Midnight Library: The Orange Collection, 8: The Race

Annabel is the school sports star with dreams of running on the National Junior Squad for athletics. Her coach, Mr McNabb, is preparing her for the qualifiers and suggests that she imagine a runner that only she can see, as a way of blocking out the threat of her real opponents. But the harder she practises and the faster she runs, the deeper her fixation on beating her imaginary opponent becomes. It gets to the point where her obsession threatens more than her performance in the race ...