Quote Originally Posted by GrahamB View Post
I call it levity.

My first relay (Calderdale) was in 1985 and it seems to me that over the last 20 years it is the hilarity of these events that people remember and still talk about, not recollecting the performances of well-oiled machines of soul-less superstars.

Skyrac once came 4th in the Calderdale but a much better story is how a Skyrac leg 5 runner ran across the road at the very start of his leg, fell off the stile and broke his leg.

Brilliant!

Or the year one pair were still in the tea tent as the previous leg runners came powering in.

Or watching the runner who ran his leg after being concussed and had lost his sense of balance so was swaying from side to side.

Or the chap who turned up and asked his partner to go easy because he had run the 50 mile Round Rotherham Race the previous day.

Or...
or how this year the Keighley leg 3 teams started to run leg 4 cos the leg 4 team was still in the car changing and how the leg 5 team inc Brett turned up way after the leg 4 team had finished losing Keighley 17 places.

Another favourite was at the Vets relays at Bowland in 2007, We were desperately waiting for one of the team to turn up, on ringing him we found out that he had put the details in his sat nav and ended up in a cul de sac in Preston. My overriding memory is of my colleague (a teacher) saying down the phone (with barely supressed fury), Dave you need to turn off your sat nav, pick up your map and f.....g get here. Luckily he made it just in time whilst I was on the starting line ready for a second leg.