In This Issue - Michigan Runner

In This Issue 

March / April 2007 Vol. 29, No. 1 

Calendar 

Annual Event Calendar 2007 Insert p. 1-24 

Shoes 

Spring Shoe Review 

Insert 

Features & Departments 

Editor’s Notes: Restitution Run By Scott Sullivan p. 4 

Greg Meyer: Fifth Third River Bank Run Icon By Art McCafferty p. 6 

Michigan Masters are National XC Champs By Fred Vanhala p. 8 

Running Shorts By Scott Hubbard p. 10 

Beyond the Chip: Swimming - For a Runner By Laura Murphy p. 12 

Guns ‘n’ Roses in the Himalayas By Helmut Linzbichler p. 14 

Rocking ‘n’ Running Through Cleveland: Boston or Bust in 54 Songs By Anthony Targan p. 16 

Running Taxes By Daniel G. Kelsey p. 20 

Dr. Archie Attarian: Close Encounter after 26 Years By Riley McClincha p. 24 

Running in the Family By Greg Janicki p. 25 

Tales of an Ancient Marathoner By Dave Foley p. 27 

Ashley’s First Run By Ron Marinucci p. 29 

Best of Times, Women 2006 By Jennie McCafferty p. 30 

Best of Times, Men 2006 By Jennie McCafferty p. 32 

Running with Tom Henderson p. 34 

Michigan Runner Race Series 2007 p. 35 

At the Races 

Great Expectations Exceeded at Run Like the Dickens By Charles Douglas McEwen p. 23 

Photos: Sully Sets Canadian Record, Melissa White Wins Disney Half, 

Verran Top American in Japan, Super Bowl 5K, Okemos p. 26 

Snowshoe Boogie Draws a Crowd By Dave Foley p. 28 

1,100 Belle Isle Runners Ring in New Year Right By Charles Douglas McEwen p. 28 

Cover photo of Greg Meyer with one of his seven Calder trophies 

by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios 

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Brenda Barrera 

Jack Berry 

Tim Broe 

Tom Cocozzoli 

Travis Clement 

Ann Forshee-Crane 

Peter Derby 

Sara Deuling 

Larry Eder 

Sherlynn Everly 

Stewart Healey 

Michael Heberling 

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Chris Lear 

Helmut Linzbichler 

Grand Lofdahl 

Richard L. Magin 

Ron Marinucci 

Pamela Joy McGowan 

Riley McLincha 

Paul H. Marcotte 

Charles D. McEwen 

Greg Meyer 

Gary Morgan 

Laurel Park 

Stephen Paske 

Robin Sarris Hallop 

Anthony Snyder 

Jack Strausman 

Anthony Targan 

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Fred Vanhala 

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Editor’s Notes 

By Scott Sullivan 

Ever notice how people 

say, “I don't 

mean to complain/ 

argue/criticize … but-” 

then do what they didn't 

“mean to”? 

I don't mean to gripe, 

but I'm tired of how 

dumb I am. Take New 

Year's. Instead of hitting 

the hay that Eve so I 

could race in the next morning's Resolution Run, 

I reveled. My new best friend, whose name I forget, 

found an old, black Fender guitar and … I 

should have called it a night when my voice 

sounded good to me. 

On New Year's morning - OK, afternoon - I 

awoke to find myself transformed not into a 

cockroach a la Kafka, but, worse, a penitent. My 

eyes ached, ears were bloodshot and temples 

throbbed as if Jesus were shaking down moneychangers. 

Had 2007 become '007 and found a license 

to kill? I felt stirred, not shaken. But I'd made a 

bond to start the year with a healthy run. 

It took longer than usual to put shoes on my 

hands and gloves on my feet. Was the earth really 

up and the sky down, or was this China? I had 

Restitution Run 

to reorient myself or risk serious occident. 

The longer I took getting ready, the better 

my chances that some disaster - Osama bin 

Laden might get the A-bomb, Dick Cheney 

would chase him down with a shotgun or the 

Lions might rehire Matt Millen - would postpone 

my run till 2008. 

No such luck; out the door I went. Baseball 

has its pennant race; this was my penance race. I 

was losing even though nobody else was in it. 

I had my first brainstorm of 2007: since the 

earth rotates at 1,000 mph, I'd run that way. 

Since it revolves around the sun at 67,000 mph, 

I'd go that way too. Add my 1 mph and we'd be 

moving at quite a clip. 

This worked for about 30 minutes before I 

realized my problem: the only way to get home 

was turn back the other way. 

I got home in time to see Michigan play in 

the Rose Bowl. Things went great up until the 

kickoff. 

I don't mean to whine, but I see little hope 

in being an optimist. Which running forces souls 

to do. 

“It hurts,” says the sedentary fool. 

“No pain, no gain,” you say. 

“Gear costs too much.” 

“No payin', no playin'.” 

“You have to climb out of bed each New 

Year's.” 

“Yeah, but from here it is all downhill.” MR 

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Greg Meyer: 

Fifth Third River Bank Run 

Icon 

Photo: Michigan Runner archives 

Runners are ready to start the 1982 River Bank Run. 

By Art McCafferty 

When we started thinking about the 

30th anniversary of the Fifth Third 

(aka Old Kent) River Bank Run, 

we knew immediately who our cover subject 

would be: Greg Meyer. Meyer is “The Face” 

of the event to the 100,000-plus Michigan 

runners who have taken part in this annual 

rite of spring. 

Meyer is “The Name” for many who 

study this sport as well. He was the last 

American male to win the Boston Marathon. 

He also won Detroit Free Press and Chicago 

marathons. And, oh yes, he won the River 

Bank Run seven times. 

At one point Meyer, a Grand Rapids 

native, owned nearly every U.S. road-race distance 

from 5,000 meters up. He was a part of 

the legendary 1980s state races that brought 

together Bill Rodgers, Herb Lindsay, Joan 

Benoit Samuelson, Doug Kurtis, Frank 

Shorter and himself. Meyer was a nationallyknown 

star and a local hero. 

He is also “The Archivist.” Meyer finished 

second in the first River Bank Run 

behind Rodgers, his pal and running mentor. 

From that inaugural race, word spread the 

new 25K was a serious player on the running 

circuit. World-class runners have participated 

in this event every year since then. Meyer, 

more than anyone else, represents its history 

and recalls legendary battles waged on its 

unique course. 

He is also the “Role Model.” Meyer has 

carried his fame well, giving much of his time 

to promote the running movement. He is 

respected by peers and one of the mostadmired 

athletes in our state. His alma mater, 

the University of Michigan, has made him a 

representative of their school. 

Other great names and faces of the River 

Bank Run include five-time winner Diane 

Bussa Brewer, past race directors Dave Teater, 

Scot Ferris, Dave Morrow, Teri Sullivan and 

Dan Goorhouse, and current director Kristen 

Aidif. 

Another “star” of the event is its 25K 

course, a distance that's seldom run. The 

RBR was a natural selection for the USA 

Track & Field National Championship at 

that distance. This annual “race within a 

race,” along with a prize purse, ensures a fast 

field at the front. 

In our state, the River Bank Run is a race 

you must run to have any cachet with runners. 

It is a steppingstone toward a marathon 

and “must” for all. 

We invite you to enjoy some of the 

RBR's rich history by going online and 

viewing our remembrances. As part of our 

coverage of the 30th anniversary, Michigan 

Runner TV has brought you an interview 

with Meyer, plus race thoughts from past and 

present MR editors Mike Duff, Dave Foley, 

Jennie McCafferty and Scott Sullivan. The 

interviews include images from the event 

stretching back for years. 

You can catch it all at http:michiganrunner.tv/2007riverbank/. 

Then, soon after the 

May 12 race, you can catch our coverage on 

the Michigan Runner Television Channel 

http:michiganrunner.tv. 

