Palmetto 200 Relay

Mar 9, 2018 · 1 min read
running

A 200-mile relay across South Carolina with a team of 6 runners and one driver. Team USASOCKS, led by COL Chris Forsythe and LTC Jason Perez. My first taste of ultra-distance running.

Each runner took about four legs of roughly 8 miles each, with van time in between. Getting out of a van to run hard after sitting for hours was a different kind of difficult.

Team USASOCKS

Team: USASOCKS - “We’re So Money” Distance: 200 miles (team relay) Team Time: 25:58:43 Avg Pace: 7:31/mi Overall Place: 17th (Ultra Open division)

Relay Ultra South-Carolina
Austin Semmel
Authors
Austin Semmel
Army Officer | PhD, Operations Research
Army officer and operations researcher at the United States Military Academy. I hold a Doctor of Philosophy in Operations Research from NC State University. Using daily flight data from AH-64 Apache units, my dissertation characterized the latent decision structures and trade-offs that drive operational readiness. I developed interpretable, data-driven modeling frameworks that translate complex system behaviors into decision support tools for resource-constrained environments. I teach probability, statistics, and mathematical modeling to cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point.