The race requires that 100 women run - no one is allowed to run more than one of the miles. That’s not even the average pace for the average person who runs track,” he said. The Guinness World Record for the fastest mile run by a woman is 4:12, but to have 100 different women consecutively miles at a 5:37 average is still no small feat. Sax, the relay director, said that based on everyone’s mile times, the group is on schedule to beat that record, but it’s going to be a challenge. This year, 100 San Francisco women will try to break the record again. “This is a great thing for runners and for San Francisco.”Ī T-shirt from the 1977 women’s 100 x 1-mile relay race, at which the runners set a world record. “I think we’ll make it,” Lavelle, a third-generation San Franciscan, said. Saturday’s runners, organized by Shawn Sax with the San Francisco Road Runners Club as well as the Dolphin South End Runners Club, are aiming to shave a second or two off that average pace. The most recent record, broken by the Canadian Women’s Miler’s Club in 1999, is 9 hours, 23 minutes and 39 seconds - about a 5:38 mile pace. On Saturday, Lavelle, now 62, along with a new team of 100 total San Francisco women, will attempt to break that record for a fourth time at San Francisco State’s Cox Stadium - the same location it was in 1977.
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