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May / June 2011 Vol. 33, No. 2

Cover: Crowd extends along Woodward Aveue at the 2009 Detroit Susan G. Komen Racefor the Cure®. Photo courtesy of Ed Kozloff.

May - July 2011 p. 36 -54

Editor’s Notes: Dry Ice By Scott Sullivan p. 6

Detroit Komen Race for Cure Celebrates 20 Years By Dr. Edward H. Kozloff p. 8

Beyond the Chip: One for Coffee By Desiree Davila p. 16

Running Shorts with Scott Hubbard p. 20

Notes on the Run: Cutting By Daniel G. Kelsey p. 22

Medals 4 Mettle: Reaching Deep to Give By Ron Marinucci p. 28

Running Network Television Schedule 2011 - 2012 p. 30

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Michigan Runner Race Series 2011 p. 6

Hot Times, Indoor Finish at Winter Blast By Grant Lofdahl p. 18

Seaver, DiPaolo Hold Foes at “Bay” in Series Debut By Charles Douglas McEwen p. 19

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Weilers, Smith Blaze through Cold to Ridge Run Marks By Grant Lofdahl p. 29

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This year marks the 20th annual Susan G.Komen Detroit Race for the Cure. Inter-nationally, this event is the world’s

largest 5K run and walk series.

In 1982, ten years before the Detroit race,Nancy Brinker promised her dying sister, SusanKomen, that she would do everything she couldto end breast cancer forever. With only $200, shefounded the Susan G. Komen Breast CancerFoundation in her sister’s memory. Today, KomenRaces for the Cure have raised and invested morethan $1.9 billion to fulfill this promise.

In 1992, the Detroit area race was one of24 women’s 5K events held nationally. AndreaCarroll, vice-president of the Motor City Strid-ers, and Dr. Gloria Heppner of the MichiganCancer Foundation (forerunner of the BarbaraAnn Karmanos Cancer Institute) had heard ofthe races and knew Detroit should host one ofthebs. MCF became the local presenting spon-sor, beginning a longstanding partnership withKomen.

The race was scheduled for April 11,1992, at the Detroit Zoo, with the hope that

500 women would participate. The numbersoon rose to 1,000, eventually hitting 3,403 onrace day. The largest-ever Race for the Curehad been the previous year in Dallas with justover 6,000 participants. The first-year Detroitfield astounded everyone.

The race was dedicated to Alexa Kraft,one of the area’s first and fastest female run-ners. In 1976, she ran the fastest women’smarathon ever in Michigan. As an over-30-year-old mother, Kraft returned to communitycollege and became a two-time All-American.Never a drinker or smoker, she competed untilshe died of breast cancer in 1988, at age 39.Each year, the first survivor finisher receivesthe Alexa Kraft Memorial Award.

The first race in 1992 was not without con-troversy. A 23-year-old Oak Park male wanted torun and support the cause, but nationally theevent was designed as an exclusively women’sstatement about breast cancer. At this time, therewere women-only races throughout the country.Male-only races had ceased to exist in the early1970s, and the host club, The Motor City Strid-ers, was among the first in the nation to include

women in its races. As it turned out, some mendid participate unofficially in the 1992 event.

The race began in the zoo parking lot,took a partial lap around the lot, then headedout to the I-696 service drive into the city ofHuntington Woods. From there it returned tofinish at the zoo.

Ella Willis, 34, of Detroit took top honorsin 17:58. She was followed by Angela Dunn,Kraft’s ex-teammate at Macomb CommunityCollege, in 18:25. The first master was CathyPaklaian, 40, of Troy, in 20:27. The eventraised nearly $80,000.

April 17, 1993

The second-year field reached over 4,300with men now officially invited; they weretimed but not recognized or given awards.

Race officials hoped for the 70º weatherthat had graced Detroit two days earlier, but abrief, wet snow squall greeted the crowd dur-ing registration. The start was moved to the I-696 service drive and the course traced a

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similar route to the year before.

The now Angela (Dunn) Mogielski, 27, ofToledo, Ohio, paced the field in 17:55. Willisfinished fifth in 19:28. Leading the masterswas Vickie Putnam, 44, of Dearborn in 20:24.

For the men, Rick Brauer, 30, ofNorthville won in 15:50. Fred Germaine, 52,of Mt. Morris topped the masters in 18:57.Honorary race chair Michelle Engler, Michi-gan’s First Lady, presented awards to the win-ners.

April 9, 1994

Five-time Olympian and Race for the Curenational honorary chairwoman Francie Lar-rieu-Smith came to the 1994 event, which en-joyed sunshine and high-50º temperatures.

The field of 7,320 made this the largestrace in Michigan since Emily Gail’s last bigevent in 1985 and one of the largest among the45 Races for the Cure held nationally. For thefirst time, parking was a big concern, as everyspace within a mile of the zoo was taken. Ittook nine minutes for the last person to crossthe starting line after the race began.

The race was competitive up front, led bytwo star women. Former University of Michi-gan all-American Lisa Weidenbach had justmissed three U.S. Olympic marathon teams byfinishing fourth at the trials, and Ann Boydwas Michigan’s 1993 Female Runner of theYear.

They passed the mile point together in5:14. At two miles, Weidenbach clocked 10:34to Boyd’s 10:36; she held that margin to win in16:40 to Boyd’s 16:42. That women’s racerecord remains today.

The masters competition was nearly astight, as Larrieu-Smith led Nancy Graysonacross the finish line, 18:12 to 18:20. Graysonwas a multi-South Carolina record holder andformer National Runner of the Year.

Brauer again paced the men in 15:08.Mike Manor, 44, of Clio was the first masterin 18:00. The event raised $192,000 for breastcancer research and treatment.

April 22, 1995

Special registration areas were set up atseveral places a week before the race to handlethe growing number of last-minute entrants.Off-site parking arrangements were made atthe State Fairgrounds and Royal Oak’s Beau-mont Hospital. Packed buses shuttled fromearly morning until long after the finish.

These steps proved important, as the fieldgrew to 12,533. Nationally, the series was nowheld in 56 cities. The Detroit event was the sec-ond-largest of them ever.

The women’s race was closer than evenlast year’s. Laurel Park, 32, of Ann Arbor, andLaura Murphy, 31, of Rochester were within astep of each other from the start; Boyd waswith them as they reached the mile in 5:34.

Murphy was first through two miles in11:02 and still led with 150 yards to the finish.There, Park turned on the speed to edge her,17:04 to 17:05. Boyd finished 36 seconds later.

Grayson, 44, of Northville finished fifthoverall in 17:58, a new masters record. Shewas to become Michigan’s Masters Runner ofthe Year in 1995. Janis Puskar, 36, of Trentonwas the first breast cancer survivor, finishing in27:00. This was the first year the race recog-nized top survivors.

In the separate men’s race, which started ahalf-hour before the women, Rich Stark, 29, ofAnn Arbor, ran 4:50 and 9:48 mile splits enroute to winning in 15:16. He and his wife,Park, thus claimed a double victory. Guy Mur-ray, 28, of Clawson finished second in 15:20.Pat Wilson, 47, of Harrison Township pacedthe masters in 18:25.

This was the year that the Michigan Can-cer Foundation changed its name to the Kar-manos Cancer Institute. The race raised morethan $300,000.

In September, the Komen Detroit Race forthe Cure and Motor City Striders were hon-ored by the Governor’s Council on PhysicalFitness, Health and Sports as the Michigan’sAmateur Athletic Event of the Year. Jane Hoeyof Karmanos and four Strider members — An-drea Carroll, Ann Parent, Sue and Ed Kozloff— received additional honors. At year’s end,the Detroit race was the fourth largest Race forthe Cure ever.

April 20, 1996

Weather cooperated for the fifth Detroitevent, one of 65 Races for the Cure held na-tionally. The 60º temperatures allowed theFord Mustang convertible pace cars to lead thefield with their tops down.

Though for the first time there was norace-day registration, the field of 13,519 wasnearly a thousand more than last year’s.Twenty-two large shuttle buses helped lessenthe off-site parking problems of the past.

The men again started a half-hour beforethe women. Carl Rundell, 28, of Birminghamtook the lead at the mile mark and went on toedge John Springer, 34, of South Lyon, 16:26to 16:30. Wally Barnowski, 41, of Royal Oaklowered the masters record to 17:27,

Park was the class of the women’s field, top-ping runner-up Kathy Kubicki, 29, of Troy,17:46 to 18:17. Grayson again led the masterswith an 18:37 clocking, and Puskar the sur-vivors in 24:57.

April 19, 1997

Would this be the largest running eventever held in Michigan? Gail had hosted thelargest races ever seen in Detroit in the early‘80s; speculation held that those fields rangedupwards of 15,000. Private conversations withfinish-line management teams, however, re-vealed that the number of finishers was oftenhalf or less of what was recorded.

The sixth Detroit Race for the Cure drew15,643 participants, hundreds beyond the al-ready-optimistic goal set by organizers. FordMotor Co. alone had more than 1,727 em-ployees participate. Team entries totaled 3,616and breast cancer survivors 738.

At the Race for the Cure, Detroit Zoo, April 22, 1995, Laurel Park won the firstof five titles. Laura Murphy was second.

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Running under sunny skies in mid-40ºtemperatures, four men broke 16 minutes,paced by Tyler Coady, 22, of Windsor in15:32. Pete Hallop, 50, of Ann Arbor took 53seconds off the year-old masters record whenhe hit the tape in 16:34.

Park ran to her third-straight women’s vic-tory in 17:52. Kubicki, second by 31 secondslast year, and the third-place runner both fin-ished in 17:53.

Three nationally-ranked masters womencompeted. Priscilla Welch, of Longmont,Colo., was a past Olympian, winner of the1987 London and New York City marathonsand a breast cancer survivor. Also returningwere Grayson and Larrieu-Smith.

The three maintained contact throughmost of the distance, with Grayson claimingher third-straight win in 18:25 to Larrieu-Smith’s 18:45. Welch, the senior of the trio at52, finished in 19:22, a new survivor record.

April 25, 1998

Pop singer and breast cancer survivorOlivia Newton-John was among the 21,200who entered the seventh Race for the Cure edi-tion. Nationally, only two other races had everhad more participants. Newton-John had un-dergone a mastectomy in 1992 and was travel-ing to these races to not only lend her support,but participate as well.

The series had expanded to 86 cities. Here,the Ford team’s numbers jumped to 2,360 and

survivors to 933.

This was the third-straight year of greatApril weather, with sunny skies, mid-50s tem-peratures and, since this was the latest date theDetroit race had been held, sunlight earlier inthe morning.

Stark, returning for the first time sincewinning in ’95, trailed Scott Collins, 26, ofNew Baltimore by a step through mile splits of4:47 and 9:38. They were together at thethree-mile point, from where Stark sprinted towin in in a race record 14:59, just two secondsahead of Collins. Hallop repeated as masterschampion in 16:40.

Stark’s wife, Park, claimed her fourth-con-secutive women’s title in 17:04. Kathy Rinkfinished runner-up for the third-straight year in17:26. Hallop’s wife, Robin Sarris-Hallop, 42,led the masters in 18:37, 33 seconds ahead ofGrayson. Sarris-Hallop went on to be honoredby Michigan Runner magazine as the FemaleMasters Runner of the Year.

Puskar won the survivors’ crown for thethird time in four years in 24:23.

The Detroit race was the sixth largest na-tionally, missing fifth by less than 100 com-petitors. It raised a record $350,000.

April 24, 1999

To ease start-line crowding, men runnersstarted at 8 a.m. and women at 8:30. Walkersdid 4K, a new event that included a stint insidethe zoo, starting at nine. Still, the throngs over-whelmed the zoo grounds.

Collins ran splits of 4:42 and 9:42 enroute to winning in 15:17, a comfortable 47seconds ahead of Mike Holik, 28, of GrassLake. Stark, delayed by highway construction,detours and the usual parking shortage, ar-rived late but worked his way through the fieldto place eighth in 17:39. Hallop bagged histhird-straight masters win in 17:00.

Park, 36, striving for her fifth consecutivewomen’s title, led the first two miles with splitsof 5:21 and 11:09, 10 seconds ahead of Mur-phy. Murphy caught her a half-mile later andsurged to win, 17:36 to 17:41.

Sarris-Hallop was fourth overall and re-peated as masters winner in 18:09. Puskaragain paced survivors in 25:39.

There were 24,531 entrants, including 170teams with 8,895 participants. More than1,100 survivors ran or walked. The total raisedwas $500,000, up close to $1,500 from lastyear’s record.

April 15, 2000

Detroit saw 29,391 entrants (nearly dou-ble the size of that year’s Boston Marathon)

for the various events. Getting to the zoo ontime was even more of a challenge this year.Construction at Beaumont Hospital eliminateduse of that parking area. Arrangements weremade with Hazel Park Raceway to shuttle run-ners to and from the event.

The temperature was 60º for the 8 a.m.men’s start, maybe too hot for this time ofyear. Chris Wallaert, 30, of Edwardsville, Ill.,in town for a wedding, ran to the most-deci-sive winning margin in race history, finishingin 15:49, 1:09 ahead of runner-up Brett San-born, 33, of Rochester Hills. Mark Kossak, 42,of Huntington Woods took the masters title in17:43.

Murphy repeated as women’s champion,running a steady pace to finish in 18:20. Sar-ris-Hallop continued her masters domination,winning in 19:09. Top survivor Jill Belfore, 37,of Troy crossed in 25:20.

It took the huge walk crowd 35 minutes toclear the starting line. Many of the 11,000 en-trants on 122 teams were in this group. Fordalone had 3,436 team members. There were1,313 breast cancer survivors among thethrongs.

April 21, 2001

The 10th annual race brought a long-over-due new site for the event, which had out-grown the zoo grounds and HuntingtonWoods. Comerica Park, new home of the De-troit Tigers, offered ample parking downtownand seemed like a perfect fit.

The event was set up in the parking lots infront of the stadium, with the concourse imme-diately inside. Unfortunately, last-minute direc-tives from the mayor’s office changed theroute. The certified, marked course had to beremeasured and re-marked, and the old marksremoved.

Runners now had to start on a side streetnorth of the ballpark, while walkers started onWoodward Avenue after runners had turned infront of them. The route went north on Wood-ward, doubled back a little more than a mileand a quarter into the race, and returned on astreet parallel to Woodward. On the return,walkers split back to Woodward and runnerscircled the ballpark, finishing on a too-narrowstreet in front of the stadium.

The temperature was 55º with skies over-cast and gloomy. About an hour before thestart, a slow, steady rain began to fall. Later,just as the awards ceremony ended, a delugecleared people quickly.

The new site made it possible to start allevents at the same time. Park paced the womenin 17:34, her fifth title in 10 Races for theCure here. Nancy (Grayson) Cassel, 50, placedseventh overall and won her fourth masterschampionship in 19:37. Merion Knight, 64, of


Rich Stark made it a family sweepwith his second win in 1998 while hiswife, Laurel Park, won her fourth con-secutive title.

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Detroit, led the survivors in 26:27.

Will Browder, 29, of Macomb, was themen’s champ in 16:19. First master Tim Em-mett, 45, of Royal Oak took seventh overall in17:11.

It was anticipated that the move down-town might result in fewer entries. Though thefield was down some to 27,013 participants, itstill drew from 31 states and Canada and net-ted proceeds of $778,790.18.

As the year ended, Jane Hoey, who hadserved as event chair since the first race, retiredand Maureen Keenan Meldrum, director ofbreast cancer special programs at Karmanos,took her place.

April 20, 2002

A new city administration and course gavenew direction to the 11th race. The race routearea on Woodward was closed to traffic. Run-ners started on Woodward three blocks northof Comerica Park, while walkers started onWoodward at the ballpark. Participants linedup across the full nine lanes of Woodward,and, for the first time in race history, clearedthe starting line in quick order.

About 1-1/4 miles into the race, the fieldmade a turnaround on three streets, then re-turned south on Woodward, with the leadersrunning into the mass of runners, through to alane cleared by race officials and the police, tothe eventual finish at Comerica Park.

Weather was brisk but tolerable, in thehigh 40s with a slight drizzle that stopped be-fore many participants had arrived.

Former University of Michigan and nowSuper Bowl champion quarterback Tom Bradygave a pre-race talk at a Ford breakfast held atHockeytown. The automaker entered 4,162employees in the team competition.

Total participation fell for the second-straight year to 24,786, still a healthy number.

Dave Peterson, 35, of Farmington pacedthe men through the mile in 5:15 and contin-ued to lead through 2-3/4 miles, when he feltthe effect having run the Boston Marathon fivedays earlier. He was passed by Eric Larsen, 31,of Fenton, who went on to win in 16:32 to Pe-terson’s 16:39. Right behind them was masterschampion Tom Yates, 40, of New Boston, in16:54. Yates had placed second overall lastyear.

In the women’s race, Rachel Graybill, 32,of Troy, led for a mile in 5:50. A half-mile latershe was passed by Nicole Blake, 17, of SterlingHeights, who came through two miles in11:48. This high school junior, an all-statecross-country runner, held on to win in 18:17,with Graybill second in 18:22. Cassel claimedher fifth masters title in 19:38.

A record 1,500 breast cancer survivorstook part in the activities. Judy Pickett, 38, ofCamperon Park, Calif., led the way in 20:00,the second-fastest survivor time ever for therace. It was Pickett’s 61st Race for the Curerun in various venues, and 47th survivor win.

June 21, 2003

After 11 years of unpredictable April

weather, sponsors moved the Race for the Cureto June. Temperatures were in the mid-70s, afine day for running and walking, but with thedate change participation fell to about 21,000.Perhaps too many alternative summer activitiesplayed a role in this decrease.

With about 45 minutes until gun time, afrantic official rushed to the finish line to re-port a construction crew had started digging ahole on the route a quarter-mile from the fin-ish. Sure enough, pavement had been brokenand workers were creating a 6x6-foot, 4-foot-deep excavation. Race officials convinced themto stop, put up barricades and assigned coursemarshals to guide runners around the area.

The lead men, who knew none of this,came through the mile in 4:59. Matt Daly, 20,of Livonia and Brett Sanborn, 36, of RochesterHills broke away from the pack and ledthrough two miles in 10:03. Daly went on totriumph in 15:33, a new record for the down-town course, to 15:46 for Sanborn. Yatesagain led the masters in 17:09, eighth placeoverall.

Graybilll and Park set the women’s pacefrom the start, passing the first two mile pointsin 5:35 and 11:18. Graybill pulled away toprevail in 17:31 but Park, now 40, set a newmasters record of 17:55. Maureen Martinez,41, of Grosse Pointe Park was the first sur-vivor to finish in 24:51.

June 5, 2004

This year’s field topped 24,000, up almost4,000 from 2003. High-60s temperaturesmade for a crowd-pleasing day.

With about a quarter-mile left, Daly, run-ning just behind the lead car, came on a mass


Pop singer and breast cancer survivorOlivia Newton-John was among the21,200 who entered the 1998 Race forthe Cure.

More than 24,000 lined up at the start line at the Detroit Zoo in 1999.

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of walkers stretched the width of Woodward.The police car turned on its lights and siren,causing the throngs to part slightly. Withoutbreaking stride, Daly passed the cruiser andran through the multitudes to prevail in 15:13,20 seconds faster than his course mark theyear before a minute ahead of the runner-up.

Larry Parker, 55, of Eastpointe became theevent’s oldest masters champion, crossing in18:09.

Last year’s third- and fifth-place women,Kristie Kieffer, 22, of Sterling Heights, andAmie Kaznicki, 27, of Springfield, finished 1-2this year in 18:23 and 18:43 respectively.

Cassel, 54, placed eighth overall andclaimed her sixth masters title in 20:21. JaniceConroy, 35, of Lake Orion, paced the sur-vivors in 25:24.

This was the first year a male breast can-cer survivor ran in the race. Jim Fontella, 58,of Maple Grove, increased public awarenessthat malady strikes approximately 2,000 meneach year.

A record 1,500 survivors participated.There were nearly 350 teams, led by Fordagain with 2,800 entrants. Support also camefrom Detroit’s professional teams — theTigers, Pistons, Shock and Jaguars — who hadwives, cheerleaders and others participating.

The race funded over $760,000 in localbreast cancer programs and $250,300 in na-tional research.

June 11, 2005

The hottest day in race history saw mid-80s temperatures, coupled with high humidity.Still, participation rose for the third straightyear to 25,207. The race partnered with theDetroit Festival of the Arts, held the sameweekend at the Detroit Cultural Center justnorth of the run-walk turnaround point.

David Watkins, 43, of Birmingham be-

came the first master to claim the men’s overalltitle, in 16:53. Although 11 years older thanany other first-place finisher, he was also theslowest men’s champ ever. He was the onlyrunner under 17 minutes on this blaing day.

Becca Rudey, 18, of Wixom paced thewomen in 18:33, the slowest winning time forthat gender. Masters queen Linda Ewing, 44,of Grosse Pointe finished fourth overall in19:47.

