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In This Issue
July / August 2005 Vol. 27, No. 3
Calendar
July - September 2005 p. 29-37
Features & Departments
Editor’s Notes: Salad Days By Scott Sullivan p. 4
Michigan Runner Race Series 2005 - Revised p. 4
Great Wall Marathon: Adventure of a Lifetime By Jennie McCafferty p. 6
Embrace Your Shape, Shed the Shirt By Ann Forshee-Crane p. 7
Confessions of a Cemetery Runner By Rick Lax p. 8
Running Shorts with Scott Hubbard By Scott Hubbard p. 10
You Never Forget Your First . . . Boston, That Is By Greg Janicki p. 12
5/3 River Bank Run: Lets See Who Dares By Scott Sullivan p. 14
5/3 River Bank Run: An Upfront View By Scott Hubbard p. 16
Aufdemberge Spins Magic with Masters Mark By Fred Vanhala p. 18
A Deal with the Devil at Crim By Riley McLincha p. 19
Riley Klingel, 18: Legacy of A Champ By Sara Deuling p. 22
Michigan Runner TV Schedule p. 24
Running with Tom Henderson p. 38
At the Races
Johnson Creek 5K: A Frolic through Mud By C. D. McEwen p. 21
Star-Spangled Island Run Memorable Indeed By C. D. McEwen p. 23
Fruitport: Small-town ‘Retro’ Race is Big Fun By Scott Sullivan p. 23
The Fit 5K: A fit and Fun Evening Run By Ron Marinucci p. 24
U.P. State Track & Field Finals: Gladstone, Escanaba Dominate By Ryan Towles p. 24
Michigan Runner TV - Upcoming Schedule p. 24
L.P. State Track & Field Finals: Speed Thrills, Kills Opponents By Scott Sullivan p. 25
Cleveland Rocks for 7,000 Runners Plus By Art McCafferty p. 26
Hills Alive at Silver Valley Run By C. D. McEwen p. 26
Running Fit Trail Marathon: Mud, Blood & Snow as Hell Freezes Over
By C. D. McEwen p. 26
Great Race Sports Festival XXV Photos by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios p. 28
Michigan Sweeps Distance Relays at Penn p. 28
Eastern Michigan’s Nelson Is NCAA Heptathlon Champion p. 28
Cover: Ann Arbor resident Greg Feucht leads the 2005 Great Wall Marathon all by himself.
The section of the wall at Huangyaguan, Tinjin, shows the Widow’s Watchtower in
the background. Photo by Marathon-Photo.
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I am paying for
a cheeseburger.
There is a moment during every run when the
recent past meets your plans for the future.
This is often the point when most runners
start making promises they will never be
able to keep. You can run through it.
I am what I am

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Editor’s Notes
Salad Days
Age brings a sliding scale of aspirations.
By age 10 it dawns we will not
be the King of Fairyland, unless we
are Michael Jackson. By 20 we suspect saving
mankind from evil may be tougher than
we’d imagined.
By 30 we know we will fall short of
being the next Frank Shorter. By 40 we’re
forced to concede we won’t leave a wrinklefree
corpse. And so on.
What’s left at 50? Being the best Type-1
Diabetic Age 50-54 Male Runner in West
Michigan — OK, in my neighborhood ...
OK, my address — seems pointless or laughable.
Maybe both.
Still, a man needs a reason to rise each
morning. One man, scorned and covered
with scars ... to stride when his legs are too
weary ... to reach the unreachable star!
This is my quest. But it’s proven harder
than I expected. Miles go slower and hurt
more. Runners I used to reel in leave me
reeling.
An even more lamentably-realistic dream,
such as eating the salads my daughter,
Flannery, 5, prepares for me, may be due.
“You need power food,” she diagnosed
after one run I’d finished finished me. “I will
make some.”
She returned with a bowl containing a
jicama and four cherry tomatoes, drizzled in
orange juice and Spaghetti-O’s. I felt sicker
instantly.
“I made it special for you,” she said.
This was not the
first salad that my
daughter, with all the
love in her heart and
leftovers on the refrigerator’s
reachable
shelves, had made me.
The last time I’d tried
to fob it off on the
dog, but the dog didn’t
want it either.
“You know how
age makes things better?”
I asked.
© Brightroom
“No,” she said.
“Like wine?”
“No.”
“The wisdom years bring?”
She looked uncertain.
“I’d like to save this salad until it reaches
peak maturity (i.e. after you go to bed),
then down it (dump it down the disposal) so
it does me the most good possible.”
“I made it special for you!” Flannery
started crying.
At least her salad didn’t taste like the
crow I’m used to. Still I ask, at what point
does a parent become transparent? By the
time your child starts seeing through you,
will he or she understand it’s forgivable
being less than the King of Fairyland, wrinkle-eraser
or winning racer?
My scale of aspirations requires no
more, but asks nothing less. MR
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St. Patrick’s Day 8K, Bay City - March 20
Tax Trot 15K, Flushing - April 16
Fifth Third River Bank Run 25K, Grand Rapids - May 14
Ludington Lake Stride Half Marathon, Ludington - June 18
Fifth Third Bank Solstice Run 5K, Northville - June 25
Volkslaufe 20K, Frankenmuth - July 4
The Legend 10 Mile Trail Run, Laingsburg - August 6
The Crim Festival of Races 10 Mile, Flint - August 27
Lake Superior Shore Run Race Against Tobacco Wild Card / Half
Marathon, Marquette - October 1
Detroit Free Press / Flagstar Bank Marathon, Detroit, October 23
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Great Wall Marathon:
Adventure of a Lifetime
“Loper 2” visits the Terra Cotta Warrors in Xi’an: front - Jan Coover, Jennie McCafferty, Dana Glassel,Thelma Pascua, Lori Pang, Sue Golden; back -
Tim Wachuta, Carolyn Seiffert-Wachuta, Barb Spitler,Vicki Steinwurtzel, Christine Waltz,Tim Golden.
By Jennie McCafferty
HUANGYAGUAN, TIANJIN, CHINA
(5/21/05) — “Don’t call this a race,” laughed
a fellow participant in The Great Wall
Marathon. OK. I’ll call it an adventure, privilege,
thrill, accomplishment, mental test,
opportunity to see one of the world’s most
beautiful places, catalyst to learn more about
Chinese history, and a chance to make new
friends.
The Marathon
You know you are in for a different
experience when your race packet includes
nine pages of instructions. Read it ahead of
time? Yup. Memorize it? Maybe some of it.
Carry instructions with me during the race?
Nope.
I thought about the marathon route in
five sections: 1) mostly-uphill road to The
Wall, 2) 4K on The Wall, 3) the villages, 4)
4K on The Wall, reverse from the first time,
5) mostly-downhill road to the finish.
The description of The Wall from Towers
5 to 6 did come to mind during the race:
Runners must cross this stretch in single
file. Therefore, no overtaking! Please
help a fellow contestant if necessary. For
quite a while along this stretch there will
be no Wall on your lefthand side, which
means a potential free fall!
At some point the downward slope of
the Wall is quite steep, and some heavy
ropes with knots have been fastened here
to help runners whose shoes do not grip
the stone foundation very well. Slow
down in order to avoid getting rope burn
or losing your foothold.
The 3,700 steps of the Wall were deliberately
set at varying depths and heights to disrupt
the marching rhythm of invading
armies. Those steps disrupted our rhythm
too.
My favorite part of the marathon was
running through the villages of Duanzhuang,
Xiaying, Chedaoyu and Quinshaling, with
brick houses, well-tended gardens and friendly,
smiling people cheering us on; we runners
were a long parade. Kids waved, high-fived
and practiced English: “What’s your name?”
Because The Wall at Huangyaguan was
built atop mountain ridges, the views are
spectacular. The second stretch on The Wall
was a wonderful chance to take in those
views — a good time not to hurry. Two-hundred
twenty-seven men and 104 women finished
the marathon, 143 men and 104
women chose the half-marathon, another
127 picked the 10K or 5K.
Michiganian Greg Feucht did hurry,
breaking the course record by 13 minutes
with a time of 3:25:13. Almost everyone
could add 1.5 to two hours to their usual
marathon times. (See Tom Henderson’s interview
with Feucht in Tom’s column elsewhere
in this issue.)
Beijing and the Terra-Cotta Warriors of Xian
The heart of Beijing is trendy, modern,
clean, safe, friendly and fun. Our tour guide,
Tony, was patient and knowledgeable about
the attractions we visited.
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Photo by Melinda Wulf
Great Wall marathoners share the road with villagers.
Beijing is gearing up for the 2008 Olympics.
Everybody is learning English. One woman was proud
that her grandparents are taking weekly English lessons
from a teacher in their apartment building. Most
signs are in English.
Sections in a large bookstore were in both English
and Chinese. A whole floor of the busy establishment
was devoted to business subjects: marketing, finance,
entrepreneurship, success. English was another floor:
English for business, tourism, teaching English, more.
Imagine an emperor, determined to leave a legacy,
with access to a workforce of 450,000. Early in his
reign, the emperor ordered his tomb to be built, along
with an army to guard that tomb.
Imagine constructing a life-size army from terracotta
clay, arranging the army to face outward from
the tomb, then burying the whole army underground.
Oh, and this was not a small army: 25,000.
The entire army was discovered in 1974. Even
after seeing the site where the terra-cotta army was
discovered, I have trouble getting my mind around the
magnitude of the project.
Kathy Loper Events
The Danish and Australian race organizers require
entry through one of several tour companies. I had the
good fortune to be part of Kathy Loper Events. Kathy
and her partner, Kurt Bodmer, specialize in tours to
small, exotic marathons. They knew the names of
every one of the 133 people in our group.
We were divided into groups for touring and traveling.
Our group, Loper 2, could not have been more
fun. Among us were Beth Friedman, who finished running
seven continents with the Great Wall Marathon,
and 2004 University of Michigan grads Dana Glassel
and Matt Graves.
For information on the 2006 Great Wall
Marathon, see http://kathyloperevents.com and our
Michigan Runner Internet video: http://michiganrunner.tv/2005gwm/.
MR
For Women Only:
Embrace Your Shape,
Shed the Shirt
By Ann Forshee-Crane
Summer sizzle separates men from
women.
If a man’s out running and gets hot,
he loses the shirt. No problem. Doesn’t
matter if he’s a Clydesdale with a bit of a
gut: when humidity closes in, time for
bareback running.
For women, the question of running
shirtless is more complex. Women don’t
impulsively shed their shirts. To run with
just a bra is a decision a woman makes
in advance, taking many variables into
consideration first.
A woman gives a lot of thought to
how she’d look running in just a bra and
shorts before doing it. It’s not an impulse
decision based on bodily comfort. Her
personal bra history and past traumas
figure into the choice she makes.
My most-memorable bra trauma
was in 1971 when I was 15. My 60-
something male track coach told my
mother I needed a “more supportive”
bra. This meant he actually
noticed I had breasts. To say I was
mortified would be a severe understatement.
My mother marched me through
the department store asking all the
clerks in the lingerie department if
they had a “running bra” that
would help me “stay put.” The
clerks must have found this a novel
question, because they all gathered
‘round, eyeballing my breasts and
scratching their heads. I walked out
of the store in a bra with six hooks
in the back, straps an inch wide and
made of some non-breathable, nonstretching
fabric. My mother looked
pleased.
This is the kind of bra trauma a
woman does not forget. It lingers
and colors all future bra decisions.
Even when the first colored and patterned
running bras came on the
market, wearing just a bra to run in
wasn’t a choice for me. Like many
women my age, I had been programed
to view the bra as a white
undergarment.
Combine a bra trauma like mine
with most women’s fear of falling
short of the media ideal of the perfect-shaped
woman, and you’ve got
a whole lot of women who won’t
shed their shirts.
So what’s the big deal? Shirt, or
no shirt. The big deal is women should
feel that they have a choice. Women
should feel OK about impulsively whipping
off the shirt when they’re hot. We
should be free to focus on comfort,
rather than fear of being seen as “too little”
or “too big.” This is the one time
women should think more like men.
It’s time to stop over-thinking the
shirt issue and embrace the many shapes
of women runners. Stop zeroing in on
that stretch mark: it’s a natural sign of
motherhood. Stop zeroing in on that little,
or even big, roll around your middle:
you’re a runner, a strong, fit woman runner,
who has the choice — shirt or no
shirt.
Next time you’re feeling the summer
sizzle, know that if you feel like it, you
can shed the shirt. MR
Ann Forshee-Crane, a freelance writer
who has been running for 35 years,
occasionally sheds the shirt.
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By Rick Lax
Confessions of a
Cemetery Runner
If crows don’t bother you, fall is the best
time to run through the Ann Arbor
Cemetery. The temperature is just right
and the groundskeeper sweeps fallen leaves
off the pavement path. Summer is the nextbest
time, if you don’t mind getting mud on
your running shoes.
Winter is the worst time because the
freezing Michigan weather keeps pedestrians
off nearby streets, so there’s no one to help
you out if a zombie grabs your ankle and
brings you down.
Most people think running through
cemeteries is disrespectful, so when I see
mourners I dart in the opposite direction. I
don’t know how they feel about me whizzing
past their departed loved ones, and if they do
have a problem it’s not like they’re going to
chase me down to complain.
I hope running through graveyards doesn’t
disqualify me from heaven, because
they’re the only places I’ve ever gotten a runner’s
high. I have a friend who says she runs
because it makes her feel alive. When I run, I
usually feel like I’m dying. But running
through the cemetery, I do feel alive — by
comparison.
I run because it’s good for me, though
my aching body does not believe me. It’s in
too much pain to listen. I can only get its
attention when I bring up matters of life and
death, and the graveyard is the perfect place
to do this. There, I can put a positive spin on
my discomfort. I can look to a grave and tell
my body, “At least you’re able to feel pain,
unlike the guy in there.” Faced with row
upon row of tombstones, my body gets the
message and pushes through.
Reading tombstones keeps my mind off my
body’s pain. A tombstone tells me a person’s
age, sex and religion. Decorations often tell me
how religious a person was. (Did she get the
simple foot-high cross, or did she go all-out and
get the three-foot, wounded-Jesus model?)
Tombstone placement speaks volumes.
There’s the husband and wife of 50-some
years buried by the entrance, away from the
other graves. There’s the young couple buried
on either side of their infant son. There’s the
four-generation, super-rich secular gang. And
then there are loners. Lots of loners.
I make these tombstone studies literally
on the run, so I don’t have time for epitaphs.
I consider this a small tragedy: these dead
people’s families reduced their loved ones’
lives to a single sentence (Can you imagine a
harder task?), and I don’t even put forth the
effort to read it. This must be the ultimate
brush-off.
If I don’t read these epitaphs, nobody
will. I have yet to spot another cemetery runner,
and I only see mourners on about onefifth
of my runs. And these mourners come to
visit a specific person; they’re not browsing,
like me. They know where their loved ones
are buried, and don’t spend any more time in
the cemetery than they have to. Understandable.
And throughout their visits, their loved
ones consume all their attention. Understandable
again.
Every day I sprint by thousands of forgotten
people. These people lived important
lives, did important things, had important
friends. But today few remember or care
about them. So I do what I can: I think about
these people as I dash by their graves. I think
about them individually. I’m not going to get
to every single person in the Ann Arbor
Cemetery, but in the past three years, I’ve
made quite a dent.
Passing by, I size up a gravesite and
imagine what its occupant was like when
living. My guesses are probably way off,
but it’s the effort that counts. I’ve decided
one guy, in the back left corner, was a bank
robber. I forgot why I decided that, but
now that I’ve got this bank-robber image
cemented in my mind, I can’t shake it. Poor
guy, he was probably a priest or something.
Still, every time I run by him, I say,
“Morning, bank robber.”
I don’t have time to construct elaborate
stories for these people’s lives, because when
a narrative gets too complex, a new tombstone
catches my eye and I move to the next
story. And after three years of graveyard running,
I’ve got my stories down. There’s the
bank robber, the lawyer, the town drunk, the
debutante, the professor and the grieving parents.
The list goes on.
These days I rarely make up new stories;
acknowledging all the semi-fictitious characters
I’ve created takes up all my fleeting time.
There are a lot of them to say hi to, and they
never say hi back, but I don’t take it personally.
They’re dead.
But death still scares me — that’s why I
run. If it’ll keep me alive longer (and science
says it will), I’ll deal with the pain, stretch
my calves and be on my way.
The scariest part about dying is knowing
one day I’ll be forgotten. The most I can
hope for is that somebody will run by my
grave and think about me, even if just for a
passing moment. Because this person can’t
remember me, they’ll do the next-best thing:
they’ll make up a story about my life. Maybe
they’ll think I was bank robber. Or maybe
they’ll think I was once like them, a cemetery
runner.
Maybe then they’ll realize they’ll one day
be dead like me. And they’ll hope that somebody
will run by their grave and imagine the
story of their life. MR
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Running Shorts with Scott Hubbard
Trivia: What
brand of shoes
did Frank
Shorter wear
when he won the
1972 Munich
Olympic Games
Marathon?
OOTS. Following the 14th annual Ortho
Rehab 8K in Jackson April 16, a gorgeous
Rspring day, I dressed for a run of my own.
I headed south to a rail/trail that slices diagonally
through town. The plan was to go 25 minutes
out, then return. Nearing my turnaround time, I
ran next to Parkside Middle School, where an
invisible hand guided my steps the next several
minutes.
In my day, Parkside was a high school
whose track still lay next to the rail-now-trail.
I rarely circle tracks now my days of fast workouts
are past, but I made a happy exception
this time. You see, as an Ann Arbor Huron
senior in 1970, I set my high school PR and a
school mile record of 4:28.9 (Huron was only
three years old) on that track. I had been away
too long.
I veered off the rail/trail drawn by memory
and a chance to relive a prized moment.
Ducking through a gate, I joined three women
on the weather-beaten track, moving in the traditional
counterclockwise direction. The black
rubberized oval was devoid of lane lines and
worn smooth in spots, with chunks missing
from others. At the east end I could see where
an inner lane had been laid to convert the track
from 440 yards to 400 meters, subtracting just
over two meters.
I completed the lap, looked at my watch
and saw it took a little over two minutes, twice
as long per lap as it took 35 years before.
While my memories of how the race played out
and my quarter-mile splits were fuzzy, I did
recall sprinting hard to finish third and win a
medal. I ducked out the gate and looked up
into the stands, where my coach Kent Overbey
(still at Huron after starting in 1969!) and
teammates sat.
I turned for another look at the venerable
track, then headed for downtown, completing
the run in 49 minutes. That time failed to
account for the few minutes time slowed down,
altered by a spontaneous turn of nostalgia. The
rush of overlapping images were fun and, like
cats, hard to herd.
And on the way home ...
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OOTS 2. On the way home from Jackson,
I left the highway due to construction and
struck out on back roads. I turned this
way and that on roads I hadn’t traveled in years.
The roads dipped, rose and wound as I headed
north and east past lakes, parks, farms and country
homes. I saw the new Pinckney High School
and kids there circling a track. Not being in a
hurry and remembering the date, I turned in for a
look.
On the same weekend in 2001 I’d worked
the Ortho Rehab race, then beat it to Pinckney
to see my son run for the first time. Jeff was a
freshman at Ann Arbor Pioneer and had
stunned mom and dad a month earlier by
announcing his intentions to run track.
Although surrounded by running growing up,
we’d left what Jeff wanted to do up to him,
knowing running isn’t necessarily the most fun
thing for kids to do.
We wondered how Jeff would like it when
and if he tried running. He’d had the usual
adaptation experiences and a race at 800
meters a couple days earlier under his belt
when I got to Pinckney High.
Jeff was scheduled to run a relay mile that
was going to be scored cross-country style.
Different. I had never seen him run, so I
watched intently as the race developed. He
hung near the back, then started passing others
around halfway.
Because it was on the grass, I had no idea
how fast he was going, but I recognized desire
when Jeff neared the finish and kicked.
He finished about midpack in 5:55. It was
a solid effort for a novice and best of all — he
enjoyed what he was doing!
Jeff’s first race remains etched in my mind.
He went on to make all-state in cross country
as a senior, and how the rest of his career
unfolds will be of his making. He has his parents’
undivided attention and support.
