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One. Hundred. One. Laps.
That's how much I walked at Relay for Life (25.25 miles). I essentially started at 7:15pm, I took maybe 1.5 hours of breaks total, and I ended at 6am. I timed myself as doing a 6 minute slow lap walking, with jogging speed being roughly twice that, and I budgeted my time to jog sometimes and walk sometimes. I got a little trophy at 85 laps, but then I realized I had enough time left to aim for 100. My legs hurt for a long time, but it felt really worth it. When a particularly good song would come on (Mortal Kombat theme, Boten Anna, Castles in the Sky, Ecstasy by Io, Time Warp, and a couple others), I'd try to run more and act like a fool, and it was a lot of fun.
Congrats also to Mark and Sharon (contrasedative). They both started earlier than I did and finished 85 laps by around 3:30am. There were some other good walkers too, and you guys made me feel a lot more motivated.
There were some other cute things that happened during the event. One group offered DDR games for money as a team fundraiser, so I bought all-you-can-play-during-the-relay for $5 and played around 20 songs total. I still got an A on DDR Max's 10 footer (Max 300) after walking 4.5 laps! Also, there were a couple eating contests I participated in. I won the event of eating 5 Chips Ahoy cookies as fast as possible. In the hotdog eating contest, my hotdogs were really hot, which kept me from being able to finish the first of two quickly, but that's alright.
Oh, and some random statistics: the event fundraised around $49,600, easily twice of what last year earned. The highest lap count was 130, by one girl who ran a lot of the laps.
My legs hurt so much afterward that I didn't trust myself to drive home. I instead napped in the APhiO office (yay for them having a footstool thingy!) I got home maybe half an hour ago. I'll have to hit up the hot tub on campus in a bit.
That's how much I walked at Relay for Life (25.25 miles). I essentially started at 7:15pm, I took maybe 1.5 hours of breaks total, and I ended at 6am. I timed myself as doing a 6 minute slow lap walking, with jogging speed being roughly twice that, and I budgeted my time to jog sometimes and walk sometimes. I got a little trophy at 85 laps, but then I realized I had enough time left to aim for 100. My legs hurt for a long time, but it felt really worth it. When a particularly good song would come on (Mortal Kombat theme, Boten Anna, Castles in the Sky, Ecstasy by Io, Time Warp, and a couple others), I'd try to run more and act like a fool, and it was a lot of fun.
Congrats also to Mark and Sharon (contrasedative). They both started earlier than I did and finished 85 laps by around 3:30am. There were some other good walkers too, and you guys made me feel a lot more motivated.
There were some other cute things that happened during the event. One group offered DDR games for money as a team fundraiser, so I bought all-you-can-play-during-the-relay for $5 and played around 20 songs total. I still got an A on DDR Max's 10 footer (Max 300) after walking 4.5 laps! Also, there were a couple eating contests I participated in. I won the event of eating 5 Chips Ahoy cookies as fast as possible. In the hotdog eating contest, my hotdogs were really hot, which kept me from being able to finish the first of two quickly, but that's alright.
Oh, and some random statistics: the event fundraised around $49,600, easily twice of what last year earned. The highest lap count was 130, by one girl who ran a lot of the laps.
My legs hurt so much afterward that I didn't trust myself to drive home. I instead napped in the APhiO office (yay for them having a footstool thingy!) I got home maybe half an hour ago. I'll have to hit up the hot tub on campus in a bit.