The survivors field grew to 1,800, withBarbara Cunningham, 43, of Traverse City thefastest in 25:18.

HOUR Detroit magazine named the racethe “Best Charity Event to Attend in Sweats.”It generated a record $1.43 million, with$926,500 going to metro Detroit breast cancerprograms and nearly $300,000 to Komen re-search grants.

June 10, 2006

Low-70s temperatures proved a relief fromlast year’s scorcher. Ryan Piipo, 27, of RoyalOak and Watkins set the pace in the men’srace, running 1-2 in 16:12 and 16:20, the lat-ter a 33-second improvement over Watkins’winning time last year.

Aime Forte-Kuznicki, 29, of Davisburg,and Marybeth Reader, 37, of West Bloomfieldled the women from start to finish, with Forte-Kuznicki prevailing, 18:39 to 18:44.

Pickett, now 42, returned to win both thesurvivors and masters titles in 20:54. In 1998,after completing chemotherapy, she had vowedto run in 100 different Cure races. She hascontinued on, despite two recurrences and sur-gery. This race was her 122nd.

There were again roughly 25,000 participantsand 402 teams, raising $1.7 million.

June 16, 2007

The Komen Foundation marked its 25thanniversary with a new name for its biggestfundraiser. Instead of “Race for the Cure,” itwas now “Susan G. Komen for the Cure.”

Picking up where Park-Stark team left off,husband and wife Ovidiu Olteanu, 36, andDenisa Costescu, 31, of Novi claimed men’sand women’s titles in 15:31 and 16:42 respec-tively. Both were formerly from Romania,where Olteanu was the country’s only sub-four-minute miler and an Olympian. Costescu,who competed on several national teams, set adowntown course record in this race andmissed the best women’s time ever by just twoseconds. The second-place woman was morethan two minutes back.

Top masters were Vincent Jesudowich, 40,of Northville in 16:48, and Linda Ewing, 46,of Grosse Pointe in 19:24. This was Ewing’ssecond masters victory in the series. WendySchrag, 42, of Pleasant Ridge, led the survivorsin 21:52.

An estimated 30,000 participants and sup-porters gathered at Comerica Park, breakingrecords for the event and raising more than $2million. Nearly $1.3 million went to local pro-grams and $350,000 to the national body. TheFriends for the Cure, a Detroit group formedin 1997, raised over $900,000 for the cause.

May 31, 2008

With temperatures hovering in the low70s, Steve Menovcik, 39, of Lansing enjoyed a


Former University of Michigan andnow Super Bowl champion quarter-back Tom Brady gave a pre-race talkat a Ford breakfast held at Hockey-town in 2002.

Author Ed Kozloff starts the 2006 race in Detroit.

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comfortable winning margin over runner-upand first master Dave Peterson, 41, of Farm-ington, 15:53 to 16:31.

A girl with a perfect name, Promise Vos,13, of Dearborn Heights led the women in19:03. As she walked through the finishchutes, officials asked her if she had run theentire distance. She had and became theyoungest winner ever in the event. Vos finished16 seconds ahead of runner-up Stephanie Stieb,26, of Detroit, and 36 seconds ahead 2006champ Forte-Kuznicki.

Becky Mincheff, 44, of Oregon, Ohio,won the masters title in 20:14. Michele Hen-drick, 38, of Bloomfield Hills was the first sur-vivor in 21:15.

The event raised nearly $2.3 million tofight breast cancer. A record $1.58 millionfunded programs in Wayne, Oakland and Ma-comb counties, while $676,000 went to theKomen research grant program.

May 30, 2009

Menovcik, now a master, returned toclaim the 18th edition of the event in 15:44.Alex Townsend of Detroit finished second in15:56 at age 19, not even half the winner’s age.

Another new 40-year-old, Reader, won thewomen’s race in 18:45, 30 seconds faster thanrunner-up Vanessa Finlay, 22, of Armada. Topsurvivor was Amy Krzyzanowski, 40, of Ply-mouth, was the seventh woman overall in 20:31.

Again, the event raised more than $2 millionto fight breast cancer. The crowd of over 30,000had 507 teams, with Ford the largest with 1,731members. A surprise appearance by Ford CEOAlan Mulally lifted everyone’s spirits.

There were 1,574 registered survivors thisyear. Twenty-two musical groups, a number thathad grown enormously from the small initialgroup that performed at the zoo site, added tofestivities by performing along the route. Some10,000 pink ribbons lined the race route, while1,255 volunteers and more than 40 volunteerphotographers made this event spectacular.

May 22, 2010

Wayne State University, whose campus liesa block away from the race turnaround point,was well represented. Though the school doesnot have a track program, members of itscross-country team proved they were capableof staying in shape long after their fall seasonended.

Leading the WSU contingent and finishingfirst in the race was Matt Fecht, 26, of Warren,in 15:14. An all-American when he ran atWayne, Fecht now serves as an assistant coach.Two WSU sophomores followed him to the fin-ish line: Kevin deBear, 20, of Plymouth and AlexTownsend, 20, of Farmington Hills, in 15:22 and15:40 respectively. Both were members of the2009 U.S. Track and Field Cross-CountryCoaches Association All-Academic Team.

WSU junior Lauren Kessler, 21, of Ionia —also an all-academic team member — was thewomen’s champion in 18:14. Next came DoriDowney, 39, of Grosse Pointe Park — thedaughter of Alexa Kraft, to whom the Detroitrace series was dedicated — in 18:45.

Menovcik (15:55) and Peggy Griffin, 43,of Birmingham (20:51) were the masters cham-pions. Krzyzanowski repeated as top survivorin 20:09.

Once again the event set records, raisingmore than $2.3 million. Of that, $1.55 millionwent to local screening, education and treat-ment programs and $428,000 to Komen’s na-tional research grant program. Eventregistration rose 15 percent to 28,583 runnersand walkers, including 1,800 survivors and600 teams, with a race day crowd in excess of35,000.

Since the first race in 1992, the KomenDetroit events have raised more than $19.3million.

May 21, 2011

Join Detroit’s 20th celebration of thisevent at Comerica Park this year. Overall, theKomen series, in its 29th year, has expanded tomore than 130 races in several countries at-tracting more than a million participants.

Race chair Meldrum promises this one willbe “the best ever! How could it be otherwisewith so many generous people, a cause thatresonates with everyone and a vibrant runningcommunity?

“We are so grateful for the support of theMotor City Striders and all the runners whomake this a race that is envied throughout theKomen series,” Meldrum says.

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For more information:

• Komen Detroit Race for the Cure: www.kr-manos.org/detroitraceforthecure, phone (248)304-2080 or (800) KARMANOS.

• Susan G. Komen for the Cure:www.komen.org, phone (877) GO KOMEN.

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Survivors take the stage in 2005.

Denisa Costescu’s 16:42 set a down-town course record in 2007.

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The author Charles Dickens opens A Tale of Two Cities likethis: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”That line could have described the challenges Mother Naturethrew at the 23,543 finishers of the Honda LA Marathon, pre-sented by K-SWISS. While the race started under threateningclouds, those clouds did open, but the nearly 25,000 startersbraved, at times, torrential rains, tough winds and a chal-lenging course throughout the city of Los Angeles, for the du-ration of the race. Yet, with all of those challenges, nearly97% of the starters finished the 2011 Honda LA Marathon.

Rod Dixon, 1983 winner of the NYC Marathon, four-time Olympian and Olympic medalist, is director of coaching& training for the Honda LA Marathon. Dixon noted, “What aday, what a weekend. Certainly one for the record books!”

Rod was rightly proud of the high finishing rate of histraining club, the LA Road Runners (sponsored by the race’sofficial footwear and apparel sponsor, K-SWISS). The LA RoadRunners were a microcosm of what happened in the 2011Honda LA Marathon. There were many, many success sto-ries. Rod noted, for his club, “We had eight runners under 3hours. Fourteen runners qualified for Boston (the previousbest was two), and it looks like 96–98% finished and 58%set personal bests!

Why did so many marathoners not only finish (97%),but 58% ran personal bests? Part of the story is the successof training groups, and the fact that the more one preparesfor a situation, the better one’s chance of success.

Many of the marathoners were running for causes. Formany marathoners, this makes the actual running of the racean even bigger thing, as they are running for someone orsomething else.

Rod Dixon says it best: “The LA Roadrunners trainedand prepared for the LA Marathon, with a great team of paceleader-coaches. For whatever race day presented, we pre-pared the best that we could. Based on that confidence, theRoadrunners accepted the weather and adjusted their goalsand tackled the adverse conditions like true champions.”

23,543 stories at the 2011 Honda LA Marathon, wherethe weather, the course and the runners’ focus and trainingall overcame their personal challenges. Markus Geneti, anelite Ethiopian runner known for his racing over 1500 metersand 3000 meters, debuted at LA. Geneti took charge before10 miles, and just did not stop, running a 4:26 mile en routeto his 2:06:35 marathon finish. Geneti faced the rain, includ-

ing a flooded street in Brentwood, like the other 23,542 fin-ishers. He just ran away from everyone, including defendingchampion Wesley Korir, who finished 3rd.

Just how amazing was Markus Geneti? He went by theelite women, around 1 hour, 34 minutes into the race, evenwith the elite women’s 17 minute, 3 second lead. This is partof the $100k LA Marathon race challenge, which is given tothe male or female elite runner who actually crosses the fin-ish line first. Each year, the handicap for the elite women isa bit different. Just before 20 miles, Genuti flew by thewomen. His countrywoman, Buzunesh Deba, charged pastAmy Hastings into the lead. Hasting followed her, andcharged back into the lead, just as she had for the previous20 miles.

Deba, Mara Dibaba and Hastings did battle over 26.2miles. Hastings, training with Terrance Mahon and the Mam-moth TC, hit the halfway point in 1:14 and duked it out withDeba, who, in her ninth marathon, ran her personal best of2:26:34. Deba finally broke away from Hastings just before23 miles. Hastings did not give up. She held on to run 2:27:03and become a real possible challenger for the U.S. OlympicTrials in 11 months.

Marathons are about preparation. Marathons are aboutfocus. The Honda LA Marathon, as presented by K-SWISS,has elevated the game: a more runner-friendly course andamazing digital communication with the runners as they pre-pared. Constant positive affirmation, like a digital coach, wasgiven to the marathoners as they prepared for the race.

Even with all that Mother Nature could throw at it, thefield persevered, because, as all 23,543 finishers understood,the pursuit of the marathon, the goal of finishing the2011 Honda LA marathon is bigger than any oneof the individual runners. When all those fieryspirits come together, there is strength andpower in numbers!

See you at the 2012 Honda LA Marathon, presented by K-SWISS!

—By Larry Eder

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Beyond the Chip

Every winter Hansons Brooks runningteam members head down to Florida fora few training getaways. During these

trips we share a house with teammates wedon’t always know too well and learn somenew things about them.

This year I learned that just about everyone of us loves coffee. Every morning beforeour run, someone would drag themself out ofbed extra early to throw on a fresh pot.. Theywould sacrifice precious minutes of sleep forthe greater good, coffee. A pot of coffee in ourFlorida training house had a life span ofroughly five minutes, and it was made morn-ing, afternoon and evening.

Yes, this is about coffee. I love coffee. I drinkit all the time. It’s the perfect pick-me-up on theselong, cold winter mornings. I’ll get up extra earlyjust to glug down a mug full and get the “sys-tems” started before heading out the door.

My teammates love coffee too. We’ll spendhours at the local Starbucks post-run drinkingour pots dry. It definitely beats a cold beer atthat time.

Coffee is so great it has inspired musiciansto write songs about it, such as Lagwagon’s“Mr. Coffee” and of course AC/DC’s “YouShook Me All Night Long.”

What about coffee and running? In my all-time favorite blog post, “The Wussification ofCoffee,” Jim Riccitello writes, “All real ath-

letes drink coffee. Coffee is a manly drink.Women who drink coffee are manly womenand that’s a good thing.”

While I’m not sure about the manlywomen thing, I agree that most athletes I meetdouble up as coffee fanatics. This was con-firmed during our Florida training trip.

Not only is coffee delicious, a flood of re-cent studies suggests that caffeine can enhancethe performance of endurance athletes. Aquick Google search will supply you with allthe scientific studies you’ll need on the topic.However, here’s my mini, much-less-scientificrundown on its benefits:

Caffeine before exercise: Research hasshown that caffeine before prolonged en-durance events can increase performance. Verysimply put, studies show that caffeine increasesthe concentration of a specific, hormone-likesubstance in the brain, which delays fatigue byreducing an athlete’s perception of effort andpain. A quick cup o’ joe so you can mask theagony of the morning run; that sounds like adecent trade.

Caffeine during exercise: A recent studyconducted at the University of Birmingham inEngland suggests that caffeine may increase therate of glucose absorption in the intestine, pro-viding fuel to the working muscles morequickly. Simply put, it will allow you to workharder for a longer period of time without be-coming fatigued.

You may wantto look for an alter-native to coffee as asource of caffeineduring exercise. Ifyou can manage toput a cup down dur-ing exercise, youmight love coffeemore than me.

A number ofmy teammates havetaken to using a littlecaffeine during thelater parts of amarathon. With elitewater bottles, wehave the option ofmaking a caffeinecocktail, such as thefamousGatorade/Red Bullmix created by ClintVerran. Or a simplesmall caffeine pill

works just as well.

So now you are totally sold on coffee andthe benefits of caffeine, let me fill you in onone of the drawbacks. If you are a habitualcaffeine user, it won’t aid your performance.Gah!

So if you are a regular coffee drinker look-ing to benefit from the caffeine boost on raceday, you’ll need to taper your caffeine/coffeeconsumption. Most sources recommend signif-icantly tapering, or cutting out, the use of caf-feine a week before your big race.

If you didn’t totally love coffee before,now you have new reasons. To quote Mr. Ric-citello once more, “As I type this and finish mythird cup of coffee, I can’t help but notice mytyping rate has increased. My fingers are danc-ing on the keys. My mind is flooded withthoughts and ideas.

“I have this strange twitch in my left eye-lid, but it isn’t bothering me too much. In fact,I’m actually enjoying it. My energy level issoaring and I can feel my metabolism workinglike a freight train. And now I must finish, be-cause I feel a bowel movement coming on. Ilove coffee.”

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Desi Davila speaks with the pressafter her 2:26:20 PB at the 2010 Bankof America Chicago Marathon.

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GRANDVILLE (2/19/11) — Top runners tendto be hard to please when it comes to theirown efforts.

Kris Koster and Katie Jazwinski domi-nated the Winter Blast 5K, but neither wasoverjoyed with what the clock showed.

The two winners, along with the rest ofthe 200-plus runner field, did enjoy the secondannual event’s well-marked, accurate courseand runner-friendly atmosphere.

The sunny, 25-degree weather — com-bined with a tailwind for the first half of therace — led many to run positive splits, includ-ing the overall winner.

“I took off too fast at the start,” saidKoster, who won the Blast for the second time,knocking two seconds off his course recordwith a 15:30 clocking.

“Of course when there’s wind in your facecoming back and you’re alone, it’s tough. Butit was a good workout and a really nicecourse,” he said.

Coming in second was Koster’s formerCalvin College cross country teammate AndyYazzie in 16:01, while Dave VanderMeer wasthird in 16:27. Edwin Wainaina (16:36) andMatt Sicilia (16:38) rounded out the top five.

Jazwinski crushed the women’s courserecord, finishing 10th overall in 17:10.

“I didn’t feel that great, to be honest,” shesaid. “But it was a good effort, and that’s the

best I can do today.

“Right now I’m running 5Ks, maybe hit a10K here or there,” she said of her currenttraining. “I’m trying to get my speed up andthen I’m going to run a marathon in lateMay.”

That would be the Bayshore Marathon inTraverse City, the second foray for Jazwinskiat the 26.2-mile distance after a record-break-ing — but unevenly paced — performance lastfall at the Grand Rapids Marathon.

The former Grand Rapids West CatholicHigh School and University of Michigan starled everyone through 22 miles at her home-town marathon, then fell off and let four menpass her. She still posted a U.S. Olympic Trials-qualifying time of 2:45:01.

“I would love to improve my marathonstrategy,” said Jazwinski, who now lives inDexter. “My husband and I like to come to lit-tle races like this; we respect the people whodo a quality job of putting on these events.

“Grand Rapids is our neck of the woods,”she said.

Rachel Ross placed second in 19:52, fol-lowed by Jessica Disselkoen (20:23), AshleyJourdan (20:35) and Nicole Reames (21:30).

Ross, Disselkoen, Jourdan, Audrey Kre-mers in sixth and Anna Kinzie in the eighthmade it five Calvin Christian High School run-ners in the top 10. The Division 3 cross coun-try champion boys’ team wasn’t far behind,

with five of the top six in the 15-19 agebracket.

Calvin Christian coach Laurens TenKatestarted the Winter Blast in 2010 to raisemoney for the school’s athletic programs.

“The race has gone well the first twoyears,” he said. “The biggest unknown is theweather, and we have been blessed with twogreat days so far. We were hoping for morethan 200 runners this year, so I’m pleased withthe 211 we had in the 5K and 20 in the 1K.”

The first annual Winter Flurry 1K was onenew attraction; another was using disposablebib chip tags, a new technology which elimi-nates the need for runners to attach a com-puter chip to their shoes. Instead, the chip is ineach finisher’s bib number.

Another reason for the race’s popularityand competitiveness was its unique indoor fin-ish, with the chip mats set up in the CCHSgymnasium.

Robert Schlinz was the men’s masters andgrand masters winner 18:48. Dawn Kamyszekpaced the women masters in 22:29, TamaraSteil the grand masters in 23:59.

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Hot Times, Indoor Finish at Winter BlastWinter Blast 5K, Grandville

Kris Koster won the WinterBlast for the second time.

Katie Jazwinski crushed the women’scourse record in 17:10.

Rod Smith is a familiar face at manyWest Michigan races.

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BAY CITY (3/20/2011) — Cortland Seavercruised while Amanda DiPaolo held off an-other Amanda to win the 38th annual AlKayner St. Patrick’s Day 8K Races, first of the2011 Michigan Runner Race Series.

Last year Seaver, 23, of Freeland finishedfirst here but didn’t win because he wasn’t reg-istered. This year he made sure he filled out anentry form before the race — and made sure hewon.

The fifth-year senior at Saginaw ValleyState University jumped to a big early lead andburied the field in 25:16. “It was a great morn-ing and great run,” Seaver said.

Next to finish were Jason LaFave, 36, ofSanford (27:30) and Chad Scott, 18, an SVSUfreshman from Ada (27:42). Fifth-place BrianOlsen, 50, of Jackson, was masters championin 28:17.

For the women, DiPaolo, 23, of Lansing,Amanda Roache, 23, of Midland and BeccaRudey, 24, of Wixom went through the 5Kmark in 18:06.

DiPaolo pulled ahead near the end, butRoache’s strong final push left her only a stridebehind. Both timed 29:47.

“If the race had been 10 feet longer, Imight have had her,” said Roache, whose timewas a personal 8K best.

Rudey placed third in 30:08. Fourth-placeMartha Olsen, 47, of Jackson led the masterswomen in 33:33.

Winning the 5Kwere Derek Stone, 23,of Bay City andKirsten Olling, 16, ofBreckenridge, bothtwo seconds ahead ofthe men’s andwomen’s runners-up.

Stone, an SVSUsenior who calledhimself “Zoolander”on his entry form, ranmost the race with hiscoach and formerSVSU teammate TonyFilipek, 22, of Caro.

“We exchangedthe lead back andforth,” Stone said. “Itwas a tight race.”

Stone kickeddown the homestretchto win in 15:27 to Fil-ipek’s 15:29.

“Derek ran a hellof a race,” said Fil-ipek. “I thought I hadhim with a quarter-mile left, but he justsurged. That’s histrack work kicking in. He’s got that speed.”

Jonathan Wetters, 21, of Essexville tookthird in 16:10. John Stryker, 44, of NewLothrop paced the masters in 17:55.

Olling led the women most of the way andtriumphed in 18:14, but Breanne Lesnar, 18, ofFreeland was right behind her at the finish,timing 18:16. Another teenager, Emily Short,17, of Tawas finished third in 18:36. JillGrushow, 40, of Midland took masters honorsin 21:26.

Another master, race director Ann Gasta,took second in her 45-49 age category. “Ithink it helps me to be a better director over-all,” she said of competing.

This year’s races enjoyed a record turnoutof 4,800 runners. “Things went really well,”Gasta said. “No problems; people really en-joyed it. It gets bigger and better every year.”

Many runners and walkers wore elaborateSt. Patrick’s Day garb. “I love the crowds,”Roache said. “The more, the better.”

Winning the 5K walk were Rick Huber,

54, of Montrose (27:47) and Debbie Topham,58, of Mayville (29:16).

