It’s not day-after-day that your group takes half in a nine-hour, 400-lap relay race. On Sunday, July 7 in Hamilton, 100 of Canada’s quickest feminine runners will rally collectively to take again the Guinness World Document for the quickest 100-mile relay in an occasion known as 100 Girls CAN.
A gaggle of Canadian ladies, together with McMaster College coach Paula Schnurr and Hamilton Olympic Membership coach Patti Moore, initially set this file at 9 hours, 23 minutes again in 1999, however final June, a gaggle of American ladies in San Francisco broke the file, working 100 particular person miles in 9 hours and 18 minutes.
Schnurr and Moore determined to tackle the problem of reclaiming the file with 100 Girls CAN; to take action, they invited Canada’s quickest ladies to use, and have now obtained greater than 125 candidates. They’ve narrowed it all the way down to 100. With the potential of last-minute accidents or diseases, they’ll have 10 alternates in attendance, drawn from a waitlist. Moreover Schnurr and Moore, a couple of names you may acknowledge embrace Canadian masters distance champ Sasha Gollish and Tokyo 2020 Olympian and three-time 800m nationwide champion Maddy Kelly.
With the ultimate time aim of 9 hours and 10 minutes, they recruited greater than 100 ladies who can full a mile-long leg in 5 minutes and 30 seconds or quicker (or who’ve run 1,500m in 5:05). Schnurr and Moore are assured this group will have the ability to obtain the world file, with 25 of the 100 ladies able to working a sub-five-minute mile.
“Our youngest runner is 12 years previous and now we have a number of masters athletes,” notes Schnurr. “We have now one girl who ran on the world file group from 1999, and she or he will likely be handing off the baton to her daughter. And now we have one Canadian Olympian [Kelly].”
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The occasion will run on July 7 at Mona Campbell Observe at McMaster College in Hamilton, starting at 9 a.m. and ending after 6 p.m.
I’m one of many 100 athletes collaborating alongside a few of my coaching companions; what excites me most concerning the mission is banding along with the unbelievable ladies within the working group to perform this collective aim. Talking from expertise, working 4 solo laps isn’t any straightforward feat, so any help will go a protracted option to inspire us!
When you’re unable to make it in individual, you possibly can comply with the occasion dwell on YouTube or view the outcomes right here.