Pro Football Hall of Fame Gold Jacket by the Numbers

30 Buses used to shuttle runners from the parking lot to the start and back again and also to and from relay points.

11 Average number of minutes for one-way bus commute

7276 Runners who need to ride the buses

The explanation for all of these numbers was pretty simple when I was sitting in front of the spreadsheet and Jim explained it to me, but honestly, this isn’t a simple task at all. A race director has to calculate the number of runners, the time of the commute, and the number of seats on a bus (68) in order to figure out how to get every runner to the starting line in time to race. What I learned from his explanation of transportation was to GET TO THE PARKING LOT ON TIME!!! I have fear-of-parking issues anyway, so that won’t be a problem for me. I intend to be at Belden Village by 5:00.

167,040 Ounces of fluids (water or Gatorade) needed for aid stations on the course, which come from 5 gallon bottles delivered fresh from the water supplier! No sipping out of a hose or fire hydrant! There are four fluid ounces in each runner’s cup, so Jim multiplies the number of runners by four to get this figure. Statistically, seventy percent of runners take water, and fifty percent of runners take Gatorade. Temperatures could change this, of course, as more runners will need more fluids on a very hot day.

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