Over at the Puck Daddy Blog on Yahoo Greg Wyshynski is covering 40 Canadian Women Who are raising money for charity, and trying to set the record for the longest hockey game…
“Around Day 3, people started to slow down a bit,” said Beth Snow, 34. “But we’re still playing hard. I thought we’d be doing a lot more floating.”
On Aug. 26 at the Burnaby 8 Rinks in British Columbia, 40 women split up into two teams and began competing in what they hope will be the longest continuous hockey game ever played — one that’s streaming live on the Internet 24 hours a day.
The current record was set in Edmonton during 10 days back in February, a charity effort that raised money for the city’s Cross Cancer Institute. The final whistle in Burnaby will sound on Sept. 5; should their efforts be validated by Guinness World Records, the players will have beaten that Edmonton record by 65 minutes.
To accomplish their goals, these women are literally living at the rink for 243 hours. Normal routines have been shattered. Bodies are blistered and aching. And if they don’t follow Guinness’s rules to the letter, they won’t set a world record.
Yet beyond pride and competitive fire, there’s something else driving them: The desire to raise awareness and money to fight Cystic Fibrosis, and honor the memory of those who lost their battle with it.
Full article after the jump.
Think you could skate for 10+days??
