Scottish Vets Relay

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Westerlands first ever outing at the Scottish Vets Relay. Each leg was a 5.9km lap of Strathclyde Loch, starting and finishing at the water sports centre. The Westies team consisted of Chris, Jon Slowe, Don Reid and John Quinn.

I set off with good intentions on Leg 1, and passed through the first kilometre in 3:17, sitting in 5th place for a while. But lack of training and sleep deprivation meant I couldn’t sustain this sort of pace, so slumped back down the field to 15th, before rallying at the end to jump past Paul Carroll of Clydesdale and Crispin Walsh of Bella Harriers, to finish in 20:50.

Jon Slowe took over for Leg 2 and ran 20:40 to pull us up to 7th team. Don ran 22:57, dropping 3 places, and finally John Quinn ran the anchor leg nursing a calf strain in 24:02, to bring us home in 13th place.