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OOTS 3. And one more look at what
once was: On April 17, 2004, a friend
in Toledo, Pete Buehler, ran his
100,000th mile. A crowd ran with him over his
final miles, and later I leafed through Pete’s old
training logs, taking note of his April 17
entries every year. Each was a nugget of information.
Since I’ve run a few miles myself and have a
foot-high stack of training logs, I thought it
would be fun to see what happened dating back
to 1981 (that’s as far back as my logs go). I’ve
picked May 15 because it marked 500 consecutive
days of either running or cycling, a modest
achievement (and 500 consecutive days shy of
qualifying as a legitimate “streak” in my book)
since Jan. 1, 2004.
The entries and brief commentary:
‘81 – 35 minutes morn, 62 minutes eve. My
days of two-a-days were winding down.
‘82 – 54 minutes, too much beer yesterday. Too
much beer? Me?
‘83 - No run. After a bad fall in August 1982, I
didn’t run much for 11 months.
‘84 – No log. Had attended the first Women’s
Olympic Trials Marathon May 12 in
Olympia, Wash., where (ex) wife Karen
ran 2:46 for 81st place in the deepest,
most-competitive field before or since. 109
women broke 2:50, 164 broke three hours.
‘85 – 63 minutes. Recovering from a very hot
Old Kent River Bank Run 25K.
‘86 – 66 minutes. Decent Old Kent 25K five
days before in 1:30.
‘87 – 61 minutes. Interviewed Joan Benoit
Samuelson at Old Kent a few days earlier.
‘88 – 43 minutes in Cleveland. There to work
at Revco 10K/Marathon.
‘89 – 50 minutes. Routine day.
‘90 – 61 minutes. Exceeded 1,000 miles for the
year.
‘91 – No run. Streak of 2,012 straight days
had ended April 19 when I awoke to a
locked, painful knee. Missed 30 days of
running.
‘92 – 60 minutes with Steve Angerman. Steve
and I ran early on Fridays a few years on
and off.
‘93 – 61 minutes in Jackson following a race.
‘94 – No run. Day after running Old Kent 25K
on a foot that had suffered from gout a
month.
‘95 – No run. Ran first first days of year and
missed the rest due to mystery ache (diag
nosed seven years later as arthritis) in left
foot.
‘96 – 52 minutes. Routine run.
‘97 – 64 minutes along Flint River. Would miss
from May 18 until late November due to
mystery ache in left foot (arthritis).
‘98 – 90 minutes on Holdridge Lakes mountain
bike trail near Mt. Holly. I missed a cut-off
trail and ended up doing dehydrated walk
ing.
‘99 – No run. Turned ankle while running and
chipped bone April 24. Didn’t run again
until July 7.
2000 – No run. Knee went bad April 19.
Cycled but didn’t put it in the log, for
some reason.
‘01 – 30 minutes on bike stand. Probably
pressed for time or bad weather. 30 min
utes is about all I can tolerate.
‘02 – Can‘t find log. I’m sure I did something
special.
‘03 – 80 minutes of mountain biking at
Holdridge Lakes. Kudos to mountain bik
ers who developed the trail.
‘04 – 48 miles of road cycling with Wolverine
Sports Club members from Northville to
Ann Arbor and back. I’ve learned a lot
about cycling from these people.
‘05 – 44 miles solo road cycling at 18.4 mph to
south around Milford GM Proving
Grounds. Consistent training last 2+ years
is paying off.
There have been good days, bad days and
everything in between since ‘81, pretty much
like events swirling in the world about us.
What’s in your training log?
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By Greg Janicki
You Never Forget Your First . . .
Boston, That Is
BOSTON (4/18/05) -- It had all the makings of a
middle school field trip: giddy chatter, backpacks,
water bottles and hyperactivity. Yet this group wasn’t
headed to the science museum or summer camp.
This group was seated, quite anxiously, at Gate 60
at Metro Airport awaiting NW Flight 372 bound
for Boston and the Boston Marathon.
The group included first timers, second timers
and those who count their Bostons in years (“I ran
1996, 2000, 2001 and 2003”) rather than quantity.
I was one of the 14,000 first timers entered in the
2005 race, which made up roughly two-thirds of the
20,000-plus field.
But even as a first timer I had plenty of information
to fuel my expectations. Running buddies
told me about the first four miles —- a steady
downhill your legs will feel 20 miles later; magazines
lectured me about going out too fast -- resulting
in cramps, pain and general misery midway up
Heartbreak Hill; and my wife told me to enjoy the
day ... because I may not get another chance.
I trained. I knew my schedule. I was ready.
So I thought. Then I got to Boston.
It was the day before the race, Sunday morning,
as I sat in my Boston hotel restaurant eating breakfast
alone, that doubt first appeared. He came in the
form of the runners I spied on the street below.
At first I thought it might be a few locals who weren’t running
the marathon. Then the numbers multiplied. There was a pack of two
more, then four, then six more, all wearing Boston Marathon jackets,
Boston Marathon t-shirts or Boston Marathon hats. Hundreds of
them. Running.
Did I mention this was the day before the marathon? Did I also
mention that I was the only person in the whole restaurant? And also,
what seemed like the only person in all Boston (except my waiter) not
moving fast?
Panic formed. Did I miss some Boston ritual that requires you to
run the day before the marathon (I’ve never done that)? I wondered if
I missed a special day-before ceremonial breakfast. It was now 8 a.m.
and the restaurant was still empty, two hours after opening. My slow
waiter told me I was the first diner of the day.
I couldn’t have missed anything -- I read the marathon welcome
brochure so thoroughly my wife thought a test on the Massachusetts
Bay Transportation Authority was part of the qualification requirements.
As a nervous twitch moved from my lip to my stomach, I finished
my last bite of bagel and left the room. The energy-sapping
monster “doubt” was now front and center.
was exerting too much energy or sitting in my room too jumpy to nap
or read, but scanning the Boston brochure one more time to find that
breakfast meeting I was certain I missed. Doubt ... doubt.
The next morning, race morning, I was relieved to see faces, lots of
them, as I entered the restaurant at 6 a.m. And, I was relieved to
learn, no street runners. But doubt is a persistent bugger who looks
for any opening to twist your thoughts, and he followed along for the
next six hours, sometimes pressing his face so close to mine I thought
we were one in the same.
The six hours between breakfast and the noon start leaves you lots of
time to occupy. But while it may not have been part of the “race,” those
hours were as much a part of my Boston memory as the 26.2 miles.
Between the last bit of bagel and the starter’s gun my Boston
Greg Janicki runs his first
Boston marathon.
experience took root. During those hours I relished
the anxious walk from my hotel to a line of friendly-looking
yellow school buses creeping up to the
runners’ loading area at Boston Commons; I
savored the support of a woman from Windsor
(with a Scottish accent) who volunteered just
because her nephew was running; I delighted in the
hour bus ride next to a first-time Bostoner from
Toronto who loves cross training and his wife (not
in that order) because she pushed him to qualify ...
I tolerated the three trips to the porta-john at the
athletes’ village in Hopkinton; I enjoyed a bag lunch
at 10:20 a.m., smoothed Vaseline on my feet and
thighs at 11:15 a.m., and settled a brief internal
debate on tanktop vs. shirtsleeve at 11:28 a.m. by
choosing tank; I sat with my back against the wall
of Hopkinton High School talking to a guy from
Kalamazoo about his treadmill and wife and twoyear-old
daughter; I took one more trip to the pine
trees behind the porta-john ...
I reveled in a half-mile walk to the start, past
kids with lemonade stands and “welcome runners”
signs on lawns; I heard the gun for the elite women’s
start (in the porta-john near the start); I endured a
slow, I-think-I-have-to-go-again walk past the starting
corrals -- corral one (these guys look fast standing
still) and two (wow, there are some pretty fast
women in there) and three (that guy qualified that
fast? He looks like my Uncle Bud) and four (how
far back am I starting?) and five (maybe next year) and finally mine,
six (it’s in the sun and it’s too hot, so I waited in the shade under a
beautiful tree on a beautiful street in a beautiful town).
Then, 15 minutes before the start, I squeezed through the gated
corral entrance after one last trip to the backyard “nature” porta-john
50 yards from the start.
Now I was ready, with 20,404 others each with 20,404 reasons
for being there. The five minutes before the gun felt longer than the
18-month wait to get there. As the gun fired my confidence returned.
Then 2,000 people passed me in the first mile and doubt jumped
on my back for the ride. For the next six miles I desperately worked
to keep my mind on something other than running and the heat of the
70-degree cloudless day.
Eventually I found a rhythm, drifting between recognizing the
moment and ignoring it. There were instances when I realized where I
was and took it all in, high-fiving spectators and smiling at the kids
passing out oranges. And then there were the stretches when my focus
was on merely getting to the next mile marker or the next water stop.
So, yeah, it was like any other marathon -- any other marathon
that has five-deep screaming spectators for 26 solid miles with a halfmile
stretch through an all-women’s college that brings tingles to my
arms just thinking about it.
It’s like any other marathon that has two terrains: uphill and
downhill. It’s like any other marathon that has a runner stopping at
mile 19, pulling out a camera and asking a spectator to take his picture.
It’s like any other marathon that has a runner pull out a cell
phone at 25 and scream, “I’m almost home!”
Yep, and just like every other marathon there is a “Boston
Marathon” banner you spot coming around the final corner, 0.3 miles
from the finish, that is so “typical” it brings tears to your eyes.
Yep, it’s just another course; just another marathon. And the
Declaration of Independence is just another op-ed piece.
I crossed the finish line in 3:40:40 -- 10 minutes slower than I had
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hoped and 24 minutes slower than I had qualified. But it was precisely
26.2 miles from where I started and that’s all that really mattered.
Doubt vanquished, once again.
Forty minutes later, around 5 p.m., I was sitting in an ice bath. By
6:30 p.m. I was able to stomach soup, salad and a beer. By 8:30 p.m.
I was asleep.
By seven the next morning I wanted to do it all again. All of it. I
wanted to hold on to the feeling.
As I said goodbye to the last new friends I made on the airport
shuttle bus, I didn’t want to let go. I smiled as the first-time wife told
me she threatened her second-time husband with divorce if he didn’t
run with her the whole way ... he did. I genuinely listened to the couple
from Iowa with two teenage daughters who provided advice on
coaching my newbie-runner son. As each stepped off the bus I
thought, please, please, let’s talk some more about the start, your
pace, the hills, my shoes, the crowd.
Terminal E at Boston’s Logan Airport
lacked the thrill of the Boston-bound flight
three days earlier. A few red Boston race
shirts and blue Boston 2005 jackets dotted
the terminal. I shared a wave with the guy
I’m sure was in my corral and gave a consoling
smirk to the woman who dropped
her boarding pass, stared at it for five seconds
before bending with a groan to pick it
up.
The flight itself took me even further
from the Boston aura. Conversations
drifted throughout the noisy cabin; I
caught words like “pace” and “sore” but
also bits like “The Tigers” and “e-mail.”
Leaving the plane and shuffling into
Detroit’s Metro terminal, further still
from Boston, was like awakening from a
favorite dream. I knew that few of the
travelers sitting in the bars and slouching
in their chairs recognized the Boston jacket
I wore, and fewer still ever did (or
could do) what I just did. But rather than
feeling proud, I felt, for a moment, lost.
Through the parking garage, on the
freeway and up until I clicked the garage
door opener on my car visor, I searched
for one last glimpse of a familiar face, the
Boston blue jacket or red shirt. But it didn’t
appear. It was over.
In the subsequent days I relived the
experience with friends. One friend asked
if I would do anything differently and,
strangely, my answer had nothing to do
with race strategy or training.
I told him I wished I had crossed the
finish line with my hands raised (a Boston
tradition, apparently) instead of my usual
across-the-finish-line pose: hands on
watch. The latter pose meant my official
Boston finish photo doesn’t really capture
the moment.
I also said I wished I had written my
name in marker on my arm -- the passionate
fans along the route looked for it, and
while “Go 6832!” or “Go red!” (my tanktop
color) was inspirational, who knows, I
might have gotten a kiss from one of the
screaming Wellesley girls if they would’ve
known my name.
But what most occupied my thoughts
the weeks following the race was not the
race, at least not just the race. Sure the
race was the reason I was there, the reason
I trained through a cruel Michigan winter, and the reason I gave
up all those other things I could have been doing (though I forget
what those are at this moment).
But the race is merely a part of Boston. The event is more than
just a 26.2-mile run from Hopkinton to Boston.
It’s a plane full of giggling 40-, 50- and 60-year-olds; it’s a heartening
conversation in the elevator with a single mom from California
who qualified for Boston on her first try; it’s a four-block line for the
pre-race pasta party that seemed like four minutes because I couldn’t
get the smile off my face; and it’s those blue “Boston 2005” jackets
that will forever signify a friend.
The 109th Boston will always be my first, but the great thing is
that you can always get better with practice. And I already have a
black marker ready for my next field trip.
Greg can be reached by e-mail at runrun262@hotmail.com. MR
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By Scott Sullivan
5/3 River Bank Run:
Lets See Who Dares
GRAND RAPIDS (6/14/05) — There is little
evidence John Lennon had the River Bank
Run in mind when composing “Lucy in the
Sky with Diamonds.”
It should be “Picture yourself in a run on
a river,” not a boat. The initials L.S.D. more
than likely did not stand for Long Slow
Distance.
So what? For a record 10,826 participants
in the 28th annual Fifth Third River
Bank Run’s 25K and 5K runs, 5K walk and
junior races, the event was a “high” culled
from their own energy. A “rush” based on
their endorphins.
Share those with others amid the
vibrance of downtown Grand Rapids, a tour
through the spring-green surrounding country,
a test of will — Can I do this? Yes! —
and it makes a “trip” you will not forget.
Towering Over Your Head
In a race called River Bank Run, you
expect to contend with water. In a state like
Michigan, where it snows three straight days
in May, you can count on an otherwise
Sahara-like spring to precipitate monsoons
when you don’t want them: the week of USA
Track & Field’s 25K championship,
Michigan Runner’s title event at that distance,
and West Michigan’s biggest road race.
Looming thunder-boomers did little to
scare off a record 1,628 children 13 and
under taking part in Wednesday’s Fifth Third
Junior Runs at Wyoming Rogers High
School. The girl with kaleidoscope eyes was
my daughter Flannery, 5, at last old enough
to enter.
What impressed her most as she sat in
the stands, waiting for her turn, amid milling
munchkins and parents? The 20-foot high
promotional water bottle.
“Let’s drink it, Dad!”
“Maybe after we’re done,” I said.
We started in last place and fell off quickly.
Flannery beamed the entire two laps, basking in
cheers that she was certain were all for her,
finally running into her mother’s arms.
Gummy worms and ice cream diverted
her thoughts from the water bottle, and
showers held off.
A Bridge by the Fountain
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Photo by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios
Men’s lead pack splashes through 5/3 River Bank Run: bib no. 48 - Chris Graff; no. 108 - Wesley
Ochoro; Brian Sell - right of Ochoro; no. 102 - Simon Wangai; no. 106 - Julius Kibet.
Everywhere I went between Wednesday
and Saturday, I saw trucks hauling porta-potties.
Some were bound for Tulip Time in
Holland, others for the River Bank Run.
Where people are, the poop is. I thought
about life as a traveling lavatory man.
The “newspaper taxis” at the River Bank
Run are press trucks, from which media
watch the leaders. I eyed them enviously as
rain, which let up late Friday, resumed by
race time. I should be committed, I thought,
for committing myself to running the 25K
instead of being hauled, under an umbrella,
around by truck.
Still fell the rain, now harder. The girl
with the sun in her eyes was gone.
Off we splashed, 4,721 of us. Rain does
not dilute people this crazy. By the time I hit
five miles, I could hear cheers from across the
Grand River, near the eight-mile mark, where
the three or four runners who had actual
chances of winning were flying past.
Rain relented and crowds picked up as I
neared the Wilson Street bridge, before turning
back toward town near the seven-mile
mark, at Johnson Park. Soon would come the
hills ...
Rocking Horse People
The few, the fleet were magnificent this wet
day. Defending-champ Simon Wangai, 26, of
Kenya, pulled away late from countryman
Julius Kibet to win in an RBR-record 1:13:27,
good for open-division $4,000 money. Kibet’s
1:13:50 also eclipsed the old standard, Joseph
Kariuki’s 1:13:55 set in 1998.
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Krige Schabort (no. 218) won the men’s wheelchair race in 52:52-- 2
seconds shy of the course record.
Rochester Hills-based Hansons Brooks
Distance Project — finished fourth overall,
13 seconds behind third-place Kenyan Wesley
Ochoro, in 1:15:27. As USATF champion,
Sell collected $4,000 to add to his $1,000 for
open-division fourth.
The next Michigan finishers were Sell’s
Hansons teammate Clint Verran, 29, seventh
overall in 1:18:11, and master blaster Paul
Aufdemberge, 40, of Redford, 10th in 1:18:52.
Colleen DeReuck, 41, a South Africanturned-U.S.
citizen, hit a trifecta with her
1:25:15. The four-time Olympian earned
$4,000 for first woman overall, another
$4,000 for top U.S. runner, and $1,500 as
masters champ.
Russian Albina Ivanova ran 35 seconds
faster than her winning time here in 2003,
but settled for second in 1:26:53.
Top Michiganians were Team Hansons’
Leigh Daniel, 26, eighth overall in 1:32:31;
Amy Wing, 35, of East Grand Rapids, 23rd
in 1:39:46; and Julie Smith, 35, of Pentwater,
25th in 1:41:15.
Lori Stich Zimmerman, 35, 11th in
1:33:27, may count as a country in her own
right. Though she listed the town where she
grew up, Stanwood, on her race form, she
could have as easily said Grand Rapids,
where she worked for years as a lawyer and
developed a friend and fan base, Oregon,
Texas or (lately) Belgium.
Krige Schabort of Germany came within
two seconds of the men’s wheelchair record,
crossing first in 52:52. Shirley Reilly of
Tucson (1:12:05) edged Miriam Nibley, of
Savoy, Ill. (1:12:22) for the women’s crown.
The 5K, with a record 3,662 entries, was
speedy despite the slick streets as well.
Former Michigan
State University All-
American and assistant
track coach Kyle
Baker, 29, now of
Grand Rapids,
hydroplaned home
first in 14:38. Next
came Team Hansons’
Lucas Humphrey, 24
(14:50) and the
redoubtable Ryan
Shay, 26, of East
Jordan (14:55).
Denisa
Costescu, 29, a
Romanian who settled
two years ago in
Wixom, was the
women’s winner in
16:38. She was followed
by ex-
Michiganian Bethany
Brewster, 25, now of
Madison, Wisc.
(16:50) and Betsy
Frens, 30, of
Kalamazoo (16:55).
Top masters
were Ron Zywicki,
41, of Traverse City
(16:33) and Terry
Mahr, 56 — yes, 56 — of Oregon, Ohio
(19:43).
There at the Turnstile
I put off writing about the hills for as
long as possible. Up I trudged, with the grace
and pungency of a traveling lavatory. Down I
plunged. Where was that 20-foot water bottle
when I needed it?
Three inches of runoff covered all
Butterworth Drive at one point. Some, risking
swamped shoes, splashed straight
through it; I joined others taking a detour
through mud and grass which proved even
soggier. Nothing like squishing the final four
miles with anchors around your feet.
The course flattened out around John
Ball Zoo. All around me runners were going
crazy. One woman, wearing bunny ears,
raced a friend dressed up as a tortoise. A guy,
running in a tie, proposed to his girlfriend,
whose consequences may lead to ...
“Dad, you should not run that race
again,” scolded Flannery, cross because I was
in no shape to play with her later that day
when the rain blew away and sunshine
sparkled.
“Remember what fun you had?” I
reminded her.
There’s a depth of feeling, a zest in
doing, she experienced at the Junior Run.
There are worse things than being immersed,
even if all wet.
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5/3 River
Bank Run: An
Upfront View
By Scott Hubbard
I’d planned to attend the Fifth Third River
Bank Run as a spectator, soak up the
ambiance and socialize with new and old
friends. That was until an invitation was
offered to ride the press truck.
I decided doing so would be at least as
cool as hanging around the finish, plus it
would be my first time on a lead vehicle.
