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 document at 9 hours, 23 minutes again in 1999, however final June, a bunch of American ladies in San Francisco broke the document, operating 100 particular person miles in 9 hours and 18 minutes.
Schnurr and Moore determined to tackle the problem of reclaiming the document with 100 Girls CAN; to take action, they invited Canada’s quickest ladies to use, and have now acquired greater than 125 candidates. They’ve narrowed it right down to 100. With the potential of last-minute accidents or diseases, they’ll have 10 alternates in attendance, drawn from a waitlist. In addition to Schnurr and Moore, a number 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 sooner (or who’ve run 1,500m in 5:05). Schnurr and Moore are assured this group will have the ability to obtain the world document, with 25 of the 100 ladies able to operating a sub-five-minute mile.
“Our youngest runner is 12 years outdated and we’ve a number of masters athletes,” notes Schnurr. “We have now one lady who ran on the world document staff from 1999, and he or she might be handing off the baton to her daughter. And we’ve one Canadian Olympian [Kelly].”
Learn how to observe
The occasion will run on July 7 at Mona Campbell Monitor at McMaster College in Hamilton, starting at 9 a.m. and ending after 6 p.m.
I’m one of many 100 athletes taking part alongside a few of my coaching companions; what excites me most in regards to the venture is banding along with the unimaginable ladies within the operating group to perform this collective aim. Talking from expertise, operating 4 solo laps is not any simple feat, so any help will go an extended option to inspire us!
For those who’re unable to make it in individual, you may observe the occasion stay on YouTube or view the outcomes right here.
