Last Sunday, Julie and I had the privilege of participating in the annual cross island relay race. It is a road race that essentially crosses the entire island of Grand Cayman.  Teams have six runners each and each runner does 4 miles.

The course looks like this. Is starts in the east (left) and runners make their way all the way to George Town along the southern coast of the island.  The roads remain open to traffic, but as expected, it was very light on this Sunday morning.

The organizers must have been pleased ; there were 74 teams registered; a good number of them were corporate teams.  Start time was at 6am on Sunday. Needless to say you had to be somewhat motivated to get out of bed at +-4:30am Sunday to go running.  I guess we are 🙂  The runners waiting for the start. Even though its 6am in February, it was still a very comfortable 26 degrees at start time.

Julie ready for the start ; she ran the 1st leg which in my opinion is the best one to run ; no sun = less heat.  Also, organizers made the race east to west, so all runners had the wind to their backs. Running eastbound would have been a lot less fun.

Here I am (black back) passing the baton to the next runner in our team. We ran with four of my co-workers and finished a very respectable 27th out of 74 teams. I am very pleased with the results.

All-in-all, an really nice experience.  This race is annual and always early February. It is open to anyone, as long as you are in a team of 6.  Lots of fun and accessible to most runners, since 4-miles can be done with minimal training.   Link to the Website of the organizers of the event:   http://www.caymanhash.com/Cayman_Hash_House_Harriers/Races.html