Sarah Jacobsen was a young athlete in our athletics club who had just been picked to represent GB at under-20 level at the European U20 Championships in Seville in Spain.
Back at home, we all crowded round our mobile devices on the Thursday evening training session as Sarah ran her semi-final. If she could have heard us, our cheering alone, would have propelled her to victory, not that she needed our assistance, as with a perfectly timed charge she pipped the two leaders to win her heat, and in a new PB. We were all delighted and couldn't wait for her final which would be on the following evening.
So, at 7:45 the following night, a group of coaches gathered at the track to watch Sarah in the final. Unfortunately, almost from the off, we could see that she was not running with her usual fluency, and although she tried to fight back, she ended up well off the pace back in sixth place.
We consoled ourselves with the thoughts that at least she had won her semi, made the final, and set a new PB. Perhaps the excitement of all her recent achievements had got to her.
The following Tuesday, Sarah was back at training. I am not her coach, as I actually worked with several of the younger groups. But, I was also quite handy with video and recording software, and over the weekend had spent time looking at Sarah's running between her semi and the final, info that I had passed on to her own coach.
As Barbara talked through her races with her, trying to work out what had gone so wrong in the final, Sarah became rather upset and stormed off, exclaiming that she didn't want to talk about it.
Barbara came over to see me, in rather a foul mood, and asked if I could talk to Sarah and go through my video work with her. I said that I would try.
So, at the end of the session, having sent my training group off with their parents, I went to catch Sarah before she too headed home.
"Hi Sarah" I mumbled, as I approached her, "Babs has asked if I can take you through your runs?"
"Not now!" she grunted back, but then with a sigh of her shoulders added, "Could you come over and see me tomorrow?"
One of the joys of being a teacher is those long summer holidays, and as I still had two weeks before term restarted, I certainly had time to spare.
"Sure. When?" I enquired, a little more hopefully.
"Would ten be OK?" she suggested.
"Yes, ten would be fine. See you then!" as I let her head off to her waiting collection. I gave Babs a thumbs-up as well, as she had been watching our little chat from a discrete distance.
So, the next morning, I arrived at ten and rang their doorbell. It took Sarah almost a minute to answer, and I was beginning to think she had forgotten that I was coming. But I was greeted with a big beaming smile as she opened the door, dressed in her GB tracksuit.
"You look very good in it!" I complimented, "I hope it's just the first of many!"
Sarah mumbled something that I didn't catch, as she led me through to the family lounge.
Sitting down, I opened my laptop and started it up.
"Well, shall we have a little look at your races then?" I queried, as I waited for it to boot completely.
"We don't need to do that," whispered Sarah, "I know exactly why I didn't run well in the final!"
"Ohh!" I asked, puzzled.
"I had just had sex a couple of hours earlier," she explained very quietly, looking very embarrassed.
I burst out laughing. It was not the explanation I had been expecting!
"Yes, that could do it!" I replied jokingly, "Although some people claim that it improves performance!" I added trying to lighten the atmosphere.
Sarah just shook her head and looked very tearful.
"I'd never done it before, and it hurt really bad," she explained, as she slowly began to sob.
I was stunned that Sarah seemed so open with this new information and was also surprised to find myself becoming aroused.
I wrapped my arms around her and gave her a big hug.
"Congratulations!" I quietly murmured in her ear, "You can definitely be called an Under-20 Woman now."
Sarah sobbed again.
"It's OK!" I reassured her, "We don't have to tell anyone what happened."
"But, I need to!" Sarah groaned, "I didn't think it would be like that!"
Inwardly, I breathed a sigh of relief, I was desperate to find out how this delightful young creature had lost her virginity.
"I'm willing to listen," I suggested, "But, maybe you'd rather speak to someone else about it?"
Sarah shook her head as she broke our hug and looked at me.
"No. I want to tell you. Then you can tell me what should have happened!" she pleaded.
Now it was my turn to feel embarrassed.
I nodded reluctantly.
"OK Sarah, tell me what happened. Just take your time."
So, she began.
This was Sarah's first major competition, although she knew several of her teammates, having raced against them before. But a few of them had been to major events like this before, so on the flight over Sarah had been asking them lots of questions about what to expect.
