Can you believe that it is already the beginning of our FALL RACING SEASON??? Many of us have trained all summer long for a fall marathon. Congrats on keeping to your plan, I know that it was not easy to train in south Florida‘s HEAT, but I am sure you will see the reward’s in finishing that marathon or half this fall. GOOD LUCK TO ALL !!!
We started August with our ING Miami Marathon Kick Off 5K at Birch State Park on the 14th. What a great turnout, we had over 400 participants and great weather to boot. This has fast become one of the larger summer events for our club. To our Sponsors, Volunteers and participants, we THANK YOU for your continued support.
We finished August with our Sneaker Strut at Starbucks in Coconut Creek. The weather could not have been any worst. Driving rain and wind that seemed to never stop, but that did not stop a small but mighty group of club members from having a good time. Artie Dohler, from Starbucks, rolled out a select group of coffees for us to sample. The one everyone seemed to like the best was the Pumpkin Spice… Thank you Starbucks for sponsoring this event and to everyone that braved the weather to attend.
September 4th started the month out with our Fall Fling 5K at Tradewinds Park. As many of you know, the park in being remodeled so we moved the race to the fall south end of the park. The race started on the road for the first two miles and then moved to the paved path around the lake to the finish. The new course really worked well for the 250 participants, sponsors and volunteers … AccuChip did a great job scoring this their 1st race with us and we look forward to growing our partnership with them. This was also the first race since St Patrick’s 4 Miler that we had our own photographer taking FREE PHOTO’s, so remember to check out our web site after the race for your photo finishing the race.
Moving on to October, we have two races this month. The first one is our Fort Lauderdale Marathon Training Run 15K / 30K on Sunday October 17th at the Deerfield Beach Pavilion next to JB’s. This is a great tune up for your fall marathon. This event starts at 6 AM and we ask that everyone finish by 11 AM. Our next event is our popular Spooktacular 5K on Saturday October 30th at TY Park in Hollywood. If you have not participated in this event in the past, you don’t want to miss this one. Check out last year’s photo’s on our web site. Everyone really gets into the Halloween Spirit. See our ad’s in this month’s issue and on our web site for more information.
AS I close this month’s president’s message I must take time to thank our retiring newsletter editor Linda Ayre for a job “WELL DONE” we will MISS YOU. At the same time let me introduce our new newsletter team of Megan McKenzie and our roving reporter Robin Shachner (See Above Photo) GOOD LUCK on your new venture.
Run For Fun,
Cynthia
