TATUR Estim8ur

Predict your time. No watches, iPods, cell phones, Garmins or other electronic devices allowed.

Winners are those whose finishing time is the closest to their estim8ed time. Anyone can win this race!

Finally a race that any of you can win!!!! Yes that's right, even the slowest spud out there has a good chance of coming in first place at this race. How you ask?

This race will be eight miles or 4 miles on a course that you will not know until race time. It most likely will have mostly road, some grass, and some dirt trail on it. If it does contain trails they will be fairly tame and you will not need trail shoes. However, if you are new to trail running you should allot a little more time as you may need to slow down a bit.

The kicker is that every participant will be stripped of their watches, phones, iPods, Garmins, sundials, and any other device that could be used to tell time with. Then, if you have not done so already, you will submit the time that you think it will take you to run the eight or four mile course. For example, you may think that you can usually maintain a 11 minute/mile pace for eight miles, so you would write down 88 minutes and 16 seconds (bathroom break).

All participants will wear their estim8ed finshing times on their backs. We will then send you off and the winner will be the one whose finishing time is closest to their predicted time. There will be a two hour time limit (15:00/mile pace). The NON Awards Ceremony will begin at 9 a.m. sharp or as soon as the last official runner finishes.

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Participants will wear a bib on their back which will have their estimated time on it. As you pass or get passed, try not to let this influence your pace, or then again, maybe you should let this influence your pace.

The race will be four or eight miles (measured by a Garmin 205) . Visit the website to see who registered in 2009 and see what estim8ed times they predicted.

Bring the kids, spouse and even the leashed dog. We are still looking for a sponsor to help off set the costs of the permits, insurance, and aid station food. Please email brian@tatur.org if you know of anyone who may like to sponsor this race.

Entry fee will include a shirt and aid station food. Fee is $25 payable to TATUR. Any proceeds from this race will go toward trail improvements at Turkey Mtn. There will also be a donations jar if you would like to help TATUR upkeep and expand our wonderful trail system. We are putting on this race with no sponsors, therefore, we are sorry to say there will be no awards, fanfare, frills, or whining. Just some old fashioned fun. Tech shirts to the first 100 people to sign up!!! We are expecting to fill up early so get your entries in quickly!!!
Visit the website at: www.tatur.org/TaturEstim8tur.html

Race Director
Brian Hoover
brian@tatur.org
918-244-6918