Then one of the girls had sighed, "Oh, the boys!", which had caused some of the other girls to giggle, before she explained that there would be lots of fit hot guys there and it was very easy to slip off and have a little fun "wink, wink!". Sarah knew what they meant but didn't want to explain that she was still a virgin, so had just smiled and giggled with them.
At the airport, the team had been collected on a couple of coaches and bussed to their accommodation at the local University, they were to be staying in the Student accommodation while the students were on holiday. As soon as the team coach arrived at the accommodation, Sarah had seen him. She had later found out that his name was Pablo Hernandez, a Spanish 400 m hurdler.
He was tall and slim, with a shock of long wavy black hair and a beaming smile.
Sarah had felt butterflies in her tummy as soon as she saw him. He was part of the welcoming committee. However, when Sarah first saw him, he was with a tall blonde Swedish athlete, whose team had arrived ten minutes earlier. Sarah watched as Pablo chatted and joked away with this young woman, then helping her with her kit, had headed off towards her accommodation, arm in arm.
The next morning Sarah had seen Pablo again, this time sitting with a dark-haired Greek athlete. As Sarah watched, Pablo and the girl got up and made to leave the restaurant, Pablo had his arm round the girl's waist, but as they walked past Sarah's table, Pablo had noticed Sarah and smiled and winked at her. Sarah had blushed madly.
About twenty minutes later, just as Sarah had been about to leave, Pablo returned to the restaurant and walked in with an exaggerated swagger, which produced a big cheer from a group of Spanish male colleagues sitting at another table. Pablo went to join them and as Sarah watched, Pablo was high-fived and back-slapped by all the other guys. Much animated conversation continued.
As Sarah got up to leave the restaurant, she again caught Pablo's eye, and he gave her a big smile and blew her a kiss. Sarah had blushed profusely.
Sarah then went to prepare for her semi-final, and we all knew how well that had gone, but on the way out of the stadium she had literally bumped into Pablo as he was coming in for his preliminary heat. He congratulated Sarah on her win, having watched it on the TV in the warm-up room. Sarah could only blush, even more brightly as she went to cool down, but had made sure that she was close to a TV so that she could watch Pablo comfortably win his heat.
The next morning at breakfast, Sarah again saw Pablo with one of her own teammates, and as the previous day she watched as they got up and left the restaurant, only for Pablo to return about twenty minutes later. Sarah began to realise that Pablo had to be going off with these girls and having sex with them. Sarah found herself embarrassed at the thought but also jealous at the same time.
Sarah's final was not until 8:00 pm that evening, so she went to the training track to do a bit of a warm-up. She had a light lunch as normal then was going to head back to her room to rest, before heading to the stadium in plenty of time for her race.
As she walked through the campus, Pablo suddenly appeared by her side and began talking to her. Sarah again went bright red and could hardly reply, and she found herself looking down towards his groin, where there was a significant bulge in his shorts.
To Sarah's horror, Pablo caught her looking and grinned at Sarah, which caused to blush even more.
Pablo asked where she was going, and she had replied to rest before her final, but taking her hand, Pablo had suggested that he knew a better way to relax, and would she like him to show her.
Sarah was so confused that she just nodded her head, and Pablo led her straight to her own room. Sarah's mind was in a whirl, she had never had any attention like this and just automatically opened her door and the two of them entered.
As soon as the door closed, Pablo took Sarah in his arms and gave her a gentle kiss on the lips. He then led her to her small single bed and sat her down on the edge. Then to Sarah's complete surprise he stood before her and stripped off, removing his t-shirt, his flip-flops, then dropping his shorts.
Sarah was totally shocked, she had never seen a naked male body so close, or with an erect penis pointing straight at her. To her it looked very large and firm, and she stared at it amazed as Pablo took it in his hand and slowly stroked it.
"You like my cock?" enquired the proud Spaniard.
Sarah just nodded dumbly.
Pablo then sat beside her on the small bed, Sarah never taking her eyes from his cock.
Gently, Pablo took one of Sarah's hands and placed it on his cock. She gasped. It felt soft, but hard, and also very hot.