Festivities were presented by the Bay AreaRunners Club. To learn more about BARCevents, visit www.barc.mi.com. For completerace results, go to http://gaultracemanage-ment.com. - MR -

Seaver, DiPaolo Hold Foes at “Bay” in Series DebutAl Kayner St. Patrick’s Day Races, Bay City

By Charles Douglas McEwen

5K winner Derek Stone (3384), 8K winner Cortland Seaver(836), and 5k runner-up Tony Filipek enjoy the lead early inthe Al Kayner St. Patrick’s Day races.

Amanda DiPaolo (752) edged AmandaRoache (586) for the 8K win.

8K runner-up Jason LeFavre (286) runsnext to 5K winner Kirsten Olling.

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TRIVIA: What are the men’s and women’sworld records for distance covered on an out-

door track in the 24-hour run?

Subtract to add? Let’s refresh: the firstmention of qualifying standards for theBoston Marathon was in 1970 when the

race application said, “A runner must submitcertification that he has trained sufficiently tofinish the course in less than four hours.”

The standard was put into effect in an at-tempt to stem what was felt to be the perceivedlimits of the field. There were 1,300 runners in1969 and 1,000 was felt to be the maximum.Also noteworthy: only men were referred to aswomen didn’t officially join the fun until 1972.

In 1971 standards were tightened: “Anathlete has to have run a marathon under 3:30,or 10 miles under 1:05, 15 miles in 1:45 or 20miles in 2:30.” The 3:30 standard remaineduntil ’76, with the shorter-distance qualifyingoption dropped in ‘72, then returned. In 1977,all men under age 40 had to run a priormarathon under 3:00 and everybody else hadto beat 3:30.

By the late ‘70s the Boston Athletic Associ-ation realized that the course could easily han-dle more runners. Entrants in 1980 facedstandards now legend: open men (under 40)2:50, masters men 3:10 and all women 3:20 toqualify. Of the 7,357 who started the 1979race, 3,031 broke 3:00. As the years have goneon and more racing opportunities have becomeavailable elsewhere, that 41.2 percent underthree hours in ‘79 has tailed off quite a bit.

Qualifying standards were eased after1981. By the late ‘80s, standards were addedfor 50-59 and 60-plus age groups. By 1990,there were standards for open runners and in

5-year age groups to 70-plus, with 3:10/3:40for open men/women and 3:50/4:20 for 70-plus men/women. Over the past 10 years, thestandards have eased a bit more.

In general, this has had the desired effectof limiting the size of fields, although in recentyears organizers have had to contend with acrush of entries culminating with the racebeing sold out in just eight hours last October.

It’s not a stretch to regard these standardsas benchmarks of excellence, with about one inevery 10 marathon finishers qualifying, andthe Boston Marathon as hosting the largestfield of highly-trained participants of any sin-gle sports event in the world.

This brings me to address those allowedinto the marathon running for charity. Until afew years ago, I didn’t know there was a sepa-rate opening for them at Boston. Begun 22years ago in 1989 with a single charitable or-ganization, the Boston Marathon official char-ity program has grown to support 24 charities.About $10 million is raised annually and alimited number of new charities are admittedeach year. From the BAA Web site: “The fundsand positive impact are important to the suc-cess of the BAA mission and the association isproud to support these charities and theirfundraising endeavors.”

The charities are given 15 waivers for officialentries, requiring runners to be able to break6:00 and abide by BAA rules. Additionally, run-ners who pledge a minimum of $3,250 for one ofthe recognized charities are allowed entry.

The BAA has already announced changesin its 2012 registration process and expectsmore changes given the limited space for somany eager, qualified runners. It’s a sweet-and-sour situation for race officials; they have anenormously-popular event that has to turnaway many overachieving customers. Runnersshare this view of Boston; they are pleased toqualify and bummed if they can’t register.

Some runners have suggested eliminatingentries reserved for charities to increase thesize of the qualified race field. This sort ofgrousing has gone on for years. What needssaying is Boston officials can do what theywant with their race. It’s a privilege to run, nota right. Tweaking the standards and registra-tion process is the right thing to do and neededto ensure salient experiences for all.

Those who suggest eliminating charityrunners in favor of open spots for qualifiedrunners are putting their own selfish interestsahead of the marathon in general and the char-ities in particular. These selfish runners are ba-sically saying they’re more worthy than the

equally-worthy causes race officials feel makeexceptional partners.

Runners have “wants” and charities“needs.” By my reckoning, needs trumpswants in this case. The charity runners shouldstay.

Here’s hoping the Boston Marathon con-tinues to embrace Boston area charities,evolves to meet new challenges and in all theimportant ways, remains true to its legacy.

Things That Give Me Pause.

1. Asphalt tracks. I’ve seen a few around the state and figure the plan is (or was) to eventuallylay down a rubberized surface. Or maybe not.

2. Questions people ask race contacts/direc-tors. The saying, “There are no dumb ques-tions” doesn’t stop some from posing somehead-scratching beauties.

3. How are jazz songs named? Probably ninein 10 have no lyrics, just music. I want a jobnaming jazz songs if there are any openings.

4. Forgetting my fluid bottles on a hot andhilly 100K bike tour in northern Michigan lastsummer. I sucked down as much of whateversounded good at each rest/food stop.

5. There were 13 pages given to a story onGrete Waitz in the March 1981 Runner’sWorld. Now we’re lucky to get three pages onanybody.

6. Being asked what the sport will look likein five years. I have a decent handle on what’sgoing on now but am largely blank on the fu-ture. It’s easier to say many things will remainthe same, with ultrarunning being the “lastfrontier.”

7. Getting stopped at the light around thecorner from me 85 percent of the time. Thelight is green for 30 seconds in each direction.

8. The t-shirt shortage at the 2010 DetroitFree Press Marathon. Aggravated quite few.

9. Men who want to run in all-women races.I’m not sure what part of “all-women” mendon’t understand, but I can infer they are alsolost on the history of women’s running and allthat’s good about the concept.

10. One of the finest pieces of expository writ-ing about running is is a speech given by JeffJohson — a fine coach, photographer andearly Nike mover and shaker — to a group ofAmerica’s top high school cross country run-ners in 2001. Go to:

Running Shorts with Scott Hubbard

Scott Hubbard

UTICA (3/26/11) — She’s movin’ on up.

Kelsie Schwartz, 14, of St. Clair Shores, whofinished second here last year, flew through theBill Roney Memorial 5K in 17:53 and won by33 seconds.

The Regina High School freshman endedKelly (Yacho) Morgan’s two-year winning streak atthis race, presented by Hansons Running Shop.Schwartz also set a PR by 44 seconds.

“I went out faster than I wanted to, but Istuck with it,” she said. “I felt really good. I keptwaiting to get tired but kept on going, and prettysoon I was here” (at the finish line).

Schwartz had no trouble navigating thecourse. “It was really well-marked, flat withlong straightaways,” she said.

Andrea Karl, 26, of Casco, who won here in2007, took second in 18:25. OliviaKwiatkowski, 18, was third in 19:10.

Matt Fecht, 27, of Warren won the men’s5K for the second time. His 15:21 time wasfaster than when he won in 2008 (15:43).

“It was a tough day (26 degrees at the start)with tough competition,” the winner said.

Jason Bigelow, 24, of Rochester hung close forthe first mile, but Fecht slipped away after that.

“I had to get room away from Bigelow,”Fecht said. “He’s a 4:10 miler. At any given time,he can come and hawk you down.”

Bigelow finished in 15:52. Joe Verellen, 30,of Sterling Heights took third in 15:54.

Verellen gained ground on Bigelow near theend. “I caught him with about a quarter (mile)

to go,” Verellen said. “But he has more leg speedthan I have and took me out.”

Guy Holmes, 45, of Armada (17:28) beat RichPower, 47, of Rochester (17:41) for the men’s mas-ters title. For the women, Laura Shamblin, 43, ofWashington (20:59) edged Michelle Sebaly, 44, ofMacomb Township (21:07).

“We are honored to put on this race in thename of Bill Roney,” said Kevin Hanson, whoco-directs the race with his brother, Keith.

Twelve Roney family members took part in

the 5K and kids fun run.

“My dad would have loved this,” said Shan-non Roney-Shea, whose father died in 2007.“It’s cold but sunny. We all had a lot of fun.”

Roney-Shea ran with her husband, DanShea Jr. “It was his first race and he wanted tobreak 30 (minutes), so I paced him,” she said.“He did great. He ran 28:39.”

For complete results, go to www.hansonsracem-anagement.com.

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http://archive.dyestatnw.com/?pg=reg72008CrossCountrySummeroftheRisingTidestoryJeffJohnsonspeechtext.

11. Crim training group members who run in the city roadways, oftenseveral runners wide. It’s one thing to do so on a quieter weekend morn-ing, but an accident waiting to happen during midweek traffic.

12. Folks who disparage slow runners. Yes, race fields are gettingslower. Ignore it if it bugs you.

13. Seven-day weather forecasts. I’m good with a three-day forecast.

The Lakers. Congratulations to the Grand Valley State Universitywomen, winners of the NCAA Division 2 cross-country meet lastDecember in Louisville, Ky., and the indoor track and field meet in

Albuquerque, N.M., during mid-March.

Monica Kinney shined especially with wins in the indoor mile and 5000meters. Further recognition goes to Jerry Baltes, who won women’scoach of the year honors in cross-country and indoor track.

Dog Days of Winter.

The flag full and rippling in the sustained breeze,Sun out and temp on the rise this early April day,Spirits flagging but a ride I know will please,I set off and let the pace go where it may,Into the wind I surrender as it forces me to ease,The return trip not so bad, my reward, my pay.

ANSWER: Yiannis Kouros of Greece ran 188.59 miles in 1997. Forwomen, Mami Kudo of Japan ran 158.12 miles in 2009.

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Schwartz, 14, Sports Fast Time at Roney RunBill Roney Memorial 5K, Utica

From left, Patrick Miller (bib 416), Jason Bigelow, Matt Fecht (397), Joe Verellen(360) and John Worthington (298) lead near the start of the Roney Run.

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My questions irritated the surgeon.

It was our second consultation. At the endof the first he’d injected cortisone into my leftknee. Now, 26 days later, after his assistant lis-tened to my description of a minor reduction inpain and stiffness, and took her findings tohim, he came into the examination room withan air of decision. Within 20 seconds and twosentences he’d made it clear his mind was seton surgery.

So much for my thinking I’d wiggled out ofthe cutting. He couldn’t wiggle out of crossinghis I’s and dotting his T’s — whatever. He’d gethis way, but not without trimming my igno-rance; not without dancing to my tune.

What were my chances of coming out ofthe surgery pain-free? He couldn’t or wouldn’tgive a doddering 58-year-old a guarantee.

Am I a candidate for an artificial knee inthe foreseeable future? Scans showed arthriticdeterioration, but nothing to point toward jointreplacement.

What were my chances of getting back torunning? That should wait a while, as shouldwalking, because a knee is a weight-bearingjoint; he recommended a stationary bike asearly as a week into recovery.

How often can a person have cortisone?Two or three shots a year.

Could pain management get me through?“Oh,” he said, losing his cool detachment,“you could take pain medication. Anythingover the counter would help. But that wouldn’tresolve your problem.”

It would only mask my symptoms? “You’dstill have an injured knee,” he said.

Go ahead and set up the surgery, then.

On my way home it occurred to me that aquicker-thinking me might have defended my lineof questioning. I get a vote on my medical care, avoice in my head told him, and a voter ought tobe fully informed before casting a ballot.

His office scheduled surgery for a monthfrom that day.

Negotiations on prices got under way thenext day, Dec. 7, the anniversary of the attack onPearl Harbor. As long as payment was completeby the date of the procedure, the surgeon charged$1,000, a discount to self-payers like me.

The figure was a jaw-dropper; I’d envi-sioned a surgeon’s bill four times that much.

That left the hospital … where expensesblew sky high. A financial officer told me itsstandard charge for meniscus surgery was$12,858. By settling the bill before the date ofservice, a self-payer earned a 40-percent dis-count, trimming the figure to $7,715.20. That,added to the surgeon’s cut, put the wholeshootin’ match at the lower end of a range ofprices I’d found online.

Not so bad. It was only the equivalent of ayear out of the savings I was living on. Nothingto get irritated about.

Only, there were kickers. If the surgeon or-dered an x-ray, radiology billed separately. Ifanything went wrong and I was admitted to thehospital, the stay would be additional to mypre-payment. The hospital, getting its money inadvance, took no financial risk; given the billsthat might pile up, I did.

That voice in my head whispered that mysavings might be better spent on a year of livingthan on a day of cutting.You’ve been walking on a hurt knee for sixmonths, it said. You’ve even been runningagain — well, jogging. Maybe you can go onwalking on a hurt knee.

But, no, I wrote a check to the surgeon andwalked down halls and stairs to sit with thehospital’s financial officer. Even as I wrote along string of figures on a check, she gave me anew laundry list of services subject to separatebilling: pathology, in case of a tissue check; pre-registration, although she wasn’t sure, so nevermind, she’d write it off; and physical therapy.

Had anybody talked to me about PT?

Well, no, adding to my irritation. Every-body had made sure they got their dollars, butno one had spoken word-one about medical is-sues. Was it all right to keep running, to con-tinue my medications, to go into surgerywithout a health release from a primary-carephysician?

This backward state of affairs held for thethree weeks leading up to pre-registration atthe hospital.

Good thing I had running to stop my fum-ing; to relieve stress. We haven’t forgotten, havewe? — it’s all about the running. That’s whywe’re here together.

Cortisone allowed me to log up to 20 miles aweek at a low-impact pace. Careful was mywatchword. Going too fast applied too muchforce to the cartilage and tendons in my knee andhip. Yet my pleasure in the company of runnersoutweighed any risk of aggravating my injury. Ikept at it even as my knee lost the soothing effects

of cortisone and pain dialed up.

On the last day of the year, of the decade, Idevoured the Wolverine Resolution Run in EastGrand Rapids like a condemned man at a lastmeal. The course, unlike the out-and-back ofrecent years, circled Reeds Lake. In the firstmile of four a woman near me in a pack voicedher relief at going counterclockwise.

“This way we don’t have to climb the HallStreet hill.”

That voice in my head, familiar with thepain of descending, cried out a warning. This isgoing to hurt.

When the downhill pounding was done, I’dclosed the circle in 34:29, or 8:37 a mile. On acrippled knee that’s good enough to crowabout.

Back up, now; this obsession with runninghas raced me ahead of my story. Two days earlier,on Dec. 29, eight days prior to surgery, I kept myappointment for pre-registration at the hospital.Over the prior two weeks I’d told people I was ahair’s-breadth from cancelling out of pique at mytreatment as a cash cow rather than a patient. Ifanybody at pre-registration talked money beforemedical, I’d demand a refund. I’d back out of thewhole operation.

Luckily the registered nurse was all abouthealth care. She took my medical history, gavetips and a pamphlet on prep and recovery, in-troduced me to an anesthesiologist; in short,answered all my questions before I slipped mylist out of my pocket, plus a few, paring awayat the ragged edges of my anxiety. Having su-tured and bandaged most of my psychicwounds, she sent me across the street to an of-fice where they did physical therapy.

Who said we were through with irrita-tions?

A therapist fitted me for crutches at$47.50, payable out of pocket, a cost I side-stepped because my brother had a pair tuckedaway in storage. A staffer suggested the com-pany handle my PT nearer to my home at abranch that billed through another hospital.Oh, bother. A financial officer at that otherhospital sat me down for a wallet biopsy, mak-ing no bones about her dislike of self-payers,especially me, out of work after a stint as afamily caregiver, going so far as to ask theamount of savings I had to live on.

Poor woman; hemmed in by deadbeats.

She took it as gospel that after knee surgerya patient must have 45 minutes of therapythree times a week for a month. When she

Notes on the Run

By Daniel G. Kelsey


quoted the rate — $114 per 15 minutes — Idisabused her. This patient wasn’t buying.

That little voice in my head whispered thereason she didn’t quote $456 an hour. Lawyerswould stand up and salute. Anesthesiologistswould get down on their knees and sing out inpraise of fair remuneration. But the rest of uswould have heart attacks.

Even her adjustment, a 15-percent discountto self-payers that reduced the bottom line toabout $2,500, did nothing to soften my resist-ance. That little voice failed to sympathize witha company that got so little money by pricingme out of the market.

You won’t see much of me walkingthrough the door, or limping.

After all this, surgery went off like an after-thought. My stay at the hospital on Jan. 6spanned less than five hours. As a nursemarked “Yes” on my left leg she chuckled atmy quip … please make sure to get the correctknee, not the right knee.

Stepping on scales, I learned that myweight loss had reached 19 pounds in the 25weeks since I’d suspended running for fourmonths in July, an excision of 10 percent of mybody weight. The surgeon had to deal with ashadow of my former self.

What he thought of operating on a

shadow, I have no idea; out like a light for anhour and a half, I have no memory of seeinghim. He took but the 15 minutes to make threeincisions, shave the tear and reshape my menis-cus, and close.

My sister informed me the next day that anurse in recovery gave me a paper with mynext appointment.

“I’m not surprised you don’t remember,”my sister said. “You were loopy.”

Four days out from surgery a physical ther-apist assessed the range of motion of my leftknee at 84 degrees, compared to a goal of 120degrees; compared, as well, to 141 degrees formy right knee. But then, my left knee hadn’tflexed at more than a right angle in sevenmonths. The PT guy surprised me by demon-strating that I could stand with equal weight onboth legs and turn in a full circle. He found meas weak as a kitten in my left hip after sevenmonths of injury.

That visit brought another dose of irritation… this time to a receptionist. She bridled at myrefusal to come in more often than two weeks.She objected to my check, written on instructionsfrom the financial officer at the hospital.

“How would she know how much it’llbe?” the receptionist said. She didn’t speak toor look at me as she handed me a receipt withthe date of my next visit.

Thursday, Jan. 13, was a lucky day, whatwith firsts and good news. I carried rather thanleaned on a cane while walking. I logged 12minutes on a stationary bike, peddling andback-peddling rather than revolving. The finan-cial officer at the hospital of my surgery calledto say my refund, $3,145.28, was soon to go inthe mail. The irritated receptionist, now as niceas a Sunday run in spring, called to say the fi-nancial officer at the hospital of my therapyhad OK’d an enhanced discount of 40 percent.

“We thought that might let you have ther-apy more often,” the receptionist said.

Indeed it did.

So troubles resolve, and in the great race,we come back to the nub; it’s all about the run-ning. Maybe two months lay between me andmy first steps as a jogger. If I met my goal, fourmonths lay between me and my first steps as aracer of sorts in the 10K at the Fifth ThirdRiver Bank Run. Who knows how manymonths lay between me and my first steps as avibrant runner?

Light appears at the end of a tunnel, a ban-ner up ahead at a finish line.

I can almost see myself in that pair ofFiveFingers I had my eye on a year ago wheninjury reared its ugly head.

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DETROIT (3/13/2011) — Scott Albaugh Jr., whodashed to victory by two seconds in last fall’sMichigan High School Athletic AssociationLower Peninsula Division 1 Cross Country Fi-nals, showed off his strong kick again at the 29thannual St. Patrick’s Parade Corktown Race.

The Waterford Mott senior zipped by LeoFoley, 29, of Howell with less than 200 metersto go to capture the 5K in 15:58, one secondahead of Foley.

“Things went really well,” said race direc-tor Doug Kurtis of the day’s festivities, pre-sented by the Fraternal Order of UnitedIrishman for the benefit of the St. Patrick’s Sen-ior Center.

“We had a record 6,000-plus runner regis-tered, up 1,000 from last year,” Kurtis contin-ued. “And we had an exciting, close race withthe men. It was fun to watch.”

Albaugh and Foley ran together in the leadfor most of the race. “He (Foley) kind of pickedup the pace the last mile,” said Albaugh. “I justfollowed him and outsprinted him at the end.

“The kick was one of my best,” he said.

Next came Mark Pokora, 24, of AnnArbor (16:10), Nathan Burnand, 16, of Water-ford (16:14) and Shane Logan, 32, of Pontiac(16:26). Sixth-place Ovidiu Olteanu, 40, ofCommerce paced the masters in 16:30.

Denisa Costescu, 35, Olteanu’s wife, fin-ished more than a minute ahead of her closestfemale rival in 17:51.

“It’s a nice race with a flat course. I sloweddown the last mile because of the wind,” shesaid.

Next came masters queen Lisa Veneziano,46, of Fenton (18:53), Andrea Karl, 26, ofCasco (18:54), Serena Kessler, 38, of AnnArbor (18:54) and Julia Demko, 13, of Birm-ingham (19:14).

Plante & Moran won the team competi-tion, topping the Detroit Beer Lovers. Plante’s49-member contingent was led by Vincent Jesu-dowich of Northville (17:24) and AndrewGoldberg of Farmington Hills (17:39).

Albaugh Jr. didn’t run for a team, butseven members of his family competed. Broth-ers Sam, 14 (18:22), Simon, also 14 (19:19)and Stuart, 12 (25:42) all did well in their agegroups. Albaugh’s parents, Scott Sr. (25:31) andRachel (30:33), plus uncle and aunt Roy andNicole Beebe (25:26 and 30:50 respectively),also ran the 5K.

