Sorry to see Franziska (busy today), Daniel and Yoshi go - it was good to have them take part in our events ! All the best !
Comebacks of the day: Andrew joined again after more than 13 years, Ruth after more than 4 years.
Merry Christmas and quiet and relaxing holidays to everybody !
The rules in a nut shell: Before the race, a lottery takes place to establish the s&h-teams. If there are fewer ladies than men, the ladies do the drawing and vicaversa.
The times of the partners are added for the team ranking. In case of identical sums, the lady's time counts.
Record participation for 5k time trials: 39 runners did not want to miss Michio's farewell run, and he shook hands with all of them.
Score in the father/son competition: 2:0 for the Aschenbrenners.
Congratulations to Mayra and Alexa who were the only ones today to improve their PR.
Once again, there were a few victims who got lost when doing the Fachingslauf (5k time trial but clockwise), but eventually everybody made it to the finish line.
At minus 6 degrees, participants were singing a birthday song to the timer and therefore duly received a Krapfen after the run.
Before the event was started, we kept a minute of silence for two of our fellow-runners:
Ed Johnson died on 7th September unexpectedly of heart failure. He had been working for UNIDO and was one of the early members of the club.
Steve Edminster passed away peacefully on 9th September after longer illness. He has been the club's president for many years, and when he retired from that function he became our honorary president.
Ed and Steve: we will miss you.
Since there is nothing anymore to qualify for and due to the heat, it was decided to do a 5k time trial instead of the 10k Qualification Run. Looked like everybody appreciated it.
New Course Record by Jesse improving Matt's record by 9 seconds !
Christina, the initiator of this Faschings run - 5k clockwise - was on a ski trip, but everyone else managed to find the course even if it looks different from the other side. Fasching is over already, but we had Zorro and Mickey Mouse participating.
Due to heavy snowfall it was decided to slightly change the course staying on the cleaner main road, but thus we ended up with a distance of approx. 5120 m according to GPSs. Sorry if that made you miss a PR (Margaret, Jesse, Maxime ?) !
After the run, former VICRunner Peter Smith's famous "flapjacks" were distributed to participants.