Official Final Results

After a bit of back and forth on the results, the final official results are posted at the MC200 site - 28 hours, 8 minutes and 8 seconds. We finished 35th overall out of 203 teams and 19th in the Mixed Open category out of 130 teams. I'm not sure what happened to the Mixed 50:50 category we thought we'd be in, but we're very happy with the results. Congrats team!

Final Results

Final results of the race are available. Click here. (6/14 Update - these links now seem to be broken; perhaps my comments below were echoed by other teams and adjustments are coming)

According to the results, we finished 33rd out of 197 teams in a time of 29 hours, 28 minutes and 8 seconds. Congrats to all the runners on Cheaper By the Dozen for this great result.

I do have a few comments and questions about the results though. The finishing time seems to include the "storm delay". As the runner who ran the leg coming into the transfer area where the red alert was issued, I would like to see every minute of my leg count. Based on the current results, I could have run a much more leisurely leg and we'd still have the same time!

We also seem to be lumped into the "Mixed Open" category rather than the 50/50 category since our team consisted of 6 men and 6 women. So it's my hope that the results are amended after some review. However, even if the results are not updated, this has been a great experience and it was a pleasure to run with such a fun group.

Finishing Times

You can check out the finishing times on the Estimated Race Times tab at the top of the blog or you can check it out here.

Just a note about the race times -- times were recorded by the time of day on the clock, so the pace/mile might not be entirely accurate because times were generally rounded to the minute. For example, if you finished at 12:10:32 seconds, you might have gotten a 12:10 PM finish time, cutting your time by 32 seconds. We also had a discrepancy between our clock and the race clock by a couple of minutes. Plus, we're not entirely sure how the rain delay will shake out. But you can get a general idea of how things went by the log we've kept.

We made it!

Cheaper by the Dozen has officially finished the MC200. Fearless leader gutted out an awesome last leg to bring us in under 1700 minutes (28 hours and 8 minutes unofficially), approximately 34 minutes faster than our estimated time. As you can see in the video, our whole team joined Jeff for the finish.

Final Leg is Underway

Jeff is about halfway through the final leg. We just gave him some water along the route. He looks fresh and strong. Next stop: Finish Line.

Jeff taking off after the handoff from Al

Al is Done!

Al cruised home with an awesome time of 50 minutes for his final leg. Al thinks the course may no have actually been 7.51 miles, but we'll give him the benefit of the doubt and credit him with 6:40 min/mile. Regardless, the run puts us 34 minutes ahead of our estimated finish time.

Al coming into the final handoff at Northwestern University's Ryan Field.

Al handing off to Jeff for the final leg.

Vern is Done!

After the rain delay, Vern blazed through his last leg in just under 45 minutes, finishing at 1:00PM. We're now tracking to finish 26 minutes under our estimated pace. That puts us at the finish line at 3:06PM. However, we expect that Jeff's ultra-long leg at the end might slow us down a minute or two.

Vern handing off to Al for Leg 35.

Vern getting dirty on Leg 34. Didn't know this was an offroad trail race?