Running Naked

Today was the second USAFit/Philly Prediction Run. We began this tradition (?) last year on the final meeting of the year. It's a way to let everyone run free of watches and other timing devices. This was not an easy task for some. In particular, Dan begged us at first to let him keep his watch in his pocket if he promised not to look at it. He really wanted to know his stats. In the end, he left his watch in the car and as you see below came within 1 minute and 14 seconds of his predicted time. Nice job.

Jason and Ryan started everyone off with a 10 to 1 countdown.

After the yellow group was all in it appeared that Tom and Gabby were 1st and 2nd with a difference of 14 and 24 seconds respectively. In the orange/red runners Mary, Elaine, Anne and John all came in less than a minute of their predicted time at 23, 25, 28 and 31 seconds respectively. Nice job all. So in the end Mary edged out Gabby by 1 second to take second place among the runners. In the walker category, Mike came in first with a differential of  2 minutes 40 seconds and Swati was second at 3 minutes 32 seconds. The record is 4 seconds held by Steve B in 2010. Perhaps we will have to have a challenge to beat that next year!

First place in each category recieves free 2012 membership with USAFit/Philly and second place in each category recieved a $25 gift certificate to the Running Place.

And here are the results. First number is the prediction; second numer is the actual.

RUNNER DIVISION


Abigail 53:30 53:06

Aimee 1:11:17 1:02:14

Amanda 57:30 54:46

Anne 1:07:23 1:06:55

Dan 56:30 55:16

Elaine 1:15:00 1:15:25

Gabby 57:59 55:16

John T 1:07:22 1:07:52

Mary 1:15:00 1:15:23

Mel 1:05:57 1:02:14

Tom 56:00 55:46

WALKER DIVISION

Brian 1:21:00 1:27:11

Candy 2:00:00 1:48:26

Carmena 1:31:00 1:25:45

Mary 1:30:00 1:26:26

Mike 1:22:00 1:20:40

Pauline 1:40:00 1:26:26

Swati 1:30:00 1:26:28