Weather race week was funky nationwide
and the local forecast was for liquid sunshine
Friday and Saturday.
Although a soggy race seemed inevitable,
it rained some on Friday before going dry all
night long. It remained dry during my 44-
minute run Saturday morning where I saw
deer along 52nd Street SW near Palmer Park
in Wyoming.
Driving downtown I thought it possible
the races might dodge a wet-weather bullet.
To be safe, I grabbed an umbrella on my way
to the start. This was a good move, as it
began drizzling 30 minutes before “showtime.”
I was one of only two on the press
truck with an umbrella, which made me a
favorite of four women, including new Crim
race director Deb Kiertzner, who all huddled
with me.
I knew the wheelchair athletes would
hate the rain because it makes it difficult to
push on their rims. As the National
Championship 25K got under way, the drizzle
turned to a steady rain, soaking all minus
protection.
After a mile the race up front was
already taking shape. By two miles, split in
9:20, Kenyans Julius Kibet, Simon Wangai,
Wesley Ochoro, new master and U.S. citizen
Mbarak Hussein, and Brian Sell of Team
Hansons had eased away from from a chasing
pack of about 20 guys. The top dogs continuted
hammering away through three miles
in 14:05, with Hussein dropping back and
the chase pack out of sight.
Kibet, Wangai and Ochoro dropped Sell
before four miles, sailing along at a furious
pace. With a series of encouraging races in
2005, Brian was clearly running with a sense
of confidence and purpose.
The rain continued as the leaders cruised
on Indian Mounds Drive beside the Grand
River. Ochoro was dropped before six miles,
reached in 28:05. With the twists and turns
of the road, it was hard to tell where Ochoro
and Sell were. Wangai and Kibet ran shoulder-to-shoulder
across the river and turned
onto Butterworth Drive for the return trip
into town.
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Photo by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios
Colleen DeReuck took the overall win
and the USATF 25K Championship.
The course had been relatively flat, albeit
damp, as it dipped down Veterans Memorial
Drive. The two leaders zipped past halfway in
36:22, world-record pace. Dang, they were
haulin’ at 4:40 per mile (even a pace of 4:40
per kilometer is 7:30 per mile, a healthy
effort).
Wangai and Kibet turned into the hills, but
that did little to slow them down as they raced
in lockstep past 10 miles in 47:10. The next
mile, which reached the highest point on the
course, was their slowest, five minutes flat.
The pair flew downhill, step for quickening
step, covering the 12th mile in 4:35.
In the distance we could see Ochoro had
about 15 seconds on the steady-running Sell,
and we wondered whether the gap would
close. The leaders raced together into the city
and finally the rain subsided.
Beginning at John Ball Zoo the route
wound this way and that, but the two Kenyans
remained as one. They’d lost some time to
world-record pace, but were still smokin’. Our
truck pulled away at 13 1/2 miles, leaving the
pundits to ponder the outcome.
Hopping off the truck, I trotted back on the
course and cheered Wangai as he sped past.
He’d opened a sizable gap in short order, as
Kibet followed 100 yards back. A minute and
a half later, Ochoro emerged with a 50-yard
lead on Sell.
Wangai’s winning time was a course record
and the fourth-fastest 25K ever. In fourth, Sell’s
time was good for sixth-fastest American ever
and his first National Championship.
In fifth and 10th came the first two masters
runners, Hussein and Paul Aufdemberge of
Redford. Hussein broke the old American
record by 1:26, and Aufdemberge just missed
the standard while notching another solid race
in his first five months as a masters runner.
(Paul ran an American 40-44 10,000-meters
track record 30:04 at Hillsdale College April
29.)
“I felt pretty good about my race, though it
pales in comparison to the top guys,” Paul said
later. “The group I was in went out as conservatively
as the front group went out aggressively.
We stayed close to five-minute miles through
about 13 miles, when Clint (Verran) took off.“
(Verran, another Team Hansons member, finished
seventh.)
Although I didn’t get to see how Colleen
DeReuck’s race played out, her winning time
says a lot. The 2004 U.S. Olympic
Marathoner’s 1:25:15 netted her the National
Championship, broke the U.S. masters record
by 4:32, and is the second-fastest American
time ever. Her average pace of 5:30 per mile
would have eclipsed U.S. masters records en
route at 15K, 10 miles, 20K and the halfmarathon!
Yikes.
I’d last been to Grand Rapids in 1994 to
run the River Bank 25K. The face of downtown
had changed in 11 years, but the organization
and conduct of all events has remained exceptional
with attention to detail at every turn.
Return trips will occur more regularly. MR
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By Fred Vanhala
Friday nights at Hillsdale’s Gina Relays
are renowned for their perfect weather
and magic moments. This year’s racing
ran true to form.
Hillsdale College alum Paul
Aufdemberge, 40, came into the 10,000-
meter run April 29 off a bad week’s training.
In fact, Tuesday’s session "was maybe my
worst of the year," he said.
Aufdemberge trains often with University
of Detroit-Mercy track and cross-country
coach Guy Murray. They fill their miles talking
about “baseball, track and field,
letsrun.com banter," Murray said. "Paul is a
big baseball fan and knows his stuff.”
“I knew Paul could run a U.S. 10K masters
record at Hillsdale," Murray continued.
“He's as fit, if not fitter, than he was in the
past two years when he ran sub-30’s.
“I was a little worried, as Paul was
banged up from prior races. When we ran
our normal loop Thursday, he didn’t cut it
short.
“I knew Paul would get the record, but I
didn’t want him to be injured any more.”
Aufdemberge drove from his Redford
home to his alma matter with another frequent
training partner, Dave Peterson. "It
seemed like a good night for running. We
were all looking for something special,”
Peterson said.
Anticipation was high, but no one wanted
to say much to Paul prior to the race.
For us, he was like a pitcher in the middle of
a no-hitter. No one "jinx” him or cause
undue pressure.
There had been talk about rain all day,
but the weather was cool, dry and perfect
before the race. The film “Friday Night
Lights,” about Texas football, hints at
the excitement on the Hillsdale track. The
10,000 meters soon would be underway!
Announcer Scott Hubbard knew all
about Paul’s chances. He said he’d looked
forward to this night for a couple years, and
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Aufdemberge Spins Magic
with Masters Mark
Photo by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios
Paul Aufdemberge, pictured here at the 2005 5/3
River Bank Run, set the American masters
record for 10,000 meters on the track.
not only knew about the USA Track
& Field masters record of 30:37.94 set by
Craig Young in 1998, but the unofficial
record of 30:18.16 set by Steve Spence in
2004, which had never been submitted
for ratification.
The cut-off entry time for the fast heat of
the 10,000 was 30:40, and there were 30
runners in this heat. With such a large group,
I was glad I was getting the splits on the
tallest guy in the race — Paul is easy to pick
out in most running crowds.
There’s a reason masters runners are
called masters: They know how to handle
Paul Aufdemberge: Career Highlights
1987 Crim 10-Miler, third place in 48:41.
1989-90 River Bank 25K Runs, third both years in 1:16:46 and 1:15:42.
1992 World Cross Country Championships, Boston, 44th place; Penn Relays, 28:28
10K personal record and U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier.
1993 World Half-Marathon Championships, Brussels, Belgium, 20th in 1:02:30.
1999 Around the Bay 30K, Hamilton, Ont., first in 1:36:31.
2004 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier; Columbus Marathon, second in 2:20:03.
2005 Hillsdale Gina Relays,U.S. National Masters Record 10K in 30:04.43
big races and big paces. Paul was dead-last
after running the first lap in 1:14. He was
feeling out the competition, running nice and
smooth. Just like he’d been running here for
decades. Ya think?
There were few if any runners within 15
years of Paul’s age. Former Eastern Michigan
University All-Americans Gavin Thompson
and Jordan Desilits, both 24, led the race.
After a couple miles at about a 4:45
pace, “I saw the lead pack not far ahead,”
Paul remembered. “I picked it up to catch
them, but never quite got there.”
He ended up hitting the first 5K in
14:49. “I ran aggressively the first half, but
may have overextended myself,” he said.
“Still, sometimes you have to press it and see
what you can do.”
Paul’s first two laps, in 1:14 and 1:12,
were his slowest. Most of the rest were near
1:11. “I felt pretty good running at a 71-second
pace, but haven’t done it enough in practice,”
he said later.
“I divided my time as announcer monitoring
the top five in their breakaway and
Paul as he raced along, clicking off sub-3:00
kilometers,” said Hubbard.
“It was neat to see Paul try to hang with
the leaders, not giving anything away to age
for as long as he could,” Scott added. “I
waited until he'd reached around 7,000
meters before drawing the crowd’s attention
to his pace and the possibility of a record. By
then he was well along, not losing time to
record pace, and ready to focus on the distance
and time remaining.
“It was also a good time to alert the
crowd, so they could support Paul over
the final minutes. Everybody cheered for him
during the last 800 meters, when he dug
down and picked up his pace.
“Paul has few peers for quality and
longevity,” Hubbard said.
Only a handful of U.S. masters can run a
15:15 for 5,000 meters, let alone on top of a
14:49. Paul finished in a new record time of
30:04.43.
Paul’s collegiate best, 29:24, is just 40
seconds faster. His best 10K ever was at the
1992 Penn Relays, when he ran a 28:28 and
qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials.
“Paul is one of those guys who does
things the right way,” said Peterson.
“He works hard, runs hard, and it’s neat
that this record would go to a guy
like that.”
“Paul is an amazing competitor and
never takes a race off,” added Murray.
“He’s a great example for everyone in the
sport; he just keeps putting in the miles and
working hard. If more people were like Paul,
the sport would be in better shape.” MR

A Deal with the Devil at Crim
By Riley McLincha
Iwas driving on Longway Boulevard, heading
toward downtown Flint for the Crim
races, when I had to stop at that light …
you know, the one by Mott College where
the Crim used to start? Standing there in the
traffic island was a white-haired man. He
was wearing a Crim race shirt from 1978
and polyester running shorts.
I couldn’t believe my eyes; the guy
looked exactly like Ed Wiberg.* He was
jumping, waving his arms and screaming to
get my attention. I rolled down my window.
“Where is everybody?” he yelled.
“Mister, you looked lost.” Deranged, I
wanted to say.
“The Crim is s’posta to be today,” he
said.
“Well yeah, but it doesn’t start here. It
hasn’t started here in years.” I felt bad for
the old guy; he was obviously suffering from
Alzheimer’s.
“Can you take me to the start? I gotta
get to the start!” he said franticly.
“Sure. I’ll take you to the start. Hop in.”
I was going to take him somewhere, all right
… Hurley Hospital psycho ward.
“You look like a guy I used to know.
What’s your name?” I asked.
“I’m Ed Wiberg, back to run my last
Crim,” he stated.
“You’re a dead ringer for him for sure,
but Eddie Wiberg ran his last Crim more
than 20 years ago. If you’re him, I’m dreaming
or you’re a ghost.”
“You’re neither. Just before I died, I sold
my soul to the Devil with the agreement I
could run the Crim one more time.”
“That sounds like something Ed would
do,” I mumbled to myself.
As we passed Farmer’s Market and
crossed the Flint River, he continued, “But
the Devil can’t be trusted; he’s the Devil, I tell
ya. After I signed on the dotted line, he
pointed out the clause where he got to pick
which Crim I ran.
“I’ve been in Hell over 20 years,” he
began sobbing. “Now he picks this Crim and
doesn’t even tell me where the start is. You
know what’s the worst part of being in Hell?
They don’t let you run!
“I told the Devil that now I was in no
shape to run 10 miles. He just laughed and
said, ‘You can die trying … oh wait, ha ha,
you’re already dead! But I’ll tell you what,
since you’ve been here 20 years, if you can
complete the entire Crim I will tear up our
contract.’ So you see I have hell to lose for
trying.”
As we neared Saginaw Street, I had to
decide: Do I continue to the hospital, or turn
and take him to the start? I pull into the
Rally’s parking lot at the corner.
“Well, I half believe you. I remember Ed
Wiberg, and if you aren’t him you’re his
clone.”
“I’m no clown. I’m dead serious. I’m the
real thing. C’mon, where do we start?”
“It starts and finishes downtown. Much
You know what’s the
worst part of being in
Hell? They don’t let
you run!
of the course is the same; just follow the blue
line.”
“The blue line? What’s that?” he asked.
“It right there,” I said, pointing to the
street. “They started painting it after 1989,
the year the lead vehicle missed the turn onto
Chicago Avenue and almost cost Kathy
O’Brien a national record.”
“I don’t know who she is. Let’s worry
about me.”
With the importance of this race to him,
I could see why he didn’t care about the elite
runners. But then he asked, “Who won last
year?”
“I can’t remember,” I said. “Some
Kenyan.”
“Steve Kenyon! He won it twice in my day.
Don’t tell me that S.O.B. is still winning it!”
“No, no, this guy’s from Kenya, the
country. The winners are almost always from
Africa.”
“How big is the race now?”
“That depends on which race you’re
talking about.”
“I’m talking about the Crim, fool! What
other race have we been talking about?”
“Well if you say THE CRIM, you mean
the 10-miler. But there’s an 8K, 5K, 1-mile ...
there are walks and toddler races ... man,
there’s all kinds of races.”
”They went and wrecked it. With that
many races, the 10-miler must have dwindled.”
“I thought the same thing when they
started adding in ’87, but the 10-miler is still
the premier event. Last year we had out
biggest field, over 6,500 finishers.”
“Holy bejesus, we only were getting
2,000 before I croaked!”
“Now it’s called The Crim Festival of
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Races and there’s more than 14,000
participants. It’s still the biggest racing
event in Michigan. Guess what
CRIM stands for?”
“It stands for my friend Bobby
Crim, of course, the man who created
the race. Is he still around? Will I
see him?”
“Yeah. he’s still around. He’s
your age now and running as well as
you did, around 85 minutes for 10
miles.”
“Oh, I did better than that! I ran
81 minutes when I was 71. But I
won’t keep up with him today; I’m so
out of shape.”
“But I was going to say CRIM
also stands for Coolest Race In
Michigan. But not to worry, Bobby
won’t be forgotten, nor will Lois
Craig and the original reason for the
Crim: Michigan Special Olympics.
The oldtimers like myself will make
sure of that.
“What’s cool is the many things
Photo by Bob DelCampo
Crim means now besides a 10-mile race,” I
continued. “There’s a Crim office that is
open downtown year-round, not to mention
the Crim training program for walkers and
runners, Crim running clubs for kids and
teens, and the Crim Kids Classic ...
“Why, the name Crim has become synonymous
with fitness, not just in Genesee
County but throughout Michigan, and it’s
spreading further. Now that’s cool, Don’tcha
think?”
“I don’t know anything about cool. I
never was cool. C’mon man, take me downtown.
I gotta enter still; I don’t wanna miss
the start.” He sounded cantankerous with his
ME-ME-ME attitude; yep this was the real
Wiberg.
“This is probably the best parking place
we’ll get at this time,” I said. “Let’s walk to
the Character Inn … that’s the Hyatt
Regency to you. That’s where you can sign
up and get your chip.”
“My chip?”
“I’d explain, but you wouldn’t believe
me. Let’s just say you won’t be getting a
Popsicle stick at the finish line.”
We arrived downtown and Ed could not
believe all the people. At first he turned only
a few heads. One head at the starting line
had two eyes popping out. “Hey, John
Gault!” Ed yelled. “I wanna start up front.”
“Listen, you old coot,” said John. “Even
if you are who you look like, you’re not getting
anywhere near the front.”
“Listen here, John: This isn’t your race;
today it is mine!” Ed barked.
I was starting to think I’d made a big mistake
bringing him downtown, but soon people
who remembered Ed started gathering.
Moments later we were standing with Bobby
Crim, Mark Bauman, Lois Craig and more
than 20 other oldtimers. He repeated his story
that seemed like BS, but they bought it, the
same as I did; we wanted to believe.
Ed Wiberg (l) and Bobby Crim celebrate the 1981 running of
the Crim 10 mile.
Race director Deb Kiertzner took Ed to
the emcee’s platform. They climbed to where
Crim CEO Gerry Myers was speaking.
Debbie took the mike from him and spoke,
“CAN I HAVE EVERYONE’S ATTENTION
…”
It took a while, but before the race started
everyone had heard Ed’s story and knew
why he had to finish. He had the support of
20,000 people. A block and a half away a
voice was heard, “Hell no, he won’t go!” The
chant caught on; with each repetition it doubled
in voices. It began reverberating off the
walls of the Character Inn, Citizens Bank and
University Pavilion.
It took the elite runners longer to catch
on. They talked among each other, then too
began chanting, “Hell no, he won’t go!” in
many accents.
Ed climbed down from the platform and
into the crowd. As he moved to the front,
runners gave him a berth and applauded
rhythmically. As he toed the starting line, he
looked directly at Gault’s stern face. John
cracked a smile, shook his head and joined
the chanting, “Hell no, he won’t go!”
The race started. The Kenyans left Eddie
in their dust. The field began passing him by
the hundreds. It was a wonder he was not
pushed to the pavement with everyone slapping
him on the back.
I caught Ed myself at the first mile; his
pace was 10:30. I told him, “Ed, slow down.
Take a walk break; it’s the only way you will
make it.”
“Are you crazy?” he griped. “I’m a runner.
Runners don’t walk.”
“It’s OK, Ed. I haven’t quite kicked that
purist attitude myself, but remember what’s
at stake. You can do this if you use the
Galloway Method.”
“Galloway, Schmalloway, I ain’t walking.
Who is Galloway, anyway?”
“Jeff Galloway. You remember the
Olympic runner? He takes walk breaks now.”
“Well, I’m no better than an
Olympic runner. Hmm, walking does
sound tempting now.”
“Hell, I’m telling you, it’s the only
way you’ll make it … I mean, it’s the
only way you won’t make it back …
to Hell. You’ll be in good company.
Today hundreds of people will walk
and run. The Galloway Method is the
reason for the second running boom.”
So Ed began walking. More and
more people were matching his pace.
By three miles he had a crowd surrounding
him, all running two minutes,
then walking two. Spectators on
the course were uninformed as to
what was going on, but knew something
special was happening and
cheered loudly.
By six miles Ed had an army of
believers staying with him. When the
horde turned onto Miller near the
eight-mile mark, no runners were visible
ahead. They had either slowed
down to run/walk with Ed, or continued
onward. At the finish line, fewer finishers
were seen until only a trickle was coming in.
Scott Hubbard, manning the P.A., was
the first to realize what was happening.
“Folks, the rest of the field is out there helping
Ed Wiberg,” he declared.
That nearly caused a stampede, as hundreds
of people downtown headed back
towards Court Street. They found Eddie’s
Army near the White Horse Tavern and
again started up the chant, “Hell no, he
won’t go!”
The multitude made the turn onto
Saginaw Street. A block later, it was Ed who
hit the bricks first, starting his last run interval.
Everyone else marched behind him with
fists in the air. “Stick it to the Devil, Ed!” I
shouted.
Ed crossed the finish line, fell down,
kissed the bricks and stopped breathing. John
Gault, the first one to him, shouted “Ed, you
can’t stop there! Keep moving!”
Dr. Dan Walter, the closest medical person
to him, touched Ed’s face, which was
cold as clay. “Eddie’s dead,” he said.
Nobody was saddened, for Eddie had
won his race. His last victory was over. Many
continued to congratulate the corpse, “You
did it, Ed. You beat the Devil.”
When finish-line officials tried to move
his body, it predictably disappeared.
* Ed Wiberg, considered by many Crim’s
first legend, ran the first Crim in 1977 in
white dress shoes with platform heels. He
was nearly 70 at the time. When he crossed
the finish line of his first road race in the 90°
heat, people shook their heads in disbelief.
Ed continued running the Crim into the
1980s. At his funeral, a large group of
friends ran behind the hearse, carrying Ed’s
body from the funeral home to his grave. His
pallbearers were Riverbend Striders in
running clothes. MR
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Johnson Creek 5K: A Frolic through Mud
By Charles Douglas McEwen
NORTHVILLE (5/14/05) — The second
annual Johnson Creek 5K Trail
Run challenged participants with muck
as sticky as caramel, and mayhem too.
“It was messy and dirty, but really
fun!” exclaimed Rachel Bowman,
25, of Farmington, women’s winner
in 25:04. She said the muddiest part
of the race was the first half mile.
