08/25/08
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General,
Races
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PRR Executive @ 10:16 pm
The Hood to Coast gang returned from their 4 day American odyssey. No doubt the next newsletter will have all the details - but here it is in brief from Karen:
197 miles, 36 legs, 12 runners: Dan, Ellie, Susan, Jess, Bill, Karen, Debby, John, Rick, Grant, Premica, Terry (last minute substitution for Len), 2 drivers: Bruce (all the way from Calgary) and Len
The weather was hot! Fri 25C, Sat 22C at the beach, and sunny at the beer garden.
We started at 1:00 pm Friday and finished in 24:06:30. We reached the beach at 1 pm and enjoyed the beach party for 5 hours waiting to see if we placed in the top 10 Mixed overall. We didn’t, but we did place 10th out of 283 in the Mixed Open category.
Total road kills 585!
On her first leg, Premica ran so fast that she got to the exchange 5 minutes before the van. The exchange between legs 24 and 25 was backed up, so Dan had to run ~1/4 mile to the exchange to meet Terry, missing by about 5 seconds. No one got lost this year, and the whole team was really bang on with their predicted times (although Jess beat all of her times by 2 - 4 minutes!)
The only bacon on the course was served at the high school, and best other team name is up for discussion - my favourite was “When the Fit Hits the Shan”.