See you in Grand Rapids May 12 - and 

on line at any time. MR 

Michigan Runner TV 

http://michiganrunner.tv/2007riverbank/ 

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Michigan Masters 

are National 

XC Champs 

By Fred Vanhala 

Dave Peterson e-mailed me in July that 

Paul Aufdemberge was considering 

running the USATF Club Cross 

Country National Championship in San 

Francisco in December. 

I didn’t give it much thought as I knew I 

could never pull a Front Line Racing Team 

together to travel to the west coast. People 

have families and jobs; a full weekend commitment 

near the holidays wouldn’t happen. 

Plus we don’t have a sponsor and guys have 

to pay all their costs. 

But a week or so later I e-mailed Peterson 

back that, well — let’s test the waters and see 

what happens. Guys started saying, “Well, if 

Paul is in, then I’m in.” And, “If Paul and 

Mike Scannell are in, then I’m in.” 

Things snowballed. Ten men would run. 

Many had run with the team for years; 

Aufdemberge and Scannell since 2001. But a 

couple newcomers, Tracy Lokken and Pat 

Lencioni, would play key roles. Michigan and 

Front Line Racing would have a dynamite 

team going for the Masters 40+ National 

Club Championship. 

Lokken, who runs in the wilds of the 

Upper Peninsula, was the last piece to the 

puzzle. He didn’t return my August phone 

call for a while, as he’d never heard of me or 

our team, and didn’t know about the USATF 

Club XC meet. 

Tracy did some research and eventually 

called back. Still, we weren’t positive he was 

in until after the Oct. 29 Detroit Free Press 

Marathon. He would become the surprise of 

the U.S. Nationals. 

Laurie Decker also ran, though a 

women’s team wouldn’t come together. 

Laurie ran a great race; her 6,000-meter time 

of 23:27 placed her third in the 45-49 age 

bracket, good for 12th overall in the women’s 

master’s race. 

Front Line’s men’s team was in Box 51 of 

55 boxes, towards the far right. Everyone 

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was going to be squeezing right at the first 

turn, 310 yards down. Utilizing all boxes, 

this was the largest and deepest masters field 

ever assembled for one cross country race on 

U.S. soil. The résumés of the runners and 

teams were incredible. 

My plans were to tell the guys how they 

stood in relation to Team Runners High 

(TRH), the three-time defending champs, 

wearing red shirts. I felt if we beat them 

straight up, we’d win the competition. 

When I saw Lokken, Scannell and 

Aufdemberge more or less together at about 

the mile-and-a-half mark, I was speechless. 

Not a red shirt had passed before them. 

These three were around 15th place overall at 

that time; I thought, “We may take this!” 

Lencioni was not far behind. Then came 

Eric Stuber, Dave Watkins and Dave 

Peterson. Doug Ogden, Dave Walch and 

Mike Cudlip followed. 

Going into the last 4,000-meter loop of 

the 10,000-meter race, I had a sense the win 

could be ours. Lokken was running well, as 

was Scannell. 

But a couple TRH guys had now 

appeared. Defending-champion Peter Magill 

was first overall, leading Lokken, and Dave 

Olds was between Scannell and 

Aufdemberge. But Lencioni was in front of 

TRH’s No. 3 man, Tony Reyes. 

At that point, if this were a dual meet, 

Front Line had four of the top six vs. TRH. 

Watkins had made a serious move and was 

looking strong, though he was still behind 

TRH’s sixth man. Stuber was next, followed 

by Peterson, Ogden, Walch and Cudlip. 

With 250 yards to go, it was great to see 

Tracy in the lead over Danny Martinez and 

Magill. He looked strong and had first place 

in the bag, finishing in 32:44. 

Next for us came Scannell (33:27) in the 

top ten. Mike looked good, though dirty 

from a slip in the mud on the fourth mile. 

Olds of TRH came through next, then 

Aufdemberge (34:01) and Reyes of TRH. I 

yelled at Lencioni that he needed to catch 

that red shirt (Reyes) about 15 yards ahead. 

Pat (34:06) nailed him before the finish. 

On the last loop, Watkins, our fifth man, 

picked off two more red shirts. Dave was in 

prior to TRH’s fifth and I knew we had 

them. I said so to Stuber and Peterson as 

they raced past me, but did we win overall? 

We may have topped TRH, but the Fleet Feet 

Boulder team had also run quite a race. 

We celebrated Tracy’s victory and discussed 

the race while waiting things out. A 

couple things became evident. Watkins broke 

35 minutes as our fifth man; it was unlikely 

any other team could have five under 35 on 

this course. 

Also, Aufdemberge was our third man. 

Though it was an off day for Paul due to 

recent injuries and illness, he is the U.S. masters 

track record-holder for 10,000 meters. 

(Had this been a race for individual honors 

only, he likely would have withdrawn.) And 

he didn’t place that far back. If the U.S. 

track record holder is the third man on the 

team, how could we not have won? 

Eventually I made it back to the results 

tent. Sneaking under people to take my first 

peek at the team results was nerve wracking. 

I shut my eyes, drew a breath, opened and 

there it was: 

1) Front Line Racing Team (5th man, 

34:59), 73 points. 

2) Fleet Feet Boulder (5th man, 35:06), 86 

points. 

3) Team Runners High (5th man, 35:02), 90 

points. 

Runners had come from all corners of 

Michigan to bring home a national title for 

our state! 

“Relay Fred” Vanhala is founder/coach 

of Michigan-based Front Line Racing 

Teams. MR

Photo by Peter Zinsli 


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Running Shorts with Scott Hubbard 

Trivia: The 

MHSAA first 

offered a Lower 

Peninsula Finals in 

girls track and 

field in 1974 with 

A-B and C-D 

meets. In 1975, 

they offered championships 

in separate 

classes: A, B, 

C and D. Who 

was the first girl 

to win the Class A 

two-mile championship 

in 1975? 

SPICE AT HALF. On page 340 of Andy 

Rooney's new book, “Out of My Mind,” he 

offers his thoughts about the Super Bowl. 

“For entertainment at halftime during the 

Super Bowl game, I'd like to see a track meet 

among players from other teams. It would be 

fun to see which players could run the fastest 

60 yards, 100 yards or mile. They could run 

a mile relay.” 

It sounds like a punt, pass and kick competition, 

but I like it. 

A LETTER IS WORTH 1,000 WORDS. I 

was among the first to win a letter for the 

new Ann Arbor Huron High School. We 

wore them on sweaters back in the day. 

Although Huron was still two years from 

opening, school officials decided to get a 

head start and offer sports to students living 

in the new district (while attending AA 

Pioneer) in fall 1967. I combined good timing 

with a season of learning and improvement 

to win a cross-country varsity letter that same 

autumn. 

I bought a gold sweater with three rings 

on a sleeve denoting a sophomore, and got 

my Mom to sew the gold-and-green varsity 

award center on the chest. Only months 

before I had envied the “real” athletes; now I 

got to show up on letter sweater Fridays 

looking just as cool. 

I also lettered in track as a junior, but it 

didn't elicit the same sentiment as my first 

award. The cross-country letter I received as 

a senior seemed like an advanced degree but 

was every bit as special as my initial award. 

Lettering and a year along the bottom of my 

“advanced degree” were simple yet evocative: 

State Champs 69. 

Somewhere along the way I removed the 

State Champs letter from the moth-eaten 

sweater and put it in a box with the other 

two. The letters and a tee-shirt keepsake have 

followed me from move to move, generally 

remaining out of sight. I had to remove the 

tee sleeves (for reasons I can't recall). The 

athletic department absorbed the cost of the 

State Champ letter (it was specially made) 

while the team paid for the shirts that say, 

“AA Huron, Cross Country Class A State 

Champs 1969.” I can still get into it although 

it's a bit small now. 

The medal from the state meet? I still 

have that. Since removing it from my letter 

sweater, it's gone from box to jar to 

Frankenmuth race mug to its current resting 

place on a book stand. It's gold colored and 

on the back it says “1969, Final, Cross 

Country, Winning Team, Class A.” I nearly 

tossed it out accidentally years ago and, you 

know, while it still has intrinsic value, I think 

time will come when I'll give it away to 

somebody who'll appreciate what it represents 

and meant to me. 