“This is about our sixth time doing thisrace,” said Scott Sr. “This is kind of the kickoffof the running season for us.”

Corktown also included a children’s funrun and costume contest.

“We had some fun costumes to judge thisyear,” said Kurtis, who himself dressed up as aleprechaun. “This was by far our best-orga-nized Corktown. Overall, I was very proud of

our staff.

“It helped us alot adding threenew packet pick-up locations,” hecontinued. “Morethan 75 percent ofthe pre-registeredrunners picked uptheir packets in ad-vance.

“I also owe abig thanks to theMotor City Brew-ing Works andSlows Bar-B-Q forcreating a place forus to servebeer. We almostthought we weregoing to be with-out it this year.”

Detroit’s St.Patrick’s Day pa-rade on MichiganAvenue took placeimmediately afterthe Corktown race.

For complete results and more information,visit corktownrace.com.

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Albaugh, Costescu Top Record Corktown ThrongsBy Charles Douglas McEwen

St. Patrick’s Parade Corktown Race, Detroit

A costume contest added to the Corktown fun.

Scott Albaugh Jr. captured the 5Kin 15:58, one second ahead of LeoFoley.

Denisa Costescu fin-ished more than aminute ahead in17:51.

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RIVERVIEW (2/13/11) — Predawn snow didnot the discourage 450 athletes who gathered atSeitz Junior High School for the 24th annualRiverview Winterfest 4-Mile Run.

First-year race director Gary Olsen waspleased with the attendance, up nearly doublefrom last year’s race.

He was also happy with the weather, whichdespite a stiff wind at times, was mild, withmid-30s temperatures.

Downriver Runner Beth Gilday, here for thefirst time, was impressed with the salt truckseen clearing the route hours before the race.“There was no snow on the streets. It was a nicequiet run through the neighborhood,” she said.

Quiet — but fast for many.

Overall champion Kevin Glime, 17, ofRiverview devoured the route in 23:15.Women’s winner Emily Mortensen, 28, ofRochester was fast on his heels, crossing in23:26.

Masters honors went to Laurel Park, 47, ofAnn Arbor in 24:09, and Scott Fiske, 46, of St.Clair Shores (nicknamed “Lurch,” a characterin the old “Addams Family” TV show) in23:20.

Matt Bzura, 10, and Justin Barnes, 11, alsoenjoyed their first Winterfest race. Both beattheir parents by more than 12 minutes.

Freshly-made pancakes, sausage, juice andhot beverages were provided by the Riverview Ki-wanis Club. Race proceeds were split between theclub’s charitable efforts and scholarships for highschool senior cross country and track athletes.

For complete results and information onnext year’s race, visit www.runmichigan.com.

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Riverview Winterfest Enjoys Healthy TurnoutBy Tracey Cohen

Riverview Winterfest, Riverview

Tina Goocher (362), Riverview, TeaGreca (383), Brownstown Townshipand 450 others competed in theRiverview Winterfest.

Race founder Tony Mifsud and winnerEmily Mortensen.

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Kathryn Holt of Atlanta (372) and Ursula Owens of Lewiston (373) com-peted in the 10K.

The Tahquamenon River basin in Michigan's Upper Peninsula receives epic amounts of lake effect snowfall each winter.Tahquamenon's frozen waterfalls together with generous snowfall create an ideal venue for snowshoe racing. Racers atthe start line of the Tahquamenon Snowshow 5K, 10K and 20K races found no shortage of snow on February, 11, 2011.

Kevin Tarras of Grawn, bib no. 969(bib is upside down), won the 20K in1:28:22.

Heidi Nicholas of Traverse City (56)edged Muffie McCauley of Wolverine(57) by 19 seconds for the 5K win.

Scenes from Tahquamenon Snowshoe RacePhotos by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

Tahquamenon Snowshow Race, Paradise


ANN ARBOR (3/13/11)—“‘Inappropriate’would be my comment for the last hill,” saidWendy Martin after completing the 12th an-nual Shamrocks & Shenanigans 5K Run.

The event’s final push up 2nd Street “wasa killer,” she declared.

“We had to change the course due to roadconstruction,” race director Steve Angermansaid of the two and then some-loop course.“Next year we anticipate a 9 a.m. start andhope to have a bigger route.”

Hills, clouds and chilly temperatures didn’tdim the fun-loving spirits shared by close to1,700 runners and walkers who completed theevent.

“There were more hills than I expected,”said age-group winner Jane Sanders, “but I re-ally liked running down Main Street. Therewere lots of people cheering.”

Danielle Bickle ran the second 5K of her

life dressed up as a penguin. “The kids lovedit,” she said, “and the race benefits Mott’sChildren’s Hospital.”

Emanuel Morgan, 3, enjoyed being pushedthe 3.1 miles by his dad while looking for thepenguin. He also liked the medal he receivedfor completing the kids’ dash.

Courtney Fulcher, 12, was less thrilledwith the hills in the kids’ kilometer. “They justcame out of nowhere!” Fulcher said.

Lindsey Lalonde and Beth Wightman dom-inated the 5K competition, winning in 16:33and 18:08, respectively.

Pint glasses, fresh fruit, bagels and livemusic by Celtic folk band Fonn Mor was en-joyed by all after finishing.

For complete results and information onnext year’s event, visitwww.runshamrocks.com.

Tracey Cohen can be reached at [email protected].

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Shamrocks & Shenanigans Features Thrills and Hills

By Tracey Cohen

Shamrocks & Shenanigans, Ann Arbor

Lindsey Lalonde won the 5K in 16:33

Beth Wightman’s 18:08 earned the 5Kwin.

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“I’m training for the Back to the Beachrace — the half marathon,” saidDawn Gaden. In itself, that is not un-

usual. Many runners are gearing up for thefirst-time event at Stony Creek Metro ParkMay 22.

But Gaden was diagnosed last July withnon-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She has had sur-gery and treatments that “wipe me out,” shesaid. Yet she’s aiming for that half marathon.

“I’m trying to be (a runner) right now,”said Gaden. “I do what I can do. It’s goingOK.”

She remembers always being active. “I ranthrough college to stay in shape,” she said.“I’ve been running for 15 years. I did danceand yoga.”

Three years ago Gaden starting racing andpicked a doozy for her first: the tough Trail’sEnd 5-Mile on the Potawatomi Trail in Pinck-ney. She finished her first half marathon lastApril.

That was part of a series of races sheplanned to run “with my dad (Jim Nardi), myhusband (Mike) and Joe Burns,” Gaden said.“But I couldn’t run the last one” due to hersurgery.

Burns gave her a medal anyway. Amedal …?

In April 2009 Burns, a friend of her father,began a Detroit chapter of Medals 4 Mettle.The nonprofit group gives medals from dis-tance running events to people who displaytheir own mettle battling serious illnesses anddiseases.

M4M was founded in 2005 by Indianapo-lis physician Steven Isenberg. The day afterrunning the 2003 Chicago Marathon, he vis-ited a colleague who was fighting cancer. Theprognosis was not good.

Spontaneously, to help break the gloom,Isenberg took his marathon finisher’s medalout of his briefcase and put it around hisfriend’s neck. “He deserved it more than me,”Isenberg said.

His friend’s reaction led Isenberg to givemore of his running medals to other seriously-ill patients. Their buoyed spirits led to the cre-ation of M4M.

There are now 50 M4M chapters in 26states, Canada, Mexico and Japan. More than18,000 medals have been given to patients. Chil-dren are frequent, but not exclusive, recipients.

As of now, M4M collects only medalsfrom half marathons, marathons, ultras andtriathlons because they best represent thecourage and determination of those fightingtheir illnesses.

“I started the Detroit chapter after readingabout M4M in a Runner’s World article,” saidBurns. “The story mentioned Keith Hanson(co-owner of Hansons Running Shops) andBrian Sell (former member of the Hansons-Brooks team and Olympian) were mentioned.

“I talked to them and Brian said, ‘It’s agreat program. If you’re interested in getting achapter started, I can help,” Burns continued,“If a guy in the Olympics is willing to help,why not?”

M4M accepts only long-distance racemedals because, “Training for a marathontakes five or six months,” said Burns. “Whena child is really sick, it takes a long while toget healthy. We’re running marathons withour feet. They’re running marathons fromtheir beds.”

Burns was further motivated by a personalordeal. When his daughter, Carrie, was afourth-grader, she contracted a severe case ofE. coli bacteria. “We almost lost her,” he said.“I now think how cool it would have been tohave something like M4M back then.”

Burns gave the medal to Gaden on herbirthday. “It was an overwhelming feeling,

heartwarming and a little sad,” she remem-bered. “But knowing there are people outthere who support us …”

“I have the medal hanging where I can see itto remind me I felt like a kid again,” she said.

“A lot of people have chipped in and helpedout,” Burns said. “And I’ve been at someexpos,” including ones at the Detroit Free PressMarathon, Crim Festival of Races, BrooksieWay, Volkslaufe and Dexter-Ann Arbor.

He has given out “more than 850 medals— lots of smiles!” so far. “I bet I have 160 to175 more medals on hand, ready for ribbonsnow,” Burns added. The original race ribbonsare removed from medals and replaced withM4M charity ribbons, “real nice silk ones.”

So far Burns has made stops at Mott Chil-dren’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, Royal Oak Beau-mont Hospital’s Children’s Center, the Children’sHospital of Michigan in Detroit and the MiracleNetwork. More visits are in the works.

“It’s fun to go into a room with maybe 40medals tinkling like wind chimes, and watchthe kids smile from ear to ear,” he said. “Someput the medals around their necks, others ontheir IV poles like bling.

“It’s fun to see parents react when they seetheir kids light up,” he continued.

But it’s not all children. In addition toGaden, M4M has presented medals to long-time Michigan race volunteer and recentstroke victim Dolores Hensley, and otheradults. The reaction is similar. “I felt like a kidagain,” Gaden said.

It’s hard for some runners to give up theirmedals, especially those earned from gruelingtraining and completing a long, hard chal-lenge. But that’s the point. Parting with some-thing so personal makes the act mean more todonor and donee.

The running community is responding.Many running specialty stores serve as medaldrop-off spots, Burns said, among them “theHansons stores, Runnin’ Gear and RunningFit, especially (employee) Tracey Cohen in theNovi Running Fit store.

“One gal heard of my chapter on Face-book and sent me 18 Disney medals,” he con-tinued. During a visit to the Children’sHospital in Detroit, several Detroit Lions play-ers, plus mascot Roary the Lion, helped passout hardware.

Running clubs have got into the act aswell. “Ron Papke at the Chrysler Running

Medals 4 Mettle: Reaching Deep to Give

Joe Burns presented an M4M medal tolongtime Michigan race volunteer andrecent stroke victim Dolores Hensley.

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Club has put the word out,” said Burns. “I’vegot almost 70 medals from that club alone.”

The Stony Creek Running Club and InfiniteTriathlon Club ask members for medals andcash donations during functions. The money isneeded for program costs, such as purchasingthe silk ribbons that cost almost $5 each.

Burns is hosting the Back to the Beachraces to raise funds for Michigan’s first M4Mchapter. With two months to go, more than225 people had registered.

“It’s a wonderful group,” said Gaden. “I’dlove to run a race to give my medal to some-one.” That’s why she’s training so hard for the

Back to the Beach event.

Others who would like to donate cash ormedals to M4M can do so at the afore-namedstores or via the group’s Facebook page. Formore information, visitwww.medals4mettle.org or www.BackToThe-BeachRaces.com. - MR -

KENT CITY (3/26/11) — Age was no handi-cap for those who tackled the hills at the RidgeRun 15K and 5K.

In the longer event, Cedar Springs eighth-grader Mackenzie Weiler, 14, ran an eye-pop-ping time of 1:00:09, crushing the courserecord as well as the female competition. Onthe men’s side, three of the first six across thefinish line were north of 40.

Weiler’s older sister, Katie, an all-state crosscountry runner last fall, one-upped her youngersibling by not only winning the women’s 5K, buttaking the overall win. She crossed the line in18:49, four seconds ahead of men’s winner MattLopez. Scott VanStrate of Spring Lake and racedirector Jill Evers led the masters runners in a 5Kfield of 207 finishers.

“I’m always amazed and pleased with theturnout,” said Evers of the seventh annualraces, which raise funds for the Kent City HighSchool cross country and trackprograms. “Many of the same participantscome back each year. That’s a tribute to thevolunteers.

“I am so grateful to both the workers —from the fire departments to the kitchen crew

— and the runners for helping to pull this offeach March,” Evers said.

The 15K started under sunny skies, withan air temperature around 20 degrees and awind chill factor even lower. Gaylord’s KevinSmith and Borculo’s Dave VanderMeer shotout front immediately, while yours truly joineda chase pack of about six runners.

Near the 2-mile mark, former MichiganRunner of the Year Hank Risley emerged fromthe pack and I chose to go with him.

We ran together until five miles, when Isurged ahead on a downhill. Risley, 10 yearsmy senior at age 43, soon caught up and whenhe heard our 6-mile split exclaimed, “Whoa,I’m in PR territory!”

He proceeded to drop me on one of thecourse’s many long uphills, and cruised to athird-place finish and masters victory in 54:21.I followed 34 seconds later, followed by twomore age-group aces: Jim Lanciaux, 48, of Fre-mont (56:01) and Kevin Deyo, 52, of TraverseCity (56:10).

Up front, Smith passed VanderMeer in thefinal mile and squeaked under the course

record by a single second with his time of51:13.

Mackenzie Weiler finished with an impres-sive average of 6:28 per mile, nearly becomingthe first female to break the 1-hour barrier onthe challenging layout, which follows ruralroads through northern Kent County’s orchardcountry.

She placed 12th overall, with Muskegon’sKristen Brown second among women in1:02:12 and masters champ Laura Cooper, 50,of Kent City third in 1:03:20.

“It was nice to see the Weiler sisters eachwin a race in course-record time,” said Evers.“Add Kevin Smith breaking the 15K recordand I’d say we had some top-quality racershere today.”

Despite temperatures that still hadn’treached the freezing mark by the end of theaward ceremony, the races attracted 450 run-ners, the second-highest total in their history.They enjoyed an accurate, well-marked course,friendly volunteers and a delicious baked po-tato in the school cafeteria.

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Weilers, Smith Blaze through Cold to Ridge Run Marks

Ridge Run, Kent City

By Grant Lofdahl

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Registration - 8 am, Event Begins - 9 am

Howell Area Parks & Recreation Authority presents the 3rd Annual Crosstown Kids Triathlon

For Youth Ages 7-14

Age 7-8: 50 yd swim, 2 mile bike, 1/2 mile run Age 9-10: 100 yd swim, 2 mile bike, 1/2 mile run Age 11-12: 200 yd swim, 4 mile bike, 1 mile run Age 13-14: 300 yd swim, 4 mile bike, 1 mile run

The Crosstown Kids Triathlon will begin at the

Howell High School Aquatic Center 1224 W. Grand River Ave., Howell

Register online at: www.howellrecreation.org

More Information: 517/546-0693

TheALDEN RUNOn beautiful Torch Lake

Saturday, July 30, 201110K & 5K run and 5K walk

on scenic, sanctioned xc courses.

*NEW* Registration & Packet pick-up area!Helena Twp. Community Center located

at the traditional Run start line

Registration and information: Steve Kershner

PO Box 444, Alden, MI 49612

(231) 377-7319 • [email protected]

aldenrun.com

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The Running Network Television, a collaboration of • The Running Network

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http://runningcanada.tv• Michigan Runner

http://michiganrunner.tvtelevision channels, will produce a variety of online videos forour viewers as we lead up to the Olympics. Our line up includesLarry Eder, noted journalist who has covered past Olympics aswell as other world class track & field events, Olympians GaryMorgan (Seoul) and Paul McMullen (Atlanta), and Jennie McCaf-ferty, who has reported on hundreds of running events throughoutthe world. The world's greatest track & field photographer, VictahSailor, has supplied our videos with that killer shot. And finally,Jamie Fallon, of IV the Polymath, was added last year to supplybackground music throughout our videos.

Look for us on your computer, iPhone, iPad or TV screen this coming year.Art McCafferty, Producer/Director

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2011MayRite Aide Cleveland Marathon, Cleveland, OH* Detroit Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure®, Detroit. MI*Kalamazoo Marathon, Kalamazoo, MI21st Fargo Marathon, Fargo, NDRRCA Convention and Fredricksberg Half Marathon, VA28th Soldier Field 10 Miler Chicago, ILUSATF Outdoor Track & Field Championships Eugene. OR*

June Dexter-Ann Arbor Run, Ann Arbor, MI*Solstice Run, Northville, MI*Nike Prefontaine Classic, Eugene, ORadidas Grand Prix, New York, NYNCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Des Moines, IA

JulyAAU Junior Olympic Championships, New Orleans, LA*Steve's Run- Dowagiac, MI*Aviva Birmingham Grand Prix, Birmingham, England

AugustCrim Festival of Races, Flint, MI*Aviva London Grand Prix, London, England

SeptemberIAAF World Championships, Daegu, Korea*Marathon Oasis de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada*Milford Labor Day 30K, Milford, MI*BMW Berlin Marathon, Berlin. Germany

OctoberBank of America Chicago Marathon*Metro Health Grand Rapids Marathon, Grand Rapids, MI*Manistee National Cross Country Invitational, Manistee, MI*Detroit Free Press Marathon, Detroit, MILakefront Marathon, Milwaukee, WI

NovemberING New York City Marathon, New York, NY*NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships, Terre Haute, INFifth Third Bank Thanksgiving Turkey Trot. Detroit, MI *Nike Border Clash, Beaverton, OR

DecemberFifth Third New Year's Eve Run, Detroit, MI* Nike XN, Beaverton, ORFoot Locker Cross Country Championships, San Diego, CA

2012JanuaryChevron Houston Marathon, Houston, TX*U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, Houston, TX*Las Vegas Marathon, Las Vegas, NV

AprilB.A.A. Boston Marathon, Boston, MA

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The Running Network Television, a collaboration of • The Running Network

http://runningnetwork.com/RNW/index.php/media/rntv • Running Canada and

http://runningcanada.tv• Michigan Runner

http://michiganrunner.tvtelevision channels, will produce a variety of online videos forour viewers as we lead up to the Olympics. Our line up includesLarry Eder, noted journalist who has covered past Olympics aswell as other world class track & field events, Olympians GaryMorgan (Seoul) and Paul McMullen (Atlanta), and Jennie McCaf-ferty, who has reported on hundreds of running events throughoutthe world. The world's greatest track & field photographer, VictahSailor, has supplied our videos with that killer shot. And finally,Jamie Fallon, of IV the Polymath, was added last year to supplybackground music throughout our videos.

Look for us on your computer, iPhone, iPad or TV screen this coming year.Art McCafferty, Producer/Director

* Denotes Video Coverage

2011MayRite Aide Cleveland Marathon, Cleveland, OH* Detroit Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure®, Detroit. MI*Kalamazoo Marathon, Kalamazoo, MI21st Fargo Marathon, Fargo, NDRRCA Convention and Fredricksberg Half Marathon, VA28th Soldier Field 10 Miler Chicago, ILUSATF Outdoor Track & Field Championships Eugene. OR*

June Dexter-Ann Arbor Run, Ann Arbor, MI*Solstice Run, Northville, MI*Nike Prefontaine Classic, Eugene, ORadidas Grand Prix, New York, NYNCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Des Moines, IA

JulyAAU Junior Olympic Championships, New Orleans, LA*Steve's Run- Dowagiac, MI*Aviva Birmingham Grand Prix, Birmingham, England

AugustCrim Festival of Races, Flint, MI*Aviva London Grand Prix, London, England

SeptemberIAAF World Championships, Daegu, Korea*Marathon Oasis de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada*Milford Labor Day 30K, Milford, MI*BMW Berlin Marathon, Berlin. Germany

OctoberBank of America Chicago Marathon*Metro Health Grand Rapids Marathon, Grand Rapids, MI*Manistee National Cross Country Invitational, Manistee, MI*Detroit Free Press Marathon, Detroit, MILakefront Marathon, Milwaukee, WI

NovemberING New York City Marathon, New York, NY*NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships, Terre Haute, INFifth Third Bank Thanksgiving Turkey Trot. Detroit, MI *Nike Border Clash, Beaverton, OR

DecemberFifth Third New Year's Eve Run, Detroit, MI* Nike XN, Beaverton, ORFoot Locker Cross Country Championships, San Diego, CA

2012JanuaryChevron Houston Marathon, Houston, TX*U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, Houston, TX*Las Vegas Marathon, Las Vegas, NV

AprilB.A.A. Boston Marathon, Boston, MA

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32 Michigan Runner - May / June 2011 |michiganrunner.tv

DEARBORN (4/2/11) — Proving the adagethat “truth is stranger than fiction,” an earth-ling named Mars won this year’s MartianMarathon. David Mars, 32, from the Colum-bus, Ohio, area, attacked the course in a blaz-ing 2:31:00.1 (5:46 pace).

