Day 4, Easter Monday, is not a public holiday here. Some years, its a regular school day.
Even for many English, the last day may involve a long journey home.
These things are particularly problematic for relays. If someone has to work and can't run an individual race it affects only them, but in a relay it makes it less attractive for their potential teammates too. Similarly, the best aspect of relays is the team spirit and socialising - but this is always dampened by the desire to rush off and get started on the long journey home.
The solution is to move the relay to Day 2 or 3. The middle race is ideal for day 4: its done and dusted quickly, groups travelling together can have similar start/finish times, and get on the way home, and anyone who can't make the Day-4 middle doesn't spoil the day for teammates.
It doesn't mean we shouldn't think about format. Relays are quite heavy on volunteer effort, so a parallel event sounds like a bad idea, But for people who don't like hanging about or being on a team, something like individual entry to leg 1 would involve no extra organiser-effort and, by increasing the size of the field, enhance the fun for everyone else.
But enough of this, I've got the Scottish Relays to plan
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