On page 27 of my senior year yearbook 

“Enthymion” are four pictures: three from 

our cross-country team celebrations and one 

from an all-school assembly held to “honor 

Huron's first state championship team.” 

The team celebrations are a blur in my 

memory, but the assembly, ahh, it seems only 

yesterday! We'd only been in our new building 

by the Huron River two months, entering 

our third sports year, and here we had the 

principal, the AD and finally our coach, Des 

Ryan, saying nice words in praise of our 

overachieving team. We sat up there, drinking 

it all in, feeling proud, feeling conspicuous, 

feeling small. The recognition was short but 

sweet. 

Our run to the title had been unexpected, 

a huge surprise to all. We didn't win any invitationals, 

were beaten twice in dual meets 

and finished second in our conference. There 

weren't any published state rankings and little 

else suggested we were championship caliber. 

I was our best runner all year but nursed 

a sore leg heading into the regional meet on 

the well-worn Cass Benton course in 

Northville. I ran tentatively, wound up with a 

lame leg as a top-five runner but the rest of 

the guys ran great and we won, qualifying for 

the state meet. Being unable to run and sensing 

the team was on the rise made for a doubly 

frustrating week before the championships 

in Ypsi at the Washtenaw Country 

Club. 

During a brief warmup in the rain, I 

could tell my leg still wasn't right but I didn't 

tell the guys. They were poised to run a good 

one and I didn't want to mar the upbeat 

mood. Everything about my race seemed so 

different, so compromised, it felt like somebody 

else was running. Helpless to do anything 

about it, I chugged along in slow 

motion while the rest of the team ran confidently, 

aggressively. 

Our lone sophomore on the team, Karl 

Tsigdinos, ran a particularly-inspired race, 

going from fifth man to first and finishing 

13th overall. Ed Fisher and Andy Campbell 

finished a few places behind Karl, while 

Adrian Newby and Martin Hueter finished 

about 15 and 30 places later, respectively. 

I eventually completed the two miles in 

about a non-scoring 80th place with Carl 

Hueter a place back. Our winning team score 

was one of the highest in meet history, 

notable to stat mavens but meaningless to us. 

Unfettered joy comes closest to describing 

our happiness. We had few illusions prior to 

the meet, turning our accomplishment into an 

improbable, oversized thrill. 

Now it's 37 years later and via the wonders 

of the Internet, I've become reacquainted 

with Adrian Newby, currently living outside 

Baton Rouge, La. I knew Adrian had gone to 

Purdue and played rugby, so when my 

Internet search produced his name, school 

and sport, I was in business. The rugby team 

has developed an alumni e-mail list; since 

Adrian had generously posted his address, I 

sent him a note in October. 

He responded! We went back and forth a 

bit and on a trip to Ann Arbor to visit his 

mom in mid-December, we made plans to 

meet. We met at Big Boy in Fenton for lunch 

on Dec. 14. 

On my way over, my thoughts bounced 

around. I was anxious and excited about seeing 

my old friend. He represented my roots in 

the sport; I thought about the intervening 

years and what a long, eventful and fortuitous 

journey it's been for me since high 

school. 

It was great to see him. For an hour and 

a half we peeled back layers of the many 

years that had elapsed since our graduation. 

We reminisced, wondered how the other guys 

were and shared high points since '70. I 

brought along a few pictures and my State 

Champ letter, which I had him sign on the 

back. Before departing I asked if he'd like to 

get together with some of the others and he 

said yeah. I know where a few of them are so 

I'll work on it. 

There were no girls sports in 1970, no 

specialty running stores, a handful of road 

races were scattered around the state and 

only a meager few of us ran beyond college 

or for fitness. It was a simpler time yet disturbing 

with the Vietnam War raging. Frank 

Shorter and Steve Prefontaine were blossoming 

distance stars, Nike unborn and Runner's 

World still a rising magazine. 

We had it good with the NCAA Indoor 

Track and Field Meet nearby at Cobo Hall in 

Detroit, but we never could've guessed the 

sport would evolve in the many splendid 

ways it has. 

Answer: Karla Amble (now Palmer) of Ann 

Arbor Huron won the two-mile in 11:28.9. 

Karla went on to Harvard and has taught for 

quite a while at the Taft School in 

Watertown, Conn. MR 

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Beyond the Chip 

Swimming - For A Runner 

By Laura Murphy 

December came and went with a very 

small mileage total in my running 

log, a tradition that dates to my 

school competion days. This year was no different, 

as we juggled scouts, swimming, community 

service, last-minute projects and all 

the seasonal work that goes with decorating 

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your home so it doesn't humiliate the resident 

budding designer. 

For years, January has offered redemption 

and a chance to get back to long runs, 

speed work when conditions permit, and 

planning races for the first part of the year. 

This January has been different. Though 

long runs are a less-frequent need, Boston is 

on tap in April and timing is important. 

Speed work has been like a childhood friend; 

I have all the happy memories, but time has 

made me nostalgic to feel the “burn” again. 

With all the regular aches and pains, my late 

running career is held together with duct tape 

and spit, so realistically I've put speed work 

aside and focused on general fitness. 

To stave off the inevitable decline in running 

performance brought about by the 

incline of age, I've added swimming just to 

do something on days when I cannot add 

mileage and/or intensity. Though I have only 

been hitting the pool once or twice per week, 

it is painfully obvious I'm a runner. How 

these two activities came together as part of 

multi-sport events, I haven't a clue. 

Running is simplicity in sport. There are 

no other people, specialized equipment or 

conditions required to do it: just shoes and 

appropriate clothing, and neither need to be 

fancy or special. It is all about being outdoors, 

occasionally communing with nature 

and often chatting with training partners on 

the way. 

Running can be done on vacation, while 

traveling on business, indoors or out. It is 

portable, eminently plain and the ultimate 

metaphor for life. Not to preach to the converted 

here, but a decent running workout 

can be had in around 45 minutes. 

Swimming, on the other hand, is none of 

this. You need a pool, which trumps everything 

else required for such workouts. If you 

are going to do it properly, you will also need 

a suit, goggles, fins, a kickboard, hand paddles 

and pull buoy. You will need a good 

hour, if you can last that long, to get a satisfying 

workout. 

Why swimming, when I could do the 

elliptical, stationary bike or some other supplemental 

exercise like table tennis or air 

hockey? Currently, half of my family is swimming 

regularly. My husband, Mark, has been 

doing so for more than a year, and our 

daughter, Abby, joined a swim team last fall. 

Her season is coming to a close, but she is 

already talking about the summer swim team. 

Naturally, I figured I could just jump in 

and join them. This could take awhile, 

though. 

I've learned a little about swimming from 

watching Abby's practices and meets, and 

from a friend who is a swimmer and triathlete. 

The latter gave me pointers in exchange 

for the “help” I gave her in her running. Her 

advice tended toward “chin up, keep your 

balance, you want a little bend in the arm, 

keep your hips up and for christssake don't 

stop kicking”; whereas my coaching tips were 

more of the “pace yourself” and “watch out 

for that hole” variety. 

My swimmer friend often asks about 

running form and whether one should land 

heel-toe or try to land on the side of the foot. 

Unfortunately for her, I have never once given 

serious thought to form or footfall - at least 

what constitutes the “correct” of either. What 

was her positive comment on my form? 

Apparently, I've got good ankle flexion. For a 

runner. 

Though I don't mind helping out someone 

new to the sport, nor am I afraid to offer 

advice when asked as I do have some training 

wisdom and experience to share, I don't 

claim to have all the answers to get someone 

to run their fastest. At this late stage in my 

competitive running life, my main concerns 

are for holding it together, not getting hurt 

and doing the least damage needed to get the 

best results. 

My quest for knowledge on how to train 

to run faster has become a search for simply 

what works best for me. This is mostly done 

through trial-and-error, as the old standby 

training practices don't always produce the 

best results. 

