Have you ever ever needed to put in writing your identify within the historical past books and be a part of a world file? Now could be your likelihood. On July 7 at McMaster College in Hamilton, two of town’s monitor golf equipment, Harbour Monitor Membership and Hamilton Olympic Membership, are placing collectively a group to go after the Guinness World Document for a 100 girls x 100-mile relay.
The time to beat for the 100 girls x 100-mile relay is 9 hours and 18 minutes, set final yr (a median tempo of just below 3:30/km). McMaster College monitor and area coach and former two-time Canadian Olympian Paula Schnurr (1992 and 1996) beforehand held the file for 23 years, till it was damaged by a bunch of feminine distance runners from San Francisco final June.
Now Schnurr and Hamilton Olympic Membership coach Patti Moore are assembling a group to go after the file they as soon as held. “We’re on the lookout for 9 hours and 10 minutes or higher,” stated Schnurr.
When Schnurr and Moore first misplaced the file, they began fascinated by methods to get it again. When 73 Canadian girls ran underneath 5:05 for 1,500m at Hamilton HOKA 1,500m evening final July, Moore instructed Schnurr that Ontario had the expertise to doubtlessly reclaim the file. The catch: the file requires 100 particular person girls to every run a mile leg at 5:30 per mile or quicker throughout this steady occasion.
In response to Guinness World Data, the monitor must be surveyed and measured to qualify for a world file. The occasion additionally will want two cameras to file the race repeatedly, in addition to human timekeepers along with the digital timing system. Pacers will not be allowed. The outcomes will should be verified by Guinness World Data, which may take three months.
“We’re inviting all Canadian feminine athletes to use for a leg of the relay,” says Moore. “We wish to have a number of the quickest girls in Canada competing as a celebration of Canadian monitor and area.”
The identify of the July 7 occasion will likely be 100 Ladies CAN–an ode to the problem and energy of Canadian feminine distance operating. The one standards for ladies wanting to enroll is a time of 5:05 for 1,500m or a sub-19:00 5K.
The occasion will happen on the McMaster College monitor in Hamilton, on July 7, beginning at 9 a.m. and hoping to complete shortly after 6 p.m. “We would like the neighborhood to return out and cheer and provides assist,” says Schnurr. “There’s no registration charge, and a shirt for everybody who participates.”
In the event you’d like to use to be part of the 100 Ladies CAN relay occasion, you possibly can fill out an utility type right here or head to their official Instagram web page. Let’s carry this file dwelling and preserve it right here,” echo Moore and Schnurr. If in case you have any questions or assist not directly, you possibly can attain out to 100xmile@gmail.com.
