[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: [G4] CCB 5k Road Race reminder

Dear Aspuruites, If you are not a runner, feel free to ignore this message. If you want to be part of the Aspuru-Guzik team on March 14th, you will need to register for the race individually. The website is: http://www.baevents.com/rasnaheireann/info1.php The cost of the race is $30 a person, but I think this includes some discounts to places with food and beverages after the race, as well as a lovely t-shirt. Once you have signed up, please let me know! Leslie -- Leslie Vogt Aspuru-Guzik Group Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lu Wang <wang29(a)fas.harvard.edu> Date: Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:10 AM Subject: [G4] CCB 5k Road Race reminder To: gradstudents(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, postdocs(a)chemistry.harvard.edu Dear All, Please let Darren Lipomi (djlipomi(a)fas.harvard.edu) know by Monday, 1/25, if a team from your lab is planning on running in the CCB 5k race. You need not have a full team yet, but we want to get the ball rolling, so start recruiting if you haven't already! The original message is below: This March will be the 4th Annual CCB Cross Country (XC) Championship! Here is how it will work: Each participating lab needs a captain, who will recruit five or more members of their lab to run the Ras na hEireann USA (Race of Ireland and the USA) on St. Patrick's Day weekend, Sunday, March 14, at 11 am in Davis Square in Somerville. Several bars and restaurants have free beer and other specials the rest of the day for runners, and we usually meet up at one of them following the race. The team with the fastest five members wins a trophy and bragging rights. Please nominate or appoint yourself a captain of your lab's team. When you have five or more members, please send me an email. You are advised to register as soon as possible, as the registration fills up several weeks ahead of time: http://www.baevents.com/rasnaheireann/info1.php Best, Darren PS. Here are the details of scoring, cut and copied from last year: We will score the race like a XC meet. We'll take the finishing place (among the CCB, not your overall place in the race) of the first five people on your team. Add the finishing places together and the team with the lowest score wins. Teams with more than five people will use the other members of their team to 'push' back the finishing places of the other teams, thus giving them a larger score. Teams with less than five people will get the 'last place' spot for each member they are missing. We'll have an award for the winning team, the top male, top female, and highest participation (we'll try to normalize so that it's a percentage of the lab, I'll look at group webpages to estimate the number of people in your lab, unless you can email me and save me the time!). _______________________________________________ G4 mailing list G4(a)chem.harvard.edu http://chem.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/g4