“Right at the start, you have
thick mud that sticks to your shoes,”
said Bowman. “After that, you can’t
move very fast at all.”
Emily Alder, 26, of Novi, was
women’s runnerup in 25:52. Next
came Rita Myers, 41, of Novi
(26:44) and Laura Breyman, 24, of
Ann Arbor (27:23).
“A few guys in front of me fell
down and got really muddy, but I
stayed pretty clean for some reason,”
Alder said.
Ryan Pletzke, 22, of Northville, men’s
winner in 19:46, said even a dry course
would be a challenge.
“It’s up and down the whole way,” said
Pletzke. “It doesn't have any giant hills, but
it has lots of twists and turns. I loved it. It’s
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Photo by Charles Douglas McEwen
Winner Ryan Pletzker said the course was a challenge with lots of
twists and turns.
beautiful out there.”
Chris Jones, 24, of Ann Arbor finished
second in 20:07. Russell Rohale, 44, of
Royal Oak, took third in 20:15.
The race, put on by the Johnson Creek
Protection Group as part of Johnson Creek
Day at Northville Community
Park, showcased the beauty of
the watershed. Storms
drenched the woodlands and
wetlands prior to the event.
“The trail is muddier than
usual,” said Anne Naszradi,
one of the race coordinators.
“Our original idea was to get
runners and walkers, who
might not otherwise know
about the creek, to join us for
Johnson Creek Day.
“We want to create
awareness that Johnson Creek
is the only coldwater stream
that supports trout in southeast
Michigan, and it needs to
be protected,” Naszradi said.
The JCPG held a postrace
family celebration that
included a children’s fun run
and more activities. Sponsors
included Northville Township,
the Wayne County
Environment Department, Running Fit
stores, REI, Pulte Homes and Grand Sakwa
Properties LLC.
To learn more about the Johnson Creek
Trail Run, visit www.jcpg.org. MR
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Riley Klingel, 18:
Legacy of a Champ
By Sara Deuling
Few Michigan Runner readers could
claim they had not heard of Riley
Klingel. The Fremont High School
senior running star had a presence in
competition -- long-limbed and all-out --
that brought to mind Roger Bannister.
Bannister, a great, gutsy athlete,
admitted he never trained meticulously.
Still, no one could question his desire
as they watched him pour out every
ounce of energy breaking the fourminute
mile half a century ago.
Although Riley was also a natural
athlete, he put in countless hours of
training to meet his goals. He also gave
immense effort during races. He never
shied from hard work, attending the
infamous Paavo running camps during
hot summers, and training through
Michigan’s dark, cold winters.
Riley’s influence never spread as
did Bannister’s, of course, but both
changed the way the world looked at
distance running and human potential.
I saw Riley break the Fremont
cross-country course during his senior
year, and knew he was capable of
becoming a world-class runner. On a
course known to cripple the strongest
runners, he held a blistering pace.
Where others were cautious, Riley
was confident, having spent hundreds
of hours preparing. When others let
pain block their goals and doubt cloud
their chance at victory, Riley kept
focused and muscled through.
Those who saw him compete knew
he put his heart into every race, leaving
spectators and competitors inspired.
Riley’s talents and strength of character
were not limited to running. He
stood at the top of his class academically,
and planned to continue his studies
and running at Michigan State
University.
The Michigan Interscholastic Track
Coaches Association named Riley Mr.
Michigan Cross Country last fall for his
performance and spirit both on and off
the field. After finishing second in his last
chance to win a second state title, he was
Photo by Scott Sullivan
Riley Klingel finished second in the 2004 state cross country
finals.
not bitter or disheartened. He said he had
“no complaints” and his effort “was
probably the best race I’ve ever run.”
Riley’s best running performances
are listed below, but his greatest feat --
one he may not have realized or expected
-- was the impact he made on teammates,
classmates, his hometown, and
running community of our state.
His death in a car crash at age 18
April 22 triggered grief, disbelief and a
wave of memories. The hundreds who
attended his funeral, and took part in a
memorial run agreed he never would be
forgotten.
“Two things about Riley struck
me,” MSU men's cross country coach
Walt Drenth said. "One was that he
was very, very competitive. The opportunity
to compete was something he
really enjoyed.
“The other was his pursuit of
excellence. He did not understand it if
someone was not trying to be his best.
It was inconceivable to him that you
could have a gift and not try to nurture
it,” Denth said.
As I’ve run through Fremont since
Riley’s death, I have often felt his spirit
joining me. It isn’t pushing me to run
faster and seize the training opportunity,
as he’d have done, though: it’s
encouraging me to enjoy and not take
the run for granted. More quietly, it
asks me to bring him along for a few
miles, and I’m honored to do so.
Riley’s coach, Cliff Somers, put it
best. “I don’t care if my kids ever grow
up to be the runner he was, but I sure
hope they grow up to be as good of
people as he was.”
Riley’s Personal Bests:
TRACK: 400 meters, 53.7; 800 meters,
1:56.7; 1600 meters, 4:19.8; 3200
meters,9:19.5.
CROSS COUNTRY: 5K, 15:22.1; threetime
conference and regional champion;
2004 Division 2 state runnerup; 2002
D-2 state champion. And his greatest
source of pride: being part of two staterunnerup
teams. MR
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Photo by Charles Douglas McEwen
Grosse Ile Memorial Day 8K
Star-Spangled Island Run
Memorable Indeed
Valarie Ambrose won the Grosse Ile
Memorial Day 8K in 30:43.
By Charles Douglas McEwen
GROSSE ILE (5/30/05) — Old Glory was everywhere at
the Memorial Day 8K Run, sponsored by Island
Roadrunners and Total Runner.
Runners and walkers carried flags. Young women
painted flags on their cheeks. And many people wore
red, white and blue shorts and singlets.
The day also included two fighter jets that
streaked across the sky while the race took place.
Later, a World War II bomber buzzed the award ceremony.
(No bombs were dropped.)
The 460 runners and walkers included more than
two dozen veterans.
“This race brings out the patriot in everyone,” said
Jon Hodge, 20, of Grosse Ile. “It’s one of my favorites.”
Hodge, a Northwood University student who took
fifth overall last year, won the men’s 8K this year in
26:09. Hodge finished ahead of his friend, Joshua
Stryker, 25, of Byron Center (26:30), an 800-meter specialist
who coaches sprints and middle distance for the
Northwood track team.
“Jon went out really hard,” Stryker said. “I knew he
was going to do that. I reeled him a bit at the end. But
he had it won.
“At the start I was running with Brian Olsen,”
Stryker continued. “He’s a strong masters runner, so I
knew he was a good guy to hang with. And I’m not a
distance runner by trade. So I just tucked in, let Brian
take me through two miles, and then went from there."
In finishing third overall in 27:11, Olsen, 44, of
Jackson, beat David Watkins, 43, of Birmingham (28:28)
for the masters crown.
“This is my second year here,” said Olsen, who
won the masters last year also. “My wife, Martha,
and I liked it so much that we came back.”
Valari Ambrose, 38, of Wyandotte, finished first
among the women in 30:43. Next came Caralyn
Smeltzer, 21, of Kalamazoo (32:40) and defending masters
champ Becky Rudnicki (33:34), 41, of Oregon,
Ohio, and Martha Olsen, 41, of Jackson (34:18).
It was Ambrose’s first trip back to this race in more
than two decades.
“I think I may have been in the eighth grade at that
time,” said Ambrose, who has now won three races in last
eight months. “My family would just go out and do runs.
Competing wasn’t a high priority for me back then.”
It became one. Ambrose went on to become the first
four-year high-school cross country champ in state history,
winning Class B titles for Riverview Gabriel Richard
from 1981-84.
Winning grand masters (ages 50-59) titles were
Gary Rizzo, 53, of Ann Arbor (29:46) and Donna
Olson, 55, of Canton (36:13).
Senior masters crowns went to Milford residents Doug
Goodhue, 63, in 30:27, and Ellen Nitz, 64, in 40:34.
For more information about the Memorial Day 8K,
go to www.islandroadrunners.net. MR
Fruitport: Small-town
‘Retro’ Race is Big Fun
By Scott Sullivan
FRUITPORT (5/28/05) — Some leave their
hearts in San Francisco, others their soles
in Fruitport.
Take my wife. “You left your running
shoes in Fruitport?!” I exclaimed after
driving home from the 24th annual Old-
Fashioned Days 5K and 10K races.
She looked at her bare feet.
“Apparently,” she said.
It’s easy to see how you might leave
part of yourself behind here. The course
is pretty with orchards and inlets, especially
this year in cool, crisp sunshine
this year. The camaraderie’s warm and
casual: race director Don Wood is sure
to delay the start introducing 20-time
age-group winner Joe Wolters and others
worthy of heckling.
Old-Fashioned Days? Think of aid stations
with a card table, two volunteers
(blow your water-cup handoff and too
bad) and a boom box playing the “Rocky”
theme. Chip-off-the-old-block timing
makes use of Popsicle-stick technology.
Post-race snacks? No blocks-long
smorgasbord, like at the River Bank Run.
But food at that nearby mega-race had
nothing on the “mystery melon” at
Fruitport: its red-flesh interior boasting
Van Gogh-like yellow swirls and a hybrid
flavor suggesting Mendel at last gone mad.
The golden morn and good times drew
close to 200 runners. First to finish the 5K
were Rick Bauer (16:35) and Kendra
Mason (20:00). Men’s and women’s 10K
winners were Cliff Somers (36:04) and
Ashley Stebbins (43:04).
Wolters won his age group for the 21st
time, amazing for someone who claims to
be only 20. When we drove back the next
day, my wife’s shoes almost where she had
left them in the parking lot, perched on a
post by so they would be easier to see. MR
M I C H I G A N R U N N E R
23

The Fit 5K
A Fit and Fun
Evening Run
MHSAA Upper Peninsula State Track and Field Finals
Gladstone, Escanaba
Dominate U.P. Finals
By Ron Marinucci
NOVI (4/27/05) -- It was a practically-perfect
Wednesday evening for a race. Two days earlier the
area had been blanketed with eight inches of late-April
snow. And just a few hours before Randy Step’s starting
“gun” (“Set. Go!’) heavy skies delivered a gullywasher.
But by the first of three races at the 12th annual
Fit 5K, skies had mostly cleared, with temperatures
reaching the mid-40s. Runners were faced with
a fairly-stiff breeze from the west.
“This year, we added two new races for kids,”
said Susan Hodgson from Running Fit stores. The
nine-and-under crowd ran a bit short of half a mile,
while the “Fast & Fit” mile was tailored for those
17 and under.
But the main event was the 5K, with proceeds
going to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. It
attracted 159 runners, almost half (69) of whom were
masters.
Joining the fun were Running 101 students
from Running Fit’s West Bloomfield and Novi
stores. “Some are entering their first 5K,” said Jane
Sanders, who helped teach the five-week courses.
They also faced that stiff headwind on their return.
Local masters stalwarts Tim Emmett, 49, and
Alan VanMeter, 48, finished 1-2 in 17:52 and 18:16
respectively. Nineteen-year old Chad Maharian was
third. Almost two minutes behind was Yoshito
Tishler, who was eight seconds ahead of Anne Marie
Phillips, the first master.
The top men and women overall and masters
won free Saucony running shoes.
Chris Mauney, Hay Allie and Jeff Wilson finished
1-2-3 in the mile. The top nine-and-under finishers
were Simrit Jhita, Noah Sullivan and Marcia Kornacki.
By Ryan Towles
KINGSFORD (6/4/05) — Fans may find MHSAA
Upper Peninsula Track & Field Finals performances
June 4 in Kingsford pale in comparison to downstate
results the same day.
However, the reality of the U.P.’s shorter spring
season, which hampers serious training, amplifies
highlights of this meet. Plus, the 2005 version of
this meet was more competitive than most, with 22
records set in its three divisions.
In Division 1, Gladstone’s boys and Escanaba’s
girls gave no quarter in winning the team titles. The
Braves beat runner-up West Iron County by a 150-
65 score, while the Eskymo girls handled secondplace
Iron Mountain 102-88. The meet was scored
in the 10-8-6-4-2-1 format for all 17 events.
The D-2 boys meet saw a much closer battle,
with Newberry nipping Norway 107-102.5. The
Ishpeming Hematites earned the D-2 girls crown
over Norway 94-77.
In Division 3, containing the smallest schools
but most athletes (and perhaps the best set of nicknames),
the North Central Jet boys outdistanced the
Bessemer Speedboys 85-66. On the girls side, the
Rapid River Rockets hammered the field, earning a
135-54 victory over the Bark River-Harris Broncos.
Track events got off on the right foot with a
pair of come-from-behind 3200-meter relay races in
As runners milled around at the finish, a couple
veterans groused about their “slow times.” But before
long, they agreed that for so early in the season, their
times “aren’t bad, aren’t bad at all.”
The well-organized Fit 5K was a good test of
early-season fitness, and extra fun due to the
D-1. The Iron Mountain girls ran a solid 9:46.95 to
set a new division record. “That was our best by
far,” said senior anchor Kelly McClure of the effort
shared by teammates Hilary Beauchamp, Danielle
Mellon and Jessica Hartwig.
In the D-1 boys 3200 relay, Gladstone and
Marquette ran neck-and-neck until Gladstone
anchor Chris Davis made a tremendous move with
about 250 meters left to seal the deal. The Braves
team of Davis, Alvin Moore, Kyle Kelley and Tom
Seronko clocked a time of 8:22.43.
“Last year they (Marquette) beat us at Finals,”
said Davis. “This year we got them. We were
ranked number one last year and lost by three seconds.
This year we wanted it bad.”
Other notable performances also came in the
boys D-1 meet. Justin Wiles of Escanaba ran a
48.91 in the open 400, setting an all-time, all-class
U.P. record. The time was just off of his 48.72 PR
from earlier in the season. Wiles, only a junior,
looks forward to collegiate opportunities, with
Michigan State a possibility.
Gladstone 800 specialist Moore followed up
his approximately 2:00 relay split with his own
division record in the open 800. Moore jumped
from his previous best of 2:01 to run a gutsy
1:58.06. A senior, Moore hopes to walk on at MSU
for next season.
Complete scoring and results are available
online at www.mhsaa.com/tournaments/ MR
ambiance unique to a midweek, evening run.
Results can be found at
runningfit.com/results.cfm.
Ron Marinucci can be reached by e-mail at
RMarin6424@aol.com.
michiganrunner.tv - Upcoming Schedule
Photo by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios
Around the Bay 30K and 111 Years of History-Hamilton, Ontario
Bill Rodgers-The Running Fit Interview-Traverse City
Brian Diemer Amerikam 5K-Cutlerville
Crim Festival of Races-Flint
Detroit Free Press/Flagstar Bank Marathon-Detroit
Doug Kurtis Marathon Training Series-Ann Arbor
Gary Morgan at Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa-Moshi, Tanzania
Great Race Sports Festival 25th Anniversary Special-Elkart, Indiana
Great Wall of China Marathon-Beijing, China
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2004
Heat the Streets & Walk for Warmth-Detroit
Pictured Rocks Run For Shelter-Munising, Michigan
Mid Mountain Trail Marathon-Park City, Utah
Milford Labor Day 30K & 10K, Milford, Michigan
Red Simmons-A Great Michigan Coaching Legend-Ann Arbor
Red October-Wayne, Michigan
Roseville Big Bird Run-Roseville
Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon-Toronto, Ontario
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MHSAA Lower Peninsula State Track and Field Finals
Speed Thrills, Kills Opponents in State Track Meets
By Scott Sullivan
CALEDONIA (6/4/05) — Got speed? Chances are
you fared well in Michigan High School Athletic
Association Lower Peninsula state track finals June
4 at four greater Grand Rapids sites.
Sprint-fueled teams from Flint Carman-
Ainsworth, Detroit Mumford, Lansing Sexton and
Detroit Renaissance said “farewell” to Division 1
and 2 boys and girls rivals at Rockford and
Caledonia.
Frankenmuth and Goodrich won Division 3
boys and girls titles at Comstock Park. Detroit St.
Martin dePorres and Saginaw Valley Lutheran were
D-4 champions at Houseman Field.
unior Ahmad Rashad (no relation to the football
and broadcast star with the same name) led
JCarman-Ainsworth to the D-1 boys crown with
breathtaking wins in the 100 meters (10.56) and
200 meters (21.51, though stopwatch-wielding
devotees swore he ran closer to 20.8). Rashad
capped the day anchoring C-A’s 1600 relay to first
in 3:19.29.
Mumford’s girls won their second-straight D-1
title with triumphs in both sprint relays, a 1-2 finish
in the 100 meters, and firsts in 200 and 400 meters.
Clarkston’s girls, boosted by members of their
two-time-state-champion cross-country team, were
the distance stars at Rockford. Jenny Morgan swept
the 3200 (10:45.56) and 1600 (a new state-record
4:48.07), and anchored the Wolves’ 3200 relay to a-
state record 9:05:49, good for a 17-second win.
D-1 boys distance winners were Waterford
Kettering’s Justin Switzer in the 1600 (4:09.35), and
Birmingham Brother Rice’s John Black in the 3200
(9:14.59).
M
ichigan’s fastest human? Junior Clinton
Allen of Muskegon Orchard View — who
entered the D-2 finals with a hand-held
100 time of 10.03 — came close to matching
Rashad with triumphs in the 100 (10.79) and 200
(20.7) at Caledonia. Hurdler Tymel Dodd paced
Sexton to its team triumph, sweeping the 110 highs
(14.7) and 300 lows (38.92).
Renaissance swept all four relays to dominate
the girls meet. Among individuals, Ypsilanti’s
Tiffany Ofili capped a seven-state-crown career by
winning the long jump (18’9-1/4”), 100 hurdles
(14.19) and 300 hurdles (42.82). Cadillac junior
Alisha Cole edged Ofili in the 100 (12.34 to 12.50)
and added first in the 200 (24.60).
Sophomore Jessica Armstrong gave Wayland
its first state title in 80 years, bagging the girls 1600
in 5:02.68. She doubled that total two hours later,
winning the 3200 in 11:08.62.
Vicksburg junior Dan Roberts, said to be headed
for Colorado next fall, found Lex Williams all he
could handle in the boys 1600, nipping the frontrunning
Dexter senior 4:09.45 to 4:09.98. Williams
showed few ill-effects from that effort in the 3200,
breezing to a 10-second triumph in 9:07.88.
oodrich struck a blow for distance-focused
teams in the D-3 girls meet at Comstock
GPark. The two-time defending cross-country
champions won handily on the oval, thanks in part
to triumphs by senior Janee Jones in the 800
(2:16.18) and 1600 (4:58.19). The Martians also
captured the 3200 relay by 14 seconds. Hillsdale’s
Erin Batt (11:24.80) was the 3200 queen.
Frankenmuth’s boys received wins from
Andrew Dodson in high jump (7-0), Mike Golden
in the 200 (22.09) and its 1600 relay (3:22.37) to
Photo by Scott Sullivan
Alisha Cole edged Tiffany Ofili in the 100. Ofili
won the long jump, 100 hurdles and 300 hurdles
and was named Ms. Michigan Track and Field.
edge Detroit Country Day and Albion for the boys
title. Josh Hofbauer of Harbor Springs proved his
individual cross-country crown last fall was no
fluke, bagging the 3200 in 9:34.55.
d
ePorres’ boys prevailed in the D-4 meet on the
strength of capturing both sprint relays, the 200
meters, and going 2-3 in the 100. Potterville’s
Aaron Hunt swept the guys’ 1600 (4:24.29) and 800
(1:56.64). Curtis Barclay of Hale broke tape in the
3200 at Houseman Field, in 9:57.12.
Like down-to-the-wire? Saginaw Valley
Lutheran’s girls won the meet-ending 1600 relay,
earning 10 points to finish with 46. That allowed
them to leapfrog Ubly and Rochester Hills
Lutheran Northwest, both with 44 points, for the
title.
Maple City Glen Lake sophomore Marissa Treece
continued to dominate D-4 distances, winning the
1600 (4:56.15) and 3200 (11:07.84), both four seconds
faster than finals records she set last year. Treece
was also D-4 cross-country queen last fall.
