The relay baton is on it's way....

Drove over to Dorchester this morning with Tricia in order to drop off my car at the 'finish line' of my leg for RelayGB. It's really, really cold despite it being the beginning of May....crazy. We had a big breakfast in Wetherspoons and appears the rest of Dorchester were in there too - packed!
Bit of a pounding head today so pill popping to get rid of that - as a runner, I'm rubbish at listening to my own body and all the sensible advice, like, don't run if a cold has dropped below throat level...ie to your lungs!! I know it's going to be really tough tonight but a lot of people are pinning hopes on getting this baton back round to the finish line and breaking the current world record for distance running, so the pressure is on not to screw it up. Looking on the RelayGB web site, appears one of the runners on my leg isn't doing it anymore so there's just a guy called Adam and me. It's now 9pm, dark outside and the leg before ours has just set out from Lyndhurst....4 hours to go, yikes!! Have to be in Poole Park at midnight for a briefing, with the aim of setting out on our leg around 1am. Most of the route is along quiet back roads (I'm expecting them to be really, really quiet at 1am on a Sunday morning) and some are 'out in the middle of nowhere' lanes, without footpaths and where our mandatory head torches will definitely be a must.

Looking nervous in my
'record breaking' RelayGB
outfit!!

The next update will, hopefully, be after I've safely completed the run....note it's a RUN not a RACE!!