Come out and celebrate your hard work and see who will take home the boot on February 9, 2012!
Cadillac Bar
1802 Shepherd Drive
Houston, Texas 77007
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Who: ABB Team Challenge participants, friends, family...everyone!
Team results will be announced online, Friday, February 10, following the ABB Team Challenge Party. Winners will be notified by this Friday, January 27.
Be a part of the 2012 ABB Team Challenge and battle your friends and colleagues for the coveted "boot!"
Promoting fitness and fundraising, the ABB Team Challenge is a FREE, exciting opportunity for registered participants in the 2012 Chevron Houston Marathon, Aramco Houston Half Marathon and El Paso Corporation 5K to create teams to compete against each other.
There are four types of teams:
- All marathon participants
- All half marathon participants
- All 5K participants
- Mixed category (at least one runner from each of the three events: marathon, half marathon and 5K)
Group Categories:
In addition to awards being given to the top teams in each of the four types, awards will also be given to the top team (irrespective of type) in each of the following groups:
- Houston Area Running Club
- Friends/Family
- Police/Fire Department
- Military Service
- Nonprofit Organization
- School Group
- Small Company under 500 employees
- Large Company over 500 employees
- Energy Company
- Open/Other
Teams must have a minimum of three members and a maximum of six members.
All ABB Team Challenge participants will have access to PRIVATE RESTROOMS race morning!
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 early February 2012.
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 for each type and 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.
For more information, please visit ABB at www.abb.com. | 