For full state-meet results, visit
www.mhsaa.com. MR
Run Drugs Out of Town Run
5K Run / Walk
Saturday, September 10
Howell City Park - Melon Course
Presented by
Livingston County Community Alliance
SCHEDULE: 8:00 a.m. Howell City Park, Thompson
and Barnard Streets. The Kids Run starts at 9:00 a.m.
5K Run/Walk starts at 9:30 a.m.
REGISTRATION: Make checks payable to Livingston
Sponsored by
Kids Run
County Community Alliance, 2020 E. Grand River,
Suite 104, Howell, MI 48843. For questions, call Julie
at (517) 545-5944. Register by August 26 to guarantee
a t-shirt. Registrations after August 26 will only be
accepted at the event.
ENTRY FEE: 5K RUN/WALK - Early registration=$15.00;
Race Day=$20.00. Kids Run - First
200 kids are Free! - After is $5.00 per child.
KIDS ENTERTAINMENT & REFRESHMENTS: Will
be provided.
REGISTRATION FOR RUN DRUGS OUT OF TOWN RUN
❑ 5K RUN/WALK ❑ Kids Run ❑ T-shirt only ($10.00)
Name: Age as of 9/10/05:
Address:
City: State: Zip: M ❑ F ❑
Amount Enclosed T-shirt size: Kids M ❑ L ❑ Adults S ❑ M ❑ L ❑ XL ❑ XXL ❑
Release Form: (All applications must be signed, NO REFUNDS) In consideration of accepting this entry, I, the undersigned,
intending to be legally bound hereby for myself, my heirs, executors, and administrators, waive and release any
and all rights and claims for damages I may have against Run Drugs Out of Town, Inc, the Livingston County
Community Alliance, City of Howell, or anyone or any organization associated with this event, their representatives,
successors and assigns for any and all injuries suffered by me or my child at said even. I will additionally permit the
free use of my and my child’s name and pictures in broadcasts, newspapers, etc.
Entrants signature required (ParentÕs if under 18). Kids - be sure to get your parentÕs consent.
Signature:
Date:
Photo by Scott Sullivan
Dan Roberts nipped Lex Williams in the1600.
Williams won the 3200 and was named Mr.
Michigan Track and Field.
M I C H I G A N R U N N E R
25

Cleveland Rocks for
7,000 Runners Plus
Photo by Art McCafferty
By Charles Douglas McEwen
TAWAS CITY (5/21/05) — Two Grosse Pointe masters
mastered hills of the Huron National Forest at
the eighth annual Silver Valley Trail Run.
Mike Frank, 48, won the men’s 7K in 27:48.
Linda Ewing, 44, claimed the women’s race with a
new masters course-record time of 32:11.
“Mike told me this race was a lot of fun, so we
came up together. He was right,” Ewing said.
“You couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful
course or day. The hills were challenging and I
loved running on the soft bed of pine needles.”
Ewing has started the 2005 season with a
bang. She was overall champ at the Corktown 4-
Mile in March, the largest race she had ever won.
Since then, she has set 5K, 10K and half-marathon
PR’s.
“I've been training with Kevin and Keith
Hanson in their group workouts. That’s really
helped me improve,” she said.
Leading from start, Ewing finished ahead of
Kristi Benedict, 40, of Hale (37:00) and Kelly
Vernier, 29, of Howell (40:41).
Only three men finished ahead of Ewing.
Trailing Frank were Brian Herek, 33, of Bay City
(28:46) and Hale seventh-grader Robert Brent
(31:19).
Herek opened a big early lead in the men’s
race, but knew Frank was tracking him down.
“I knew he was coming,” said Herek. “At two
miles I was 12:35, he was 12:46. A quarter-mile
later, he passed me.
“He (Frank) looked really smooth. I was at the
bottom of that big hill the last I saw him; he was at
the top. Then he pulled away.”
The run’s founding sponsor, the Corsair Trail
Council, passed the baton last year to the Traverse
Area Lions Association.
“The race used to be in September, but we had
three other events that month so it wasn’t feasible,”
said Lion Dan Kammer, who co-directs the race
Hills Alive at Silver Valley Run
Photo by Charles Douglas McEwen
By Art McCafferty
CLEVELAND (5/22/05) — More than 7,000 runners enjoyed sunny skies, cool
temperatures, a revised course and first-year half-marathon at the 28th annual
Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon and 10K.
It was a day for politicians to talk about Cleveland, their hopes, dreams
and wonderment seeing runners from 44 states and six foreign countries in their
fair city. The turnout was up almost 50 percent from 2004.
Runners were drawn by the fellowship, challenge and more than $16,000 in
purses. But there was more. Cleveland’s sparkling waterfront, parks, Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame, shopping, architecture and more are signs of a city that’s battled
back from a once-sour image to become a great place to spend a weekend.
Ask the couple hundred Michigan runners who came this year.
The 10K is now Cleveland’s trophy race. Asmae Leghzaoui of Morocco
won first-place money with a new women’s course-record 31:10 clocking.
Kenyan Julius Kibet was the men’s champ in 28:44.
Marathon winners were Fred Kieser of Cleveland (2:22:00) and Donna
Palisca of Killeen, Tex. (2:54:53). Half-marathon crowns went to Bill McHenry
of Medina, Ohio (1:14:29) and Hanna Purdy of Cleveland (1:21:18).
Congratulations to Jack and Ralph Staph, who have sheperded this legendary
run for 28 years. MR
Mike Frank of Grosse Pointe won the men’s 7K
in 27:48.
with Jim Shotwell. “So we moved the event to
May.”
“Years ago the Lions, working with the Huron
National Forest staff, built many of the trails and
the wooden bridges that ford the creek here,”
Shotwell said.
Other sponsors included the Tawas Area
Chamber of Commerce, Dean Arbour Ford-
Mercury-Chevrolet-Cadillac, Northland Area
Photo by Charles Douglas McEwen
Linda Ewing won the women’s 7K-- her second
win of the 2005 season.
Federal Credit Union, St. Joseph Health Systems,
North Country Signs & Shirts, Iosco Community
Credit Union, Print ‘n’ Go, Carter’s Freshables,
O’Connor’s, Independent Bank, Huron Sports &
Fitness, Huron Community Bank and Seymour
Carpet & Furniture.
The trail run also included a 5K fun
run/walk. MR
26 J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 0 5

Running Fit Trail Marathon and Half Marathon
Mud, Blood and Snow as
Hell Freezes Over
By Charles Douglas
McEwen
HELL (4/24/05) — Barelegged
in a blizzard, Matt
King, 26, of Ann Arbor,
finished the Running Fit
Trail Marathon covered
with mud, blood and
snow.
“I slipped around
mile 23 and scraped my
knee,” said King, who
won the men’s marathon
in 3:11:05. Next came
Gale Fisher, 36, of Battle
Creek (3:30:44) and Vince
Rucci, 28, of Stowe
(3:41:22).
King’s fall in the slop
didn’t douse his spirits. “I
got so excited, I really
hammered it to the finish,”
he said. “You expect
a few bumps and bruises
at a race like this.”
No one expected a
Photo by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios
snowstorm with 25-mph winds April 24. Yet
the marathon and half-marathon, held at
Pinckney Recreation Area near Hell, drew
more than 700 runners.
Women’s marathon champ Connie
Gardner, 41, of Medina, Ohio, took the
weather in stride.
“A few weeks ago, I ran a 100-mile ultra
in cold rain. That was harder than this,”
said Gardner, who finished in 3:48:06. Next
came Emily Farrer, 24, of Ann Arbor
(4:07:11).
“When we get nice weather, I’ll really be
able to fly,” she said.
Jodi Mullet, 33, of Ann Arbor, who finished
third (4:16:30), was also unperturbed
by the snowstorm.
“It was beautiful, but mucky,” Mullet
said. “There were lots of muddy spots. The
snow was amazing. It really came down hard
at the end.”
Ian Forsyth, 33, of Ann Arbor, won the
half-marathon in 1:24:22. “It was of fun,
but slippery,” he said. “There were lot of
downed trees on the trail too.”
Trailing Forsyth were Mike Decker, 28,
of Traverse City (1:27:28) and Patrick
Lencioni, 39, of Ann Arbor (1:28:06).
“The course was up and down, up and
down the whole way,” said Decker. “I’m
going to be hurting tomorrow.”
Also hurting — and elated — was
women’s half-marathon winner Amy Bork,
28, of Monroe. “My knee is bleeding and
John Preston of Woodhaven celebrates the winter wonderland conditions of
the Running Fit Trail Half Marathon.
my legs are turning blue,” she
said. “But I won!”
Bork, like King, ran the
race in shorts. “I don’t like racing
in sweatpants or tights,” she said.
Her 1:50:28 edged Melissa
Hughes, 24, of Mt. Pleasant
(1:51:41) and Sara Williams, 33,
of Augusta (1:53:46).
Ana Trivax, 12, of
Commerce Township, had a good
day as well. She ran the halfmarathon
in 2:27:22.
“Ana would have run
faster,” said her father, Dwayne
Trivax, who ran with her (sort
of). “But she kept waiting up for
me.”
“This is the last bit of
winter wonderland till the heat
sets in,” said half-marathon finisher
Gianna Lete, 36, of Ann
Arbor. At least, she hoped.
For complete race
results, go to www.trailmarathon.com.
MR
The Original Road and Trail Race
SATURDAY, JULY 30 • 9:00 AM EDT
Dowagiac, Michigan
10K • 5K • 5K Competitive Walk • 1K Fun Run and Walk
Ron Gunn is pleased to host once again a very special running of the original Road and Trail
Race. The start and finish will be in downtown Dowagiac, just as in the original Road and Trail
races that were so popular. This year’s race will be in conjunction with the Dowagiac Summer
Fun Fest and the venue will include the Dowagiac Street Scape part of ghe beautiful Victorian
restoration of downtown Dowagiac. The races will be run in the memory of Steven Briegel, an
SMC honors graduate who died of cancer after a very courageous and determined fight.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is a unique course that presents a lot of variety to the runner
and walker, including a golf course, a wildlife refuge, forest trails, quiet country roads and even
a cemetery. The more challenging 10K course winds through Southwestern Michigan College
and the racers have the option of hurdling hay bales and an authentic Irish stone fence. There
are numerous music stations en route to fire up the runners and walkers. And once again, an exciting finish is planned in the park with
good and plentiful refreshments, great music and lots of “good times” for everyone. We’re adding by popular request: 70-74, 75-79, 80+
age groups.
AWARDS: Beautiful custom-designed T-shirts to all finishers in the 10K and 5K races... Distinctive custom-stained glass awards to over
200 finishers in the 10K and 5K (including the walk) based on a participation formula...Special awards in many team and individual categories to
open male, open female, master male, master female, age group winner, and special team winners (father/son, mother/ daughter,etc)...Traveling
trophy to corporate team winner...Special certificates to largest family, oldest finisher, youngest finishers, traveled the farthest, etc...Special drawing
prizes and discount certificates. This year all participants who are cancer survivors will wear a special tee-shirt.
For complete details, write Ron Gunn, SMC, Dowatiac, MI 49047 –– 269-782-1210
Website: swmich.edu/fireup.stevesrun/
STEVE’S RUN, SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE, DOWAGIAC, MI 49047 • SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2005 • 9:00 AM
NAME
ADDRESS BIRTHDATE / /
CITY STATE ZIP
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Mail your signed and completed entry form and check for
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49047. CHECK YOUR AGE CATEGORY AS OF RACE DAY.
In consideration of your accepting the entry, I, the undersigned, intending to be legally bound, hereby, for myself, my heirs, executors and administrators, waive and release any ald all rights and claims for damages
I may have against the SMC Roadrunner Track Club, and th eCity of Dowagiac, County of Cass, their representative, successors, and assigns for any and all injuries suffered by me in said event. I attest and
verify that I am physically fit and sufficientyly trained for this event. I hereby authorize any emergency mnedical unit to release and any physician designated as an official representative of the Roadrunner Tarck
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Great Race Sports Festival XXV
May 28-30, Elkhart, Indiana
Photo by Victah Sailer / photorun.net Photo by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios
Eight-year old Janelle Cole, Rockford,
Michigan, won the inaugural In-line
Skate Criterium 10K, amateur race.
Photo by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios
Brothers Aaron (l) and Nate Usher
both crossed the half-marathon finish
line in 1:09:43. Nate got the win.
Michigan Sweeps Distance Relays at Penn
At the April 29-30, 2005 Penn Relays, Nate Brannen (from left), Nick Willis,
Stann Waithe, and Andrew Ellerton won the distance medley relay; Mike Woods
with Brannen,Willis and Ellerton set a new collegiate record in the 4 x mile, and
Rondell Ruff joined Brannen,Willis and Ellerton to win the 4 x 800.
For details see michiganrunner.net/news/michigan-penn0405.html
Photo by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios
Amy Yoder-Bagley won the 10K on
Monday and the mile on Saturday.
Photo by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios
Eastern Michigan’s
Nelson Is NCAA
Heptathlon Champion
Lela V. Nelson set 5 PB’s enroute to
the NCAA D1 heptathlon title, June
8-11, in Sacramento. Nelson also
placed third in the long jump.
28 J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 0 5

July - September 2005 Event Calendar
Embrace the Dirt
5 Mile Trail Run
Saturday, July 23
enter at running t.com
Final Event
Of The
August 6, 2005
5 & 10 Mile Trail Run enter at running t.com
20 Mile
Training Run
October 1, 2005
Of cial Training Run of the
Detroit Free Press Marathon
July
Friday, July 1
Hansons 3 Mile Cross-
Country Race
Sterling Heights 7:00 pm
3 MR Delia Park
Sonja Hanson
(586) 822-8606
sshoudy@hotmail.com
hansons-running.com
Saturday, July 2
Beaverton 4 Mile
Beaverton 9:00 am
4 MR, 2MW
Beaverton HS
Larry Sroufe
(989) 435-4111
www.barc-mi.com
Bessemer Hometown Run
Bessemer
8:30 am Central Time
10KR, 2 MR/W
Paulette Schwartz
(906) 663-4848
hometownrun04@hotmail.com
Black Fly Run
Wawa, ON 8:00 am
13.1 MR, 10KR, 5KR
Helen Lamon
(705) 856-1214
saultstryders.com/eventsf/
Hannibal Cannibal
Hannibal, MO 7:00 am
10KR, 5KR/W, Kid’s Run
(573) 221-7716
HRHonline.org
Hills & Dales 4th of July
5K/8K
Cass City 8:00 am
8KR, 5KR/W
MARC Medical Arts
Building Dave Wohl
(989) 872-2084
dwohl@hillsanddales.com
www.hdgh5k.ice420.com
Northern Michigan
Endurance Team 5K
St. Ignace 8:30 am
5KR St. Ignace City Park
Aaron Litzner
(906) 440-4230
aaronlitzner@hotmail.com
Pittsford Cross Country 5K
Firecracker Road Race
Pittsford 9:00 am
3MR, 1MW
Phil or Ann
(517) 523-2672
schmst@frontiernet.net
Run for Funds
Northport 9:00 am
10KR, 5K R/W, 2 MFR
Historic Northport Depot
George Anderson
(231)386.5188
gwanderson@chartermi.net
Run Thru Purgatory
Constantine 9:00 am
10KR, 5KR, 1MFR
Baptist Youth Camp
Curtis Ray
(269) 435-7013
jelliott@constps.org
www.constps.org
Western Reserve Spine &
Pain Run
Kent, OH 9:00 am
10KR, 5KR
(216) 623-9933
info1@hermescleveland.com
www.hermescleveland.co
YMCA Buck Creek Run
Grandville 8:30 am
5 MR/W, kids run
Marcy Ann Yanus
(616) 530-9199
marcy.yanus@grymca.org
Sunday, July 3
Dogwood 5K Run & 2
Mile Walk
Saxon, WI 8:30 am 5KR,
2MR/W
Mark Massoglia
(920) 237-2381
Howell Independence
Aquathlon
Howell 9:00 am
2KR, 750m swim, 2KR
Peter Bowen
(517) 546-2439
bowen.swann@sbcglobal.net
www.cityofhowell.org
Mindemoya Classic
Manitoulin Island, ON
9:30 am
5.5KR, 6K canoe, 13KB
Andre
(705) 377-6018
runpaddlepedal@yahoo.ca
Woodville Fire Four Alarm
Run
Woodville, OH 8:30 am
4MR Trailmarker Park
Matt Hasenfratz
(419) 849-2278
toledoroadrunners.org
Monday, July 4
Boyne City Independence
Day Run
Boyne City 7:30 am
10KR, 2 MFR/W
Barb Bryant
(231) 582.9196
runboyne@comcast.net
www.boynecity.com
Firecracker 5K
Beulah 8:00 am
5KR Crystal Lake
Paul Szymanski
(231) 882-7212
paul@lakeshoretitle.net
Firecracker Mile
Clawson 9:00 am
1MR
14 Mile at Crooks
Maurie Leising
(248) 330-2952
www.firecracker-mile.com
Gina Van Laar 5K Cross
Country
Allendale
5KR/W, 1MFR, Kids Run
Allendale HS
Tammy Zost
(616) 895-6247
mykidsluv2run@lycos.com
classicrace.com
Gladstone Firecracker Five
Mile
Gladsone 8:00 am
5MR Van Cleve Park
Francis Cannon
(906) 428-3401
Greatest 4th in the North
Lake City 8:00 am
10KR, 5KR/W, 2KR
Linda McGinnes
(231) 839.4969
lakecityschools.net/race/
Hanover Horton
Firecracker
Hanover 8:00 am
5 MR, 5KW, Kid’s Run
Jeff Heath
(517) 563.2125
jlheath_hft@yahoo.com
www.runjackson.com
Indy 5K Race
Kentwood 8:45 am
5KR Clay Summers
(616) 656-5272
classicrace.com
Lindsay Cornelius
Memorial Run
Richland 8:00 am
10KR, 5KR
Roxanne Cornelius
(616) 629-5141
roxycornelius@aol.com
Marquette Mile Dog Dash
Marquette 1:50 pm
1 MR Jackie Winkowski
(906) 249.1011
www.marquettejuly4th.org/
mile_dog_dash1.htm
Medina Twin Sizzler Race
Medina, OH 7:45 am
10KR, 5KR, bike races
Judy Heller
(330) 722-2020
ywcamed@aol.com
Oak Park Mayor’s 4th of
July
Oak Park 9:00 am
3MR Scott Pratt
(248) 691-7555
spratt@ci.oak-park.mi.us
www.ci.oak-park.mi.us
Patriots Day 5K Road and
Trail Run
Grand Haven 8:30 am
Grand Haven High School
Tom Laughlin
(616) 846-5513
tlaughlin@chartermi.net
signmeup.com/32570
Starr Spangled 5K
Oregon, OH 8:00 am
5KR Starr School
Marc Ensign
(419) 693-8618
toledoroadrunners.org
Tortoise & Hare 5K
Ann Arbor 8:00 am
5KR, kids dash
Larry Bostwick
(734) 623.9640
tortoiseandhareevents@hotmail.com
www.tortoiseandhare.com
Volkslaufe
Frankenmuth 8:00 am
Heritage Park 20KR,
10KR, 5KR/W, 2KFR
Ed Foltz (989) 652-6104
info@volkslaufe.org
www.volkslaufe.org
Michigan Runner Race
Series
Whitmore Lake Spash ‘N’
Dash
Whitmore lake 8:00 am
10KR, 5KR/W
Splash ‘N’ Dash = 1/4 MR-
1/4 MS-1/4 MR; Tin man =
10KR plus Splash ‘N’ Dash
Whitmore Lake High
School Tom Dekeyser
(734) 845-1049
tom.dekeyser@wlps.net
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July - September 2005 Event Calendar
Wednesday, July 6
Alpine Striders 10K Trail
Run
Gaylord 7:00 pm
Aspen Park Jeff Kalember
(989) 939-8503
kalemberj@gaylord.k12.mi.us
Motor City Mile Swim for
the Cure
Detroit/Belle Isle 9:00 am
5KS ,1MS, 1/2MS
Shannon Dunworth
(248) 477-0521
dsss@different-strokes.com
www.different-strokes.com/
Wayland Road Runners 7
Mile Handicap
Wayland 6:30 pm
7MR Ray Antel III
(269) 792.2427
coachantel@i2k.com
waylandroadrunners.com
Thursday, July 7
Summer Road Race Series
1 & 2 Mile Runs
Huntington Woods6:30 pm
Sonja Hanson
(586) 323-9683
sshoudy@hotmail.com
hansons-running.com
Saturday, July 9
Anchor Bay Triathlon
New Baltimore 7:30 am
1/2 MS, 11 MB, 3 MR
Mike Hoffard
(586) 725-0291
groovie56@yahoo.com
Big Brothers/ Big Sisters
Fun Run/Walk
Negaunee 8:30 am
10K, 2MW Jayne Letts
(906) 474-7801
Catch Your Breath Run &
Walk
Flint 8:00 am
10KR, 5KR/W, 5K relay,
junior jogs Mike Woolsey
(810) 766.6275
Elsie Dairy Dash
Elsie 7:30 am
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5KR/W Village Main Street
Scott Sheedlo
(989) 834.6182
sheedlos@edzone.net
www.playmakers.com
Health Space Museum of
Cleveland June Jog
Cleveland, OH 9:00 am
5KR (216) 623-9933
info1@hermescleveland.com
www.hermescleveland.com
Keweenaw Trail Running
Festival (2 day event)
Hancock 8:00 am
25KR, 10KR, 5.8K Hill
Climb, 2K youth run.
