If you sleep in and miss the start of a race, how badly have you failed in terms of reaching your goals?

6 bad. Maybe even 6.5 bad.

I overslept and didn't get up until one minute after the start of the race (8:01)and I ended up winning!! It was a marathon 2 person relay and my teammate picked up my number and shirt (he had no idea where I was) and carried it with him as he started the race. I got there, met him at the 10 mile mark, ran with him a little to get my stuff and ran back to the hand off area. We were in 3rd at that point and I worked my way into the lead about the 25th mile to get the win.

if it was your goal race of the season, it was an utter failure. if you were training thru anyways, you can still run a tempi later that day.