Race marshal volunteers for wrong Cliftonpublished at 09:20 British Summer Time 15 May 2019
David Pittam
BBC News Online
Ever volunteered for something and then really regretted it?
Well Ian Guest, 60, had to travel about 50 miles to fulfill a commitment after getting his Cliftons mixed up.
The Sheffield resident thought he'd signed up to help out at the Park Run in Clifton, Rotherham. But instead, he'd agreed to help out at the Clifton branch in Nottingham, and only realised when he checked the night before.
He felt he owed it to those who had marshalled his races to go, and the Nottingham group would have struggled to go ahead without him, so he hopped on a train.
But he admitted next time he would be "double and triple checking" before he signed up.