Jeff Crumbaugh
(906) 360-2324
runskikayak@hotmail.com
www.keweenawtrails.com
Two day event: July 9-10
Kindleberger Summer
Festival of the Arts 5K
Run/Walk
Parchment 8:00 am
Dale Turton
(269) 385-4154
kindleberger5k@charter.net
Making Tracks for a Track
4 Mile Relay
Sherwood, OH 8:00 am
4 Mile Relay Curt Foust
(419) 630-0694
toledoroadrunners.org
Max’s Race
East Lansing 8:30 am
5KR/W, kids runs
Jim Matthews
(517) 204-3257
jim@gmachometeam.com
www.maxsrace.com
National Cherry Festival
15K & 5K
Traverse City 7:45 am
15KR, 5KR/W
Mandy Baker
(231) 947.4230, x223
mlbnfc@traverse.com
www.cherryfestival.org
Port Austin Run for Youth
for Christ
Port Austin 8:30 am
8KR, 2 MR/W
Julie Pinner (989) 839-0541
bigkidjp2@charter.net
Rockford Area Kids
Triathlon
Rockford 9:00 am
Rockford North MS
Sgt. Kevin Sweeney
(616) 866-4411
sweeneyk@michigan.gov
Rollie Hopgood’s Midtown
Taylor Women’s and Men’s
5K Races
Taylor 9:00 am
Heritage Park, 12111
Pardee Greg Everal
(734) 282-1101
cgregrun50@comcast.net
downriverrunners.org
St. Helen Bluegill Festival
5k Fun Run / Walk
St. Helen 8:30 am
(989) 389-7080
bluegillfest@intergate.com
www.bluegillfestival.org
Sunday, July 10
Cabela’s International
Barbecue Championship
5K & One Mile
Dundee 6:00 pm
Bob Garypie
(734) 936-3460
rgarypie@umich.edu
gaultracemanagement.com
Calgary Marathon
Calgary, AB, Canada
26.2 MR, 13.1 MR, 10KR,
4 x 10K relay, Kids’ run
(403) 264-2996
info@calgarymarathon.com
calgarymarathon.com
Gallup Gallop
Ann Arbor 8:30 am
5KR/W, 1 MR
Gallup Park
Jo Darlington
(734) 769-1925
jorunner1966@yahoo.com
www.aatrackclub.org
Grand Haven Triathlon,
Sprint Tri, & Duathlon
Grand Haven 8:00 am
1000meter S, 40KB, 10KR
or 500meter S, 20KB, 5KR
or 5KR, 20KB, 5KR
Kenny Krell
(866) 820-6036
www.3disciplines.com
Infiterra Sports Adventure
Triathlon
Shelby Twp. 8:00 am
triathlon, 1/2 MS or 3 M
kayak, 12 MB, 6 MR
Stony Creek Metro Park
Zac Chisholm
(810) 569-1026
infiterrasports.com/tri.htm
Keweenaw Trail Running
Festival (2 Day Event)
Hancock 7:00 am
25KR, 10KR, 5.8K Hill
Climb, 2K youth run.
Jeff Crumbaugh
(715) 823-9138
runskikayak@hotmail.com
www.keweenawtrails.com
Two day event: July 9-10
Manistique Paper Chase
10K & 5K Run/Walk
Manistique 9:00 am
Senior Citizens Center
Ron Rubick
(906) 341-4640
Run Your Bass Off
Crystal Falls
9:00 am Central Time
10KR, 3.6MR, 2MW
Runkle Lake Park
Crystal Falls Business Assn
(906) 875.4405
Waterloo Bikesport
Triathlon / Duathlon
Waterloo 8:00 am
0.5MS, 16MR, 5MR;
2MR, 16MB, 5MR
Jim / Joyce Donaldson
(419) 829-2398
jdjp@sev.org
www.eliteendeavors.com
Wednesday, July 13
Alpine Striders 1 Mile Run
Gaylord 7:00 pm
Gaylord High School Track
Jeff Kalember
(989) 939-8503
kalemberj@gaylord.k12.mi.us
Wayland Road Runners
Track Run
Wayland 6:30 pm
3200, 400, 200, 100
Ray Antel III
(269) 792.2427
coachantel@i2k.com
waylandroadrunners.com
Thursday, July 14
Clio Homecoming 5K
Clio 6:15 pm
Carter Middle School
5KR/W Riverbend Striders
(810) 659-6493
gaultracemanagement.com
Friday, July 15
Great Lakes Relay
Eastpointe 6:00 am
Begins near Tawas; finishes
in Empire 270 M Relay
Lakeshore Striders
(248) 354-1177
www.greatlakesrelay.com
3 day event: 15-17
30 J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 0 5

Hansons 3 Mile Cross-
Country Race
Sterling Heights 7:00 pm
3 MR Delia Park
Sonja Hanson
(586) 822-8607
sshoudy@hotmail.com
hansons-running.com
Saturday, July 16
Alpenfest Run
Gaylord 8:30 am
Pavilion on Court Street
12KR/W, 5KR/W, 1 MR
Mike Tarbutton
(800) 345-8621
tarbutton@icdus.com
otsegocountyparksrec.com
America’s Physique
Running Festival
Spring Arbor 8:15 am
Spring Arbor University
10KR, 5KR/W, 1/2M kids’
FR Mark Olson
(517) 750-4847
mlnjolson@comcast.net
Archbold 5K Run/2 Mile
Walk for the Lights
Archbold, OH 8:30 am
5KR, 2MW Ruihly Park
Brent Winzeler
(419) 446-2200
toledoroadrunners.org
Bastille Days 5K Run/Walk
and 15KR
Fenton 6:30 am
15KR, 5KR/W
Wade Pyles (810) 238-1366
office@geneseehabitat.org
gaultracemanagement.com
Dash through the Sand
Dunes
Cross Village 8:30 am
5KR, 1/2 MFR
Tami Frampus
(231) 347-9262
cottrillrealty.com
Farmington Founders
Festival
Farmington 9:00 am
4 MR Farmington City Park
Farmington Hills Parks and
Recreation
(248) 473-1800
runningfoundation.com
Festival Ironwood Walk,
Run & Roll
Ironwood 8:30 am CDT
2MWR, 5MR
Chris Bergquist
(906) 932.0668
Glenside Rock and Roll 5K
Run
Muskegon 6:00 pm
McGraft Park
5KR, kids run
Don Correll
(231) 755-7237
Glenside5k@aol.com
Michigan Flavorbest Apple
Run
Sparta 8:00 am
Sparta High School
5KR/W, kid’s fun run
Dawn Geers
(616) 887.8052
dawn@michiganapplerun.com
michiganapplerun.com
Rehoboth Ramble 5K
Run/Walk
Lucas 8:30 am
5KR/W Dave Sterk
(231) 775-7943
rehoboth@triton.net
Summer Breeze Run
Cancelled - see Farmington
Founders Festival
USATF Midwest Region
Masters/Submasters
Outdoor Championship
Allendale track & field
Grand Valley State Univ.
Jim O’Neill
(616) 844-1768
info@westshoreac.org
http://www.westshoreac.org
Venetian River Run
St Joseph 8:45 am
Whitcomb Towers
10KR, 5KR/W
Steve Banyon
(269) 983-7917
stevenhilda@qtm.net
www.venetian.org
Waterville 5K Run/Walk
Waterville, OH 9:00 am
Waterville Primary School
5KR/W Par Ricketts
(419) 878-5815
toledoroadrunners.org
Sunday, July 17
Brookpark Homecoming
Run
Brook Park 8:30 am
5KR
(216) 623-9933
info1@hermescleveland.com
www.hermescleveland.com
Clark Lake Lions Triathlon
Jackson 8:30 am
.5 MS, 13 MB, 4 MR
Louie Ambs
(517) 529-4266
www.clarklake.org
Friendly Massey Marathon
& Spanish River Half-
Marathon
Massey, ON 6:00 am
26.2MR, 13.1MR
Elizabeth Gamble
(705) 865-2655
egamble@primus.ca
friendlymasseymarathon.com
Interlochen Triathlon,
Sprint Tri, & Duathlon
Interlochen 8:00 am
Interlochen State Park
1.5KS, 40KB, 10KR or 500
meter S, 20KB, 5KR or
5KR, 20KB, 5KR
Kenny Krell
(866) 820-6036
kenny3dracing@yahoo.com
www.3disciplines.com
Painesville Party in the
Park 5 Mile Run
Painesville, OH 8:00 am
5MR, 2MW
Dave Whittaker
(440) 392-5912
recreate@Painesville.com
www.painesville.com
Perch Run
Anchorville 8:00 am
4 MR, 1MFW
Todd Barc
(586)716-9611
Richardson Memorial 4
Mile Run
Onsted 8:30 am
4MR, 1MR
Main Street
Jamie Richardson
(614) 559-2687
jricha9@columbus.rr.com
Richmond Hts. Family Day
Richmond Hts, OH
8:30 am 5KR/W
Richmond Hts.
Community Park
(216) 623-9933
info1@hermescleveland.com
www.hermescleveland.com
Wednesday, July 20
Alpine Striders 10K Trail
Run
Gaylord 7:00 pm
Aspen Park Jeff Kalember
(989) 939-8503
kalemberj@gaylord.k12.mi.us
Hansons Marathon
Training Clinic #2
Royal Oak 7:00 pm
Hansons Running Shop,
3407 Rochester
Sonja Hanson
(248) 616-9665
sshoudy@hotmail.com
hansons-running.com
Hansons Marathon
Training Clinic #2
Auburn Hills 7:00 pm
Hansons Running Shop,
2733 University
Sonja Hanson
(248) 475-9944
sshoudy@hotmail.com
hansons-running.com
Ophelia Bonner
Scholarship Run
Flint 6:30 pm
8KR/W, 1MR
John Gault
810.659.6493
GRaceMgt@aol.com
gaultracemanagement.com
Wayland Road Runners 5K
Cross Country
Wayland 6:30 pm
5KR X-C Ray Antel III
(269) 792.2427
coachantel@i2k.com
waylandroadrunners.com
Thursday, July 21
Downtown Dash
Burlington, ON 6:00 pm
10KR, 5KR Kelly Arnott
(905) 639-8053
vrpro@sympatico.ca
www.vrpro.ca
Summer Road Race Series
1 and 4 mile Runs
Huntington Woods 6:30 pm
Sonja Hanson
(586) 323-9683
sshoudy@hotmail.com
hansons-running.com
Saturday, July 23
Cleveland Browns
Touchdown Run
Cleveland, OH 9:00 am
5KR, 1MW
(216) 623-9933
info1@hermescleveland.com
www.hermescleveland.com
Embrace the Dirt 5 Mile
Trail Run
Pinckney 9:00 am
10KR, 5KR
National Kidney Foundation of Michigan 5K Run / 3 Mile Walk
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Belle Isle Casino on Belle Isle, Detroit, MI
Registration: 1:00 pm • Run/Walk: 2:00 pm
benefits the
Call Anthony C. Morton (313) 259-1574, ext. 25 or visit www.nkfm.org
Saturday, August 13
Pt. Betsie 25
Crystal
Lake
Team Marathon
th Annual
Beulah
Sponsored by
Crystal Lake Business/Community Association
and Smeltzer Orchard Co.
For more info email paul@lakeshoretitle.net
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July - September 2005 Event Calendar
Pinckney Recreation Area
Susan Hodgson
(734) 769-5675
susan@runningfit.com
runningfit.com/embracethe
dirt.cfm
Great Lakes Triathlon/
Duathlon
Middleville 8:00 am
YMCA Camp Manitou-Lin
1/2 MS, 18MR, 4.5MR or
2MR, 18MB, 4.5MR
Webrascal Tri Management
racedirector@greatlakestri.com
www.greatlakestri.com
Hudson Booster 5k Cross
Country Open
Hudson 8:30 am
Ron Carpenter
(517) 286-6931
lowgrade@hotmail.com
Life Walk 5K Run/Walk, 1
Mile Run/Walk
Belle Isle-Detroit 10:00 am
5KFR/W, 1MFR/W
Remonia Chapman
(800) 482-4881
rchapman@giftoflifemichigan.org
www.motteplifewalk.org
Republic Bank Canal
Run/Walk
Hancock 9:00 am
McLain State Park
10MR/W, 3MFR
Ross Cooney
(906) 487-6211
SMAC 24 Hour Adventure
Race
Howell 5:00 am
canoeing, mountain bike,
trekking, inline or quad
skating, snorkeling, orienteering,
fixed ropes
Brighton Recreation Area
Paul Piorkowski
(734) 699-5182
paul@smacworld.com
www.smacworld.com
Tuuri Race Day 5K Run
Walk & 10K Run
Flint 7:30 am
Hurley Medical Center
Kay Kelly
(810) 257-9428
gaultracemanagement.com
VASA Trail Dirt Dash
Relay
Acme/Traverse City 8 am
6KR,11KR - 4 person team
relay
VASA Trail Head
Mike at Running Fit
(231) 932-5401
golden_Zatopek@hotmail.c
om
Venetian Festival Foot
Race - Jeff Drenth
Memorial
Charlevoix 8:00 am
10KR, 5KR, 1 MR
Mt. McSauba Ski Lodge
Ken and Mary Plude
(231) 547.4873
kmplude@freeway.net
Sunday, July 24
Ele’s Race
East Lansing 8:30 am
5KR/W Lori Bosch
(517) 482-1315, x22
lbosch@elesplace.org
www.elesplace.org
Ohio - Michigan Runs
Toledo, OH 4MR
Ed O’Reilly
(419) 360-3709
wearinthgreen17@aol.com
toledoroadrunners.org
SMAC 8 Hour Sprint
Adventure Race
Howell 5:00 am
kayak, mountain bike,
trekking/trail running/orienteerign,
fixed ropes
Brighton Recreation Area
Paul Piorkowski
(734) 699-5182
paul@smacworld.com
www.smacworld.com
Monday, July 25
Hansons Cross Country
High School Day Camp
Sterling Heights 9-1 pm
7/25-7/28, Dodge Park
Sonja Hanson
(586) 822-8606
hansons@runmichigan.com
hansons-running.com
Wednesday, July 27
Alpine Striders 2 Mile Run
Gaylord 7:00 pm
2MR Aspen Park
Jeff Kalember
(989) 939-8503
kalemberj@gaylord.k12.mi.us
Wayland Road Runners 8
Mile Alternating Relay
Wayland 6:30 pm
8M Relay, Tot Trot
Wayland HS
Ray Antel III
(269) 792.2427
coachantel@i2k.com
waylandroadrunners.com
Friday, July 29
Hansons 3 Mile Cross-
Country Race
Sterling Heights 7:00 pm
Delia Park Sonja Hanson
(586) 822-8606
sshoudy@hotmail.com
hansons-running.com
Saturday, July 30
Alden Run
Alden 9:00 am
Torch Lake
10KR, 5KR/W
Jan Cummings
(231) 331-6620
jalynpineview@yahoo.com
Billy Mills Fun Run/Walk
Sault Ste. Marie, MI
8:00 am
6MR, 3MR/W, 1MR
Andrea Walsh
(906) 635-7465
awalsh@saulttribe.net
www.saulttribe.net
Byron Bank 5K
Byron Center 8:30 am
5KR/W Byron Bank
Scott Ellison
(616) 662-3128
sellison@bankatbyron.com
www.bankatbyron.com/
The GRA 10K
Grayling 9:00 am
10KR Grayling High School
Justin Andre
(989) 348-9266
hansonshills@hotmail.com
www.hansonhills.org
Grand Island Trail
Marathon & 10K
Munising 7:00 am
Williams Landing, Grand
Island, Lake Superior
26.2 MR, 10KR
Jeff Crumbaugh
(715) 823-9138
runskikayak@hotmail.com
www.algercounty.org
The Human Race 5K
Muskegon 8:00 am
5KR/W trail
Martha Bottomley
(231) 722-6600
director@volunteermuskegon.org
volunteermuskegon.org
Lumberjack Festival 5K
Run/Walk
Farwell 8:00 am
5KR/W, 1/2 kids run
Becki Robinson
(989) 588-6493
IamWe@hotmail.com
Making Tracks for the
Kalamazoo Humane
Society
Plainwell 8:00 am
5KR/W, 1MFR
Brian Sibbald
(269) 685-6961
bsybil@aol.com
Mini-Mullett Triathlon/
Relay
Indian River 8:00 am
1/2 MS, 12 M MB, 5KR
Sarah Patrick
(231) 238-0205
snerts@excite.com
Steve’s Run
Dowagiac 9:00 am
10KR, 5KR/W, 1 MFR/W
Ron Gunn
(269) 6782-1210
swmich.edu/fireup/stevesrun/
Winking Lizard “A Shot in
the Dark”
Cleveland, OH 6:30 pm
4MR, 2 person relay
(216) 623-9933
www.hermescleveland.com
Woodland Ridge Coast
Guard Festival 5K & 10 K
Grand Haven 8:00 am
10KR, 5KR, 1M FR
YMCA (616) 842.7051
ymca@tcfymca.org
classicrace.com
Yale Bologna Run/Walk
Yale 8:00 am
5KR, 1MFR/W
Tom Pemberton
(810) 387-2225
Sunday, July 31
Carrollton Charity Road
Races
Carrollton 6:00 am
Carrollton High School
26.2 MR, 20KR, 10KR,
5KR/W
Craig Douglas
(989) 399-8860
cdouglas@carrollton.k12.mi.us
www.signmeup.com/50207
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Dave’s Ohio/Mich 4 Miler
Sylvania, OH 8:30 am
4MR, 1M Kids FR
Jim Donaldson
(419) 829-2398
eliteendeavors.com
Grand Woods 5 K
Lansing 9:00 am
Chuck Block
(517) 702.0226
cblock@lcc.edu
runningfoundation.com
Mackinaw Multi-Sport
Mix
Mackinaw City 8:00 am
800meter S, 18MB, 5KR or
2MR, 18MB, 5KR
Kenny Krell
(866) 820-6036
www.3disciplines.com
Rudyard Summerfest Road
Race
Rudyard 9:30 am
5KR, 1 MFR Tom Piippo
(906) 478-5541
tkpiippo@sault.com
www.geocities.com/kpiippo/rudyard_tri.html
Rudyard Summerfest
Triathlon
Rudyard 9:30 am
5KR, 25K Bike, 1/2KS
(pool) Tom Piippo
(906) 478-5541
tkpiippo@sault.com
www.geocities.com/kplippo/rudyard_tri.html
Rutka 5K
Ann Arbor 8:00 am
Gallup Park
5KR/W, kids’ dash
Kathleen Gina
(734) 668.4760
rutka@aatrackclub.org
www.aatrackclub.org
August
Wednesday, August 3
Alpine Striders 3 Mile Run
Gaylord 7:00 pm
1MR Aspen Park
Jeff Kalember
(989) 939-8503
kalemberj@gaylord.k12.mi.us
Wayland Road Runners 4
Mile Run & Potluck
Wayland 6:30 pm
4 MR Gun Lake State
Park - last shelter
Ray Antel III
(269) 792.2427
chefjen@i2k.com
rantel@remc8.k12.mi.us
waylandroadrunners.com
Saturday, August 6
Allen Park Street Fair 8K
Allen Park 6:00 pm
8KR, 1 MR, 8K wheelchair
David Howell
(734) 282-1101
www.totalrunner.com
Boyne Falls Polish Festival
5K
Boyne Falls 8:00 am
Boyne Falls High School
Andy Place
(231) 582-9700
Cleveland Clinic
Independence Run
Independence, OH 8:30 am
5KR/W (216) 623-9933
info1@hermescleveland.com
www.hermescleveland.com
Huntington Lakeshore
Miles for Meals
Muskegon 9:00 am
5KR/W
Megan Crumbacher
(800) 442-6769
sterhaar@nutritionalservices.org
www.nutritionalservices.org
Imlay City Blueberry
Stomp 5K
Imlay City 9:00 am
5KR/W Amy Planck
(810) 724-2135
Joseph C. Monastra Race
Hudson, OH 8:30 am
5KR, 1MW
Hudson, OH
(216) 623-9933
info1@hermescleveland.com
www.hermescleveland.com
Kentwood Community
Church 5K
Kentwood 8:00 am
5KR/W
East Kentwood HS
Daniel Smith
(616) 455-1740
Dsmith@kcconline.org
http://www.kcconline.org/
The Legend 5 &
10 Mile Trail
Run
Laingsburg
8:00 am
10MR, 5MR
Susan Hodgson
(734) 769-5675
susan@runningfit.com
www.runningfit.com
Michigan Runner Race
Series
Mark Mellon Triathlon &
Duathlon
Gaylord 9:00 am
Tri: .6M sw, 31 M bi, 6.2
MR, also sprint tri, Du:
2MR, 31MB, 3.1MR
Otsego Lake County Park
Jim Donaldson
(419) 829-2398
jdjp@sev.org
www.cooltri.com
Merrill Farm Fest
Merrill 8:00 am
5KR, 3KW
Sarah Nunn
(989) 297-7956
sjnunn@mtu.edu
Mt Morris Poker Challenge
Mt.Morris 8:00 am
12KR, 5KR/W, Little Joker
Shuffle
(810) 659-6493
gracemgt@aol.com
www.riverbendstriders.com
Pickford Hay Days
Pickford 9:00 am
10KR, 5KR, 2KFR/W
Main Street
(906) 647-9395
info@haydays.org
haydays.org
Powerhouse Gym Run
St. Clair Shores 10:00 am
6MR, 3MFR
Mark Martino
(586) 771-5898
Martino@powerhousegym.com
powerhousegym.com/stclair
shores
Ready Or Not 5K
Otsego 8:00 am
5K/W, 1MFR
Steve Long
(269) 808-0613
www.geocites.com/choachlong
Run Clark Lake
Clark Lake 8:30 am
12KR, 5KR/W, Kids FR
Pat Dwyer
(517) 782-6106
teamnationaldwyer@hotmail.net
Run to Help
Cleveland, OH 9:00 am
5KR/W Edgewater Park
Jennifer Kudla
(216) 431-3060
kudlaj@usa.redcross.org
redcross-cleveland.org
Shermanator Triathlon & 5K
Augusta 7:30 am
5KR, Triathlon
Jeff Brown
(269) 731-3045
JeffB@ymcasl.org
www.active.com/event_deta
il.cfm?event_id=1200186
Sunday, August 7
Chicago Distance Classic
Chicago 7:00 am
13.1MR, 13.1 M
Wheelchair, 5KR/W
(877)474.0449
info@chicagodistanceclassic.com
www.johnbingham.com
Craig Greenfield Memorial
Triathlon & Duathlon
Clarkston 8:00 am
1000 meter S, 16MB, 4MR
or 2MR, 16MB, 4MR
Kenny Krell
(866) 820-6036
kenny3dracing@yahoo.com
www.3disciplines.com
Eastpointe Lions Club 5K
Run & 1 Mile Fun Run
Eastpointe 8:30 am
5KFR/W, 1MFR/W
Kennedy Park on Stephens
Road Kim Lubinski
(586)776-1918
schobiek@aol.com
Steelhead Half Iron
Distance Triathlon
Benton Harbor / St. Joseph
7:00 am
1.2 MS, 56 MB, 13.1 MR
(773) 404-2372
info@caprievents.com
www.steelheadtriathlon.com
Wednesday, August 10
Classic at Mastick
Cleveland, OH 6:00 pm
5KR (216) 623-9933
info1@hermescleveland.com
www.hermescleveland.com
Thursday, August 11
Great Pizza Challenge
Flint 6:30 pm
5KR/W, 1/4 MR
(810) 659-6493
GRaceMgt@aol.com
gaultracemanagement.com
Saturday, August 13
2nd Chance at Life 5K Run
Walk
Westland 9:00 am
5KR/W Hines Park
Shelly Morell
(734) 513-5187
smorell@wowway.com
secondchanceatlife.org
Challenge at the Creek
Shelby Twp 8:00 am
10KR, 5KR/W, MB
Brenda Hoffman
(800) 462-9956, x7760
challengethecreek@hotmail.com
www.tblofmi.com
Crystal Lake Team
Marathon
Beulah 8:00 am
26.2 M Relay
Crystal Lake
Paul Szymanski
(231) 882-7212
paul@lakeshoretitle.net
7th Annual
Run Richmond Run!
