WSU 100k Relay Race Reviews
Link to Web Site: PRR
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Date of Run: 6 Apr 2004
Reviewed By: Mullet Blue Monkey
Comments: This is a great relay race. You can do it solo if you are a crazy monkey...but we like the team feel of it. There are a lot of teams and a lot of fun people. One fun part is the weather, some years it is perfect, and other years it is typical Palouse weather...changing every leg. We had a brisk cold start, then driving snow, then driving rain, then it got hot at the end! The course gives a smattering of palouse scenery, from the quiet back roads among the rolling hills and old barns, to precipitous descents and ascents in and around the Snake River Canyon. Few of the legs are flat, but some are within 200ft+/- of being flat. Hope you like hills.
Link to Web Site: PRR
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Date of Run: 2 Apr 2006
Reviewed By: Foo
Comments: This year we had 3 teams: a speedy team, a fun team and a wheel of death team. We made this vertically-oriented (and somewhat smaller) wheel of fortune and mounted it to the Blue Monkey Barrel. 5 runners on the team signed up for two legs apiece, but the wheel determined which legs. It was completely possible for a runner to get two legs in a row (Foo got legs 2 and 3). And some runners got a pair of tough legs (Dozer got legs 4 and 6). From the day we dreamed up the wheel, months before the race, Dozer had the leg 6 cloud hanging over his head. He was sure he would get leg six. And he did. I think he started running before the wheel stopped.
Anyhow, the wheel team had a lot of fun, but it wasn't much fun having the three teams so far apart from each other. NEXT YEAR we plan to have 3 or more wheel of death teams. Members will sign up for as many legs as they wish, and pick which legs they will not run (No leg 3 for me -- I hate that downhill). When the first runner arrives, he/she spins 3 times, and the slowest of the three spun runnersw starts first. When the next monkey arrives, the middle-speed runner goes, and last is the speediest of the three. In this way we keep all the runners together.