European masters - 4x400m relay

Our rule of thumb is that we select the relay team from the highest finishers in the individual 400. Unfortunately, although we had 4 Brits in the final Rob Grew had gone home early. So we had three certains (me, Tony Noel and Kermitt) and a couple of possibles. Luckily we found Welsh 800m runner, Sean Price at the last minute. He is capable of 53 so was a strong addition to the the squad.
The French, Italians, Germans and Russians were our big competition, but we went in as favourites.

Tony ran the first leg in lane 6 and came home in the lead handing over to Sean. At this point the French messed up their change and it cost them several seconds. Sean increased the lead and handed to Kermitt who went off like a train. I got the baton 30 metres ahead and went off hard. With the noise of the crowd I couldn't hear a thing and it was difficult to work out where the others were. I never look back so the best strategy was to just keep pushing. We finished in 3.30.4 - a new championship record by 3 seconds.
A great way to finsih the championships