In memory of William K. Hamilton
for more information call 586-727-7571, ex. 105
Register online: cityofrichmond.net
Saturday, August 20, 2005
8K run • 5K run • 5K walk • 1 mile fun run • 8 a.m. start
Preregistration: $15 Race & Shirt; After August 6 $20 Race & Shirt
“There is no perfect race, however . . . Richmond 8K is close!!”
–Michigan Runner, Nov/Dec. 1999 issue

July - September 2005 Event Calendar
Exchange Club of Grand
Rapids Homerun 5K
Comstock Park 8:30 am
5KR/W Tina Porcelli
(616) 890-9356
tporcelli@verizonmail.com
classicrace.com
Greater Cleveland
Triathlon
Mentor, OH 7:00 am
half iron triathlonhalf iron
3 person relay aquabikesprint
triathlon, kids tri
Mickey Rzymek
(330) 686-0993
GCTriathlon@aol.com
www.trifind.net/cleveland/
John Hansen Memorial
“Catch the Spirit” Trail
Runs
Gladstone 10:00 am EDT
12MR, 5 MR X-C
Michael Segorski
(906) 789-9627
segorski@chartermi.net
Millington Old Fasioned
Summer Festival Run/Walk
Millington 8:30 am
4 MR/W, 1 MFR
Jennifer Colling
(989) 871-4859
jennifer_colling@yahoo.com
Mint City 10 Miler, 5K &
Family Fun Walk
St. Johns
10MR, 5KR, 1MW
mintcity10miler@yahoo.com
www.clintonmemorial.org
North Ridgeville Lions
Club Run
North Ridgeville, OH
9:00 am 10KR, 5KR
Sugar Ridge Baptist Church
(216) 623-9933
info1@hermescleveland.com
www.hermescleveland.com
Run Away 5K
Coopersville 8:00 am
5KR/W Jeremy Annen
(616) 735-2566 jannen
@coopersville.k12.mi.us
Run Thru Hell
Pinckney 8:00 am
10 MR, 4.8 MR
Harrison D. Hensley
(734) 878-6640
St. Joseph Island Triathlon,
Duathlon and Kids of Steel
Triathlon
Richards Landing, ON
tri: sprint & Olympic, du:
(sprint), Kids triathlon
9:00 am Sherri Smith
(705) 253-5345
stjosephislandtriathlon.com
Sylvania SuperKids
Triathlon / Duathlon
Sylvania, OH 7:30 am
Jim / Joyce Donaldson
(419) 829-2398
jdjp@sev.org
www.eliteendeavors.com
Youth Challenge
Lakewood, OH 9:00 am
5KR/W, Wheelchair, 1MW
(216) 623-9933
info1@hermescleveland.com
www.hermescleveland.com
Sunday, August 14
Lansing Legislator 74.1,
70.3, 35.4
Lansing 8:00 am
1.2 MS, 56MB, 13.1 MR
or 1.5KS, 31MB, 6.5 MR
or 5MR, 56MB, 13.1MR
Kenny Krell
(866) 820-6036
kenny3dracing@yahoo.com
www.3disciplines.com
Leg It for Life 5KR/W
East Lansing
9:00 am 5KR/W
legitforlife@yahoo.com
active.com/event_detail.cfm
?event_id=1214301
Mary Angela Run for
Angela Hospice
Farmington Hills 9:00 am
10KR, 5KR, 1MFW
Daniel Jess
(734) 953-6015
djess@corio.com
www.angelahospice.org
Mayfield Village Youth and
Family Triathlon
Mayfield Village, OH
8:00 am
110 yd S, 1 MB, 1/2 MR
or 1/4 MS, 4MB, 2MR
Danielle Yarcusko
(440) 461-5163
mayfieldvillage.com
Milford Memories 5K
Milford 8:30 am
5KR, 1 MFR
Anne Gault
(810) 659-6493
GRaceMgt@aol.com
Run, Jane Run
Cleveland, OH 9:00 am
10KR, 5KR
(216) 623-9933
info1@hermescleveland.com
www.hermescleveland.com
Summer Training
Run/Walk on the Crim
Course
Flint 8:00 am
10MR/W, 8KR/W
Downtown YMCA
Riverbend Striders
(810) 238-5981
riverbendstriders.com
no registration, no awards
Sylvania
Triathlon/Duathlon
Sylvania, OH 7:30 am
Tri: 1.5 KS, 40 KB, 10KR,
Du: 2KR, 40KB, 10KR
(419) 829-2398
jdjp@sev.org
www.eliteendeavors.com
Thursday, August 18
Bauman’s Running and
Walking Shop Charity Race
Flint 6:45 pm
5KR/W, 1MFR/W, 1/2 KR
Kettering University
Recreation Center
(810) 238-5981
riverbendstriders.com
formerly Joiints in Motion
Friday, August 19
Howell Melon Run
Howell 7:00 pm
10KR, 5KR
Beth Howard
(517) 546-0693, ext. 0
gaultracemanagement.com
Saturday, August 20
Bill’s Run Richmond Run!
