RunningAHEAD - Topic: Lake Winnie race report

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Abs of Flabs

posted: 9/28/2007 at 8:52 AM

My club (Shamrock Running Club sent 8 teams to Lake Winnie this year, most of any club in race history. I fielded my own team and had a blast. This was my 4 consecutive year at the race. I wrote a race report several years back and I'm not going to write another one. I received a link to another report that I thought was great, that and he used maps on this site for the report. click

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mikeymike

posted: 9/28/2007 at 9:22 AM

It's a great event. I hope to do it again some day but at the rate I'm going my next chance might be to get a team together with my kids when the youngest one is in high school...what's that about 15 years from now? Leg 2 is my favorite. Leg 8 is utterly ridiculous (especially if you've already run leg 2 all out earlier in the day.)

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Abs of Flabs

posted: 9/28/2007 at 9:26 AM

Mikey, You know that we'll always welcome you to run with/for us. Heck, I'm sure the men's open team would find a way to provide day care for your kids if you promise to run fast enough :-) I still haven't ran legs 1 and 6 yet. I'm planning to do 1 next year. I like 2 because it's down hill and fast. 5 is nice for the quiet scenic views. I did 2 and 4 last year, and 3 and 8 the yet before that. Not too bad if you don't race it Big grin

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jlynnbob

You'll ruin your knees!

posted: 9/28/2007 at 9:48 AM
modified: 9/28/2007 at 9:48 AM

That does look like a cool race... Couldn't help myself, I thought this was an awesome picture...almost poster material with some schmarmy quote...

I didn't check the results, how did your teams do? Modified to fix "schmarmy"

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BadDawg

posted: 9/28/2007 at 10:28 AM

You really need some legs to run those legs, congrats to you and your team Eric. That race report is pretty wild (and well worth a click), an elite team of two placing 20th is pretty amazing.

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Abs of Flabs

posted: 9/28/2007 at 4:02 PM

The only requirement for my team is the members must be able to finish their leg. They can walk or run. 4 out of the 8 runners never ran it before. My goal was to introduce them to this race and hope they have a good time. We completed the entire race with 3 or 4 minutes before the 10 hour cut off and so I'm happy. They did better than I anticipated too! We came in at 75 out of 85 teams. Many people said that after running those hills, everything else seemed flat.

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Chenille

posted: 9/28/2007 at 4:18 PM

That was a great report! Congrats again for the leg you ran Smile

It hurts to just look at some of those elevation graphs !

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Mississippi

posted: 9/28/2007 at 9:55 PM

Wow! Those hills look user unfriendly! Congratulations on your race. Smile

Michelle

Lifesabeach

posted: 9/29/2007 at 3:33 PM

that looks fun in a painfully hilly kinda way! Tongue

Great race! Smile

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