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 Report for the quickest 100-mile relay in an occasion referred to 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 report at 9 hours, 23 minutes again in 1999, however final June, a gaggle of American girls in San Francisco broke the report, working 100 particular person miles in 9 hours and 18 minutes.
Schnurr and Moore determined to tackle the problem of reclaiming the report with 100 Ladies CAN; to take action, they invited Canada’s quickest girls to use, and have now acquired greater than 125 candidates. They’ve narrowed it all the way down to 100. With the potential for last-minute accidents or sicknesses, they’ll have 10 alternates in attendance, drawn from a waitlist. In addition to Schnurr and Moore, a couple of names you would possibly acknowledge embody 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 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 report, with 25 of the 100 girls able to working a sub-five-minute mile.
“Our youngest runner is 12 years previous and we’ve got a number of masters athletes,” notes Schnurr. “Now we have one lady who ran on the world report workforce from 1999, and she or he will probably be handing off the baton to her daughter. And we’ve got one Canadian Olympian [Kelly].”
How you can comply with
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 undertaking is banding along with the unbelievable girls within the working neighborhood to perform this collective purpose. Talking from expertise, working 4 solo laps isn’t any straightforward feat, so any assist will go a protracted option to encourage us!
If you happen to’re unable to make it in particular person, you’ll be able to comply with the occasion dwell on YouTube or view the outcomes right here.