Even though I took some time to rest my muscles before the race, I was still exhausted this week. So I only went running once, on a kind of exercise course—it was about 2.3 km, but every couple of hundred meters there were some exercises to do. The bad thing is that it was just two days before the relay, and that all my upper muscles were pretty sore from the effort.

The relay was, on one hand, pretty awful. Had to turn around after I’d left the house since I’d forgotten my start number, so I had to run from the bus stop to the start, still missed the start signal, and started a good 500 meters behind everyone, already totally exhausted. Ran too fast in the beginning and the end, got a stich in my side couple of times but still managed to be only 1 min 30 sec past my fastest times, so I’m pretty pleased with my performance considering everything.