When you are able to share your love of running and walking with your partner, you share a special bond. As many of you know, I met Bob through running as I am sure many others have too. Our newest happy running couple is Carol Demeo and Tom Kasprik, see photo. Carol is our Social Networking Director and Tom is our Coach for our Sunday Fun Runs / Walks. Congratulations to Carol too on her Graduation with an Associate Degree in Accounting. Tom popped the question on her graduation day with her children looking on. We love you both and could not be happier
The last weekend in January, was the TROPICAL 5K, ING MIAMI MARATHON & EXPO. What a great time we had with over 21,000 participating. We started out on Friday & Saturday with the Expo, Saturday we participated in the Tropical 5K and finished up volunteering for the start and Finishline for the Marathon on Sunday. To our friends at US Road Sports … GREAT JOB! For our friends and members that participated and or volunteered at this year’s event, THANK YOU as well. Your support of this event and our club is greatly appreciated.
The THREE FOR THE ROAD SERIES kicked off this year with the Women’s Wellness 5K on February 12 at Coral Spring Medical Center. This race was well attended for the weather being an issue. We have over 300 participants this year and look forward to growing this race next year.
Our club will again be exhibiting at the A1A MARATHON & EXP starting on Friday 18 and 19th. We hope that you will stop by, we have our new singlets and tech T's on sales taht are sponsored by Runner's Depot and Starbucks. For the Marathon, we will again be volunteering at the water stop just north of Sunrise on A1A. Look for more details about this weekend in next month issue.
The HEATHLY CHOICE 5K on Saturday February 19th is part of the A1A MARATHON weekend. This event will be held at Birch Start Park and is part of the official activities for the marathon. This is a new race for us but has been part of the Marathon for the past 5 years. We hope to grow this event into a major event next year. Look for more on this event in next month newsletter as well.
The second event in the Three for the Road Series is 5K FOR A BETTER DAY on Saturday February 26th. This event supports the Chris Evert Children’s Cancer Center at Broward General. Every year this event is well supported and is sponsored by the American Heritage School. They do a great job raising money for the hospital and providing over 90 volunteers for this event. We will have more on this event in next month issue.
We will be heading up to Orlando for the Princess Half Marathon Saturday after the 5K for a Better Day. Our Princes will be out on the course again entertaining all the Princess’s. If you plan to go up for the race, give me a call, we will be wearing our outrageous orange Royal Attire.
Our last event in the Series is our SAINT PATRICKS 4 MILER on Saturday March 12th at Tradewinds Park. This being the last event in the three race series, the $50 in gift certificates from Chuck’s Steakhouse, Starbucks, Smoothie King, California Pizza Kitchen and Running Wild and a special medal will be given out to everyone that completed or volunteered at all three races. The awards for Saint Patrick’s will be given first then the Series awards after that. More on this next month as well …
Run For Fun,
Cynthia
