Weekend Racing

Obviously, the Cuke Patch 5K is this weekend (Saturday / Mt. Olive / 8AM), as is the Run for Our Heroes (Saturday / Raleigh / 9AM). On Sunday, the FAST Coaching / RRO edition of the Titus van Rijn 1-Hour Track Run will take place at the Martin Middle School track at 6:30AM. The rules are simple... see how far you can run on an hour (around a track). Think that's it (as a side note, the first thing that popped up when I googled how to spell Titus van Rijn was this wikipedia article).

So, for world record Friday, I tried to find an interesting record about pickles... there really weren't any. So, then I looked up some interesting 1hr records (in descending order from truly impressive to really bizarre):

• 1-armed push-ups: 1868 (Paddy Doyle, 1993)
• Cycling without hands: 23.25 miles (Erik Skramstad, 2009)
• Pancakes made by an individual: 956 (Steve Hamilton, 2009)
• Haircuts under water: 27 (David Rae, 2007)
• Times to jump into a pair of underpants: 234 (Kevin Velaiden, 2009)