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Friday, January 18, 2008

Texas Independence Relay Leg Strategy

On our team, we now have two votes for van switching! :)

As Mr. Quarles would say, "I'm cool with that."

If you follow the traditional 1-to-12 runner rotation in the first 36 legs, here is what the mile breakdown per runner is (not including the 1.53 miles all runners will run at the beginning and the end):

Van 1
Runner 1 = 13.47 miles
Runner 2 = 14.47 miles
Runner 3 = 19.42 miles
Runner 4 = 13.96 miles
Runner 5 = 9.33 miles
Runner 6 = 16.12 miles

Van 2
Runner 7 = 19.74 miles
Runner 8 = 14.07 miles
Runner 9 = 15.04 miles
Runner 10 = 16.57 miles
Runner 11 = 15.67 miles (Captain)
Runner 12 = 14.86 miles

The last four legs (37-40) are legs of 4.4, 6.45, 3.28 and 5.31.

The question becomes: Who do you give the last four legs to? Certainly runner No. 5 would get their choice of the longer legs and then I'd go with runners No. 1, No. 4 and No. 8.

If you have ten runners only where each runner runs 4 legs and you do them in order, here's the mileage breakdown:

Van 1
Runner 1 = 24.17 miles
Runner 2 = 20.4 miles
Runner 3 = 21.59 miles
Runner 4 = 19.91 miles
Runner 5 = 16.76 miles (Captain)

Van 2
Runner 6 = 20.7 miles
Runner 7 = 22.84 miles
Runner 8 = 19.18 miles
Runner 9 = 14.99 miles
Runner 10 = 21.6 miles

Here only runners No. 5, the captain, and No. 9 get a little short-changed in miles.

Just all a part of the puzzle! :)

posted by WalkSports.com | 12:27 AM

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