It’s not daily that your neighborhood 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 File for the quickest 100-mile relay in an occasion known as 100 Ladies CAN.
A gaggle of Canadian girls, 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 girls 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 Ladies CAN; to take action, they invited Canada’s quickest girls 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 are going to have 10 alternates in attendance, drawn from a waitlist. Apart from Schnurr and Moore, a couple of names you would possibly acknowledge embrace Canadian masters distance champ Sasha Gollish and Tokyo 2020 Olympian and three-time 800m nationwide champion Maddy Kelly.
With the ultimate time purpose of 9 hours and 10 minutes, they recruited greater than 100 girls 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 file, with 25 of the 100 girls able to working a sub-five-minute mile.
“Our youngest runner is 12 years outdated and we have now a number of masters athletes,” notes Schnurr. “We have now one girl who ran on the world file crew from 1999, and she or he will likely be handing off the baton to her daughter. And we have now one Canadian Olympian [Kelly].”
Find out how to observe
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 unimaginable girls within the working neighborhood to perform this collective purpose. Talking from expertise, working 4 solo laps isn’t any simple feat, so any help will go a protracted approach to inspire us!
For those who’re unable to make it in individual, you possibly can observe the occasion stay on YouTube or view the outcomes right here.