Mars and his brother, Dan, both ran themarathon. “It was fun to represent the Mar-tians,” David said. “We figured we had to runit given our last name.

“This was my first small marathon. Whileit didn’t have the crowds you would expect ina larger marathon, it was very well organized.”

Taking advantage of temperatures in the30s, Mars pushed the pace until the halfwayturnaround.

“I thought I was on my own, having notlooked back,” he said. “The next runner wasabout two minutes back at that point, whichwas closer than I’d expected. At that point Ithrew in a couple miles at about 10-15 secondsper mile faster than I had been going.”

Mars eventually cruised to the finish, beatingPatrick Danzer (2:33:59.3) by three minutes.

Women’s winner Tracy Deeter ofUnionville, Conn., “approached the race as

just another long training run,” she said.“With any marathon, my goal is to just finish.

“I was able to run the first half at a goodclip by forcing myself to keep up with a malerunner,” she continued. “After the turnaround,I found myself running a good stretch by my-self. I was able to maintain a great pace thanksto the rush of seeing others on my way back.”

Deeter did more than “just finish,” break-ing the tape in 3:08:51.5, nearly two minutesahead of Christina Noble (3:10:53.9).

In addition to the marathon, Running Fit’sMartian Invasion of Races featured amarathon relay, half-marathon, 10K, 5K andKids Marathon (children who ran 25 milesprior to race day lined up to run their last 1.2miles to the finish line). All told, close to 4,500runners participated in events.

The only real glitch in this year’s proceed-ings occurred in the half-marathon, where amisplaced turnaround point resulted in thecourse being 0.3 miles long. R.P. White of Yp-silanti covered the 13.4-mile course in1:11:09.6, beating Hank Risley (1:18:28.2) bymore than seven minutes.

Despite his wide margin of victory, Whitesaid that the mismarked course “affected megreatly. I knew something was wrong out therewhen my mile splits were all over the place; Ijust thought there was something wrong withme.

“After I hit the 10-mile mark more than aminute slower than I wanted, I gave up theidea of running a fast time and loafed in thelast 5K,” White conceded. “I guess this is justa reiteration of the age-old lesson to ‘nevergive up.’ I would have come away with a fasterpace per mile and would have felt better aboutmy effort.”

Women’s winner Sara Crowe of St. ClairShores almost paid dearly for the longer

Mars Attacks Martian MarathonMartian Invasion of Races, Dearborn

By Anthony Targan

2008 Michigan Runner of the Year,Hank Risley of Cedar Springs, ran the13.4M course in 1:18:29 for secondoverall and first master.

R.P. White of Ypsilanti dominated thehalf marathon+ (13.4M) to win in1:11:09.

Katie Jazwinski of Dexter won $500first place prize money in the verycompetitive Meteor 10K, with 34:33

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FLINT (3/17/11) — When youthink of close races, the KentuckyDerby or a 100-meter dash cometo mind, not four- or five-mileroad races.

Over the past year, I have hadthree very close races. Solid traininghelps your odds of winning, butsometimes luck best explains theoutcome.

In the 2010 Crim 8K, I finallywon my age division after threetries with five seconds to spare. Iwas less fortunate in the Franken-muth Winterlaufe 8K six monthslater, losing by three seconds.

Luck played a prominent rolein this year’s Pot O’ Gold four-milerace as well, with St. Patrick’s Daytemperatures hitting 68 degrees.

The beautiful warm weatherbrought out 330 runners andwalkers, many with green hairand wearing leprechaun garb.

Among them was BeckyRichardson, who would join meand three other Baker College em-ployees running the MartianMarathon 16 days later as a relayteam. This would be a warm-upfor that, we hoped.

The Pot O’ Gold race started inthe center of the University ofMichigan-Flint campus, went eastacross the I-475 overpass, throughthe Mott Community College cam-pus, then returned to the start.

Winning were Fenton residentsJayson Doggett, 32, in 22:23, and

Lisa Veneziano, 46, in 24:21. Thetop masters were Larry Guitierrez,50, of Fenton (24:06) and, in lieu ofVeneziano being the overallwomen’s winner, Leslie Braun, 48,of Grand Blanc (27:36).

Becky and I finished furtherback. The course proved great forme till the last mile, then it gotterrible: all uphill with a strongwind blowing in my face. I hadnothing left.

After it finally ended, I waitedfor Becky at the finish. Then wewaited for results. Officials tapedthem up, starting with the youngestage groups. Becky had done well,finishing second in her 25-29 groupin 31:20.

When my men’s 55-59 agegroup at last was posted, I did adouble take. I had placed first in29:56, the same time as TomRench, 58, of Flushing.

I suspect luck, and my being aquarter Irish on St. Patrick’s Day,made the difference. I had neverseen anything like it before — andI doubt will happen again.

Our luck held through theMartian Marathon April 2, asBecky and I joined Maureen Par-mann, Steve Peterson and TomMiller helping Baker College beatall 19 other teams in the relayrace. A pot o’ gold, or at leastgood fortune, indeed.

Michael Heberling, is president ofthe Baker College Center for

Graduate Studies in Flint. - MR -

Getting Lucky onSt. Patrick’s Day

By Michael Heberling

The Baker College relay team (from left) Maureen Par-mann, Steve Peterson, Mike Heberling, Tom Miller andBecky Richardson won the Martian Marathon relay.

Tracy Deeter of Unionville,Connecticut, ran 3:08:56 tobe women’s marathonchampion.

course, as runner-up HeatherDyc was closing fast at the fin-ish. Crowe (1:30:16.0) held offDyc (1:30:26.8).

The men’s 10K provided themost dramatic finish, as CoreyNowitzke of Dexter (30:07.7)edged Nick Stanko (30:11.2).

“I knew who would be inthe lead pack from the begin-ning,” Nowitzke said, “so I de-cided to tuck in for the first mileor two. A couple guys mademoves to the front to push thepace, so I went with them.

“I put in a surge at the turn-around point, just before the 3-mile mark, and no oneresponded,” Nowitzke contin-ued. “Once I passed the 5Kmark, I relaxed while the others(Nick Stanko and Matt Thull)closed the gap.

“With about a mile to go, Isurged again to see if I could gapNick. I did and was able to holdthe lead the rest of the way. Icould hear and see Nick charg-ing at the end, so I had to pushthrough the line.”

Women’s 10K winner KatieJazwinski of Dexter (34:31.5)prevailed more easily over LanniMarchant (35:41.9), but tippedher hat to the competition.

“The good and bad thingabout racing in Michigan is thatyou have to be on top of yourgame in every race,” saidJazwinski. “There are so manygood women in Michigan rightnow, including Lanni ... It’s kindof fun.

“I’ve had a good streakgoing, but any of the ladies inMichigan can soon take overand start their own little streak,”she said.

Adam Richmond of Or-tonville won the men’s 5K in15:55.4. Milford’s GeraldineLupini claimed the women’s titlein 20:33.5, using the race as atune-up for the NationalDuathlon Championships inTuscon.

“I can’t forget a four-leafclover to help me reach my fu-ture goals,” said Lupini. “Afterall, I am Irish and (at age 48) I’mdefinitely not getting anyyounger!” - MR -

Michigan Runner contributorHeather Dyc of Plymouth fin-ished second in the 13.4MRwith 1:30:31. Sara Crowe ofSt. Clair Shores took first in1:30:22.

Corey Nowitzke made theMeteor 10K a Dexter sweepwin his 30:09 win over sec-ond place Nick Stanko.

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High School Athletes Put on a Show at State Meet

Hannah Meier won the 1600 meter run in 4:55.32, edgingher sister Haley by 1.6 seconds.

Dartis Willis jumped 7-02.25” for the championship. Hewas named Boys Field Performer of the Meet.

High jumper Nyki Caldwell achieved 5-08”, six incheshigher than second place Rachelle Sandbrook. Caldwellwas named Girls Field Performer of the Meet.

Photos by Pete Draugalis / draugalisphotography.com

Michigan Indoor Track Series State Meet, Ypsilanti

Drake Johnson was named Boys Running Event Performerof the meet with his 7.95 in the 60 meter hurdles.

The multi-talented Dynasty McGee won both the 400meter dash and the triple jump. She was named Girls Run-nig Event Performer of the meet.


Eastern Michigan Women Win Mac Indoor Title

Eastern Michigan Women and Coach Sue Parks celebrate the Eagles’ first Mid American Conference title in eleven years.Four wins on the second day secured the MAC Indoor Track and Field Championship in Bowling Green, Ohio, Feb. 26-27.

Photos by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

Mid-American Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships, Bowling Green, OH

All-American Performances at NCAA Division IPhotos by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships,College Station, TX

Michigan sophomore Jillian Smithplaced second in the 800 meterrun, 2:04.78.

Spartan Beth Rohl earned First TeamAll-American honors in the weightthrow, 64-11 1/2 “, 8th place.

Michigan’s distance medley relay teamtook sixth place. Team members are(from left) Jillian Smith, Alisha Cole, Re-becca Addison, and Danielle Tauro.


MaySunday, May 1

20 Mile Training RunTraverse City 9:00 amNorthwest Michigan College behind HS tracktraining run up to 20MRRunning Fit (231) [email protected]

Burns Park RunAnn Arbor 8:30 amBurns Park ES10KR, 5KR, 1MFRJoel and Jackie Dalton(734) 747-6952 burnsparkrun.org

Dan Langdon MemorialRunBath 2:00 pm5KR/W Alex Cossalexcoss@aol.comdanlangdonmemorialrun.comrunningfoundation.com

Dawn Farm Ride for Re-coveryYpsilanti6633 Stony Creek Road10KR, 5KR(734)973-7892firstgiving.com/dawnfarm

Freeland Walleye RaceFreeland 9:00 am5KR/W Lori Brown989-274-9495barc-mi.com

Milan’s Miracle Run 8Kand 5K WalkGrand Rapids 9:00 amMillennium Park5KR, 5KW Doug [email protected]

River Raisin FestivalMay Day RunBlissfield 1:00 pmEllis Park 5KR(517) [email protected]

Running Fit TrailMarathon and HalfMarathonPinckney 7:30 amSilver Lake, Pinckney Recreation Area26.2 MR, 13.1 MR(734) [email protected]

Steelcase GrandDuathlonKentwood 10:00 amSteelcase Kentwood5KR/ 30 KB/ 5KR(231) 546-22293disciplines.com

Wednesday, May 4

Run Fit 5KNovi 6:30 pmNovi Town Center5KR, 1MR, kids run(734) [email protected]

Thursday, May 5

Road to Durban 5KLansing 6:00 pm5KR/W MichiganMidwives Association michiganmidwives.org/ conferences/

Friday, May 6

Mason State Bank 5K Mason 7:00 pmIngham Country CourtHouse5KR/W, kids run(517) [email protected]

Saturday, May 7

Addison Panther RoadRace 5K Run/WalkAddison 8:00 amAddison Panther ES 5KR(517) [email protected]

Berkshire Proud Dad’s5KBeverly Hills 8:00 amBeverly Hills MS 5KR/W(248) 855-9609berkshiremiddleschool.webs.com/5k.htm

Child Advocacy 5K RunAlma 9:30 amYouth For Christ / CampusLife Center5KR, 1MR/W, kids run(989) [email protected]

Cinco de Mayo RunWalkSaginaw 9:00 am5KR/W Joseph Stricker(989) [email protected]

Derby Day 5KLake Orion 4:00 pmCanterbury Village5KR/WRon Suffolk(248) [email protected]

Diamonds & DirtWomen’s AdventureRunRochester Hills 4MR(248) [email protected]//dia-monds_and_dirt.html

Families of SMA 5KRun, Walk and RollLansing 9:30 amHawk Island County Park5KR/W, kids run(517) [email protected]

Food Allergy 5KRun/WalkDearborn 9:30 amU of M Dearborn, ParkingLot E 5KR/W, kids run(313) [email protected]

Glio-Blastoff 5K FunRun/WalkYpsilanti 9:00 amEastern Michigan Univer-sity, University Park5KR/W Meghan Kimball(586) [email protected]

Great Lakes Region BayHalf MarathonBay City13.1MR, 5K, FRReinke Sports Group (407) [email protected]

Heart & SoleChelsea 8:30 amChelsea Community Hospital10KR, 5KR/W, 2 MR/W,13.4MB Tracy Nelsen(734) [email protected]

Hometown HustleRochester 8:30 am501 West University5KR/W(248) [email protected]

Infiterra Sports SpringFury Beginner Pinckney 8:00 amPinckney Recreation Area6 hour sprint adventure raceZac Chisholm(231) [email protected]

Infiterra Sports SpringFury ElitePinckney 8:00 am

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Pinckney Recreation Area8 -10 hour adventure race:(231) [email protected]

Mesick Mushroom RiverRun 5KMesick 7:30 amNorthern Exposures Camp-ground 5KR, 2KWDavid Freet (231) 885-1200mesick-mushroomfest.org/Run.html

MOM Charity 5KRun/WalkRoyal Oak 10:00 amStarr Jaycee Park 5KR/W(248) [email protected]

Race for a CauseGrandville 9:00 amMillenniumm Park 5KR/W(616) [email protected]

Run Like a MotherHarrison Twp 9:00 amMetro Beach10KR, 5KR, 1MW(586) [email protected]

Sue DeYoung / JudyEdger Breast Cancer 5KWalk and RunCharlevoix 9:00 amN. Bridge St. & Pine River5KR/W Alisa Sauer(231) [email protected]

Sylvan Lake ShuffleSylvan Lake 9:00 am5K R/W, 1K FR(248) [email protected]

Tom Broughton Memo-rial 5K Fun Run / WalkWest Branch 8:30 am1938 Dam Rd. 5KR/W(989) [email protected]

Tulip Time Run Holland 8:00 amChrist Memorial Church10KR, 5KR/W, 1K kids run(616) 396-4221, x111www.tuliptime.com

Willow DuathlonNew Boston 9:00 amWillow Metropark5KR/ 20KB/ 5KR(231) [email protected]

Sunday, May 8

Berkley 1 Mile and 10KBerkley 9:00 amBerkley Community Center10KR, 1 MR/WBill Moyer (248) [email protected]

Kalamazoo MarathonKalamazoo 8:15 am26.2 MR, 13.1MR, 5KR/W,5K Judged RaceW, 1 MFR,kids runBlaine Lam(877) [email protected]

Wednesday, May 11

Doozie’s Ice Cream FunRun/Walk SeriesMt. Pleasant 7:30 pm1310 East Pickard5MR, 3MR, 1MR(989) [email protected]

Thursday, May 12

MAC Outdoor Track &Field Championships -Men & Women

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IT’S BATTLE CREEK AND SO MUCH MORE!

OAKLAWN HOSPITALITY CLASSIC MAY 21 (10k / 5k / 1 mile fun run)Run through time in Marshall; enjoy the historic residential neighborhoods and countryside views. Stay for the weekend as you’ll want to sample the local microbrew, shop the antique stores and dine at one of the locally acclaimed restaurants. And, don’t forget the many museums throughout the community.

BINDER PARK ZOO CHEETAH CHASE JUNE 25 (5k run/walk)Run through the savannah. Help save the endangered cheetah. Running or walking, this trip through the zoo is fora good cause. And, what could be better than working up a sweat and spotting a giraffe, zebra or antelope?

CEREAL CITY CLASSIC JUNE 11 (10k / 5k / 5k fun walk)Pack more than running shoes for this weekend of cereal-themed activities. The Cereal City Festival begins Friday night with a parade. Saturday morning, run through Battle Creek and enjoy the smell of cereal in the air. Having worked upan appetite, take your seat at the World’s Longest Breakfast Table and continue the day with exciting festival events, concerts and activities for the whole family!

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ARK ZOO CHEETBINDER PRun through the savannah. Help save the endangered cheetah. Running or walking, this trip through the zoo is for

And, what could be better than working up a sweat and spotting a girafAnd, what could be better than working up a sweat and spotting a girafa good cause. a good cause.

an appetite, take your seat at the Wconcerts and activities for the whole family!

AH CHASE JUNE 2ARK ZOO CHEET 5 (5k run/walk)Run through the savannah. Help save the endangered cheetah. Running or walking, this trip through the zoo is for

And, what could be better than working up a sweat and spotting a giraf

orld’s Longest Breakfast an appetite, take your seat at the Wconcerts and activities for the whole family!

Enjoy a weekend of running and relaxing. For hotel packages and racedetails, visit battlecreekvisitors.org/run.cfm

AND SO MUCH MORE!TTLE CREEK IT’S BA

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able and continue the day with exciting festival events, TTable and continue the day with exciting festival events, orld’s Longest Breakfast

Enjoy a weekend of running and relaxing. For hotel packages and racebattlecreekvisitors.org/run.cfm or call 800.397.2240

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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Enjoy a weekend of running and relaxing. For hotel packages and race 800.397.2240

Run through the savannah. Help save the endangered cheetah. Running or walking, this trip through the zoo is for


25th Annual

May 15, 20115k and 10k Races

9:00 AM

• Awards for top 3 in each age category• A Chrono Track timed event• Fast, flat, tree-lined street course• Benefits Ferndale Recreation Youth Scholarships

Contact: Julie Hall (248) 544-6767

Register: www.ferndalerecreation.orgclick on Special Events

Kulick Community Center1201 Livernois, Ferndale, MI

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DeKalb, ILNorthern Illinois University mac-sports.com/5/12/11 - 5/14/11

Friday, May 13

Advance Packaging5000Jackson 7:00 pm5KR/W, Kids Run(517) [email protected]

Sports and FitnessExpoGrand Rapids 11:00 amDeVos PlaceExpo(616) [email protected]

Starker-Mann ChallengeGaylord 9:00 amOtsego Club, Sportsplex,Treetops Resort, PavillionTri: 4MR/ 30KB/ 400meterSor 2MR/ 20KB/ 400meterSand 40KB, 20KB and Su-perkids Try Aquathlon(231) [email protected]/13/11 through 5/15/11

Saturday, May 14

Autism Society of Michigan 5K Lansing 10:00 amHawk Island Park5KR/W, 1/2M kids run(517) [email protected]

Bay Harbor Foundation5K Run & WalkBay Harbor 9:00 amVillage at Bay Harbor5KR/W, kids race(231) 439-2700bayharborfoundation.com

Challenger 5KHowell 9:00 amChallenger Elementary5KR/W, kids run(517) [email protected]

Dances with Dirt - GnawBoneNashville, IN 6:15 amMike’s Music and DanceBarn50MR, 50KR, 26.2MR,13.1MR, 100K relayRunning Fit (734) [email protected]

Fifth Third River BankRunGrand Rapids 8:00 am25KR, 10KR, 5KR/W, Kristen Aidif(616) [email protected]

Healing HandsFlint 9:00 amMott Community College,Ballenger Field House5KR/W(810) 230-6492gaultracemanagement.com

Heart of MichiganLansing 8:00 amState Capitol10KR, 5KR/WWill Smith(734) [email protected]

I Gave My Sole forParkinson’s Walkathon& 5K RunSt. Clair Shores time tbaSouth Lake Schools AdminComplex5KR/W, kids run(248) [email protected]

Izzy’s Tumor TramplePortage 7:30 amCelery Flats 5KR(289) [email protected]

Macomb Orchard Trail50Richmond MidnightMacomb Orchard Trail50MFR Kevin Green(586) [email protected]

“Mary Boes” MemorialMSO 5K Fun Run/WalkRochester 8:00 amOPC 5KR/W(248) 608-0252info@michiganseniorolympics.orgmichiganseniorolympics.org

Mississauga MarathonMississauga, Ont. 8:00 amMississauga City Hall10KR, 5KRLandmark Sports Group(905) [email protected], half marathon,2KFR on Sunday

Owosso CommunityPlayers 5KOwosso 9:00 am219 S. Washington St.5KR/W Steve Schlaack

(810) [email protected]

Parcel for the ParkDavison 9:00 amJack Abernathy RegionalPark(810) [email protected]

Run for HopeNorthville 8:30 amMaybury State Park5KR/W, 1MW, kids run(248) [email protected]

Run for RecoveryPort Huron 8:30 amSt. Clair County Commu-nity Mental Health5KR, 1MW(810) [email protected]

Shawnee 5K Fun RunMacomb 9:00 amShawnee Elementary School5KR, 1MR/W(586) [email protected]

Spring Snowman 5KRun/WalkBrighton 9:00 amLiving Stone Church10KR, 5KR/W(734) [email protected]

Superkidstry AquathonGaylord NoonOtsego County SportsplexAquathllon: 150mS/ 800mRor 250mS/ 1MR(231) [email protected]

USA 15 km Trail ChampionshipsSpokane 15KRRiverside State Parkusatf.org

Weidenbach Walk/RunFamily EventMt. Clemens 9:00 amMetro Beach Park(586) [email protected]

Sunday, May 15

Dragon DashLake Orion 8:30 amCivic Center Park8KR/W Jennifer Vezina(248) 391.0304, [email protected]

Durand Railroader Durand 10:00 amDurand MS 5KR/WDave Madrigal II

(989) 980-2583runningfoundation.com

Ferndale Foot Frolic Ferndale 9:00 amKulick Community Center, 1201 Livernois10KR, 5KRJulie Hall(248) 544-6767ferndalerecreation.org

For Women Only 5KYpsilanti 10:30 amEllen Thompson Women’sHealth Center, St. JosephMercy Hospital 5KR/W(248) [email protected]

I Gave My Sole forParkinson’s Walkathon& 5K RunNorthvilleNorthville HS 5KR/W(248) [email protected]

Komen SouthwestMichigan Race for theCure®Kalamazoo 9:15 amdowntown Kalamazoo5KR/W, 1 MFR(877) [email protected]

Michigan SeniorOlympics SummerGames 10KRochester 8:00 amOPC 5KFR/W(248) 608-0252michiganseniorolympics.org

Mississauga MarathonMississauga, Ont. 8:00 amMississauga City Hall26.2 MR/Relay, 13.1 MR,2K FR/W, kids runLandmark Sports Group(905) [email protected] & 10K on Saturday

Race For Your MemoriesMilford 7:30 amKensington Metro Park, Maple Beach10KR, 5KR/W(248) [email protected]

Rite Aid ClevelandMarathon & 10KCleveland, OH 7:00 am26.2 MR, 13.1 MR, 10KRJack Staph(800) 467-3826

[email protected]

The Run for WindySaginaw 10:00 amSwan Valley High School5KR/W, kids run(989) [email protected]

Toronto Marathon, HalfMarathon, 5K & RelayToronto, ON 9:00 amMel Lastman Square -Queen’s Park26.2 MR, 13.1 MR, 5KR,relay(416) 972-1062torontomarathon.com

Tues., May 17

Michigan SeniorOlympics SummerGames 5KRochester 9:00 amOPC 5KR(248) 608-0252michiganseniorolympics.org

Friday, May 20

South Church FamilyFitness 5KLansing 7:00 pmSouth Church, 5250 Corner-stone Drive5KR/W, kids runTony Olds (517) [email protected]

Sat., May 21

Book’n TrilogySouth Lyon 8:00 amMillennium Middle School10KR, 5KR/W, kids run(248) 437-6431bookntrilogy.com

Eagle Eye 4 Mile Run &1 Mile Fun RunLake Leelanau 10:15 am4MR, [email protected]

Fitness Is Life Fun RunSault Ste. Marie, MI8:30 am2 Ice Circle5KR/W, 1MR, kids (906) 635-5055, x [email protected]

Howard Hill HustleKalamazoo 8:30 amKalamazoo Christian HS5KR/W, kids run(269) [email protected]


Start at Football Field, Fruitport HighSchool, 6th & Beech St. Measuredloop courses through scenic, hillyFruitport countryside.