Swimming gives me new things to learn 

in a sport where I can only improve. Sort 

of like when Mark and Abby began snowboarding 

- my husband is a very good skier, 

but since we were skiing with the kids and 

Abby wanted to snowboard instead, he 

took it as an opportunity learn. His skiing 

has gone about as far as it will go, but his 

learning curve in snowboarding is quite 

steep. This is exactly my situation in swimming. 

I'll enjoy trying swim correctly and not necessarily 

for speed or distance. Time will tell if it 

pays off in my running, but for now, it can just 

be a shared family activity and a chance for 

Abby to tell her mother what to do. 

Two-time Olympic Marathon Trials participant 

Laura Murphy says her life is really 

“Beyond the Chip.” She is a full-time mom 

and resides in Rochester with her family. MR

Guns 'n' Roses in the Himalayas 

Race director C.S. Pandey liked to say,“As long as you see Kanchenjunga on your right and Everest on your 

left, you are on the right trail.” 

By Helmut Linzbichler 

Ilooked behind - there she was again: 

Sarah Booth, 37, from England, together 

with Charlie and unintentionally my 

fiercest challenger in the Himalayan 100-Mile 

Stage Race. 

But let me tell you the whole story. 

Fifty-eight runners (44 men, 14 women) 

met Oct. 27, 2006 in Mirik in the foothills of 

Kangchenjunga, the third-highest mountain in 

the world (8,598 meters). Two days later we 

would start a 100-mile journey from 

Bhaneymanjang, another tiny village in West 

Bengal, India, in the shadow of the 

Himalayan giants. 

Two groups from the United Kingdom 

and Spain made up the backbone for this 

year's race, joined by runners from Ireland, 

New Zealand, the U.S., Singapore and 

Austria. It would later be characterized by 

Irish and Spaniard runners, who formed a 

friendship of mutual respect, as a fierce “battle 

of the genders” between myself, age 65, 

and Sarah. 

My wife and I had run this race two 

years earlier, when I'd missed a turn in the 

marathon stage and turned that long run into 

an ultra. At the end I estimated I'd lost at 

least an hour: reason to come back and “settle 

the bill.” 

And here I was - I could even recognize 

the spot of my wrong turn two years ago. I 

slowed to pay more attention to the trail this 

time. And as a result - see above. 

14 M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 0 7 

The race started in the village of 

Manyebanjang Oct 29 after a 90-minute bus 

drive from Mirik that included stunning 

views of Kanchenjunga and neighbor peaks. 

This first stage of more than 24 miles 

was mostly uphill on a grueling cobblestone 

road built for some maharaja but not used 

since. 

Once we reached the ridgeline we felt the 

altitude, then descended a few miles - only to 

climb still more to finish at Sandakphu, a 

hamlet nestled at 3,700 meters (12,139 feet) 

atop a windswept ridge with views of four of 

the five highest peaks in the Himalayas. 

Right in front of us towered the mighty 

Kantsch; to the left were Everest, Lothse and 

Maklu. Race director C.S. Pandey liked to 

say, “As long as you see Kanchenjunga on 

your right and Everest on your left, you are 

on the right trail.” 

In fact the “trail” - actually an extension 

of that cobblestone road - followed the beautiful 

Singalila Ridge, part of a national park 

with the same name and, for much of the 

way, a borderline to Nepal. If you stepped off 

the road to your left, you were literally (and 

illegally) crossing the border to Nepal 

(though the border is open local people). 

Sarah led me during first section, pulling 

away further in the downhill part. In the 

final, six-plus-mile climb to Sandakphu, she 

struggled some and I passed her. I was 

pleased with my 5:52 time, as I'd clocked a 

6:30 two years ago, and was even more surprised 

to learn later this ranked me 11th 

overall. Sarah finished in 6:10. 

My advantage was that I knew the course 

from two years ago. Sarah and I certainly had 

no intention to start a “battle of the genders”; 

it just turned into based on our results 

in each stage. We were not aware of our 

mutual overall standing till the end. 

Two runners fought fiercely up front and 

ended in a tie. Martin Rea, 30, from Ireland 

and Albert Majos Cullell, 35, from Spain 

dominated the race from the first stage on. 

They were almost complete equals: each had 

a 2:30 marathon best. They didn't know each 

other, nor could they communicate: Albert 

didn't speak much English, and Spanish was 

Greek to Martin. Yet after the first stage 

(4:12) they developed an ever-growing friendship 

and respect. 

Day two dawned crisp and chilly, with a 

breathtaking view of surrounding mountains. 

A 20-mile out-and-back course was waiting 

and I felt lousy. I had not slept that night and 

could not explain it. 

Some 20 minutes in the race I thought I 

knew why; an emergency stop at a portable 

toilet relieved my belly but kept me there 

almost 15 minutes. 

Sarah was way ahead of me. She finished 

the undulating course in 4:01 with me desperately 

trying to make up time on the home 

stretch. I ended up in a 4:07 (having done it 

in 4:04 two years ago). 

Martin and Albert? I remember them 

rushing by head-to-head on the back stretch 

while was still climbing to the turning point.

I'd seen Sarah too, 

elegantly making 

her way down from 

the check point. I 

could hardly believe 

I finished 15th overall 

after all my troubles. 

Albert and 

Martin tied again 

with 2:59's. 

Day three was 

the marathon stage. 

Same course out 

with a couple-mile 

extension, then 

roughly halfway 

back to Molle 

before the painful 

1,200-meter descent 

to Rimbik. It was 

also a farewell to 

the high altitude, as 

Rimbik is just 

under 2,000 meters 

high. 

This time I had 

slept soundly and 

felt great. Sarah got 

off to her usual 

speedy start, but I 

passed her before 

the turnaround. I 

even took time for 

camera shots. 

I slowed on the downhill where I had lost 

my way two years ago, recognizing the spot 

where I'd turned astray. Soon I heard runners 

behind me: Sarah and Charles Norton, a 

young guy from the U.K. Running solo sometimes 

makes you lose your pace, while running 

with others can speed you up. 

“Oh, here you are,” I said as we headed 

on together, down cobblestone switchbacks 

through Shrikola to the bridge. From there it 

was uphill the last 5K or so to Rimbik, where 

we three finished hand-in-hand after 6:34 

(7:38 for me in 2004). 

Leaders Albert and Martin? Albert struggled 

on the downhill, but instead of pulling 

away Martin slowed and they finished 

together. Race director Pandey told them jokingly 

he needed a clear decision at the end 

because he had only one first-place trophy. 

. My rollercoaster feelings continued on 

day four. After a day of runner's high, I felt 

weak and weary. It was the shortest stage 

with only a half-marathon to run, but it was 

a very demanding course on a paved road. 

The first 8K were downhill, followed by a 

never-ending gradual climb to the finish at 

Palmajua, at about the same altitude as 

Rimbik. 

On the way down I had Sarah in sight 

before me, but on the uphill she simply vanished, 

opening an ever-growing gap. She finished 

in 2:04, while I struggled home in 2:15 

(2:09 in 2004). 

Albert and Martin wrote another chapter 

in their love story at the front. This time 

Martin labored and Albert stayed with him. 

Author Helmut Linzbickler and Sarah Booth finished the 

final 27K stage “crossing hand in hand in 3:03”. 

They had already silently agreed this year's 

HSR would have two overall winners for the 

first time in its 16-year history. 

For the final 27K stage we were shuttled 

to the finish line of the prior one, from where 

we had been bused back to Rimbik for the 

overnight stay. It began with a 10K climb, 

followed by a long descent and rolling terrain 

on paved roads. 

In keeping with my physical pendulum, I 

felt fine that morning (I'm still glad there was 

no stage six). I saved energy on the climb 

while Sarah stormed ahead, passed her on the 

way down, then we leap-frogged several 

times until we reached the last aid station 2K 

before the finish. 

We looked at each other and started 

laughing. We didn't know our overall standings, 

but somehow felt that in all the stages 

we had waged a kind of unwitting battle. We 

stayed together from there to the finish, 

crossing hand in hand in 3:03 (3:23 in 2004 

for me). 

