Today's race was part of Matthew's interval training - he repeated the mile afterwards twice in approx. the same time or even a little faster.
PRs for the Chrises only.
Wilma has not missed a VICRunners event since last year's July triathlon.
The old saying "they never come back" certainly does not apply for the VICRunners - Peter Grimsditch (former UNOV and IAEA staff member) is here on a visit from Geneva and joined us again after almost 9 years.
Welcome to Nicole, Wasan and Chris who took part for the first time today and hopefully are not discouraged - the mile distance is very demanding and not easy to start with.
Congratulations to Julia for rank number 5 in the mile top 100 and to Alain for his only PR !
In today's historic mile race, we saw a VR (VIC record for staff members) by newcomer Matthew, a CR (course record = best time including those of guests) by Beate and many PRs (personal records). The previous VR for men (4:46) was held by Christian CHABERT for almost 20 years, CR is 4:31 run by Hasan TARIQ in 1986. The previous best for ladies (5:53) set up by Liz ROEHRIG had held for more than 15 years.
The number of PRs achieved shows that all team members and guests were fighting hard in this first part of the 3rd VIC Games. Quite a number of improvements in the top 100, Beate missed Liz's record by two seconds.
A close finish is to be expected for gold between IAEA and CTBTO in the men's competition. Ladies: everything is still possible.
For today's mile run, timers were recruited in Donaupark 5 minutes before the race, and they did a great job - thank you to Olena, Ferdinand and Robert ! During the race the friendly garden ladies watched our equipment bag and jackets. Very close finish in the race: the first four runners within 4 seconds.
In contrast to last week nobody needed woolen cap or gloves today. We had 20 degrees, perfect for the mile.
Terrain was icy - one of the timers had a little accident already on the way to Donaupark; the x-ray did not reveal anything serious, however. Because of the surface conditions we modified the course a little bit. No PRs, but Bernd in his first mile made it to the Top 100.
First victory for Harald in a VICRunners event, and more PRs by Mario, Frank, Gerald and Andrea (female) in this rainy race.
Luckily there were four timers - two to record the times and two to hold the umbrellas.
Thirteen teams registered for the 2nd VICGames ! Many PRs resulted in new entries in the mile top 100 list. Beate is the second lady in VICRunners' history to run a mile under 6 minutes. Very strong: CTBTO Men_s middle distance specialists _ will they be able to defend the lead on Thursday ? Nada could not make it today, but will join her team in the 10k run. Please check the team rating at the bottom of this table.
This was as announced Jalil's 50th (!) mile run with the VICRunners - a lonely record. With her PR Beate jumped to rank 5 in the top 100 list equalizing Ann Macheck's time from 3 years ago. Seven seconds faster and she would have been the second female VICRunner doing a sub-6 minutes mile after Liz Roehrig back in 1990.