(231) 865-3551

Sponsored by Fruitport Lions

Saturday, May 28, 20119:30 am

5K and 10K

30th Anniversary

FruitportOld Fashioned Days

Run

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Grosse Ile High School

Little Stars 1 Mile Start: 8:30 am5K Start: 9:00 am; 8K Start: 9:05 am

May 30, 2011• 8K & 5K courses are certified• Open, Master, Grandmaster,

and Senior Grandmaster• 3 deep age groups

for registration info callTotal Runner (734) 282-1101

www.islandroadrunners.net

• Colorful sweatshirt• Spectacular course• Best goody table in Michigan

8K Run • 5K Run/Walk1 Mile Fun Run

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5K Run • 5K Walk Kids Fun Run Races

Saturday, May 28, 2011 8:30 amYour start and finish will be cheered on by 30,000+ spectators. New race route for 2011. Come set the new course

record. Trophies awarded to the top male and female in the 5K Run, 5K Walk and 8 Mile Race and to the top male and female Masters runners in the 5K and 8 Mile Race. Medals awarded to the top two finishers in each age group for eachevent and to all Kids Fun Run participants. This event qualifies you to enter the Mackinac Bridge Labor Day Run Lottery.

$25 Pre-registered, postmarked by May 1 • $30 Pre-registered, postmarked by May 21$35 Race day registration • Register online at www.active.com

For more information visit www.almahighlandfestival.com or please call Jill Sandro (989) 463-4122All participants will receive a free one-day pass to the World-famous Highland Festival grounds (a $15 value).

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Kent County Girls onthe Run Celebratory Kentwood 9:30 amEast Kentwood HS 5KFR/WLori Burgess (616) [email protected]

Laingsburg Lions FestivalLaingsburg 9:00 amdowntown Laingsburg5KR/W Mal Balow(989) [email protected]

Lory’s Place Run, Walk, RockSt. Joseph 8:15 am445 Upton Drive 5KR/W(800) [email protected]

MG 5KGrand Rapids 9:00 amRiverside Park, RiverbendShelter 5KR, 2MW(616) 956-0622mg-mi.org/events.htm

NAS Grosse IleDuathlonGrosse Ile 8:00 amGrosse Ile Airport5KR/ 25KB/ 5KR(231) [email protected]

New Balance Girls onthe Run 5K Van Buren/Cass CountiesLawton 9:00 amLawton HS 5KR(269) 621-3143, x 371www.vbcassdhd.org/vbc/health-girlsontherun.html

Oaklawn Hospital Hos-pitality ClassicMarshall 7:30 amBrooks Memorial FountainCircle10KR, 5KR/W, 1 MFRTheresa Chaney-Huggett(269) [email protected]

Okemos Kids TriathlonOkemos 1:00 pmOkemos HStriathlon distance varies(517) 706-5020okemosonline.com

Ready, Set, Fly 5KAnn ArborSkyline HS 5KRWill Smith(734) [email protected]/events

Save the Manatee RunHarrison Twp 9:00 amL’Anse Creuse HS5KR, 2 MW Lesley Argiri(586) [email protected]

Step One Presents theGirl and Boy Quest 5KJackson 8:30 amMiddle School at Parkside,2400 Fourth St. 5KR/WDebbie Lazaroff(517) [email protected]

Summer Stroll ForEpilepsyMidland 8:00 amDow Diamond [email protected]

Susan G. Komen Racefor the Cure®Detroit 8:00 amComerica Park5KR/W, 1MFRMaureen Meldrum(800) 527-6266karmanos.org/ detroitraceforthecure/

The Angel’s Place RaceClarkston 10:00 amSt. Daniel Church10KR, 5KR, 1MFR(248) 625-7859 [email protected]

The Capitol Bancorp 5Kfor JALansing 9:45 am100 W. Ottawa, Downtown5KR/W, 1MR(517) 267-4604capitolbancorp5k.com

USA Masters 8 kmChampionshipWilliamsburg, VAFit to Run, Fit to Dream 8Kusatf.org

Wellness Central Fit-ness Rat RaceMt. Pleasant 9:30 am2600 Three Leaves Drive5KR, 1MR/W(989) [email protected]

Sunday, May 22

Dash for Destiny 5KRun/WalkBirmingham 9:00 amShain Park5KR/W, 1M kids run(248) [email protected]

GOTR Trail Run HalfMarathon/ 10K/ 5KMt. PleasantDeerfield County Park13.1MR, 10KR, 5KR(989) 289-2361michiganhalfseries.com

Heart of Oak 5K Run /WalkBloomfield Hills 1:30 pmAcademy of the SacredHeart 5KR/W, 1MFR(248) [email protected]/oak

Livonis Stevenson Spartan 5K Fun RunLivonia 9:00 amLivonia Stevenson HS5KR/W, 1MW(734) [email protected]

Making Tracks for CeliacsGrosse Pointe Shores 9 amEdsel & Eleanor FordHouse 5KR/W(734) [email protected]

Michigan SeniorOlympics SummerGames TriathlonRochester 8:00 amOakland Universitytri: 400mS/ 20KB/ 5KR(248) 608-0252michiganseniorolympics.org

Muddy Watters, Bump &Run Trail Series, Race #1Rochester Hills 9:00 amBloomer Park, Hilltop Shelter 4MR(248) [email protected]

New Balance Girls onthe Run 5KYpsilanti 10:00 am5KR, kids runPat Ball (734) [email protected]

Relay for Life 5KLansing 9:00 amHawk Island County Park,Red Tail Pavillion 5KR/W(517) [email protected]

Rochester RotaryRun/WalkRochester 9:00 amMunicipal Park10KR, 5KR/WJeff [email protected]

Shiawassee CountyNew Balance Girls onthe Run 5K Owosso 9:00 amOwosso HS5KR, kids’ run(517) 282-0970gotrshiawassee.org

Stony Creek “Back tothe Beach” HalfMarathon & 5K Shelby Twp. 8:00 amStony Creek Metro ParkEastwood Beach13.1MR, 5KR/WJoe [email protected]

Walk for Farm AnimalsFeaturing a 4 Mile FunRunManchester 10:00 am4MR Amanda Hitt(734) [email protected]

XTERRA Last StandTriathlon / DuathlonAugusta 9:00 amFort Custer State ParkTri: 1/2MS/ 12.5MB/ 4MRor Du: 2MR, 12.5MB, 4MRJim / Joyce Donaldson(419) [email protected]

Tuesday, May 24

Millennium Park RunGrand Rapids 7:00 pm1401 Maynard SW6MR, 3MR/W, 1.5MR, kidsrun Rich [email protected]


Thursday, May 26

Greater KalamazooGirls on the Run Cele-bration 5K RunKalamazoo 6:30 pmWaldo Stadium, WesternMichigan 5KR(269) 491-6885www.girlsontherunkazoo.org

NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & FieldRound 1Bloomington, INIndiana University (502) 852-5151ncaasports.com5/26/11 - 5/28/11

Saturday, May 28

Alma Highland Festival8 Mile / 5KAlma 9:15 amAlma College campus8MR, 5KR/W, kids runsJill Sandro(989) 463-4122jsandro@almaschools.netalmahighlandfestival.comactive.com

CHC Foundation 5K FunRun/Walk and Girls onthe Run 5KColdwater 8:00 amHeritage Park 5KR/W (517) [email protected]

Eastern Ottawa YoungLife 5K and Fun RunHudsonville 8:00 amBaldwin St. Middle School5KR/W, 1MFR, 1/2MFR(616) [email protected]

Fruitport Old FashionedDays Run Fruitport 9:30 am10KR, 5KRDonald Wood(231) 865-3551

Island Lake Triathlon -SpringBrighton 7:30 am Island Lake Recreation AreaTri: .1/2MS/ 12.4MB/ 5KRor .09MS/ 24.8MB/ 10KR(734) [email protected]

John Laurin Memorial5K Run/WalkCarney - Nadeau 9 am CSTFadroski Park 5KR/W(906) [email protected]

Lisa’s RunAlpena 2:00 PMAlpena County Fairgrounds5MR, KR Mark Jacobs(989) [email protected]

Mackinaw MemorialBridge RaceMackinaw City 6:00 amMackinaw City RecreationComplex 6 MRMackinaw Area Visitors Bureau (231) [email protected]

Miles for Missions 4Mile & 2 Mile Run/WalkJackson 9:30 amJackson Free MethodistChurch4MR/W, 2MR/WDave Parham(517) [email protected]

8:00 am • Hartland High School• Awards for Runners, Walkers &

Masters• A ChronoTrack timed event• Benefits Hartland High School

Cheerleading & Special Education

May 30, 2011

Hartland Memorial Day Run/Walk

Register: active.comWeb: www.hartlandrun.comContact:

Dennis Tierney (248) [email protected] or Rob Buti (734) 451-2444

Presented byHartland Insurance

Agency

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Saginaw Veterans Me-morial Day 5K Run/WalkSaginaw 10:00 amSaginaw County VeteransMemorial Plaza5KR/W(989) [email protected]

Traverse City StateBank BayshoreMarathonTraverse City 7:00 amNorthwestern MichiganCollege26.2 MR, 13.1MR, 10KR(231) 941-8118bayshoremarathon.org

Tri_Cities Family YMCAKick Off to Summer 5KRun/WalkGrand Haven 8:30 am5KR/W(616) 842-7051, ext. [email protected]

X-Tri Stony CreekShelby Township 8:00 amStony Creek Metropark,Baypoint Beach1000mS/ 20KMB/ 4MR or2MR/ 20KMB/ 4MR(231) [email protected]

Sun., May 29

Hansons Group RunLake Orion 8:00 amHansons Running Shop(248) 693-9900shanson63@ gmail.comhansons-running.com

Seahorse ChallengeTriathlon and DuathlonClimax 8:00 amColdbrook County Park1.5KS/ 40KB/ 6.6MR or3.3MR/ 20KB/ 3.3MR, or500meter S/ 20KB/ 3.3MR(231) [email protected]

Monday, May 30

Big Foot ChallengeDansville 9:00 amDansville High School8KR, 5KR/W, kids’ runWendy and Fred Witchell(517) 889-5182dansvilleathleticboosters.com/bigfootchallenge.htm

City of Burton MemorialDay 5K Burton 9:00 amAtherton High School5KR/W Vaughn Smith(810) 744-1062

[email protected]

Hartland Memorial DayRun/WalkHartland 8:00 amHartland High School5KR, 3KWRob Buti (734) [email protected]/athletics/Events/Run/

Hoofin’ It for a HangarBelleville 7:45 amYanakee Air Museum, Wil-low Run Airport10KR, 5KR, 2KW(248) [email protected]

Jenison Ambucs Memorial Day RaceJenison 8:00 amJenison Junior High 5KR(616) 457-1168kenowaambucs.org

Lest They Be ForegottenMemorial Day 5K/10KWebberville 9:00 amWebberville HS10KR, 5KR/W(517) [email protected]

Memorial Day 5KRun/Walk & 8K RunGrosse Ile 8:30 amGrosse Ile HS8KR, 5KR/W, 1MFRTotal Runner (734) [email protected]

Run to ClimaxClimax 8:15 amE. Maple & Church7KR, 2MW(269) [email protected]

JuneWednesday, June 1

Tooth, Fang & Claw 10KRun and Swamp PartyPinckney 6:30 pm10KRDawn McConnachie(734) [email protected]/swampparty

Thursday, June 2

Swartz Creek ChallengeSwartz Creek 6:30 pm

Swartz Creek HS5KR/W(810) [email protected]

Saturday, June 4

5K4TJOkemos 10:00 amKinawa MS 5KR/W (517) [email protected]

Curwood Festival RacesOwosso 9:00 am301 S. Washington St.(Chemical Bank Office)10KR, 5KR/W, kids’ run(989) [email protected]

Dexter-Ann Arbor KidsRunAnn Arbor 4:00 pmPioneer HS Soccer Fieldskids run, distances vary Champions for Charity (734) [email protected]

Dodge Park 3.1 MileRun Sterling Heights 8:00 amDodge Park3.1MR, 1MR/WMark DiSanto(586) 446-2700mdisanto@sterling-heights.netsterling-heights.netgoracego.com

Double Time TriThree Rivers 8:00 amKline’s Resort, Portage LakeTri: 400yd S/ 11.5MB/ 5KR,relay Jim Mishler(888) [email protected]

Hanson Hills ChallengeTrail Run Grayling 9:00 amHanson Hills Little SmokeyCross Country Lodge5MR Justin Andre(989) 348-9266www.hansonhills.org

Michigan Mile for KidsLansing 9:00 amCooley Law School Stadium1 MR for kids 12 and under(517) [email protected]/

Midland CommunityCenter’s Dow Run/WalkMidland 8:00 am10KR, 5KR/W, 1MR/W,

kids run(989) 832-7937, ext. 2221dowrunwalk.mymcc.org

Oak Apple Run Royal Oak 7:30 amDowntown Royal Oak10KR, 2MR, kids run(248) 541-4502oakapplerun.org

OPC Fun Run / WalkRochester 8:00 amOlder Persons’ Commis-sion , 650 Letica Dr.5KR/W Matt Spierling(248) [email protected]

Panther ProwlHolland 8:00 am5KR/W Becki Dykstra(616) [email protected]

Run for the CureCaro 9:00 amChippewa Landing Park5KR/W, kids run(989) 551-21855krunforthecure.com

SMART Blast Urban Adventure RaceClarkston 8:00 amDepot Park6 hour adventure race(248) [email protected]

St. Gerard 5KLansing 10:00 amSt. Gerard Church5KR/W(517) [email protected]

St. Patrick Shamrock Festival 5KBrighton 7:30 amSt. Patrick’s CatholicChurch 5KR/W(810) [email protected]

Summer Stroll ForEpilepsyKalamazoo 8:00 amCelery Flats 2MW(800) [email protected]

Yankee Springs TrailRunMiddleville 7:00 amYankee Springs Rec. Area52.4MR, 26.2MR, 13.1MR,Phil Stapert(616) [email protected]

Sunday, June 5

Bass Festival RunMancelona 9:00 amPalmer Park 5KR/WMancelona Bass Festival (231) 587-5044 [email protected]

Blue Water Hospice 5K-10K River RunMarysville 8:00 amMarysvillePark10KR, 5KR, 3MW(810) [email protected]

Dexter to Ann ArborRunAnn Arbor 8:00 amMain Street & Ann Street13.1MR, 10KR, 5KR, kidsrunChampions for Charity(734) [email protected]

Grand Rapids TriathlonAda 7:00 amThornapple River Driveboat launchTri: sprint, olympic or 1/2iron Andy Vidro(616) 805-3059grandrapidstriathlon.com

Hawk Island TriathlonLansing 8:00 amHawk Island County ParkTri: 400 meter S/ 16KB/5KR Kathie Dunbar(517) [email protected]

Racing for RecoveryHalf & Sprint TriathlonMonroe 7:30 amSterling State Parktri: 1.2MS/ 56MB/ 13.1MRor 500mS/ 12MB/ 3.6MR (231) [email protected]

We Can Do It Women’s5KOkemos 9:00 amMeridian Township Offices5KR/W Michelle Phillipich(517) 899-5211runningfoundation.com

Tuesday, June 7

Catholic Central 10KRelay RunGrand Rapids 7:00 pmCatholic Central, 2770 Knapp NE 10K track relay, 2 person teams(616) [email protected]


4th of July Race7 p.m. - 5 & 10K races

will cover roads and ground where Ryan often trainedwhile living in Central Lake.

A one mile fun run will also be offered

All races will be conducted at the Central Lake High School track field,where refreshments and race awards will be presented.

Fireworks display will follow.

Proceeds will go to the Ryan Shay Memorial Scholarship.Awards will be presented to overall male and female

racers and for all categories.Commemorative T-shirts will be given to pre-registered

runners (up to 100).

Entry forms available by calling 231-544-2815 or email [email protected] or at running

stores throughout Michigan.

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“One of the 10 best races for fi rst-time

marathoners”

–Rodale Inc. and MSN’s fi tness website, Fitbie.

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CompetitorMagazine named

Detroit’s “underwater mile” one of the 26 most

memorable marathon miles in 2010.

Enjoy a running experience like no other when you compete in the 2011 Detroit Free Press Marathon. Our memorable course crosses the U.S.-Canada border twice, once through the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel and the world’s only “underwater mile”, and once across the famed Ambassador Bridge. Registration is now open for the marathon, half-marathon, relay and 5k. See historic Detroit like you never have before.

Take your fi rst step by registering at freepmarathon.com. Register by August 3 to receive our early-entry discount, and use code mr2011 for a chance to get your registration for free!

OCT. 16, 2011 TWO GREAT COUNTRIES. ONE GREAT RACE.


Wednesday, June 8

Doozie’s Ice Cream FunRun/Walk SeriesMt. Pleasant 7:30 pm1310 East Pickard5MR, 3MR, 1MRHarry Plouff(989) [email protected]

Flushing Evening 5kRun/WalkFlushing 6:15 pmFlushing High School5KR/W John Gault(810) 487-0954riverbendstriders.com

NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & FieldChampionshipsDes Moinse, IADrake University track(541) 346-4461ncaas.com6/8/11 - 6/11/11

Saturday, June 11

Ally Brunk Memorial 5KPotterville 9:00 amPotterville Public Library

5KR/W Dan Brunk(517) [email protected]

Ashley Trading DaysTrot 5KAshley 7:30 amAshley HS 5KR/WAndrew Denman(989) [email protected]

Baraga County LakeTrout FestivalL’Anse9:00 am ESTL’Anse Water-front Park13.1MR, 5KRPam Dove(906) 524-4797

[email protected]

Bear Scat WildernessTriathlonCrystal Falls 10:00 amThe Listening Inntri: 12.8K kayak; 19.3KB/4.8KR Carol Kufahl(906) 822-7738 [email protected]

Big Mac Shoreline Scenic Bike TourMackinaw City 7:00 amMackinaw City High School25MB, 50MB, 75MB,100MB(231) 436-5574mackinawchamber.com

Brian Diemer Amerikam5KCutlerville/ Grand Rapids9:00 am Legacy Christian School

5KR/W, 1MFR, kids’ runsRob Hyde(616) [email protected]

Cereal City ClassicBattle Creek 8:00 amFamily Y Center, 182 Capi-tal Ave NE10KR, 5KR/WBarbara Ramsey(269) 963-9622 / (269) 963-YMCA, x120

Plymouth YMCAFathers Day Run

Sunday June 19, 2011A Michigan Fathers Day Tradition for 32 years!

