Wacky Races

donothoponpop

After a bit of banter about unusual races over on my training log (http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055414877&page=13), an idea evolved to this point so far. I just want to see if anyone likes it, or if anyone has suggestions for other "Wacky races" or unusual runs.

24 Hour 1000 mile challenge
From amadeus:
Back when the 1000 mile challenge first came up it crossed my mind that an excellent challenge would be 1000 miles in 24 hours. Get 6 or 8 treadmills and a team of 30 or 40 people and it could be done...

From me:
No need for dreadmills...

There's 79 people on the challenge right now. We need one more for this idea to work. You pair the person at the bottom with the one at the top. +1 and -1, and so on, until you have 40 teams of two. Each team commits to running 25 miles in a given 24 hour period, then there's your 1000 miles in 24 hours.

shels4ever

donothoponpop wrote: »

After a bit of banter about unusual races over on my training log (http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055414877&page=13), an idea evolved to this point so far. I just want to see if anyone likes it, or if anyone has suggestions for other "Wacky races" or unusual runs.

24 Hour 1000 mile challenge
From amadeus:
Back when the 1000 mile challenge first came up it crossed my mind that an excellent challenge would be 1000 miles in 24 hours. Get 6 or 8 treadmills and a team of 30 or 40 people and it could be done...

From me:
No need for dreadmills...

There's 79 people on the challenge right now. We need one more for this idea to work. You pair the person at the bottom with the one at the top. +1 and -1, and so on, until you have 40 teams of two. Each team commits to running 25 miles in a given 24 hour period, then there's your 1000 miles in 24 hours.

On this I had mailed the Guiness book or records to see what the story is on recored, Runners world did something along the lines a few years back, seemed like good fun...

kennyb3

count me in, i like wacky ideas like this!!

rainbow kirby

That sounds like a lot of fun

SomeFool

Bottom of the list here but you could count me in, need an excuse to up my running mileage anyway:p

hunnymonster

shels4ever wrote: »

On this I had mailed the Guiness book or records to see what the story is on recored, Runners world did something along the lines a few years back, seemed like good fun...

I kinda know the the offical observer from guinness from the RW attempt if you're looking for a more direct route.

MarieC

Definitely on for this! Love wacky ideas!!! Good stuff donothoponpop!

--amadeus--

*Bangs head on wall*

must learn to think before I post!!

ok - only one comment on this, if we did it as pairs and spread all over the country we wouldn't be able to claim it as any kind of official record and it wouldn't be verifiable (we don't all have Garmins). Wouldn't stop us doing it, or fundraising off it though obviously. With static treadies we could verify distance and have an observer. We could also do it with smaller numbers of participants. Either way it would def. be a new challenge!

You can count me in as well, assuming it's post Rotterdam

christeb

I'm actually not on the 100 mile challenge (due to football training not counting as real miles...) but I would certainly do this - so we have 80 now!

McConkey

Sounds cool, another sucker willing to take it on here