My ATB Relay boast

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My ATB Relay boast

Postby Engmomma » Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:20 pm

In the fall one of the guys from our bootcamp challenged the girls to a three person relay at the ATB. Not one to back down the challenge was on.

The original threesome of boys I thought were good but definitely beatable. Then one of their guys backed out. My group of ladies had recently started running with our girl friends husband so we made a deal that R would replace their missing guy. With the addition of R to their team I knew things would be interesting.

Two of the guys were about 58-60 min 10k'ers. And R we figured could be in the 55min 10k.

For the girls myself and K are 60min 10k'ers. And D is more a 50-55min 10k.

At the 10k relay point, R was only 30 seconds or so ahead of K. At the 19.5k point the boys had spread their lead to about 3:30 min (myleg :(). The final leg was between D and the other 60min guy.

D caught him at the HILL and that was game over.

Girls 2:49:39
Boys 2:55:05

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Re: My ATB Relay boast

Postby Hammie » Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:40 pm

Great contest! Congrats on the bragging rights :lol: .
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Re: My ATB Relay boast

Postby carm » Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:40 pm

Nice job on the relay - go GIRLS!
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Postby HCcD » Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:21 pm

Congrats ... :dance: :dance:
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Postby CinC » Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:10 am

Awesome!!
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Postby Marg » Mon Mar 26, 2012 5:05 am

Woohoo!! well done. :)
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Postby trixiee » Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:10 am

Huge! And awesome!
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Postby Mark.AU » Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:11 am

Well done!
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Postby Spirit Unleashed » Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:04 am

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Postby Jo-Jo » Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:08 am

Nicely done!!
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Re: My ATB Relay boast

Postby La » Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:15 am

Love it when relay teams are so closely matched! Congrats to the girls!

But... were you in Section 122?? I never saw you and was hoping to say Hi! :(
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Postby Cattitude » Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:18 am

Fantastic!!

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Postby purdy65 » Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:28 am

Love it! 8)

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Postby Sandra » Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:35 am

Woot Woot! Way to go Ladies!
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Postby Robinandamelia » Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:52 am

WTG! That's great...sounds like fun!

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Postby Miss*Smiles » Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:18 am

Boom Bam Baby!

I knew you had it in you girls! Look at that!

(this would be an appropriate time to use the Whip App à la Sheldon?? no?)

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Re: My ATB Relay boast

Postby Engmomma » Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:22 am

La wrote:Love it when relay teams are so closely matched! Congrats to the girls!

But... were you in Section 122?? I never saw you and was hoping to say Hi! :(


We were! The guy that ran the second leg with me and I got back there only about 5 mins before D came across the finish line. We waited and watched till the guys finished, sat around till about the 3:30 mark on the clock and then got changed and left. We were quite focused on the finish :lol:

It was one heck of a race. 8)
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Re: My ATB Relay boast

Postby Engmomma » Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:22 am

Miss*Smiles wrote:Boom Bam Baby!

I knew you had it in you girls! Look at that!

(this would be an appropriate time to use the Whip App à la Sheldon?? no?)

:ymhug:


Totally. Can't wait for the ensuing trash talk on Wed night.
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Re: My ATB Relay boast

Postby ceileigh » Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:33 am

Love it! Girls rule indeed! :D

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Postby scrumhalfgirl » Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:44 am

way to go! I wondered how you girls were doing as I ran by the relay exchanges yesterday. Sorry I missed you this weekend!
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Re: My ATB Relay boast

Postby La » Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:10 am

Engmomma wrote:
La wrote:Love it when relay teams are so closely matched! Congrats to the girls!

But... were you in Section 122?? I never saw you and was hoping to say Hi! :(


We were! The guy that ran the second leg with me and I got back there only about 5 mins before D came across the finish line. We waited and watched till the guys finished, sat around till about the 3:30 mark on the clock and then got changed and left. We were quite focused on the finish :lol:

It was one heck of a race. 8)

Were you there before the race? I was also there from 2:55 until about 3:40 on the clock, but I was over in section 120 for a lot of that time (other than going over to talk to Mark and James).
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Re: My ATB Relay boast

Postby Engmomma » Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:31 am

We were not there before the race. Since there was so many of us we decided to drive to the relay points. We essentially kicked our first leg runners out at Copps and headed to the relay points. Now that was an adventure all unto itself. We managed to get back to the 10k point before the race started but it was close. :shifty: They shut the road down shortly after we got there.
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Re: My ATB Relay boast

Postby Jwolf » Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:55 am

Congratulations! Sounds like a fun relay.
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Postby AndyM » Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:48 pm

Yay, way to rock it!

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Re: My ATB Relay boast

Postby Sir Crashalot » Mon Mar 26, 2012 4:06 pm

Nice!
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