More than 200 employees participated in the CUIMC Team Relay Marathon at The Armory last week. At the relay race event, which also included teams outside of Columbia, teams of two to eight runners took turns running a combined 26.2 miles on The Armory's 200-meter indoor track. CUIMC had 32 teams of 208 runners competing in the medical & health care division.
Sophie Thuault-Restituito (Team Exposomics) waves to supporters during the marathon.
Several teams that participated took home prizes. The overall winner and top women's team for the division was the Eating Disorder Research Unit (Emily Lloyd, Courtney Breiner, Cynthia Mikula, Mae Winglass, and Caroline Touzeau) in 2:57:03. The top coed team was the Columbia Population Research Center (Alex Chui and Bojana Vasikj) in 3:13:46. The top men's team was CancerBiology (Hee Won Yang, Sungsoo Kim, Wanwei Zhang, and Eugene Son) in 3:24:15.
CUIMC also set several overall event records in the medical & health care division:
- Women's Team: Eating Disorder Research Unit (2:57:03)
- Coed Team: Columbia Population Research Center (3:13:46)
- Men's 4-Person Team: CancerBiology (3:24:15)
- Women's 8-Person Team: COVID-19 Mother Baby Outcomes Study (3:41:07) (Ruiyang Xu, Imaal Ahmed, Nicole Shearman, Katrina Fuller, Jen Warmingham, Elena Arduin, Andreane Lavallee, and Marissa Lanoff)
See more photos from each day of the event.
"This event is a testament to our vibrant campus and the team spirit that brings us all together," says Neil McClure, , chief human resources officer at CUIMC. "We received an overwhelming response to the invitation, promptly filling our available spots. Gathering for a shared purpose strengthens our community and and reinforces the bonds that we have with each other and our campus, which is an important part of well-being."
The event was open to runners of all experience levels, and registration was free to Columbia employees through CUIMC's sponsorship of the event. CUIMC's sponsorship of the event also supported Armory College Prep and The Armory Foundation's youth and athletic programs.
Other CUIMC teams that participated in the relay:
- Ciccia lab (7 team members, team captain Angelo Taglialatela)
- Columbia CHD (2 team members, team captain Chris Petit)
- Columbia MSTP et al (7 team members, team captain Louie Kulber)
- Community Champions (7 team members, team captain Sandra Harris)
- Conejos Malos (7 team members, team captain Melanie Mendoza-Aguilar)
- DONGFONG (8 team members, team captain Ashley Goh)
- Exposomics (5 team members, team captain Sophie Thuault-Restituito)
- Express Mail(man) (7 team members, team captain Amey Kamdar)
- Faculty Affairs and Professionalism Trotters (8 team members, team captain Dionida Ryce)
- Follicle Flyers (5 team members, team captain Monique Waldman)
- Hot to Trot (7 team members, team captain Emily Runnoe)
- ICAP (5 team members, team captain Mirriah Vitale)
- Lab (8 team members, team captain Peihsuan Lin)
- lemon pepper steppers (7 team members, team captain Carolyn Martinez)
- Mailman on Fire (8 team members, team captain Jiawen Zhao)
- NYC Slow Girls (7 team members, team captain Annamaria Ladanyi)
- PET Runners (5 team members, team captain Srinivasa Talapaneni)
- Run2eat (8 team members, team captain Yeonoh Shin)
- RUNNING RASCALS (8 team members, team captain Nayda Pichardo)
- Running Regression Models (8 team members, team captain Michelle Lui)
- The Salient Points (6 team members, team captain Jordan Rubenstein)
- School of Nursing (8 team members, team captain Jovana Parlic)
- Team Cure Stomach Cancer (8 team members, team captain Sandra Ryeom)
- Team EH&S 2024! (8 team members, team captain Kathleen Crowley)
- TEAM MOL TOX (7 team members, team captain Eugene Kalyuskin)
- Team Neurology (8 team members, team captain Mihaela Negrutiu)
- Urine 4 Trouble (8 team members, team captain Kaitlyn Campbell)
- Winged Websters (5 team members, team captain Jarrod Bogue)
References
The next team relay marathon at The Armory will be held next spring. More information will be available this fall.
