This week we hosted an exciting urban relay event, for something a little different. Closures to the track meant that we were unable to go ahead with our planned event, but an improvised urban track at Koh Pich City Hall Park provided a unique yet suitable location. Our urban track has been precisely measured to be a lap of 235m, making this month’s event, possibly the world’s first 4x470m relay race! Our athletes started the morning with a warm up of another improvised course of ~800m, which we used as a qualifying heat to determine the placement of athletes into balanced teams. A Snake draft order was used to place the athletes into 3 teams, based on their seedings. After announcing team placement, the athletes were given around 10 minutes to discuss strategy and practice their baton passing techniques before the race began. The first leg was hot and evenly matched, with less than 4 seconds separating the...