Kids 1/4M Fun Run, 1M Run, 1M Walk 5K Run, 5K Walk, 10K

PLUS Cash Prizes!!!Triple 10.3M - start times allow all three races!

USATF Certified Course is flat and fast! • B Tag timing • Custom Awards • 2010 Women’s Masters 5K National Record

Register NOW!! at www.active.comInformation at www.ymcadetroit.org/plymouth

Proceeds support the YMCA’s “Strong Kids Campaign”Cindy Morency - 734-453-2904

[email protected]

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Run For The

Half Marathon, 5K, & Fun Walk

For more information or to register: www.picturedrocksroadrace.com

(906) 228-3659

Sunday, June 26th, 2011

The 36th Annual

8:00 am Munising, MI

Upper Peninsula

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Run & WalkFor Funds

Northport • Saturday, July 29 am: 2 Mile Run • 9:30 am: 5K &10K Runs • 9:45 am: WalkAll events benefit American Cancer Society Leelanau County Unit

$20 Entry Fee, $25 Race Day • T-Shirts to first 200 Plaques • Medals • Location: Historic Depot Northport

Contact:George W. Anderson, Race Director

310 West Third St., Northport, MI 49670(231) 386-5188 • [email protected]

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[email protected]

Desilator 5KPinckney 8:00 am5KR Jordan Desilets(734) [email protected]

Dirty Dog DashBoyne Falls 1:00 pmBoyne Mountain 3MR(517) 819-5898dirtydogdash.com

Dirty Feat AdventureRaceEast Lansing 8:00 amValley Court ParkAdventure race: biking, canoeing, runningTim Schmitt (517) 281-9516dirtyfeat.org

Flirt with DirtNovi 7:30 amLake Shore Park10KR, 5KRRunning Fit (734) [email protected]

Great Up Hill ChallengeGrand Rapids 9:00 am3MR 10 hill stage raceDan Droski(616) 260-2669oldfartsrunningclub.8k.com

Hartford Strawberry RunHartford 8:30 amHartford High School10KR, 5KR/W, 1MFR(269) 621-3651hartfordstrawberryrun.com

Kreger Farm Barn Rais-ing 5KFranklin 8:00 amdowntown Franklin5KR/W Elizabeth Rutherford(248) 547-0857kregerhouse.org

LakeVille’s 5K Run/WalkOtisville 9:00 amLakeVille HS Track 5KR(810) 793-4188lakevillesvisions@gmail.comlakevillesvisions.blogspot.com

LifeRUNPortage 7:30 amWest MS X-C Course5KR, 2KW Stacy Rodgers(269) 345-1740, [email protected]

Ludington LakestrideHalf Marathon & 5KLudington 8:30 amSterns Park, LudingtonBeach13.1 MR, 5KR, 1MFRMaurie Holbrook


M-22 Challenge: Bike,Paddle, RunGlen Arbor 9:00 am25KB/ 2Kpaddle/ 2MR(231) 883-5936m22challenge.com

Mackinac Island LilacFestival 10K Run andWalkMackinac Island 9:30 am10KR/W, kids run(810) 487-0954 [email protected]

North Country TrailRelayBaldwin 6:00 amManistee National Forest75.6 M relay, 6 runnerteams, 15 legs 2.3-9.2 miles(616) 786-2945www.nctrelay.org

Orthopaedic RehabRose Run Jackson 8:00 am8KR, 5KR, 5M hybrid R,4M hybrid relay runBrian Olsen(517) [email protected]

Race and RememberDetroit 7:00 amRivard Plaza5KR, 2MW, 1MW(313) [email protected]

St. Mark’s 5K Run &Walk for CharityBridgeport 9:00 amSt. Mark’s Church5KR/W Mike Houle(989) [email protected]

Summer Stroll ForEpilepsyRoyal Oak 8:00 amDetroit Zoo 2MW(800) 377-6226epilepsymichigan.org

SuperkidstryDetroit 9:00 amBelle IsleTriathlon: 100mS/ 5KB/800mR or 200mS/ 10KB/1MR(231) [email protected]

Tri -for-Life Race forChaseMillington 8:00 amSouthern Links Rail trail10KR, 5KR/W(989) 213-5714donatelifetriathlon.com

USATF Michigan Open/Masters Outdoor Track& Field Championships- TENTATIVE DATE &LOCATIONHillsdale tbdHillsdale College trackJan Burch (231) [email protected]

Sunday, June 12

Big Mac Shoreline Sce-nic Bike TourMackinaw City 7:00 amFort Michilimackinac(231) [email protected]

Motor City TriathlonDetroit 8:00 amBelle Isle Casino triathlon: 1.5KS/ 23MB/ 6.6MR or 500meter S/ 20KB/ 3.4MR(231) [email protected]

Run for CHUM HalfMarathon and 5KDansville 8:00 amDansvilel HS track13.1MR, 5KR, kids run(517) [email protected]/

USA Half Marathon TrailChampionshipsBend, ORFootzone Dirty Halfusatf.org

Waterloo Triathlon /DuathlonGrass Lake 8:00 amBig Portage Lake, SeymourRoadTri: 1/2MS/ 16MB/ 5MR;Du: 2MR/ 16MB/ 5MRJim / Joyce Donaldson(419) [email protected]

Wed., June 15

Human RaceMt. Pleasant 6:30 pmReservation, East Remus Road 5KRHarry Plouff(989) [email protected]

Triceratops TriathlonBrighton 6:00 pmIsland Lake Recreation AreaTri: 1/2MS/ 12.4MB/ 5KRRunning Fit (734) [email protected]

Thursday, June 16

Glen Arbor Clio Firecracker 5KClio 6:15 pmCarter Middle School5KR/W, kids run(810) [email protected]

Strides for Life 100 MileRunHolland 8:00 amHope College25MR, 50MR, 75MR,100MR(616) 396-5576www.stridesforlife.com25 miles/day; 6/16 - 6/19/11

The DalmationClio 6:15 pm5KR/W, 1/[email protected]

Friday, June 17

Kids’ KlassicKalamazoo 6:00 pmYMCA on Hudson St.1KFR Kim Klein(269) [email protected]

Saturday, June 18

Antioch’s Get HealthyNow 5K Run/WalkLansing 8:30 amHawk Island County Park5KR/W Edward Thomas(517) [email protected]

Beat the Grandma 5KAge/Gender Graded RaceGrand Rapids 9:00 amJohn Ball Park Zoo 5KRDan Droski(616) 260-2669beatthegrandma.mysite.com

Beat-A-Die Dont Di-A-Bete Half Marathon/10K/ 5KMt. Pleasant 10:00 amRunners Performance13.1MR, 10KR, 5KR(989) 289-2361michiganhalfseries.com

Beet Feet Rotary 5KWalk/RunSebewaing 8:30 amSebewaing Downtown Park5KR/W Chery Canfield(989) [email protected]

Cheesetown ChallengePinconning 6:00 pm

Doc Letchfield Park5 MR, 2 MR/W, kids runMarty Schultz(989) [email protected]

Crossroads 5kRun/Walk and Fun RunIonia 9:00 amCrossroads Church to IoniaRiver Trail5KR/,W, 2MRF(616) [email protected]. com/5k

Higgins Lake SunriseRunRoscommon 7:30 amHiggins Lake N. State Park13.1MR, 10KR, 1MR(989) 415-9116higginslakesunriserun.com

Johan’s TriFest Hopkins 8:00 amSandy Pines ResortTriathlon Olympic: 1.5KS/40KB/ 10KRSteve Webster(616) 261-9706www.johanstrifest.com

Joshua Spalsbury Memorial Comet Chase5KGrand Ledge 8:30 amFirst United MethodistChurch 5KR/W(517) 481-61285kcometchase.com

Kalamazoo KlassicKalamazoo 6:30 amYMCA10KR, 5KR/W, 5KFW(269) 343-0747kalamazooklassic.com

Lakeview Vitality for LifeRaceLakeview 8:30 am5KR Ashley Helms(989) 352-7510, ext. [email protected]

Lech Lecha TriathlonGrandville 8:05 amSuncrest Laketri: 600ydS/ 10.4MB/2.1MR(616) [email protected]

Michigan Brewing Company Beer RunWebberville 6:00 pmMichigan Brewing Company 5KR/W(517) 521-3600www.michiganbrewing.com

National 24 Hour ChallengeMiddleville 8:00 am

Thornapple-Kellog MSbicycle endurance ride:126.1MB, 23.7MB, 7.5MB(616) 538-7497www.n24hc.org6/18/11-6/19/11

NE Lenawee CROPHunger Run & WalkMacon 9:00 am11964 Macon Hwy10KR, 5KR(517) [email protected]

Open Door JulieRun/WalkCommerce Twp. 9:00 amWalled Lake Northern HS,6000 Bogie Lake Road.10KR, 5KR/WJulie Leblanc(248) [email protected]

Open Water PracticeSwimGrass Lake 8:30 amWaterloo Recreation Area(734) [email protected]

Respite Run for theLove of DadsOwosso 9:00 amHopkins Lake 5KR/W(989) [email protected]

Run for a CauseAda 8:30 amAda Elementary School5KR/W, 1.5MR/W(616) 460-9443www.run4acauseada.com

Spring Lake HeritageFestival 5K Run/WalkSpring Lake 8:00 amCentral Park 5KR/W(616) 881-2882www.slheritagefestival.com

Summer Solstice 5KFun RunSault Ste. Marie, MI 8 amSherman Park 5KRCindy Merkel(906) 632-8109summersolstice5k.org

Sunday, June 19

Big Fish Triathlon,Duathlon, SprintHadley Township 8 amBig Fish Lake State Park1.5KS/ 40KB/ 10KR;500mS/ 20KB/5KR; 5KRDuathlon: 5KR/ 20KB/ 5KR


Father’s Day Run for Re-covery 5KCharlotte 9:00 amBennett Park 5KR/W(517) [email protected]

Plymouth YMCA Fa-ther’s Day RunPlymouth 7:30 am

Downtown Plymouth10KR, 5KR/W, 1 MR/W,Triple (all 3 races, 10.3miles), Kid’s trot/jogCindy Morency(734) [email protected]/ plymouth

Run for the Ribbon 5Kfor Prostate Care

AwarenessHuntington Woods 8 amDetroit Zoo 5KR/W(586) 443-4272miurunfortheribbon.org

XTERRA Torn ShirtTriathlon /DuathlonBrighton 8:00 amBrighton Recreation Area,Bishop LakeTri: 1/2 MS/ 15MB/ 6MR;Du: 2MR/ 15MB/ 6MR

Jim / Joyce Donaldson(419) [email protected]

Tuesday, June 21

Forest Hills EasternHigh School Track MeetGrandville 6:00 pm2200 Pettis NE, Ada1MR, 800meter R, 400 meter


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relay, 100 meters, 2MWBill Elvey (616) [email protected]

Wed., June 22

Motor City Strider Summer Run and PicnicHuntington Woods 6:30 pmHuntington Woods RecCenter 3 MR, 1 MREdward Kozloff(248) [email protected]

Twilight RunLansing 7:00 pm200 Museum Drive, LansingRiver Trail 5KR/WChuck Block(517) 702-0226runningfoundation.com

Thursday, June 23

USA Junior OutdoorTrack & Field ChampionshipsEugene, ORHayward Fieldusatf.org6/23/11 - 6/26/11

USA Outdoor Track &Field ChampionshipsEugene, ORHayward Fieldusatf.org6/23/11 - 6/26/11

YMCA RetreadRun/Shoes for KidsFlint 6:30 pmDowntown Flint YMCA8KR, 5KR/W(810) 659-6493riverbendstriders.com

Saturday, June 25

Bank of America ReedsLake RunGrand Rapids 8:00 amReeds Lake 10KR, 5KR/WSusan Perry(616) 949-1750www.reedslakerun.com

Beach WellnessBay City 9:00 amBay City State Rec. Area10KR, 5KR/W,, kids run(989) [email protected]

Binder Park Zoo Cheetah ChaseBattle Creek 8:00 amBinder Park Zoo5KR/W, 1MFR(269) 979-1351, ext. [email protected]

Caledonia Kilt Klassic 5KCaledonia 8:00 am9757 Duncan Lake Ave.5KR/W (616) 406-9766kiltklassic.com

Charlevoix MarathonCharlevoix 7:00 amBridge Street26.2MR, 13.1MR, 10KR,5KR/WSharon Suffolk(248) [email protected]

Concord Classic 5KRun/WalkConcord 8:00 amConcord High School5KR/W, 1/2 M Kid’s Run(517) [email protected]

FCA Big Ticket Festivalof RacesIonia 8:00 amIonia Country Fairgrounds13.1MR, 5KR/W, 1MFR(231) [email protected]

Gale’s Gym Summer Se-ries Race OneEdmore 10:00 amGayle’s Gym, 1379 Ind.Park Dr.5KR Gale Nesbitt(989) [email protected]

Keyes Peak Trail RunFlorence, WI 7:00 amKeyes Peak Ski Lodge50KR,26.2MR, 10KRJeff Crumbaugh(715) [email protected]

Max’s RaceEast Lansing 8:30 amMSU Auditorium5KR/W, kids runJ. Matthews(517) 204-3257www.maxsrace.com

Michigan Track and FieldChampionships 5KEast Kentwood 9:00 amEast Kentwood HS Stadium5KR, kids run(269) [email protected]/

Muddy Watters, Bump &Run Trail Series, Race #2Rochester Hills 9:00 amBloomer Park, Hilltop Shelter 4.5MR(248) 320-5705www.jeffwatters.com

MWCAA Corporate CupRelaysSouthfield 7:45 amSouthfield HS10KR, 5KR/W, field events,track relaysGeoff Lane (313) [email protected]

Portland St. PatrickParish Festival 5K RunPortland 8:00 amPortland HS 5KR/W(517) 927-2226portlandstpats.com

River Days RunDetroit 9:00 amRivard Plaza5KR/W, kids runDetroit Riverfront Conservancy (313) [email protected]

Run for SparksMilford 9:00 amMilford HS track5KR/W Amber Stanley(248) 685-8600amber@amberlightsphotography.comamberlightsphotography.com

Solstice RunNorthville 7:30 amFord Field, Griswold St.north of Main10MR, 10KR, 5KR/W, KidsRunAlan Whitehead(248) [email protected]

South Beach TriathlonsSouth Havendowntown South HavenTri: 1.5KS/ 40KB/ 10KR or500mS/ 20KB/ 5KR(231) [email protected]

St. Clair Rotary ArtfulDodger 5KSt. Clair 8:30 amGazebo, St Clair Plaza5KR Larry McKay(810) [email protected]

The Chronicle SeawayRunMuskegon 8:00 amMuskegan Family YMCA15KR, 5KR/W, kids runLynn Keech(231) [email protected]

Wolverine Wildcat 5KWolverine 8:00 amChildren’s Park 5KR, 1MFR

(231) 525-8419wolverinewildcatraces@hotmail.comwolverinelumberjackfest.com

Sunday, June 26

Anyone Can TriMount ClemensMetrobeach MetroparkTri: 750mS/ 13MB/ 5KR Du: 1.5MR/ 13MB/ 5KR(231) [email protected]

Asha Detroit 5K Run /WalkRochester 8:00 amKensington Metro Park,West Boat Launch Trail5KR/W Sai Gopisetty(586) 362-8205www.ashanet.org/detroit/events/5k2011/signup.php

Bear Lake TriNorth Muskegon 8 amBear Lake ParkTri: 750mS/ 20KB/ 5KR, or1.5KS/ 40KB/ 10KR or Du:5KR/ 20KB/ 5KR(231) 557-6454mullally.us/bearlaketri/

Clawson Freedom RunClawson 7:30 pmClawson City Park5KR, 1MFR(248) 330-2952www.freedom-run.com

Hansons Group RunLake Orion 8:00 amHansons Running Shop(248) [email protected]

Pictured Rocks Road

Race - Run for the Red

Cross

Munising 8:00 amR.W. Nebel Field13.1MR, 5KR, FW(906) 228-3659picturedrocksroadrace.com

Stepping Out to CureSclerodermaRoyal Oak 8:00 amDetroit Zoo5KR, 2MW, 1MR kids run(248) [email protected]

Tri Goddess TriWomen’s Only TriathlonGrass Lake 7:30 amWaterloo Recreation AreaTri: sprint, mini sprint; Eva Solomon(734) [email protected]

Waterfall 5K Trail RunLagro, IN 8:30 am

Kokiwanee Nature Preserve5KR Mitch Harper(260) [email protected]

Tuesday, June 28

USA Youth OutdoorTrack & Field ChampionshipsMyrtle Beach, SCDoug Shaw Stadiumusatf.org6/28/11 - 7/3/11

World Youth Track &Field TrialsMyrtle Beach, SCDoug Shaw Stadiumusatf.org6/28/11 - 6/29/11

Zeeland ZoomZeeland 7:00 pm5KR/W Abby deRoo(616) 748-5906feelthezeel.com

JulyFriday, July 1

Gina Van Laar 5K CrossCountryAllendale 7:00 pmAllendale HS 5KR/W,1MFR, Kids RunGrant Lofdahl(616) [email protected]

Hansons 3 Mile Cross-Country RaceSterling Heights 7:00 pmDodge Park 3 MR (586) [email protected]

Saturday, July 2

Coach Kelly RacesSt. Louis 8:00 amSt. Louis HS10KR, 5KR/W, 1MFR(989) 330-2430racingactivities.org

Detroit HydrocephalusAssociation Walk-RunWestland 10:00 amHines Park, Nankin Mills5KR/W Jennifer Bechard(734) 788-7881walk4hydro.kintera.org/ detroit2011

Dorks Brothers Independence Day RunAlpena 9:00 amGreat Lakes Maritime Mu-


12th Anniversary

Phone: (989) 399-8860 All events, on-line registration: Contact: Craig Douglas www.marathonguide.comArtwork by Carrollton High School Student Blake Mossner

Sponsors: • Carrollton Education Foundation• NBC 25 • East Side Soup Kitchen

Events: • Marathon • Half Marathon (new!) • Mini-Marathon (8.6 mile) • 5K

Sunday, July 24th at 6 AM Certified course • Carrollton, Michigan (near Zilwaukee Bridge)

All NEW this Fall:Carrollton Marathon & Half-Marathon

November 6th at 8:00 am

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seum-Heritage Trail5KR, 1MR


Eugene Bednarowski5KR/WWatervliet 5KR/W(269) [email protected]

Kenya Dig It? 5K & 10Kand 2 Mile WalkTecumseh 8:30 amTecumseh High School10KR, 5KR, 2MW(517) 423-3676kenyadigit.org

Manistee Firecracker 5KManistee 8:00 amManistee High School5KR/W, 1 KFREric Thuemmel(231) [email protected]

Mark Mellon Triathlon &DuathlonGaylord 8:00 amOtsego Lake County Park1000mS/ 40KB/ 10KR or500mS/ 14MB/ 5KR or250mS/ 5MB/ 2MR(757) 724-7224markmellontri.com

Run Posey Lake 4 MileHudson 9:00 amPosey Lake 4MR/W(517) 403-8666runningwithes.com

Run & Walk for FundsNorthport 9:00 amHistoric Northport Depot10KR, 5KR, 2 MWGeorge W. Anderson(231) [email protected]

T-Rex Trail 10-MilerLowell 9:00 amFallasburg Park10MR, 8KR Dan Droski(616) 260-2669www.trextenmiler.8k.com

Visser Family YMCABuck Creek RunGrandville 8:00 amGrandville MS5 KR/W, kids runs(616) [email protected]

Whitmore Lake RacesWhitmore Lake 8:00 amWhitmore Lake MS10KR, 5KR, Splash ‘n dash, Tin Man 800meter FR,200meter FR(734) 449-8655

[email protected]

Sunday, July 3

Howell IndependenceAquathlon and OpenWater SwimHowell 9:00 amHowell City Park2KR/ 750m S/ 2KR Chris Galatis(517) 546-0693, ext. [email protected]

Pickerel RunAlgonac 8:00 amAlgonac Elementary School10KR, 5KR/W(810) 499-5687pickerelrun.com

Monday, July 4

4th of July RaceCentral Lake 7:00 pmThurston Park 10KR, 5KR, 1MFRJoe Shay(231) 544-2815, cell-(231)[email protected]

Ann Arbor Firecracker5KAnn Arbor 8:00 amDowntown Ann Arbor5KR/W, kids dashMarie Brooks(734) [email protected]

Black Bear RunEngadine 9:00 amEngadine High School12KR, 6KR/W(906) [email protected]