Martin and Albert did the same. 

During the awards ceremony in Mirik 

that night, I learned I had finished 13th overall 

in 21:51, not bad for the oldest guy in the 

field. Sarah took the overall women's title in 

21:52. A final tie like Albert's and Martin's 

would have been more appropriate, but how 

could we know? 

Austria native Helmut Linzbichler works at 

Michigan's Boyne Highlands as a ski 

instructor. MR 


15

Rocking ‘n’ Running Through Cleveland: 

Boston or Bust in 54 Songs 

By Anthony Targan 

“When the music starts, I never want to 

stop.” 

– Madonna, “Music” 

My road to Boston goes through 

Cleveland. 

When I tried (once again) to qualify for 

the Boston Marathon, I set my sights on 

Cleveland, which hosts one of the fastest 

major marathons in America. 

I had run my most-recent marathon 

(Detroit 2005) in 3:40:34, but to qualify for 

the 2007 Boston Marathon, I would need 

3:30:59, based on my age on race day (45). 

Just 10 minutes faster. While that's less than 

30 seconds a mile over the course of the 

marathon, it seemed like forever given that I 

had fallen short in four previous marathons. 

Amy Palmiero-Winters, on her way to a marathon 

world record for female amputees, helped inspire 

author Anthony Targan to qualify for his first Boston 

marathon. 

Where to find 10 minutes? 

To succeed, I would need extra motivation. 

A secret weapon. Something, ANYthing, 

to keep me from crashing and burning after 

the 20-mile mark, as I had done in Detroit 

(twice), Toledo and even pancake-flat 

Chicago. 

The answer came to me in the form of 

the Cleveland Marathon's tagline: “Cleveland 

Rocks 'n' Runs.” It was MUSIC, of course. 

My iPod had been my faithful companion on 

training runs, but I had never run a race with 

music. Which music could get me to the finish 

line faster than ever before? 

A few weeks before race day, I began to 

compile my play list. My criteria were simple: 

a consistent upbeat tempo, lyrics with special 

meaning and/or artists who ranked high on 

my mojo meter. 

I didn't specifically seek songs related to 

running, but as you'll see, some of these lyrics 

spoke volumes during the race. As extra 

incentive, the play list had to total three-anda-half 

hours, so I must run across the finish 

line before I ran out of music. 

Finally race day arrived. I had driven 

down from Detroit on a beautiful Saturday 

afternoon, but awoke Sunday morning in 

Cleveland to cold, wind and rain. I would 

need extra hop to jump-start my marathon. 

What better opening song than “Let's Get It 

Started” by the Black Eyed Peas: 

Let's get it started, in here 

... 

Lose control, of body and 

soul. 

Don't move too fast, people, 

just take it slow. 

Don't get ahead, just 

jump into it. 

Runnin' runnin' and runnin' 

runnin' … 

The Peas' “Pump It” kept 

me breezing past the Rock 

Hall of Fame and through 

the first mile in 7:45. 

Ciara helped me find my 

pace in Mile 2 with her 

rhythmic “1, 2 Step.” 

Heading west out of 

downtown, fellow 

Detroiter Eminem reminded 

me to stay focused on 

the task at hand: 

Look, if you had one 

shot, one opportunity 

To seize everything you 

ever wanted - one 

moment 

Would you capture it or 

just let it slip? 

You only get one shot, do not miss your 

chance to blow 

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo. 

As we made our way through the rolling 

hills of the Shoreway along Lake Erie, I paid 

homage to my '60s roots with an obligatory 

Beatles song (“Back in the USSR”) and 

unwound with some silly B-52s songs 

(“Cosmic Thing” and “Love Shack”), which 

took me through Mile 4 in 31:30. 

With the emotion of the starting line and 

spectators far behind me, and hills looming 

the next few miles, I needed some pounding 

percussion to pull me along. Blue Man Group 

to the rescue! Their CD “The Complex” got 

me through many treadmill miles over the 

winter. Their drums and PVC tubes strike a 

beat that resonates deep in my runner's soul. 

In tune with the music, I synchronized my 

steps to consistent 7:40-minute miles. 

Before long, I was running to Boston - 

well, not literally to the marathon mecca, but 

to the music of Boston. Soon, I had “Peace of 

Mind” and “More Than A Feeling” that my 

favorite high school “Rock 'n' Roll Band” 

would keep me “Smokin'” all the way to a 

Boston-qualifying time. 

As I finished the first hour near the 8- 

mile mark on Lake Avenue, I realized I still 

had a long way to go. I felt self-conscious as I 

took my planned 45-second walk breaks at 

every mile marker. Jimmy Eat World (“The 

Middle”) gave me comfort: 

Hey 

Don't write yourself off yet 

It's only in your head you feel left out or 

looked down on 

Just try your best 

Try everything you can 

And don't you worry what they tell themselves 

when you're away 

Still, it was hard not to get “Hung Up” 

on the fact that as I walked, the clock kept 

ticking away on my 3:30 goal time: 

Time goes by so slowly for those who wait 

No time to hesitate 

Those who run seem to have all the fun 

I'm caught up 

I don't know what to do 

Madonna helped me through the hills 

and the steady pulsing of New Order's “Blue 

Monday” kept me under an eight-minute 

pace despite a steep Mile 10. I approached 

the towering Guardians of Traffic on the 

Hope Memorial Bridge, crested the summit 

and headed back into downtown past Jacobs 

Field. 

Around Mile 12, I was struck by the 

irony of R.E.M.'s song, “It's the End of the 

World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).” 

The marathon is definitely a mind-over-matter 

experience. As your body screams to end 

this self-induced suffering, you must keep 

telling yourself, “I feel fine.” 

I really did feel fine as I hit the halfway 

mark in 1 hour, 42 minutes, three minutes 

ahead of my goal pace. Runners call this having 

extra time in the bank, but premature 

acceleration can result in substantial penalties 

or early withdrawal. 

16 M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 0 7

It had finally stopped raining and as 

Sheryl Crow sang “Soak Up the Sun” at Mile 

14, I imagined I was gathering healing energy 

as I ran east: 

For every time I feel lame 

I'm looking up 

I'm gonna soak up the sun 

The course flattened out in nondescript 

Miles 14 to 16, with nary a spectator 

through some of the less-affluent sections of 

town. The nonsensical rhythms of the Talking 

Heads (“Psycho Killer,” “Burning Down the 

House” and “Life During Wartime”) enabled 

me to “Run run run run run run run away” 

at a steady 7:50 pace, but there was foreshadowing 

in “Hold tight, wait till the party's 

over. Hold tight, we're in for nasty weather.” 

My favorite part of the course was Miles 

16 through 19, a nice, winding downhill 

stretch through wooded Wade Park and 

Rockefeller Park. At the 18-mile mark, I was 

four minutes ahead of schedule, and as Tom 

Petty sang “Runnin' Down A Dream,” I 

began to feel confident that I would accomplish 

my elusive goal: 

Runnin' down a dream. 

Never would come to me. 

Working on a mystery. 

Going wherever it leads. 

Runnin' down a dream. 

Past Mile 19, the course turned sharply 

left along the lakeshore, into the teeth of 25- 

mph winds. A raincoat-clad volunteer pointed 

me towards a narrow bike path while the 

wind spit lake spray into my face. I tried to 

maintain some semblance of running form 

but felt as though I was getting knocked 

backwards by the gusts. 

As I passed the 20-mile mark, doubt 

crept into my mind as I checked my watch. 

Sure enough, my pace had slowed to 8:30; 

the inevitable decline had begun. The course 

veered away from the lake and crossed over a 

highway, but the Marginal Road didn't seem 

to be getting us any closer to downtown. At 

Mile 21, Lenny Kravitz asked the question 

weighing on my mind: 

Where are we runnin'? 

We need some time to clear our heads 


Keep on working till we're dead 


Oo wee oo wee oo 

Where are we runnin' now? 

