Registered participants in the 2011 Chevron Houston Marathon, Aramco Houston Half Marathon and EP5K may register teams to compete against one another in the 2011 ABB Team Challenge.
There are four categories of teams:
- All marathon participants
- All half marathon participants
- All 5K participants
- Mixed category (at least one runner from one of the three events: marathon, half marathon and 5K)
Teams must have a minimum of three members and a maximum of six members.
Team Registration for the 2011 ABB Team Challenge will open in August 2010.
Points will be awarded based on individual team members' placement within their age groups. The formula for determining an individual's score is as follows:
(Place within age group) / (number of people in age group) x 1000 = individual score
The best (lowest) three individual scores from each team will then be added together to determine the team's total score. The mixed category teams will be scored by adding the lowest score from each of the three events: marathon, half marathon and 5K. For example, a team with individual scores of 90, 165, 140, 210, 170 and 120 would have a total team score of 90-120-140 = 350.
ABB will make a monetary donation in honor of the overall ABB Team Challenge winner to a local Houston charity. The donation amount and charity recipient will be announced fall 2010.
The overall winning team will be presented with "the boot" trophy honoring their outstanding performance which they may proudly display for the year before it may be passed on to the next year's winners.
Awards will also be presented to the first place teams in each category.
As one of the world's leading engineering companies, ABB helps our customers to use electrical power effectively and to increase industrial productivity in a sustainable way. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs more than 110,000 people. ABB works with its customers in these countries to engineer and install facilities and plants that enhance efficiency and productivity, and to provide them with comprehensive market and product support services as well as creative financing and risk management.
The history of ABB goes back to the late nineteenth century and is a long and illustrious record of innovation and technological leadership in many industries. Having helped countries all over the world to build, develop and maintain their infrastructures, ABB has in recent years gone over from large-scale solutions to alternative energy and the advanced products and technologies in power and automation that constitute its Industrial IT offering.
ABB employs 500 people in the Houston and surrounding areas. Houston is also home to ABB's global headquarters for its Process Automation Division.
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