Thursday, March 31, 2011

 Fastest 100 x 5 km relay: The Charlotte Running Club sets world record

CHARLOTTE, N.C., USA -- The Charlotte Running Clubsaid 100 runners ages 14 to 56 -- including three eighth graders -- completed successive 5 kilometer (3.1 mile) runs in 30:56:14 - setting the new world record for the Fastest 100 x 5 km relay .
Photo:  Charlotte's Bjorn Erik Norman runs the 95th leg of the Charlotte Running Club's relay this weekend. The club set a world record for the quickest relay by 100 different people doing successive 5K runs.
Photo by: Theoden Janes ( enlarge photo )

  The previous Guinness world record for The fastest 100 x 5 km relaywas completed in 37 hr 12 min 54 sec by the Florida Striders Track Club (USA).

  Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the fastest 100 x 10 km (6.2 mile)relay : 77 hr 17 min 25 sec, set by the Florida Striders Track Club, (USA).

  The Charlotte Running Club said 100 runners ages 14 to 56 -- including three eighth graders -- completed successive 5 kilometer (3.1 mile) runs in 30:56:14, the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer reported. 

  That's 1,250 laps on a quarter-mile track, for more than 310 miles.

  "There was always someone running ... which is impressive when you consider how cold it got and how heavy it was raining at times. There were zero breaks," said the club's social director, Emily Barrett.

Related world records:   
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Fastest running nonagenarian: 95-Year-Old Ida Keeling (Video)

Most marathons run on consecutive days: Stefaan Engels

Fastest running centenarian: Miyazaki Hidekichi

Most consecutive push-ups: wrestler Munir Ahmed

Fastest Human Crab Walker: Cameron Jones

Oldest female marathon finisher: Gladys Burrill

Largest Resistance Band Class: Sheraton New York

Most marathons in a year: Yolanda Holder

Largest physical education class: Ga. students

Most fitness records broken in a day: Stephen Buttler

Longest distance run in 365 days: Serge Girard

Fastest Mile in a Bomb Suit: SSG Eric Johnson

Longest distance run in seven days on a treadmill: Mimi Anderson

Fastest Lunge Mile: Jamasen Rodriguez

11 marathons in 11 days : Kalyn Jolivette

Fastest mile in a bomb suit: SSgt Owen Duff

Youngest coach of an Olympic women's marathon winner: Valeriu Tomescu

Oldest Olympic women's marathon winner: Constantina Dita

Longest Non-stop walking hill marathon: Emil Ilic

Fastest 10K race: Hillary Kimaiyo

Highest Standing Box Jump: Ryan Moody

Fastest mile in a bomb suit: Lt. Jonathan Kehoe

Longest solo run around US perimeter: Reza Balunchi

Most people running in a "Stiletto Sprint'': Australia

Thursday, March 31, 2011