The backyard run: eight runners still to
Eight runners are still in the track in the backyard race that started in Askjahlíð yesterday morning and they have completed 31 laps. Competitors run 6.7 kilometers as often as they can and have an hour to finish the ring at any given time.
« There are eight runners in the track and are finishing circle number 31, which is a complete record in such a public competition, » says Elísabet Margeirsdóttir, runner at the Nature Run.
Elizabeth expects the race will not end until tomorrow, but 203 runners set off at 9 am yesterday morning.
« Last year, three runners were still on the road at the same time but now they are eight. It ended in 50 laps last year and we can totally expect them to be more now than then, » she says.
Runners get an hour to run 6.7 kilometers and get to take advantage of the leftover time at rest. Then they set off in the next lap.
Photo/Guðmundur Freyr
She says that conditions are perfect in Askjahlíðin when each ring starts at all over time and competitors need to be in the channel and run when the bell rings on the next whole time, otherwise they are judged from the competition.
The Icelandic record in the backyard is 62 rings, but Thorleifur Thorleifsson put it in Ellidaárdalur last October.
Conditions are perfect in Askjahlíð.
Photo/Guðmundur Freyr