Around Mile 22 my calf muscles 

cramped, a frightening new experience for 

me. I shortened my stride, hoping to prevent 

my legs from totally locking up. I had to stop 

and stretch several times during my walk 

breaks, which were becoming more frequent 

than I had planned. My time deposit was 

being withdrawn and my window for finishing 

on time was shrinking fast. 

As I approached Mile 23 and the last significant 

uphill, my pace had slowed to over 9 

minutes a mile. It was becoming painfully 

obvious - emphasis on “painful” - that if I 

continued to slow down, I wouldn't make it 

in 3:30:59. The prospect of falling short of 

my goal after coming so close made me miserable. 

I felt sorry for myself and cursed the 

wind and my leg cramps for my imminent 

failure. 

Then I saw her. As she ran past me, I 

read the word “Believe” on the back of her 

shirt. Her stride was strong and steady, but 

not smooth. I was awestruck when I saw that 

she ran on a prosthetic leg! And she was running 

fast - definitely under an 8-minute pace. 

(I later learned she was Amy Palmiero- 

Winters, who went on to finish in 3:26, 

breaking the marathon world record for 

female amputee runners by 27 minutes). 

As she pulled away from me, I continued 

to fix my gaze on her back to pull myself 

along. If she could do this well on one leg, I 

had to pick it up. Shaking off my self-pity, I 

resolved to banish all negative thoughts. I 

might not make my goal time, but I was 

determined not to give up, cramps or no. 

I had the foresight to conclude my 

marathon playlist with nine songs by Green 

Day. Billy Joe's spirited vocals and Trey Cool's 

hyperactive drums carried me through Mile 24 

with “Maria,” “American Idiot” and 

“Holiday.” Heading down Lakeside Avenue 

(aka the Boulevard of Broken Dreams), I passed 

several competitors who had succumbed to 

walking to the finish, not by choice. 

“St. Jimmy” blessed my arrival at the 

Mile 25 mark, and I mistakenly thought I 

had 11 minutes to run the last mile. In my 

oxygen-deprived state, I momentarily forgot 

that I still had 1.2 miles to go. 

To reach the finish line on time, it would 

take every ounce of energy I could extract 

from “She's a Rebel,” “Letterbomb” (“It's 

not over till you're underground, It's not over 

before it's too late”) and “Longview.” 

While my mind was willing, my flesh faltered 

as I reached Mile 26. With 385 yards to 

go and the finish line in sight, I felt I was in 

that nightmare where you are trying to run, 

yet your legs are moving in slow motion. 

Somehow, I managed an 8:20 pace the 

last 1.2 miles to hobble across the finish line 

in 3:30:18, making my Boston qualifying 

time with just 41 seconds to spare. As I 

thrust my arms skyward in celebration, 

“Welcome to Paradise” burst through my 

headphones. 

Within minutes of finishing, the cramps 

tightened their vise grip on my calves, dropping 

me to the ground in momentary agony. 

But the pain soon subsided, replaced by the 

joy and satisfaction of knowing that I was 

finally Boston bound. 

Anthony Targan works as an attorney and 

lives in southeast Michigan with his wife and 

two daughters. His sports writing has 

appeared on TalentedMrRoto.com, 

NBA.com, MLB.com, and in Michigan 

Runner magazine. MR 


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GLSP Stats for the Year 2006 

http://glsp.com 

Photo by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios 

Hillsdale “Gina” Relays, 2006 

MIC 

Brand Nameplate FIC 

Michigan Golfer Online Magazine F = 36,600 

Michigan Golfer Online V = 1,114,114 

Michigan Golf News S+P = 711,776 

Michigan Golfer Television V = 550,691 

Michigan Runner Magazine R+F = 76,200 

Michigan Runner Online P = 806,000 

Mchigan Runner Television V = 414,922 

Michigan Running News S+P = 418,000 

Michigan Skier Television V = 76,581 

Michigan Ski News S = 11,000 

MichiganTravel Television V = 216,443 

MichiganTravel Television News S = 25,200 

Running Canada Television V = 112,087 

Running Canada Television News S = 63,744 

Code 

V=Viewers - Video measuring terminology 

P=Pageviews -Pages that are referenced from the site 

R=Readers - Print 

S=Subscribers 

F=PDF Magazine Downloads 

FIC - Frequency x Issues = annual Circulation 

(C=V+P+R+S) 

R+P+S+R = 4,602,772 Annual / 383, 539 Monthly 

Grand Total Circulation GLSP 2006 4,602,772 

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Email, FAX or mail to 

3588 Plymouth Rd., #245 

Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2603 

jennie@glsp.com 

(734) 507-0251 

(734) 434-4765 FAX 

Boyne Highlands Krazy Daze 

Harbor Springs 10:00 am 

Boyne Highlands 

xc, downhill ski races 

(800) GO-BOYNE 

boynehighlands.com 

IronMAC Indoor Triathlon 

East Lansing 7:30 am 

Michigan Athletic Club 

Tri: 20 minutes each S/B/R 

(517) 364-8800 

triclub@msu.edu 

March Madness Sprint 

Adventure Race 

Milford 

Kensington Metro Park 

4-6 hr race, 2 person co-ed 

(810) 239-00165 

zac@infiterrasports.com 

www.infiterrasports.com 

Men’s 8K Championships 

New York 

8KR 

New York Road Runners 

(212) 860-4455 

webmaster@nyrr.org 

nyrr.org 

USA 8K Championship 

Michigan Indoor Track Series 

Championship 


University of Michigan 

track & field 

Mike Jurasek, Richard 

Chenault 

mjurasek@mitstrack.org, 

richardchenault1029@yahoo.c 

om 

mitstrack.org/Schedule.asp 

Nutri-Runs 

Fort Wayne, IN 1:00 pm 

The Chapel, 2505 W. 

Hamilton 

20KR, 5MR/W 

Kathy Burner 

(260) 710-1703 

katydid0512Wyahoo.com 

www.fwtc.org 

Shamrock 5K Run, Walk, and 

Roll 


MSU Campus, Bessey Hall 

5KR/W / wheel 

(517) 980-5214 

wieberli@msu.edu 

msu.edu/user/towergrd/ 

Spectrum Health Irish Jig East 

Grand Rapids 9 am 

East Grand Rapids HS 

5KR Jason Decker 

(616) 291-1514 

jason.decker@spectrumhealth.org 

St. Patrick’s Day Charity 5K 

and Fun Run/Walk 

Clare 9:00 am 

Doherty Hotel 

5KR, 2 MFR/W 

Tom Kunse 

(989) 205-4133 

northern@glccomputers.com 

St. Patrick’s Day Leprechaun 

Races 

Bay City 2:00 pm 

Bay County Community 

Center kids runs 

Ann Gasta 

(989) 686-0126 

runwild1128@yahoo.com 

barc-mi.com 

St. Patrick’s Day Pot O’ Gold 

Shuffle 

Flint 10:30 am 

4 MR/W, Fun Run 

Curtis Thompson 

(810) 233-8851 

shuffle@raceservices.com 

www.raceservices.com 

Tower Guard Shamrock 5K 


MSU Campus, Bessey Hall 

5KR/W 

Lindsay Wieber 

(517) 980-5214 

wieberli@msu.edu 

msu.edu/~towergrd 

Wearin’ of the Green 4 Mile 

Prediction Run 

Oregon 10:00 am 

Oregon Senior Center 

4MR 

Ed O’Reilly 

(419) 360-3709 

glassmarathon@aol.com 


XC Ski Headquarters Relays 

Roscommon 10:30 am 

XC Ski Headquarters 

3 x 8K XC Ski, 

classical/freestyle 

Bob Frye (800) 832-2663 

www.skicrosscountry.org 


Churchill’s Half Marathon 

Monclova. OH 1:00 pm 

Monclova Community Center 

8115 Monclova Road 

13.1 MR Tony Bayford 

(419) 472-0077 

tbayford@accesstoledo.com 


Crazy Run 


Nichols Arboretum 5-8 MR 

(734) 995-0961 

events@aatrackclub.org 

aatrackclub.org 




(734) 332-9314 



Spring Thaw 

Windsor 9:00 am 

5480 Wyandott St. E 

5KR/W, kids’ dash 

Running Factory 

(877) 439-3314 

info@runningfactory.com 

www.runningfactory.com 

St. Patrick’s Day Races 

Bay City 11:00 am 

Cramer Jr. High 

8KR, 5KR/W 

Ann Gasta (989) 686-0126 


barc-mi.com 

2 day event: Leprechaun Runs 

3/17/07 

Michigan Runner Race Series 


Food-N-Fitness 5K Run/Walk 

Lansing 10:00 am 

Hawk Island County Park, 

1601 E. Cavanaugh St. 

5KR/W, 1/2 MFR 

Lansing Dietetic Association 

(517) 349-8480 

kgs@udim.org 

eatrightlansing.org 

Gobles Grad Bash Dash 

Gobles 9:00 am 

Gobles High School, 409 N. 

