Would coming last in a race really be so bad?

As I trudged up Scafell Pike, I saw Ricky Lightfoot on his way down, on his way to setting a new course record. It made me reconsider how I’d previously felt about underprepared race stragglers ...‘Oh boy,” I thought, watching a tiny figure descend through the mist towards me. He was heading back towards the fork in the path where I knew he should have turned right. “That guy is in trouble.”I was about a third of the way round the Scafell Pike trail marathon but he,