24-hour relay records - state

I did one back in 1981 up in Sidney, NY. One of the best & toughest experiences of my running life. Our team came in second with 219.75 miles. Ah, the younger times....

I was thinking of getting one together for charity, but it's easier to sell if you can say that you are chasing some sort of record, rather than running in circles for 24 hours for the fun of it.

I rememeber reading in Runners World about 3 years ago of the 100x1mile relay.

That would be something to think about for charity. Or hell just the fun of it. Get the local running club, send flyers to all meets for hte poeple who want ot sign up. Each run 1 mile, hand off to the next.

Well we just finished one in mid August. It was restarted after 9 years off. The record for this event is 285 i think so that would be the record for maryland as far as i know. The winning distance this year was a moderate 241 miles- our team had 230 to win coed :). There were 11 teams but next year it should grow again since this was the first year. Also now they used the chip to make the scoring less cubersome than it used to be. These were held a whole lot more in the 70s though.

Record was 295M by an Olympic Development team in the mid-70's. Am pretty sure it's over 300M now.

We had a combined team of good runners and semi-good HS runners and we did 259M in 1974.

Most fun I ever had as a runner but it was very painful. A 26 X mile workout with a 54 minute recovery. Did some serious hallucinating on the backstretch between 2-4 AM.

twittering debutante wrote:

Most fun I ever had as a runner but it was very painful. A 26 X mile workout with a 54 minute recovery. Did some serious hallucinating on the backstretch between 2-4 AM.

I'm not buying your story twit deb. Anyone who's ever run a 24 hour relay knows that the 2-4 AM runs are lucid, easy and very fast. 10 or 11 am is a different story. Hallucination for sure.

malmo

I'm not buying your story twit deb. Anyone who's ever run a 24 hour relay knows that the 2-4 AM runs are lucid, easy and very fast. 10 or 11 am is a different story. Hallucination for sure.

depends on start and finish time of the 24 hour time frame, doesn't it?

steveb wrote:

depends on start and finish time of the 24 hour time frame, doesn't it?

Certainly. Can't imagine starting one of these at 6 am, can you?

"I'm not buying your story twit deb. Anyone who's ever run a 24 hour relay knows that the 2-4 AM runs are lucid, easy and very fast. 10 or 11 am is a different story. Hallucination for sure."

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Malmo, I had a very different experience....my 24 relay started at noon, and the runs between 2 and 4 am realllly sucked. Of course, it might have had something to do with the italian hero I ate between runs at 1 a.m. that someone brought me from an all-night deli. ;-)

we had a 'all star' group, mostly our college team (including babiraki .. malmo; u ran vs him didn't ya?) . run high 280s in '70-71 (think maybe even '72 (jan-feb). we started in am - not sure, 7:00 I think - i got the stuff somewhere. Halludcinations in early am - yep. I think we had 5-6-7 guys ave low - mid 4:40 + plus the ones who missed the exchanges.

My dad has the trophy from the 24 hour relay from 1980 when our coach, Thaine Jones, ran a ten-athlete team that included Epi Dimas, Jaime Dimas, Tony Melchor, Curt Christiansen, and myself. The Oshkosh Northwestern

http://www.wisinfo.com/northwestern/index.shtml

had written a big article about the race, but I haven't found the article on-line. The Berlin Journal (Berlin, Wisconsin) also did an article. We ran in the summer of 1980, at the Berlin (Wisconsin) High School 440 yard asphalt track. After ten or 15 miles we lost one runner, and a few hours later we lost another. I seem to remember that each surviving runner went between 25 and 30 miles. The trophy has the total distance on it, and as soon as I see it, I'll let you know. I'll probably stop by my parents' house later today.

The year before- 1979- we went to Indiana for a really big 24 hour relay event, which we won, but I don't know the town or the distance. I think all 10 runners finished, and we might have gone 300 miles- but I was only 14 then, and I didn't used to pay a whole lot of attention. They told me to run, I ran, they said we won, and I was too tired to care much.

I wonder how many other 14 year olds have run 25-30 miles in a 24 hour relay?

Max Harn

I ran and organzized teams for many of these relays in the early 90's with the MCRRC and the "Big Dogs"...in 1991 or 90 was on a team that did 271 miles, farthest any team had done at the Maryland event since the 70's...yes, the event record in MD was 295 miles...I have results and records for the MD event...AND I am psyched that the event is back again...gotta be easier with chips!!!..Wish we had those...I think the scorers had the hardest job of all...Nothing like noon to noon in August in Maryland...Ft Meade, Mt Hebron, Howard High School...the sites I remember...1995 my last year where a lap scored for the 50 & 100 miler..UGH!, splits EVERY LAP!

malmo

Certainly. Can't imagine starting one of these at 6 am, can you?

sure, why not?

side note, i particpated in a 24 hour relay race that came down to a sprint finish between two teams that was decided in the last 50 meters of the race. one of the most exciting sporting events finish i have ever seen.

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We started ours at 10 AM, if memory is still intact.

Talk about a killer workout, and pardon me if it sounds like bragging: 26 X mile in 5:07 avg with :54 rest. Fastest 4:50 #10, slowest 5:28 #18, last mile 5:00.3!

Hey Max, I was a high school runner in Wisconsin at that time (competing with the Hackers, Stinzis, Chris Peske, Scott Jenkins, John Esker - real fun getting my ass handed to me at state every year). I believe it was 1980 when a high school team that included Rick Turriff (3 or 4 time 800 champ) broke some sort of record. Don't know if the one you posted about predates or postdates it, but it sure was fun to watch. The last leg (Turriff) had to run around 4:55 to beat the record or something like that, and I think he had a 4:48. Whatever the reason, he was flying.

I ran one right before my soph season in high school. I had no idea what I was getting into. I ended up running/racing 23 miles at 5:27 pace (my 1600 pr at the time was 4:47) and I had not broke 18:00 for 5k yet. I remember the baton flying out of my hand on the backstretch of the first lap one time somewhere around 3-4am. My slowest time was 5:59, fastest was 5:03 I think.

It was at a high school? track in Maryland in late July/early August the summer of 1992.I think some team named the Big Dogs won, they had two brother that ran well that day, night and day. I believe our team (9 studs and 1 dud finished 2nd). We must have ran about 237 miles as I ran the last complete leg and I was 7th man. I have the results somewhere, I'll have to look them up.

Talking about a upset high school coach. He was upset with the guys that asked me to go run, he knew I had no idea what I was about to do.

Dhing

I did a 127 mile relay in San Diego in May from Borrega Springs to the Oceanside Peir. It was fun. We won the Club Division in 17 hours and change. There was a lot a difficult climbs in this one. I would love to do another one next year.

Dhing wrote:

It was at a high school? track in Maryland in late July/early August the summer of 1992.I think some team named the Big Dogs won, they had two brother that ran well that day, night and day. I believe our team (9 studs and 1 dud finished 2nd). We must have ran about 237 miles as I ran the last complete leg and I was 7th man. I have the results somewhere, I'll have to look them up.

Talking about a upset high school coach. He was upset with the guys that asked me to go run, he knew I had no idea what I was about to do.

Dhing

Dhing, every summer kids in my neighborhood ran 24-hour relays in Maryland. There's a positive correlation why my HS team ran circles around teams with coaches like yours and dominated the state. Real simple: we ran more than they did. Look, you can't pick your coach, but you can choose what to do to get better on mornings and weekends. Get after it. There's nothing more fun than winning.