3 Texas teams complete the 199-mile The Relay
Last weekend, Friday-Saturday, April 8-9, three (3) Texas teams completed the 199-mile "The Relay" road race which traveled from Calistoga to Santa Cruz, California.
The Cypress Steppers from Lucas, Texas - a team captained by Douglas Erlemann from Cypress Semiconductors - covered the 199 miles in 23:39:53 which represented a 7:08/mile pace and was good enough to finish 4th among 106 teams.
It is the third straight year that Cypress Semiconductors has sent a team to the race. Two years ago, the Cypress Steppers were 52nd of 241 finishing teams in a time of 26:51:11. Undergoing a name change last year, the Po' Monkeys with Inverted Chains team was 17th of 238 teams and had sliced their time by over two hours to 24:23:37.
However, it wasn't a Texas record.
The mark belonged to a Dallas, Texas-based team called "Texas Twelve" that was captained by Elley Spangler in 2002 as a mixed team, which had to contain between 6-to-11 women. The squad finished in 23:49:15.
This weekend's trio of teams, including the Dallas Hill Wranglers and the HCSS Heavy Haulers from Houston, become the 24th-26th teams ever to finish from Texas. 2001 and 2002 were high water-mark years when seven (7) teams each finished.
The Dallas Hill Wranglers were 59th in a time of 30:00:07 while the HCSS Heavy Haulers, captained by Houston Running Blogger Dalton Pulsipher, was 79th with a time of 30:50:35. The Heavy Haulers team consisted of: Blake Driskill, John Lassig, Frank Banglian, Mike Rydin, Tom Webb, Brian Gomez, Sifa Mvoi, Aris Tsoupros, Chris Payne-Tsoupros, Dalton Pulsipher, Scott Goff and Dan Pruitt.
The Cypress Steppers from Lucas, Texas - a team captained by Douglas Erlemann from Cypress Semiconductors - covered the 199 miles in 23:39:53 which represented a 7:08/mile pace and was good enough to finish 4th among 106 teams.
It is the third straight year that Cypress Semiconductors has sent a team to the race. Two years ago, the Cypress Steppers were 52nd of 241 finishing teams in a time of 26:51:11. Undergoing a name change last year, the Po' Monkeys with Inverted Chains team was 17th of 238 teams and had sliced their time by over two hours to 24:23:37.
However, it wasn't a Texas record.
The mark belonged to a Dallas, Texas-based team called "Texas Twelve" that was captained by Elley Spangler in 2002 as a mixed team, which had to contain between 6-to-11 women. The squad finished in 23:49:15.
This weekend's trio of teams, including the Dallas Hill Wranglers and the HCSS Heavy Haulers from Houston, become the 24th-26th teams ever to finish from Texas. 2001 and 2002 were high water-mark years when seven (7) teams each finished.
The Dallas Hill Wranglers were 59th in a time of 30:00:07 while the HCSS Heavy Haulers, captained by Houston Running Blogger Dalton Pulsipher, was 79th with a time of 30:50:35. The Heavy Haulers team consisted of: Blake Driskill, John Lassig, Frank Banglian, Mike Rydin, Tom Webb, Brian Gomez, Sifa Mvoi, Aris Tsoupros, Chris Payne-Tsoupros, Dalton Pulsipher, Scott Goff and Dan Pruitt.
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