Richmond 8:00 am
8KR, 5KW, 1 MFR
Stacey VanKieth
(586) 727.7571, ex. 105
CityofRichmond@massnet.net
cityofrichmond.net
Clarence Catallo Run for
SCAMP
Clarkston 8:30 am
5KR, 2MW Donna Clancy
(248) 620-1882
run@clarkstoncamp.com
www.clarkstonscamp.com/s
camprun/
Directors Challenge
Endurance Trail Run
Grayling 10:00 am
7MR - trail
Hanson Hills Recreation
Area Justin Andre
(989) 348-9266
hansonshills@hotmail.com
www.hansonhills.org
Falcon 5K
Dearborn 8:45 am
5KR,1 MFR
Divine Child HS
Randy McGill
(313) 278-8433
falcon5k2005@aol.com
Fermi 2 Energy Run
Monroe 8:30 am
8KR, 5KR/W, 1MFR - trail
Monroe County CC
Wendy Spicer
(734) 586-4168
spicerw@dteenergy.com
misd.k1.mi.u2/projread/
Hackley Health Trail Run
Muskegon 9:00 am
5KR Mike Braid
(231) 728-4696
mbraid@hackley-health.org
Mitchell’s Run Through
Rockford
Rockford 9:00 am
5KR Steve Peterson
(616) 863.9168
mitchellsrun@charter.net
www.mitchellsrun.org
Petoskey Festival by the
Bay Wellness Walk & Run
Petoskey 9:00 am
5KR/W, 1MR/W
Bayfront Park
Michele Sturt
(231) 347-4150
msturt@chartermi.net
St. Bernadette Bulldog 5KR
Westlake, OH 8:30 am
5KR/W, 1MFR
John Russo
(440) 666-2021
JohnJRusso_pr@hotmail.com
StBernadetteParish.com
St. Joseph Island Cornfest
Run/Walk
St. Joseph Island, Ontario
10:00 am 10KR, 5KR/W
Ray Stortini
(705) 246-2661
Three Rivers Triathlon &
Duathlon
Three Rivers 8:00 am
Tri: 1KS, 40KB, 10KR,
Du: 5KR, 40KB, 10KR
Emmanual Millet
(269) 278-2075
emillet@aquamantri.com
cooltri.com
Wabash Cannonball Run
Whitehouse, OH 6:00 pm
5KR, 5K Inline Skate
Ed O’Reilly
(419) 360-3709
wearinthgreen17@aol.com
Sunday, August 21
Dundas Cactus 5K Run
Dundas, ON 9:45 am
5KR, 1KW
Kelly Arnott
(905) 639-8053
www.vrpro.ca
Lapeer Days Race
Lapeer 8:15 am
4MR/W, kids’ FR
Ken Deighton
(810) 342-4429
kend@mclaren.org
sigmeup.com/51252
Montrose Blueberry
Festival
Montrose 8:00 am
5 MR/W
Mandy Suwienski
(810) 553-5411
mandyjos@comcast.net
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Petoskey Triathlon &
Duathlon
Petoskey 8:00 am
1000meterS, 18MB, 5MR
or 2MR, 18MB, 5MR
Kenny Krell
(866) 820-6036
www.3disciplines.com
Vietnam Vets United
Annual 5K Run
Allen Park 9:00 am
5KR, 1 MR/W
Ray Joaquin
(734) 552.8538
rjford1@peoplepc.com
Saturday, August 27
Bath City Run Walk
Mount Clemens 8:00 am
4MR, 2MW
M. Weiss (586) 431-6788
weissii@msn.com
www.downtownmountclemens.com
Crim Festival of Races
Flint 8:00 am
10 MR, 8KR/W, 5KR/W, 1
MR/W, Teddy Bear Trot
Deb Kiertzner
(810) 235.3396
www.crim.org
Prize $$$
Michigan Runner Race
Series
Hastings Summerfest Run
Hastings 8:30 am
10KR, 5KR
Jamie VerStrate
(269) 948-3139
timjamieVerStrate@hotmail.com
www.pennockhealth.com
Hydrocephalus Run
Cleveland, OH 9:00 am
5KR, 1MW
(216) 623-9933
info1@hermescleveland.com
www.hermescleveland.com
Ithaca Fun Fest 5K Fun Run
Ithaca 9:00 am
Heather Kesselring
(989) 875-4793
kesselrh@lcc.edu
Kaleva Finnish Line 5K
Run Walk
Kaleva 9:00 am
5KR/W Brian Smith
(231) 362-3793
asialarelk@aol.com
www.kalevami.com
Muskegon Family YMCA
Off Road Triathlon &
Duathlon
Muskegon 9:00 am
1/2 MS, 15KB, 5KR
Don Correll
(231) 722-9322
muskegonYtri@aol.com
classicrace.com
OROC Run for Ovarian
Cancer
Cleveland, OH 9:00 am
5KR Volnovich Park
(216) 623-9933
info1@hermescleveland.com
www.hermescleveland.com
Redbud Challenge 5K
Extreme
Buchanan 8:30 am
Jeanne Arbanas
(269) 695-1515
larbanas@msn.com
www.buchananfest.com
River Rats Adventure
Racing Fall Classic
Grayling 7:00 am
8 hour sprint adventure
race, 40-60 miles
Chad Swander
(989) 348-05401
www.riverratsar.com
Valley City Street Fair 5KR
Valley City, OH 5:00 pm
5KR/W Bonnie Weber
(330) 483-3811
Valleycityfire@zoominternet.net
Sunday, August 28
John Docherty Memorial
Run
North Olmsted, OH 8:30
am North Olmsted Park
4MR, 2MW, kids’ races
(216) 623-9933
info1@hermescleveland.com
www.hermescleveland.com
Ludington Light House
Triathlon, Sprint Tri, &
Duathlon
Ludington 8:00 am
1000meter S, 40KB, 10KS
or 500meterS, 20KB, 5KR
or 5KR, 20KB, 5KR
Kenny Krell
(866) 820-6036
www.3disciplines.com
USAT Mideast Regional
Triathlon / Duathlon
Championships
Indianapolis, IN 8:00 am
1.5KS, 40KB, 10KR; 2MR,
40KB, 10KR
Jim / Joyce Donaldson
(419) 829-2398
jdjp@sev.org
September
Saturday, September 3
Celebrate Westlake
Westlake, OH 8:30 am
5MR, 3.4 MW, 1/2 & 1 M
Kids FR Dave Camerino
(440) 331-3544
davidcamerino@msn.com
www.celebratewestlake.com
Durand End of Summer
Cruisin’ 5K Road Race
Durand 9:00 am
5KR/W
700 Columbia Dr.
Durand Road Runners
Club (810) 266-6910
adamec75@hotmail.com
durandroadrunners.tripod.com
Labor Day 30K Run &
10K Walk/Run
Milford 8:00 am
30KR, 10KR
2025 Milford Rd. (Baker’s
Restaurant)
Doug Klingensmith
(248) 685-7580
doug@laborday30k.com
www.laborday30k.com
Marshall Run
Newaygo 9:00 am
5KR/W Riverfront Park
Kevin Sweeney
(616) 866-4411
sweeneyk@michigan.gov
www.msp.gov
Niles Triathlon
Niles 8:30 am
Tri: .5 MS, 17.5 MB, 5MR,
Du: 5KR, 17.5 MB, 5 MR
Bob Rhynard
(269) 784-4694
clrhynard@direcway.com
nilesoptimist.org
Peter Aliferis Memorial
Race
Alpena 8:30 am
15KR, 5KR/W, 2KW, Tot
Trot Ann Diamond
(989) 356-7738
adiamond@agh.org
www.agh.org
Run Like The Wind
Westland 9:30 am
10KR, 5KR Chuck Block
(517) 702.0226
cblock@lcc.edu
runningfoundation.com
Witchy Wolf Run
Omer 8:30 pm
15MR, X-C, 2 person relay
Russell Canoe Livery
(989) 846-6018
hilyards@m33access.com
www.witchywolfrun.com
2 0 5 Mt. Baldhead Challenge
Saugatuck - Douglas
Saturday, September 17
15K •1KK id’s Fun Run
USATF certified 5K
(6 16) 3 55-9 15 6
Register on-line:
www.mtbaldhead.com
St. Johns Lions & Lioness Clubs
present the 7th annual
Pumpkin Trot
10K Run - 5K Run/Walk
special races: kids 11 & under
Sunday, October 9, 2005
1:00 pm
registration - 12 noon
St. Johns City Park
for info contact George Campbell
(989) 224-6464 • FAX (989) 224-5080
geokath@voyager.net
www.geocities.com/pumpkinsinthepark/
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July - September 2005 Event Calendar
Sunday, September 4
American Express Prarie
View Triathlon, Sprint Tri,
& Duathlon
Kalamazoo 9:00 am
1.5KS, 40KB, 10KR,
500meterS,20KB,5KR,
5KR, 20KB, 5KR
Kenny Krell
(866) 820-6036
www.3disciplines.com
Monday, September 5
Blueberry Stomp
Plymouth, IN 8:30 am
15KR, 5KR
Centennial Park
Mary Glaub
(574) 298-0472
mpglaub@yahoo.com
www.blueberryfestival.org
Cadillac Festival of Races -
CANCELLED
Cornerstones Labor Day
Fun Walk and Run
Roseville 9:00 am
5KR, 2KW
Cornerstone, 12 Mile Rd
between Utica & Grosbeck
Jim Alvaro
(586y) 294-3114
jalvaro@abs.misd.net
www.cbcroseville.org
CrossRoads Labor Day 5K
& Fun Run
Temperance 9:00 am
5KR, 1MR
Indian Creek Park
Thomas Kleman
(734) 847-4635
trkleman@yahoo.com
Governor’s Labor Day
Bridge Run
Mackinaw City 7:00 am
5MFR
Michigan Fitness
Foundation
(517) 347-7891
mlieber@michiganfitness.org
michiganfitness.org/bridger
un.html
Jazz Fest 4 Mile Run
Detroit 8:30 am
4MR Hart Plaza
Doug Kurtis
(313) 963-2366
www.musichall.org
Mercy General Health
Partners Run for Your
Health 5K - CANCELLED
Saturday, September 10
Ashley’s Dream 5K
Run/Walk
Troy 9:00 am
5KR/W Troy HS
David Easterbrook
(248) 641-0992
www.ashleysdream.org
Cleveland Clinic Sports
Health River Run 5K
Berea, OH 8:30 am
5KR, Kids’ races
(216) 623-9933
www.hermescleveland.com
also half marathon: 9/11
Coppertowns Half-
Marathon and Marathon
Lake Linden 8:00 am
26.2MR, 13.1MR Stacey
Pilling (906) 296-9242
sapillin@mtu.edu
www.cee.mtu.edu/~ravendli
/coppertowns05.pdf
Dances with Dirt
Pickney/Hell 6:30 am
100 KR, 50 KR, 100 K
Relay
Susan Hodgson
(734) 769-5675
susan@runningfit.com
www.runningfit.com
Frontier Stampede 5K
Roadrace
Charlotte 9:45 am
5KR/W Dawn Rodman
(517) 543-5915
Drodman@hgbhealth.com
Kazoo Area Foot Chase
Portage 9:00 am
3.5 MR Millennium Park
David Ostrem
(269) 321-9264
race@kazoofootchase.com
www.kazoofootchase.com
Mackinac Island 8 Mile
Road Race
Mackinac Island 9:30 am
8 MR/W, kids runs
Riverbend Striders
(810) 659-6493
GRaceMgt@aol.com
gaultracemanagement.com
Maple Leaf
Grand Rapids 7:00 am
20, 30 Mile Bike Ride
Geri Mariano
(616) 977-0730
rapidwheelmen@lmb.org
www.lmb.org/rapidwheels/
Mesick River Run
Mesick 7:00 am
10KR, 5KW-trail
(231) 378-4730
hrevolt@yahoo.com
Mid-Mountain Trail
Marathon
Park City, Utah 8:00 am
26.2MR
Mountain Trails Foundation
(435) 649-683
carol@mountaintrails.org
runnercard.com
Mud Creek Crawl
Midland 9:30 am
10KR, 5KR
Pine Haven Recreation
Area
(989) 835-3716
jdmcpeak@modernmetalcraft.com
www.co.midland.mi.us
Reeds Lake Triathlon
East Grand Rapids
7:30 am
1/2MS, 18MB, 15MR
Susan Perry
(616) 949.1750
sperry@eastgr.org
www.eastgr.org
River Trail Half Marathon
Lupton 10:00 am
13.1MR
Vicki Willard
(989) 892-4264
iwillrun@sbcglobal.nete
www.barc-mi.com
Run Drugs Out of Town
Howell 9:00 am
5KR/W, Kids Run
Howell City Park / Howell
Melon Run course
Alissa Parks
(517) 545-5944
aparks@cmhliv.org
Run for the Prize
Rockford 8:30 am
5K Michelle Burdsal
(616) 866-1881
www.cosrock.org
Run/Walk for Wellness
Wayne 9:00 am
5KR/W, 1M Kids Run
Nathan Adams
(734) 721-7400, x1311
nadams@ci.wayne.mi.us
www.ci.wayne.mi.us
Running Fit Detroit Titan
Invitational
Northville 10:00 am
5KR Cass Benton Park
Guy Murray
(313) 993-1724
murraygr@udmercy.edu
www.DetroitTitans.com
Second Chance for
Greyhounds “Run for the
Hounds”
Augusta 9:00 am
10KR, 5KR/W Fort
Custer Recreation Area
Sue DeHollander
(269) 665-9633
sue.dehollander@scfg.org
www.scfg.org
Standard Federal Bank Run
Wild for the Detroit Zoo
Royal Oak 9:00 am
5KR, 1 MW
Detroit Zoo
(248) 541-5717
runwilddetroitzoo.com
Tortoise and Hare Cross
Country Classic
Dexter 8:00 am
5KR, 2MR
Hudson Mills Metro Park
Tortoise and Hare
(734) 623-9640
tortoiseandhareevents@yah
oo.com
tortoiseandhare.com
Trottin’ Around Town for
Beaumont Hospice
Berkley 8:30 am
5KR/W Downtown
Berkley, 12 Mile & Robina
Machele Spencer
(248) 551-9298
mspencer@beaumont.edu
Witch’s Hat Run
South Lyon 8:30 am
10KR, 5KR/W, 1 MFR
Scott Smith
(248) 437.1137
slxc@aol.com
www.slxc.com
Sunday, September 11
Bay Park Hospital 5K
Toledo, OH
5KR Ed O’Reilly
(419) 360-3709
wearinthgreen17@aol.com
Cleveland Clinic Sports
Health River Run Half
Marathon
Cleveland, OH 8:00 am
13.1 MR, Relay, Inline
Skate (216) 623-9933
www.hermescleveland.com
Feet and Fleet 5K
Oregon, OH 9:00 am
5KR Bay Park
Hospital, Brown Road
Becky Rudnicki
(419) 691-0912
wearinthgreen17@aol.com
Foote Hospital Run
Jackson 8:00 am
5 MR, 5KW, Kid’s Run
Leslie Fisher
(517) 788-4000
Kellie Sebrell DeWitt 5K
Trail Run
DeWitt 2:00 pm
Rita Wieber
(517) 669.8102
rmwieber@comcast.ne
Plymouth Fall Festival 5K
Fun Run
Plymouth 7:00 am
5KR, 1MR/W
Mark Baldwin
(734) 455-1340
plymouthfallfestival.net/eve
nts/fun_run/fun_run1.htm
Stony Creek Triathlon,
Sprint Tri, & Duathlon
Shelby Township 9:00 am
1.5KS, 40KB, 10KR or
500meterS, 20KB, 5KR or
5KR, 20KB, 5KR
(866) 820-6036
www.3disciplines.com
Trot for Tots 5K and Kids
1/2 Mile Run
Royal Oak 9:30 am
5KR/W, 1/4 M tot trot
Kimball High School
Ken Paczkowski
(248) 524-1787
www.trotfortots.com
Friday, September 16
Michigan Bike Festival
Grayling 5:00 pm
3 day ride, 8-60 miles
Hanson Hills Recreation
Area Justin Andre
(888) 877.2196
michiganbikefestival.com
Spartan Invitational
East Lansing XC
Walt Drenth
(517)355-6140
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Saturday, September 17
Break Out Fitness Euclid
Hospital Run
Euclid, OH 9:00 am
5KR Euclid Hospital
(216) 623-9933
info1@hermescleveland.com
www.hermescleveland.com
City Mission Fall Food Run
Valley View, OH 8:30 am
5KR/W Joy Osborn
(216) 431-3510, ext. 250
josborne@thecitymission.org
www.thecitymission.org
Deaf Arts Festival 5K Walk
/ 10K Run
Plymouth 10:00 am
Pam Groth
(248) 486-9039
pgroth@deafartsfestival.org
www.deafartsfestival.org
Dr. John Carey AIDS 5K
Run & Walk
Cleveland, OH 11:15 am
5KR/W Edgewater Park
(216) 623-9933
info1@hermescleveland.com
www.hermescleveland.com
Gazelle Sports Bridge Run
Grand Rapids 8:00 am
10MR, 5KR
(616) 640-9888
ksung@gazellesports.com
www.classicrace.com
Grosse Pointe Run
Grosse Pointe 8:30 am
5KR/W, 10KR, 1MR
Joel Manardo
(586) 774-7600
jmanardo@aol.com
gaultracemanagement.com
John Rogucki Memorial
Kensington Challenge
Milford 8:30 am
15KR, 5KR, 1/2 MR
Dave Armstrong
(248) 684.9433
daveyarm@aol.com or
joanie.rogucki@netzero.net
www.aatrackclub.org
(616) 261-9706
steve@stridersrun.com
www.stridersrun.com
Peacock Strut
Portage 10KR, 5KR/W
Diane Schrock
(616) 323-1942
St. John Applefest
Fenton 9:00 am
10KR, 5KR/W, 1MR, 1/4
MR Tim & Mary Arthur
(810)735.9193
TArthur7190@aol.com
gaultracemanagement.com
Striding for a Cure
Mt. Pleasant 11:00 am
5KFR
Shawn Fisher
(989) 330-4241
parkinsons5K_psp@hotmail.com
Waterfront Trail 5K, 8K
and Double Crown
Burlington, ON 8:30 am
8KR, 5KR Kelly Arnott
(905) 639-8053
vrpro@cympatico.ca
www.vrpro.ca
Sunday, September 18
Addison Oaks Fall Classic -
MMBA
Romeo bike
Anne Gault
(810) 659-6493
GRaceMgt@aol.com
gaultracemanagement.com
Autumn Colors Triathlon
and Duathlon
Clarkston 9:00 am
1000 meter S, 18MB,
4.7MR or 2MR, 18MB,
4.7MB
kenny3dracing@yahoo.com
www.3disciplines.com
Cats in the Flats
Cleveland, OH 9:00 am
10KR, 5KR, 2MW
St. Ignatius High School,
Downtown Cleveland
(216) 623-9933
info1@hermescleveland.com
www.hermescleveland.com
Get to the Point Road
Races
Point Pelee, ON 9:00 am
13.1 MR, 5KR
Running Factory
(519) 945.3786
rfactory@on.aibn.com
www.runningfactory.on.ca
Playmakers Autumn
Classic 8K
Haslett 9:00 am
8KR/W Curt Munson
(517) 349.3803
www.playmakers.com
Saturday, September 24
Komen Grand Rapids Race
for the Cure
Grandville 8:30 am
5KR/W
Denise Blunk
(616) 752-8262
www.komengr.org
Michigan State Police Fall
Color 5K
Northville 10:00 am
5KR/W
Brenda Hoffmann
(800) 462-9956, x7760
fallcolorrun@comcast.net
www.tblofmi.com
Miller Boat Line 5K at Put-
In-Bay
Put-In_Bay Island, OH
9:30 am 5KR
(216) 623-9933
www.hermescleveland.com
Tech Trek 5K
Fort Wayne 9:00 am
5KR/W
Indiana Tech Campus
Susan McGrade
(260) 422-5561 ext. 2358
semcgrade@indianatech.edu
Women Only Road Race
Flint 10:00 am
5KR/W
Riverfront Character Inn -
Hillary Holbel
(810) 235-4907
GRaceMgt@aol.com
gaultracemanagement.com
Sunday, September 25
The BIG (Breathing Is
Glorious) Race
Ann Arbor 9:00 am
5KR Meg Galvin-Board
(248) 701-6441
warpedboard@comcast.net
breathingisglorious.com
Birmingham Lions Run for
the Blind
Birmingham 9:00 am
10KR, 5K, 1 MW
Total Runner
(248) 354-1177
gaultracemanagement.com
Capital City River Run
Lansing 9:30 am
10 MR, 5KR/W,
20MR(training), relays,
kids runs
Dick Miles
(517) 332.2681
rmileselan@attbi.com
www.ccriverrun.org
Chicago Half Marathon &
5K
Chicago 7:30 am
13.1 MR Museum of
Science and Industry
Devine Racing of Chicago
(312) 347-0233
thehalfmarathon@aol.com
www.chicagohalfmarathon.com
Cleveland Heroes Run
Cleveland, OH 8:30 am
5MR, 2MR/W
Bill Vanverth
(216) 631-8455
bvanverth@cppa-u.com
clevelandheroesrun.org
Cruise for Critters
Cleveland, OH 9:00 am
5KR, 1MW
Gateway Animal Clinic
(216) 623-9933
info1@hermescleveland.com
www.hermescleveland.com
Fox Cities Marathon
Neenah, WI
26.2 MR, 13.1 MR, relay
Debbie Jansen
(920) 727.1726
debbie.jansen@communityfirstcu.org
foxcitiesmarathon.org
National Kidney
Foundation of Michigan
5K Run
Detroit / Belle Isle 2:00 pm
5KR, 3MW
Belle Isle Casino
Anthony Morton
(313) 259-1574, ext. 25
amorton@nkfm.org
www.nkfm.org
Scotiabank Toronto
Waterfront Marathon
Toronto 7:30 am
26.2 MR, 13.1MR, 5KR
Maria Broekhof
(416) 944-2765, ext. 502
run@torontowaterfrontmarathon.co
torontowaterfrontmarathon.com
Lake Superior Shore Run
Race Against Tobacco --
MOVED TO OCT. 1
Mt. Baldhead Challenge
Saugatuck 9:00 am
15KR, 5KR/W, kids run
Downtown Saugatuck
Mike Shaw
(616) 355-9156
michaelrayshaw@yahoo.com
www.mtbaldhead.com
North Country Trail Run
Manistee 7:30 am
50MR, 26.2 MR
Steve Webster
Eastpointe Lions Club
5K Run / 1 Mile Fun Run
Sunday, August 7, 2005
8:30 am
Location: Kennedy Park on Stephens Rd. (9 1/2 Mile Rd.)
Entrance fee includes:
T-shirts • Pancake breakfast
Finishers Certificates • Age Group Medals
Contact: Kim Lubinski
(586) 899-4076 • schobiek@aol.com
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Running with Tom Henderson
By Tom Henderson
Word came in May from Jennie
McCafferty and her regular
Michigan Runner e-mail postings
that Laurel Park had won another Women’s
Only 5K Run in Ann Arbor.
It was her fourth win in scenic Gallup
Park since 1991. Routine, you might think.
Just another lark in the park for Park. You
might think, too, that some things come
easily to some people, as running must
come easily to Park. After all, her 17:58 5K
at age 42 was 49 seconds faster than her
last win, in 2003, and good for 39-second
victory margin.
But you’d be wrong. Nothing routine
about it. Nothing easy, either. Park’s win,
and her return to racing a couple years ago
after agonizing months of injury, rehab and
recovery, are a testament to her bulldoggedness,
attention to detail, and the point that
nothing in her recent running has come easily.
gym class who couldn't touch her toes or
even come close to doing the splits. Well, I
paid for that big-time.
“Flexible, supple muscles are better able
to handle the stress of rigorous work, and
“I’ve had a lot of manual manipulation
therapy (soft tissue and spinal/hip mobilization),
and often when one problem was
‘solved,’ another popped up,” she writes.
“It’s been like peeling off the layers of an
onion.
“For example, my doctor discovered that
my thoracic vertebrae and spinal (back) ribs
were essentially ‘locked’ -- no mobility and
the ribs could not expand. When your upper
body doesn’t rotate, your lower body
(pelvis) overcompensates (over-rotates),
which causes problems with hamstrings, IT
bands and feet.
“He worked on ‘releasing’ the vertebrae
and ribs -- just getting them to move a little --
and when he did, I was able to take a full,
deep breath for the first time in probably six
years. My lung capacity had been restricted
because my ribs couldn’t expand. The first
time I went for a run after the ribs were
released, I almost hyperventilated. I had to
relearn how to breathe while running!”
By e-mail, she writes:
“Basically, I have a leg-length discrepancy
(right leg is 1/4" shorter than left) and
eventually my body became unable to compensate
for it due to a combination of work
(years of hard running) and age. As my
body lost its ability to compensate, my biomechanics
'adjusted’ to accommodate the
discrepancy, which eventually led to functional
irregularities and muscle imbalances.
“At some point everything started to
snowballl. The more my body tried to
accommodate, the worse my biomechanics
became and the physical system just broke
down. At my worst (around 2000) several
muscles which are integral to running
weren't working at all. I finally got to the
point where I physically could not run.”
In pain, unable to go out the door, Park
told her doctor her goal was to one day be
able to run three miles at a time, five days a
week, at nine minutes a mile. It was a goal
that would seem, for a long time, daunting.
She would seem on track, suffer a setback
and again have to shut things down.
“I thought I’d never get better,” Park
remembers. “‘My God,’ I thought. ‘I’m going
to be like this the rest of my life.’” It would
be the spring of 2003 before she would race
well again.
“Compounding the leg-length problem
was my lack of muscular flexibility,” she continues.
“I was the kid in elementary-school
Photo by Carter Sherline /Frog Prince Studios
Laurel Park finished the Great Race 10K as first
master, fourth overall.
they don't ‘delegate’ that stress to ligaments,
tendons and bones. My muscles did. (Memo
to parents of high-school runners: Get your
kids into yoga - now!)”
The last five years, Park has focused —-
make that FOCUSED -- on physical therapy
that undid the damage and taught her body
how to work properly.
Park still gets PT twice a month. She
does 30 minutes of stretching every day. She
lifts weights and does core-strengthening
exercises with a big exercise ball three times
a week. She swims for 20 minutes at a crack
three times a week -- “that’s the biggest sacrifice,
because I hate to swim,” she says.
Mixed in with all that is a liberal dose of
caution. No trail running, runs that take
longer than 50 minutes, races longer than
10K, nor running more than 40 miles a
week. “I wish I could do Crim one last time,
but I just can’t risk it,” she says.
Nonetheless, despite all the work and
caution, Park says this year will be her “last
hurrah on the racing scene.” Not her last
appearance, just the last year she expects to
do well. It won’t come as a surprise to her if
her fourth Women’s-Only win was her last.
Why? She’s about to begin her dissertation
for her Ph.D. in higher and post-secondary
education at the University of
Michigan. Once she finishes her degree, she
plans to put it to use at a job that she
assumes will not allow her the time to do all
the training she needs to run sub-18-minute
5Ks.
So she’ll go out on top this year, looking
to run cool races she’s heard about but never
had a chance to do, like the Reeds Lake Run
in East Grand Rapids. (She hopes some of
these events, like the Great Race in Elkhart,
Ind., will have bike legs that allow both her
and her husband, Rich Stark, to compete.
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Stark, a former top runner himself, was diagnosed
with arthritis in his back a while back
and made the smart decision to retire from
running and take up competitive biking.)
“I’m really just pleased to be able to
race,” says Park. “Doing well is the icing on
the cake. Actually, my entire career has been
icing on the cake. The places I’ve gone, the
people I’ve met.”
~~~
Last summer I wrote about the Great
Wall of China Marathon: a feature
for Michigan Runner on Michigan
runners who conquered it -- well, forget
“conquered,” how about “survived”? --
and a more-generic piece for Running
Times magazine. Greg Feucht read the MR
story, and later read about the race again
in one of Jennie McCafferty’s weekly e-
mail missives.
Feucht is a top-notch runner -- he ran for
the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, and
later with Fred Vanhala’s Front Line Racing
Team while working for Motorola in Ann
Arbor -- and since he was going to be in
China on a six-month work assignment, he
decided to run the May 2005 Great Wall
race. (For more on the race, look elsewhere
in this issue or visit
www.kathyloperevents.com.)
A hamstring injury limited Feucht’s
appearances for Front Line, but he was able
to start training effectively last year.
Last spring, while training to pace his sister,
Andrea, an ultramarathoner in
Albuquerque, during part of a 100-miler, he
ran Randy Step’s Pinckney Trail Marathon.
“That was my first marathon and got me
hooked,” Feucht says.
Last fall, he did three 50Ks: Step’s
Dances with Dirt, the Glacial Trail in
Wisconsin, and the Huff in Indiana. While
overseas on his work assignment, he decided
that when in China, do what the Chinese do.
Or rather, when in Mongolia, do what the
Mongolians do. He entered the upcoming
Mongolia 100K. And to train for that, he
entered the Great Wall race in May.
“For the race, I wore my trainers and went
out relatively easy, so in the end I was very surprised
at the win,” Feucht says. And even more
surprised with his course-record time of
3:25:05, good for nearly a 13-minute win over
Patrick Li of Switzerland. (A course record of
nearly three and a half hours gives you an idea
of the difficulty of the course, which includes
18 miles of straight uphill at the 21-mile mark.
And if you think 18 miles of uphill in the last
five miles of a race is an impossibility, you
haven’t run the Great Wall.)
“The course is relatively difficult, especially
the wall section,” understates Feucht.
“But aside from all the stairs on the wall, it’s
quite runnable. The surrounding area and the
course itself are actually very beautiful.”
Feucht, who returns to Michigan in
August, is already taking aim at Dances with
Dirt, where he says he hopes to “improve on
my second-place finish last year.”
Gotta be a piece of cake after the
Wall. MR
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