Rank Strangers in the Madison-Chicago relay

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Hood To Coast gambit for Rank Strangers

Rank Strangers will enter the Oct. 10 lottery for admission to Hood To Coast (HTC) in Oregon, the largest relay in the world. The race is Aug. 23-24, 2013. We should know by the end of October whether we have a spot in the 2013 race.

11/8/2012 Email from Hood To Coast -- Thank you for taking the opportunity to submit a team entry in the 32nd annual Hood To Coast Relay. Your team’s application was one of over 2,000 postmarked on “Opening Day” of registration.

Unfortunately, your team was not one of the 1,050 teams drawn for the 2013 lottery. The Hood To Coast Relay has filled the team limit for the past 22 years.

Background

Race dates are August 23-24, 2013. Known as "The Mother of All Relays", HTC is the largest relay in the world, hosting a capped team limit for the past 20 years, and has filled on "Opening Day" of registration for the past 14 years. The 199 mile race Hood To Coast starts at scenic Timberline Lodge (elevation 6,000 ft.), on top of Oregon's tallest mountain, Mt. Hood (11,234 ft) and ends on the sandy beach at the Pacific Ocean in Seaside, Oregon. Race website

Runner budget
Shared motel (2 nights) $120
Airfare $550
Share of other race expenses $241
Total $911

(Does not include meals)

Rank Strangers in Chicago Half Marathon

Congratulations to Rank Strangers Renee Roux, Reggie Hill and Kim Hill who ran the Chicago half marathon today (9/9/2012). There were 14,023 finishers (5,948 male, 8,075 female).

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

2005 Stranger on the run

Keith Dudding, star of the inaugural (2005) Rank Stranger outing pictured in the in the 1.1 mile run run in the annual Mud Mountain event at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). Keith has traded running for bicycling lately. Keith is the Rank Stranger leader in single-race mileage with 28.4 miles in 2005. (Photo by Tom Atwood).