Dumbartonshire cc relays

While the bulk of the club was enjoying the fleshpots of Loch Ossian, a few of us defended the honour of the club at the Dumbartonshire relays at Posties park. As the current champions, the pressure was on us to perform.

Nigel ran a strong first leg, starting off slow and gradually building it up to bring us up to 5th place at the first change over. I took over with a bit of a buffer over a Dumbarton runner and Damien Theaker of Helensburgh. Half way round, the dumbarton man had spent all his pennies closing me down and dropped off the pace but Damien passed me with about 1/2 mile to go. I dug in though and managed to outsprint him on the home straight to keep us in 5th.

Gibbie did leg 3 and ran well only conceding 3 places to much younger men. Finally, Hamilton ran the anchor leg maintaining our position in 8th (or possibly 9th position).

The funniest thing that happened was at the end of Hamiltons leg. He had been chasing the man in front and was gradually closing him down. I was shouting at him to nail it with about 1/2 a k to go and Hamilton gestured to me by putting his finger to his lips not to give the game away. He had no sooner done this than the guy in front just took off and disappeared!!

I will need to rely on one of the girls to give an account of their efforts in the ladies race.

See you all at the Nats