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Yep did it as a group of 4 of us back in 2018. This is what we did, none of us knew each other and it was a bit of a last min cobbling together of a team, seem to remember we did ok in the rankings and all ran 30+ miles. The aim is to have someone on the course at all times and not faff about with the handover:
- Decide on a running order and make sure everyone knows when they are expected in the start pen to handover from the previous runner.
- Decide what you do when you finish a lap and there is no one to hand over to (lap times are shown on a board so if someone is late they will be able to see when their mate finished the prev lap - but this is not in the handover pen). We opted to run a 2nd lap if this happened but it never came to it.
- Keep a note of lap times in camp, so you can get an idea of how people are faring and if your "running slot" might have slipped/moved up
- Let ppl know if you are going for food etc. so someone can step in if you are not back in time to run
- Decide where you will ALL stand for the handover. Some teams have big inflatable flamingoes, lights etc to make themselves more visible to the incoming team member but even these can get lost in the sea of inflatable crap. If you're always in the same place then there is only one place to look and if your team mate isn't there then see point 2.
We used a red bike light at night to help in the dark and had pretty seamless handovers. You'll see a lot of runners wasting time looking for their mates. - We ran a double lap at night to give people time for a bigger chunk of sleep. I had the graveyard shift so my sleep was pretty broken but ...
- I had a shower at 5am when there were no queues, felt amazing and got back into bed nice and warm to doze for a bit longer
- I treated it like an ultra and ate something after every lap, made sure I was drinking plenty throughout the day. It was pretty hot in 2018 (I think that's when I did it)
- Decide on a running order and make sure everyone knows when they are expected in the start pen to handover from the previous runner.
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Me and my usual Sunday run group just signed up to endure 24…
It’s really just as a bit of fun but 5 of us all around the 3hr marathon mark, should be fun most of us are doing a spring marathon and then racing shorter distance tris including an Olympic the weekend before…
Anyone ever done it as a team before and any advice in strategies?
My thinking is that we would want to do some longer stints first off, and then do shorter ones once it’s dark, and then see where we all are come morning time…
We have two camper vans in the group so hopefully sorted for sleep/food but deffo planning on taking the pizza oven!