It’s not each day 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 Girls CAN.

A bunch of Canadian girls, 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 gaggle of American girls 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, below problem 100 Girls CAN; to take action, they invited Canada’s quickest girls to use, and have now obtained 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.

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 be capable to obtain the world document, with 25 of the 100 girls able to operating a sub-five-minute mile. 

“Our youngest runner is 12 years outdated and we have now a number of masters athletes,” notes Schnurr. “We’ve one lady who ran on the world document group from 1999, and he or she might be handing off the baton to her daughter. And we have now one Canadian Olympian.”

How are you going 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 very excited to take part within the relay alongside a few of my coaching companions. What excites me probably the most is banding along with the unimaginable girls throughout the operating neighborhood to perform this collective purpose. Talking from expertise, operating 4 solo laps is not any straightforward feat, so any assist will go a protracted method to encourage us!

Should you’re unable to make it in individual, you’ll be able to comply with the occasion dwell on YouTube or view the outcomes right here.