.
Was it fun? Going fourth man, there were runners evenly spread round the course which made for some good motivation. So the planned easy trot round soon went by the wayside and I made up lots of places and only lost 1. With 32 minutes at a consistently uncomfortable pace that I rarely see, I was glad when it was time to hand the baton over to our last man. Erm no it wasn't fun! I still hate short runs round town, even if the support was brilliant 😀