I recently read an article about a mile hurdle relay that was done back in the 1970s (http://hepstrack.com/blog/2011/04/25/stuff-my-dad-did/). People have posted in the comments about other unique relays, like the 24 hour mile relay and a recent 1600m shuttle hurdle relay done at EIU.
What are some other unique relays that people have witnessed/participated in? After all, this is Relays week.
While this relay isn't on the track, it was always one of my favorite XC meets in high school.
The event was a called a Hokum Karum, and was near the begining of the seasonm. Each XC team had 5 pairs of runners who alternated running 1-mile loops for a total of 3 miles each. The top 4 pairs from each team accounted for the scoring.
This would be a great event in college as well, but modified to 5 1-mile loops for each runner.
racinej wrote:
While this relay isn't on the track, it was always one of my favorite XC meets in high school.
The event was a called a Hokum Karum, and was near the begining of the seasonm. Each XC team had 5 pairs of runners who alternated running 1-mile loops for a total of 3 miles each. The top 4 pairs from each team accounted for the scoring.
This would be a great event in college as well, but modified to 5 1-mile loops for each runner.
Dunno if its run in US but a Road relay which is held every year which is basically a DMR for long distance runners in the format of 2 mile, 1 mile, 3 mile and 2 mile or 1-2-3-2 are the two formats run usually i great atmosphere
Wake Forest runs a XC relay every year with usually 3-4 teams. Same thing: runners pair up and run a 3.6k loop (or something like that) twice each, for a total of 14.4k.
They award top pair, top team (which is 3 scoring pairs from a school) and top individual (added splits). It is interesting to see the top individual coming from a pair that finishes 4th or something.
Actually, i just looked at Wake's sports site, and they didn't do it this year.
Oh yeah, and there is always a HS XC meet early on in the season at Hagan Stone Park in Greensboro, NC that has 5 members from each XC team run a 2.5k loop. It is a 5 person relay. I've seen teams bring 20 runners and put in A,B,C, and D teams. Pretty cool.
I always wanted to do a running relay like the bike race at the end of "Breaking Away," where it is a certain distance and you can hand off at the end of every lap if you want. Doubt it will ever happen, but it should!