It’s not on daily basis 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 known as 100 Girls 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 bunch of American girls in San Francisco broke the report, operating 100 particular person miles in 9 hours and 18 minutes.
Schnurr and Moore determined to tackle the problem of reclaiming the report with 100 Girls CAN; to take action, they invited Canada’s quickest girls to use, and have now acquired greater than 125 candidates. They’ve narrowed it right 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 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 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 be capable to obtain the world report, with 25 of the 100 girls able to operating a sub-five-minute mile.
“Our youngest runner is 12 years previous and we now have a number of masters athletes,” notes Schnurr. “Now we have one girl who ran on the world report staff from 1999, and he or she can be handing off the baton to her daughter. And we now have one Canadian Olympian [Kelly].”
The way to 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 challenge is banding along with the unimaginable girls within the operating neighborhood to perform this collective aim. Talking from expertise, operating 4 solo laps isn’t any straightforward feat, so any help will go a protracted strategy to encourage us!
In case you’re unable to make it in particular person, you may comply with the occasion reside on YouTube or view the outcomes right here.
100 Canadian women to chase incredible Guinness World Record in Hamilton
