The Tricycle Relay race is one of the most competitive events of the indoor games of Spirit Week 2008.

Returning Spirit Week 2007 participants were seniors Matt Ashley and Ali Hamlin, a pair who was not ready to let the underclassmen take the title away from them.

"We have the same returning team, and we won last year," Ashley told The Tiger Transcript minutes before the event. "I think we can do well."

Event judges were I.H.S. teachers Jeff Krieger, Mike Fitzgerald, Blake Ingram, Colleen Werner, Tom Gallagher, and Greg Chmura.

Krieger sounded confident and almost too sure of himself when he said: "The Juniors will win, Seniors are too big.”

What Krieger didn't realize was the seniors had the biggest tricycle followed by the Juniors who had the medium-size. The freshmen and sophomores rode "dirty" on the mini tricycles. The tricycles are given to each class at the luck of the draw.

“The seniors are obviously going to win, they have the best tricycle” says John Eldredge, a sophomore spectator.

Rules required participants to keep feet off the ground and only use the peddles to move while weaving around the cones and back before passing the bike off to the next person in the relay.

As the relay had begun, the juniors were off to a great start, while freshman and sophomore racers struggled to finish their first lap. The seniors got off to a slow but steady approach at the start of the relay. The juniors, with help from Robbie Dick, seemed unstoppable during the first few laps at the speed they were going but that was all about to change as a few inexperienced tricycle participants struggled to peddle their way faster.

The seniors eventually caught up to the juniors, who at one point had a lap lead over them. The freshman and sophomores were in a race for third place with their mini tricycles, only until tragedy struck with the sophomores: their tricycle fell apart into pieces, starting with the handle bars and then the wheel but was fixed quite quickly. At that point, senior Lauren Cox had passed the juniors, and the seniors ultimately lapped them. It was evident the seniors had won, followed by the juniors not that far behind.

The freshman and sophomore relay teams were doing whatever they could to finish at that point; running with it, using their feet, and not weaving around the cones which were mainly the rules that needed to be followed. Brendan Gallagher, a Sophomore participant who took a spill off the tricycle did not seem happy with the results of his team. Eventually, the judges ruled the relay over because of the cheating and the Freshman and Sophomores were ruled as not finished because of disqualification.

After the relay, senior spectator Chris Ross said: “I thought we were going to win, as long as we didn’t get the small tricycle.”

That was the outcome of the race, and the Seniors had earned their class a large portion of points for first place.