State St. 

5KR/W Diane Corradini 

(269) 628-4663 

bookwoman15@verizon.net 

Kent City Ridge Run 

Kent City 9:30 am 

Kent City High School, 351 N. 

Main St. 

15KR, 5KR/W 

Jill Evers 

(616) 678-4210, ext. 1501 

eversj@kent-city.k12.mi.u2 

greatlakeschampionchip.com 

Melt the Ice 5K 

Fremont, OH 10:00 am 

Fremont Community 

Recreation Complex 5KR 

Marc Glotzbecker 

(419) 334-5906 

mdglotz@fr4emontohio.org 

Kal-Haven Trail Run 

Kalamazoo 9:00 am 

10th Street, Trail Head, Kal- 

Haven Trailhead 

33.6 MR , 2 or 6 relays 

(269) 375-5316 

TKHutchins@chartermi.net 

kalamazooarearunners.com 

No Frills, All Thrills, Trail 

Run 

Brighton 10:00 am Huron 

Meadows Metro Park 

5 MR Paul Harkins 

(734) 834-0939 

harkinsp@umich.edu 

2 2 0 0 7 E V E N T CA L E N D A R - M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 0 7


Run A Mile For A Child 

Belmont 9:00 am 

Plainfield Township Fire 

Department & TWP Hall, 

6161 Belmont Ave. 

5KR/W Steve McKellar 

(616) 774-7207 

mckellars@plainfieldfire.org 

classicrace.com 

Spring Gallup 


Gallup Park 5KR/W 

Dawn Evans 

(800) 482-304 

(734) 554-0015 

dawn@hfmich.org 

hfmich.org/events_main.cfm 

www.a2jaycees.org 

Wheel, Run Together 5k 

Challenge 

Allendale 9:00 am 

Grand Valley State 

University Campus 

5KR/W/Wheel, 

1MR/W/Wheel 

Jenn Hutchens 

(616) 493-2620 

jenn_hutchens@hotmail.com 

www.alternativesinmotion.org 



Promotions 



5KR Bob Blunk 

(248) 627-6619 



Around the Bay 30K 

Hamilton, ON 9:30 am 

Hamilton, Ontario 

30KR, 5K, 2 & 3 person 

relays 

Michael Zajczenko 

(905) 574-8982 

bayrace@bellnet.ca 

aroundthebayroadrace.com 

Life Time Fitness Indoor 

Triathlon 

Rochester Hills 7:00 am 

Tri: 10 min S/ 30 min B/ 20 

min R 

(952) 229-7227 

events@lifetimefitness.com 

lifetimefitness.com 

MORE Marathon 

New York City 

Central Park 

26.2 MR, 2 person relay 

Michigan contact: Ann 

Forshee Crane 

(212) 860-4455 

ann26point2@comcast.net 

www.nyrrc.com/race/2005/ 

moremarathon/ 




3:00 pm 

(734) 332-9314 



North Wind Running Club 

Winter Training Run 

Whitmore Lake 8:00 am 

Whitmore Lake HS 

20MFR, 10MFR 

North Wind Running Club 

(734) 972-0059 

northwindrc@yahoo.com 

Ohio River Road Runners 

Club Marathon and Half 

Marathon 

Dayton 8:00 am 

Five Rivers Metroparks 

26.2 MR,13.1 MR, relay 

Ohio River Road Runner 

Club 

(937) 269-1992 

marathon@orrrc.org 

www.orrrc.org 

Wednesday, March 28 

Hash Run 

Toledo, OH 

Bob Ampthor 

(419) 882-1711 

www.mudhenhhh.com 


Bill Agresta Scholarship 

Hustle 

Hemlock 8:15 am 

Hemlock HS 4MR/W 

Louise Fleischmann 

(989) 642-5287 

fleischmann@hemlock.k12. 

mi.us 

Brighten Up a Face 

Race/Walk 

Toledo, OH 10:00 am 

MCO Howard J. Collier 

Building 

5KR/W Kelly Bombrys 

(419) 383-6428 

www.facedayrace.com 

Ed Dibble Towpath 

Waterville 8:00 am 

Farnsworth Metropark 

19 MR 

Louise Miklovic 

(419) 868-1295 


Elite Endeavors Indoor 

Triathlon 


Perrysburg YMCA 

15 min. S/ 15 min B/ 15 

min. R 


(419) 829-2398 


Hansons Running Shop 5K 

Run & 1 Mile Walk 

Utica 10:00 am 

Flickinger Elementary 

School 5KR/W 

Sonja Hanson 

(586) 323-9683 

sshoudy@hotmail.com 

hansons-running.com 

Jog Into Spring 

Independence 9:00 am 

Elmwood Park 

5MK, 1MW 

Katherine Gessner 

(216) 623-9933 



Martian Marathon Expo 

Dearborn Heights 1:00 pm 

Henry Ford Dearborn 

Heights Center 

(734) 929-9027 

events@runningfit.com 

martianmarathon.com 

POW/MIA 5K 


MSU 5KR/W 

Kathleen Polesnak 

(249) 622-5283 

kathleen.polesnak@gmail.com 

Road Running EMU Trot 

Ypsilanti 

Eastern Michigan 

University Park, Oakwood 

& Huron River Drive 

5KFR Kenny White 

(248) 303-0763 

roadrunningemu@yahoo.com 

www.emich.edu/studentorgs/roadrunningemus/ 

April 

Sunday, April 1 

Martian Invasion of Races 

Dearborn 8:30 am 

26.2KR, 13.1KR, 10KR, 

kids’ mini-marathon 

(734) 929-9027 





Tecumseh 3:00 pm 

(734) 332-9314 



Stay in the Shade’s 

Mountain Man 

Lake Orion 9:30 am 

Bald Mountain Rec. Area 

5MR, 2MW Karl Lopata 

(248) 320-9102 

karl.stayintheshade@gmail. 

com 

www.sttayintheshade.org 

Tortoise and Hare Spring 

Training Run 


Tortoise & Hare, Plymouth 

Rd. 

training run - 10M loop 

(734) 623-9640 


tortoiseandhare.com 

Twenty Mile Training Run 

Dearborn 8:30 am 

U of M Dearborn, Hines Dr. 

