PENN RELAYS CONTEST

For those of you who are going to the Penn Relays this weekend, you're going to see a lot of miles run.

How many, you ask me?

No. How many, I ask you.

A Penn Relays T-shirt goes to the one of you who comes closest to the total number of miles that will have been run (and racewalked and wheelchair sprinted) at the 2007 Penn Relays when the event closes Saturday night.

E-mail me your guesses at zlevine@sas.upenn.edu by (DEADLINE EXTENDED) 10 a.m. on Thursday.

Here are the details:

This is not played by "The Price is Right" rules. Just the one of you who is closest, whether you miss high or low.

The Distance Classic counts. The decathlon and heptathlon count. Hurdles and the steeplechase count. And remember, the racewalks and wheelchair races count.

No field events count, so I don't want to hear about running starts in the long jump.

No event at a level younger than high school counts.

If a runner or relay team gets a DNF, they still count as having run the full distance of the race. However if a team doesn't start the race, add a big, fat zero to the total.

1 mile = 1.609 kilometers. No more decimal places.