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Monday, April 23, 2007
27 minutes?
Each year I pick an Okansas Tio Mila team. I went over to the Tiomila web page to take a first look at the leg lengths.
I was surprised to see a 5.56 km leg with an expected winning time of just 27 minutes. No forking on the leg and it'll begin after the sun has risen. It is the 9th of 10 legs.
Nothing wrong with a relay leg like that, I guess.
I imagine that running that leg on a team that is outside of the top 75 would feel like a trail race - just glance at your map and follow the beaten down path through the terrain.
There is probably some logic to having a short, unforked leg. I guess it might make good TV coverage because you'd have a couple of exchanges in a short period of time.