Boyne City Independ-ence Day RunBoyne City 7:30 amDowntown Boyne City10KR, 2 MRBarb Bryant (231) [email protected]

Dorr 5K Run/WalkDorr 7:30 amSt. Peters Lutheran Church(616) [email protected]

Firecracker 5K Beulah 8:00 am Beulah Park Pavilion 5KRAsa & Traci Kelly(231) 930-4222kellya@benzieschools.netcrystallakecommunitybusi-nessassoc.com

Firecracker 5KCorunna 8:00 amStu Cotts Pavilion5KR/W, 1MFR(989) 743-5874corunna4th.org/julyrace.html

Greatest 4th in theNorth Lake City 8:30 am10KR/W, 5KR/W, 2KFR(231) 839-2943lakecityschools.net/race/

Hanover Firecracker Hanover 8:00 amHanover Fire Station5 MR, 5KW, kids runJeff Heath (517) [email protected]

Horse Tail ScrambleHancock 1:00 onChurning Rapids Trails10KR, 5KW(906) 482-6827keweenaw.info

Hungry Duck RunBrighton 7:00 amGrand River & Main13.1MR, 5KR, kids fun run(810) 844-0180hungryduckrun.com

Pace for Poverty RunRichland 8:00 amGull Lake Schools10KR, 5KR, FWStephanie Walbridge(269) 207-4988

Paul Revere 3 & 10 MileRunHarbor Springs 8:00 am10MR, 3MFREmily Kloss (231) [email protected]

The Sparkler 5KLuna Pier 9:00 amLuna Pier Road 5KR/[email protected]

VolkslaufeFrankenmuth 8:00 amHeritage Park 20KR, 10KR, 5KR/W, 2KFR-kidsrunMandy Lloyd(989) 860-3388 or (800)[email protected]

Tuesday, July 5

Richmond Park CrossCountryGrand Rapids 7:00 pm5KR, 1.5MR, kids run(616) [email protected]

Thursday, July 7

Huckleberry Hustle 5kTrail Run Flint 7:00 pmCrossroads Village 5KR/W, kids run(810) [email protected]

Friday, July 8

Moonlit Miles for MarrowGreenville 8:00 pmKlackle’s Orchards15KR, 5KR/W(616) 233-8516moonlitformarrow.com

USATF National ClubTrack & Field ChampionshipsNew York City, NYIcahn Stadiumusatf.org7/8/11 - 7/9/11

Saturday, July 9

Anchor Bay TriathlonNew Baltimore 7:30 am1/2MS/ 17.7KB/ 4.8i3K(586) [email protected]

CLAW Kids TriathlonManistique 2:00 pmClear Lake Education Center1/4 MKayak/ 3MB/ 1MRGreg Roll (708) [email protected]

Dances with Dirt -Devil’s LakeBaraboo, WIDevil’s Head Resort50MR, 50KR, 26.2MR,13.1MR, 100K relayRunning Fit (734) [email protected]

Duo at the LedgeGrand Ledge 6:00 amSt. Michael School13.1MR, 5KR/WSteve Kreft (517) [email protected]

Golden Mile Traverse City 9:30 amDowntown, Front Street1MR(213) [email protected]

Grand Haven KidsTriathlonGrand Haven 7:45 am

Tri-Cities Family YMCA200meterS/ 2MB/ 1/2MRRon Knoll (616) 566-7870www.grandhaventri.com

Lakeshore Miracle RunHolland 8:30 am4686 66th Street 10KR(616) [email protected]

National Cherry Festival15K & 5KTraverse City 7:30 amEastern Elementary, 1600Eastern Ave.15KR, 5KR/W(800) [email protected]

Port Austin Run forYouth for Christ Port Austin 8:30 amGallup Park 8KR, 2 MR/WCharlotte Thuemmel(989) 738-8772www.parun.org

Rockford Area KidsTriathlonRockford 9:00 amRockford HSkids 0-17; distances vary(517) 336-6429www.rocktri.com

Rollie Hopgood’s Midtown Taylor 5K RunTaylor 9:00 amHeritage Park5KR/W, 1MFRTotal Runner (734) [email protected]

Run the Keweenaw, aFestival of TrailsCopper Harbor 8:00 amKeweenaw Mountain Lodge6KR,12KR, kids’ runArni Ronis (906) [email protected]/run2 day event

Tawas Kiwanis’ Run bythe Bay East Tawas 9:00 amdowntown 5KR/WKen Cook (989) [email protected]

Traverse Bay OpenWater ChallengeInterlochen 8:00 amInterlochen State Park 2MS, 1MS, 1/2MS(231) 258.1173www.tcbreakers.com

UP NorthwoodsTriathlonIron Mountain 4 pm CST

Lake Antoine County Parkkids tri: 200ftS/ 2MB/1/2MR (906) [email protected]/Triathlon.html

Sunday, July 10

Aid Lansing 5KLansing 9:00 amHawk Island Park5KR/W Andre [email protected]

Ann Arbor Triathlon /DuathlonPinckney 8:00 amPinckney Recreation Area,Halfmoon Lake Beach1/2MS/ 14MB/ 5MR or2MR, 14MB, 5MRJim / Joyce Donaldson(419) [email protected]

CLAW Adult TriathlonManistique 10:00 amClear Lake Ed. Centertri: 2MKayak/ 8MB/ 3MRGreg Roll (708) [email protected]

Columbia Muddy BuddyDetroitShelby Township 8:00 amStony Creek Metro Park6.6MR or team B & R(818) 707-8867muddy-buddy.competitor.com/event-info/detroit/

Grand Haven Triathlon,Sprint Tri, & DuathlonGrand Haven 7:45 amTri-Cities Family YMCA1.5KS/ 40KB/ 10KR or500meterS/ 20KB/ 5KR or5KR/ 20KB/ 5KR, kids triRon Knoll (616) 566-7870www.grandhaventri.com

Inter-Rockin Tri,Du,Sprint TriInterlochen 8:00 am

Interlochen State Park1.5KS/ 40KB/ 10KR or 500meter S/ 20KB, 5KR or5KR/ 20KB/ 5KR(231) [email protected]

Jazz Running CampBrooklynBob & Katie Jazwinski(734) 474-0584www.jazzrunning.com7/10/11 - 7/14/11

Metro Way 5KWyoming 8:00 amMetro Health Hospital, 5900 Byron Center Ave, SW5KR/W Amy [email protected]

Mt. Olivet Cemetery 4-Mile Sunrise RunDetroit 8:00 amMt. Olivet Cemetery10KR, 5KR/W, 1.5MW(734) [email protected]

Poker Fun RunClinton Township 9:00 amClinton- Canal Don Green-way Nature Trail13.1MR, 2.5MR(586) 532-1300 x [email protected]

Run for Life 5K Run/WalkMt. Morris 8:00 amKnights of Columbus5KR/W Tim Murphy(810) [email protected]

Run the Keweenaw, aFestival of TrailsCopper Harbor 7:00 amEagle Harbor, Copper Harbor 25KRArni Ronis (715) 460-0426keweenawtrails.com/run/

UP NorthwoodsTriathlonIron Mountain 4 pm CST

Lake Antoine County Park500meterS/ 17MB/ 5KR or1500meterS/ 24.9MB/ 10KR(906) [email protected]/Triathlon.html

Wednesday, July 13

Doozie’s Ice Cream FunRun Mt. Pleasant 7:30 pm1310 East Pickard5MR, 3MR, 1MR(989) [email protected]

Thursday, July 14

Ophelia Bonner Scholarship RunFlint 6:30 pmU of M Pavilion8KR/W, 1MR(810) [email protected]

Friday, July 15

Great Lakes RelayEastpointe 6:00 amTawas to Empire270 M RelayBob Baril (313) 885-3256greatlakesrelay.com7/15/11 - 7/17/11

Hansons 3 Mile Cross-Country RaceShelby Twp. 7:00 pmWolcott Farm 3 MRHansons Running Shop Utica (586) [email protected]

Saturday, July 16

5K Schoolship RunSuttons Bay 9:00 amInland Seas Ed. Center5KR Allison Beers(231) 271-3077www.schoolship.org


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Sunday, July 3, 2011 Howell City Park

Registration - 8 am

One Mile Swim - 9 am 9th Annual Aquathlon - 10 am

2K Run, 750 Meter Swim, 2K Run

Presented by the

Howell Area Parks & Recreation Authority

517/546-0693

Register online at: www.howellrecreation.org


Alpenfest RunGaylord 7:30 amPavilion on Court Street10MR/W, 5KR/WGayla (989) [email protected]

Bastille Days 5KRun/Walk and 15KRFenton 7:45 am150 S. Leroy15KR, 5KR/W(810) [email protected]

Bear River CrawlPetoskey 8:00 amBay Front Park 10KR, 5KR(231) 347-9300northernmichigans-portsmed.com

Brainy Day 5KNunica 9:00 am12718 Cleveland Street5KR/W(616) [email protected]

Escape to Belle Isle -The Spirit of DetroitChallengeDetroit 8:30 amBelle Isle Park10KR/W, 5KR/W, kids run(810) 333-1740escapetobelleisle.com

Families Against Narcotis Run Drugs Outof TownFraser 9:00 amFraser HS 5KR/W(586) [email protected]

Farmington FoundersFestival 4 MileFarmington 9:00 amShaiwassee Park4 MR (248) [email protected]

Gazelle Sports Tri delSolMiddleville 8:00 amYMCA Camp Manitou-LinTri 1/2 MS, 18MB, 4.5MR;Du 2MR, 18MB, 4.5MR(616) 855-1972www.tridelsol.com

Hopkins 5K Run & WalkHopkins 7:30 am5KR/W Kathy Sebright(269) [email protected]

Indian River Summerfest Kiwanis10K/ 5K RunIndian River 8:00 am10KR, 5KR/W

Greg Rotter(231) [email protected]

Port City RunFrankfort 8:30 amMain Street, at Goose Park,next to Benzie Shores Dis-trict Library 5KR/W, 1MJudi Tousley (231) [email protected]/PortCityRun/index.htm

Portofino’s Run for ArtWyandotte 8:00 amPortofino Restaurant5KR/W Total Runner (734) [email protected]

Republic Bank Canal Hancock 7:00 amMcLain St Park to Hancock10MR/W Ross Cooney(906) 482-8562keweenaw.info

Superkidstry Hartland 9:00 amHartland HSTri: 100mS/ 5KB/ 800mR or200mS/ 10KB/ 1MR(231) [email protected]

The Rose RunPetersburg 8:30 am10 East Center St.5KR/W Jessica Cribbs(818) [email protected]

Ulli Szych Memorial 5KHaslett 10:00 amHaslett HS XC course5KR/W, kids runKelly Anson (517) [email protected]

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Steve’s Run - Fire Up!

Ron Gunn directs a very special running of the original Road andTrail Race. The start and finish will be in downtown Dowagiac, justas in the original Road and Trail races that were so popular. This

year’s race will be in conjunction with the Dowagiac Summer Fun Festand the venue will include the Dowagiac Street Scape part of the beautifulVictorian restoration of downtown Dowagiac. The races will be run in thememory of Steven Briegel, an SMC honors graduate who died of cancerafter a very courageous and determined fight.

Course presents a lot of variety to the runner and walker, including agolf course, a wildlife refuge, forest trails, quiet country roads andeven a cemetery. The more challenging 10K course winds through

Southwestern Michigan College and the racers have the option of hurdlinghay bales and an authentic Irish stone fence. There are numerous musicstations en route to fire up the runners and walkers. And once again, anexciting finish is planned in the park with good and plentiful refreshments,great music and lots of “good times” for everyone. We’re adding by popu-lar request: 70-74, 75-79, 80+ age groups.

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participation formula...Special awards in many team and individual cate-gories to open male, open female, master male, master female, agegroup winner, and special team winners (father/ son, mother/daughter,etc)...Traveling trophy to corporate team winner...Special certifi-cates to largest family, oldest finisher, youngest finishers, traveled the far-thest, etc...Special drawing prizes and discount certificates. This year allparticipants who are cancer survivors will wear a special tee-shirt.

Pledges: All funds raised in Steve’s Run, including 100% of thepledge money, will be donated to Mayo Clinic Cancer Research andSteven Briegel Scholarship Awards. For further information, to make

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We’re dog people, my wife and I, asreaders of this column know well,having either grown sick of reading

about Maddie, our 5K racing black lab, orlooking forward, if they’re dog people too, tothe next recounting of her howling at the linein anticipation of the starter’s signal or of herfevered kick to the finish.

I can’t make a living in Traverse City.Kathleen, a home care nurse at Munson Hos-pital, can. So I make the commute every Fridaynight.

Last May, Kathleen called to tell me shehad a new friend, a big-hearted dog namedHarley, a giant German shepherd-husky mixwho she’d been visiting once a week. Actually,she’d been visiting Harley’s owners, a marriedcouple who were both in the 80s and facinghealth issues.

While she’d do the requisite paperwork(computer work) that goes with each visit,Harley would come over, lay his head in herlap and give her his best big-eyed, aren’t-I-cutelook.

“He’s just the nicest dog,” she said. “Youshould see him.”

Little did we know I’d soon get mychance.

She mentioned Harley a time or two more.One day in June last year I called her. She wasvery upset. Harley’s owners had continued toregress. In addition to physical problems, theywere both having cognitive declines, and theirgrown kids had decided to move them into as-sisted living.

The two were heartbroken because theycouldn’t take Harley with them. Harley washeartbroken, too, living, if you can call it that, ina cage barely bigger than him in a pet-boardingfacility.

His owners’ grown kids didn’t want him.They either had dogs of their own or didn’tlike dogs. Kathleen put out the word amongher friends and co-workers. There’s this greatdog, needs a home. Wonderful dog. Step rightup, claim your new best friend.

Alas, a massive, eight-year-old dog wholooks like a wolf is a hard sell. Week after week,Harley sat in his cage. Kathleen would visit him,take him for a walk. Continued to pester herfriends and co-workers. Kept in touch with hisowners. Kept in touch with the owners’ kids.They were willing to pay Harley’s kennel fees fora few weeks while Kathleen looked for an owner,but sooner or later — sooner — they were goingto put him down if no one wanted him.

One Friday night in June about 10, I arrivedat our old schoolhouse in the woods. Lying in thedriveway, on a lead, was the dog I’d heard aboutso much. Bigger than I thought he’d be. Lookingfierce. He greeted me with a wagging tail asKathleen came out to allay my fears.

“He’s just here for the weekend. Don’tworry. I’ll take him back Monday. I just could-n’t stand the thought of him in that cage thewhole weekend.”

The good news was he and Maddie hit itoff, a surprise since Maddie is kind of a snoband usually jealous of any other creature get-ting our attention.

The next Friday night? There was Harley,lying in the driveway. “Don’t worry,” saidKathleen. “He’s just here for the weekend. I’vegot a couple nurses interested in adopting him.I think one of them might. I’ll take him backMonday.”

The next Friday? There was Harley, greet-ing me with a smile this time, and a bigger wag

of the tale. “Don’t worry,” said Kathleen. “I’lltake him back Monday.”

“What happened to the nurses who weregoing to adopt him?”

“Their husbands wouldn’t let them. Theysaid he was too big.”

“Kathleen, let’s cut to the chase. He’s anice dog, but no one is going to adopt him.And we aren’t going to let anyone put himdown. So don’t bother taking him back Mon-day. It looks like we’ve got another dog.”

You live with us, you gotta run. Fact oflife. Having lived with old, fairly feeble own-ers, Harley hadn’t done any running. But hetook right to it. Maddie runs off leash. Wefound out right away that Harley thinks beingoff leash is an invitation to disappear into thewoods for an hour or two, which meant run-ning with him on leash.

Walk with him on leash, he’s constantlypulling you this way and that, after a rabbit orsquirrel, in need of marking a tree, looking todig up a mole hole. But run with him, to oursurprise, and he’s a model of good behavior.Straight down the road, not pulling your armout of socket, no dragging you into the woodsafter small game.

Harley spends most of his time outside theschoolhouse on a 20-foot lead. Walk out withhis running leash and he goes nuts, rapturousand joyous. He gets this huge smile, lookingfor all the world like a computer-generated dogfrom a 3D cartoon, a smile so huge and obvi-ous it can’t be real. And he spends the nextthree minutes racing back and forth — runningaway from you, still on his lead at full speed,stopping a few feet before the lead would bestretched to the limit, then races back at youand past you to the opposite end of the lead,and then back at you.

Back and forth he goes, about the happiestthing you’ll ever see, not counting Maddie at thestarting line of a 5K. And then we put the leashon him and take off.

And I’m reminded, again, of just how ele-mental, how pure, the joy of a run can be.Which is why we run, despite the bemused orbefuddled reaction of our family or friends orco-workers who don’t run and don’t get it.

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You never know what you’re going toget with a first-time run. This time, wegot more than you’d ever ask for. It was

February, the annual winter festival in Frank-

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fort, and at the last minute locals decided tohold the first annual Betsie Bay Frozen 5K.

For 10 bucks you got coffee at registra-tion, a t-shirt, a bus to the starting line innearby Elberta, doughnuts at the finish anda generous raffle.

In my case, I got to renew acquain-tances with Andy Micham, the legendarynorthwest Michigan runner and runningactivist. I hadn’t seen Andy in many years,having gotten to know him back in the late1980s and early ‘90s when I’d do theFrankfort Port City 10K each July andother up-north races he was involved in.

Fifty-six of us entered the race. Andygot on the bus last and before we drove tothe start, he gave runners their instructions.I waited till the awards and raffle to rein-troduce my much-older self to him, and tointroduce my wife as well.

In was 1991, if memory serves (nosure thing), that Kathleen and I had ourfirst date. She was married but gettingready for a divorce and I had a girlfriend.Kathleen was a fellow member of theDowntown Runners in Detroit and I men-tioned one day that I was going to be driv-ing to Frankfort the next week for a reallyfun evening 10K and driving right backwhen it was over, if she was interested in aroad trip.

What would seem nuts to a nonrunner ap-pealed to her, and we made the cross-statedrive back and forth. She loved the race. Littledid we know we’d embarked on a journey thathas included marriage and road trips for runsin Kona, Hawaii, China, Cambodia, Italy,New Orleans, numerous cities in Florida, BigSur and St. George, Utah.

On our second trip to Frankfort, Kathleenset her 10K PR of 42 minutes, when I was stillrunning sub-38s, so for a variety of reasonsFrankfort held fond memories.

I introduced Kathleen to Andy at theawards and told him his run had been ourfirst, unofficial date. Small world.

Some things don’t change. Andy had beatme again, finishing 10th overall, with me andthe dog three places back.

Andy said he’d been off for a year, healingfrom an injury. For kicks, I looked up the re-sults of the 2009 Frankfort summer run, whichhad seen several changes since the late 1980s.For one thing, there is no longer a 10K. It gotharder and harder to lure people to the longerrace if they had a shorter option, so they wentto a 5K only.

For a second thing, the race is in the morn-ing now, not the evening. I love evening racesin the summer, especially those in touristtowns. Crack open a beer, go wade in the lake,watch sunset. But too many runners com-

plained it was too hot at the end of a July day,so the run is in the morning now.

A third thing? The race is billed as flat andfast now, and takes place on a rails-to-trailspathway. It used to delight in its quirky tough-ness. If you’ve ever been to Frankfort, you’llremember the huge, white gateway arch on thehighway just before you get to town. Just pastthe arch, you hit a steep long downhill.

The 10K started at a park on the river. Thefirst mile mark was at the arch. A grand andglorious and gruesome first mile. And the firstmile in the 5K was even tougher.

Oh, yeah, a fourth thing: the generalfalloff in times by younger runners wasclear in the 2009 results. Micham wasthe fastest runner 60 and over, finishingin 20:41. The winning men’s time in 35-39? 21:45. In 40-44? 22:46. Michamwould have finished third in 19-24,third in 25-29 and third in 30-34 with atime that would once have beennowhere near to placing in the youngerage groups.

~~

Last weekend in March, 15 inchesof new snow on the ground at theschoolhouse, three straight morn-

ings of below-zero weather. Back in De-troit, where it had snowed a coupleinches, most of my friends and co-workers reacted as if they had awokento a plague of locusts upon the land.“What? More winter? It’s NOT FAIR!”

Up north, the parking lot at Vasawas jammed with skiers and snow-shoers having one last grand weekend.

Sunday, I took Maddie over to theLake Ann Pathway for a snowshoe runalong the Platte River and up and downthe monster hills of the pathway. It wascrystal clear, sun bright, sky cobalt,snow deep and white as white gets.

To my co-workers, it would have seemednuts to be out there when you could be restingon the couch, awaiting two elite-eight games ofthe NCAA basketball tournament.

Maddie got it, though. This place (thepathway), this time (late March), this weather(cold and clear) made for euphoria. And eu-phoria we got. Sorry to leave you at home,Harley. That’s a loop you’re not quite readyfor yet. Maybe next year.

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