20K or training run of any 

distance 

(734) 929-9027 



Friday, April 6 

Downtown 5K 

London 10:00 am 

Victoria Park 

5KR, 2.5KR/W, kids run 

Runners Choice 

(519) 672-5105 

runners@runnerschoice.on.ca 

runnerschoice.on.ca 

Saturday, April 7 

Ambulance Chase 

Toldeo, OH 11:00 am 

University of Toledo Law 

School 5KR/W 


Flushing Township 1/2 

Marathon & 5k Run/Walk 

Flushing 9:30 am 

Flushing High School 

13.1 MR, 5KR/W 

John Gault 

(810) 487-0954 

GRaceMgt@aol.com 


Easter Egg Hash & Kids 

Egg Hunt Mini-Hash 


5MFR, 1/2 M kids’ run 

Dave Walch 

(269) 276-0431 


Fools’ Run / Walk 

Clarkston 9:00 am 

Clarkston Community 

Church 5KR/W 

Kim Cross 

(248) 891-6571 

kimfcross@aol.com 

www.clarkstoncchurch.com 

Harry’s Spring Run Off 

Toronto 10:00 am 

8KR, 5KR 

Canada Running Series 

High Park 

(416) 944-2765 

run@canadarunningseries.com 

canadarunningseries.com 


Journey for Sight 5K Run 

Walk 


Hawk Island County Park 

5KR/W Brian Shepard 

(517) 337-2705 

shepbrian@aol.com 

www.district1c2.org 

Ringing in Spring 

Valparaiso 10:00 am 

YMCA, 55 Chicago St. 

5KR/W, Kids Run 

Valparaiso Family YMCA 

(219) 462-4189 

michel.jones16@comcast.net 

www.ringinginspring.com 

Spring Warm Up 


High Park Curling Club 

48KR, 38KR, 28KR, 

20KR, 10KR 

Sharon Zelinski 

sezelinski@excite.com 

ouser.org/races/spring_war 

m_up.htm 

Ontario Ultra Series 

Stark Raving Mad 


Muskegon 10:00 am 

Muskegon Winter Sports 

Complex 

4 hour sprint adventure 

race: canoeing, mountain 

biking, orienteering, 

trekking 

Matt Vander Sys 

(231) 744-9138 

endurancesports@verizon.net 

endurancesports.biz 



3

White Pine Trail Run 

Rockford 10:00 am 

Westwood at the Crossing 

4MR, 2MR Jim Anton 

(616) 776-6134 

james.m.anton@usps.gov 





(734) 332-9314 



Wednesday, April 11 

Hash Run 

Toledo, OH 

Bob Ampthor 

(419) 882-1711 



Breakout 24 Adventure 

Race 

Dewitt Foxbrush 

Farms, 13300 Francis 

24 hour training race: biking, 

canoeing, trekking, orienteering, 

ropes 

Scott Campau 

(231) 736-7880 

scott@graar.org 



Beach Wellness 


Bay City Recreation Area 

5KR/W, 1/4M kids run 

Kim Coonan 

(989) 684-7675 

CACS Head Start Miles for 

Smiles 5K Walk 

Lansing 


5KW Teresa Spitzer 

(517) 482-1504 

teresa.spitzer@cacheadstart.org 

playmakers.com 

Norway Spring Classic 

Norway 10:30 am 

Norway HS 10KR, 2MR 

Tony Adams 

(906) 774-8071 

saadams@localnet.com 

Orthopaedic Rehab 8K 

Run / 5K Walk 

Jackson 8:00 am 

Kuhl’s Bell Tower 

8KR, 5KWKid’s Run 

Bob Gilmore 

(517) 788-1121 

rtgilmore5924@comcast.net 

orthopaedicrehab.com 

Pork and Plod Spam 

Spectacular 

Mt Pleasant 2:00 pm 

3MR Mike Georgia 

(989) 772.0603 

kagpeach@aol.com 

www.edzone.net/~mphsstr 

Run for Reading 

Delta Township 9:00 am 

Delta Township District 

Library, 4538 Elizabeth Rd 


Cherry Hamrick 

(517) 321-4014 

chamrick@deltami.gov 

www.deltami.gov/library 

Town Crier 5K & 10K 

Saugatuck 8:00 am 

5K begins at 9:15 am 

Corner of Butler and Main 

10KR, 5KR/W, kids’ run 

Jose Santos 

(269) 857-1116 

santos@caribbeancolorsnostalgia.com 


Walker Pump & Run 

Walker 9:00 am 

4151 Remembrance Rd. 

5KR Megan Bozek 

(616) 734-6286 

mbozek@walkericeandfitness.com 

walkericeandfitness.com 


Crazy Run 


Huron River Trails 

5-8 MR 

Ann Arbor Track Club 

(734)995-0961 



Glass City Marathon & 

Team Relay 


26.2 MR, 2 & 5 person 

relays, 1MFR, 2MW 

(419) 360-3709 






(734) 332-9314 



Run for Retina Research 

London, ON 9:15am 

Harris Park 

13.1 MR/W, 10KR, 5KR, 

2.5KR/W, kids race 

Barry Smith 

(510) 777-3165 

bsmith2@runningroom.com 

runningroom.com 

Spirit of St. Louis 

Marathon 

St. Louis, MO 7:00 am 

26.2 MR, 13.1 MR, 

marathon relay, 5KR/W 

(314) 727-0800 

infospirit@sbcglobal.net 

stlouismarathon.com 

Valpo Mini-Marathon 

Valparaiso 7:30 am 

Lincolnway & Lafayette 

13.1MR Bob Paulsson 

(311) 301-RACE 

ccraiger@yahoo.com, 

valpominimarathon.com 

Monday, April 16 

B.A.A. Boston Marathon 

Boston 

26.2 MR B.A.A 

(508) 435-6905 

www.baa.org 

USA Women’s Marathon 

Championship 


Cabin Fever 5K 

Sault Ste. Marie 9:00 am 

James Norris Center, Lake 

Superior State University 

5K Stephen Eles 

(906) 635.2765 

track@lssu.edu 

Crime Victim’s Rights 5K 

Run/Walk 

Paw Paw 9:00 am 

505 Hazen St. 

5KR/W 

Sally Battyanyi 

(269) 657-8239 

sallb@vbco.org 

Fifth Third River Bank 

Run Training Run 


Johnson Park 15KR 

Matt VanTil 

(616) 224-5874 

mattv@partnersworldwide.org 

www.53riverbankrun.com 

Interact 5K 

Howell 9:00 am 

1200 West Grand River 

5KR/W Peter Bowen 

(517) 546-2439 

bowen.swann@sbcglobal.net 

JROTC Fun Run 

Detroit/Belle Isle 8:30 am 

Belle Isle 5KR/W 

Doug Harvey 

(313) 873-9600 

jrotc.daisupply@detroitk12. 

org 

Luck of the Run 



Center 5KR/W, Kids’ FR 

Ann Gasta (989) 233-8489 

Gastazoo@chartermi.net 

barc-mi.com 

Pigeon Creek Trail 5K Fun 

Run/Walk 

West Olive 8:30 am 

Pigeon Creek Park 

5KR/W Tara Follett 

(616) 392-1479 

tarfollett@yahoo.com 

www.ghyfc.org 

Sierra Club EnviRUNment 

Run 

Milford 10:00 am 

Kensington Metropark, 

East Boat Launch 

4MR, 2MW 

Leigh Fifelski 

(248) 435-5277 

leigh.fifelski@sierraclub.org 

sierraclub.org/community/o 

akland/run/ 

Spring Fury Sport/Elite 

Sprint Adventure Race 

Holly 8:00 am 

Seven Lakes State Park 

10 hour sprint race 

Zac Chisholm 

(810) 239-00165 



Striders Saturday Classic 

Grandville 8:00 am 

Covenant Christian High 

School 10 MR 

Steve Webster 

(616) 261-9706 

s.webster@stridersrun.com 

www.stridersrun.com 

Tax Trot 


Flushing High School 

15KR, 10KR, 5KR/W 

John Gault 

(810) 659-6493 

johncgault2@aol.com 

riverbendstriders.com 

Toledo Zoo Dart Frog 

Dash 


Toledo Zoo Nairobi Events 

Pavilion 

5KR/W, Kids 1KR 

Robin Brown 

(419) 360-3709 





Promotions 



5KR 

Bob Blunk 

(248) 627-6619 



Bedford Auto Mile Run 

and Pancace Breakfast 

Bedford 9:00 am 

Bedford High School 

5MR, 2MR/W 

Bud McNellie 

(440) 247-3129 

fmcnellie@aol.com 

www.bedford.k12.oh.us 

Dooby Du Bikesport 

Duathlon 


Secor Metropark 

2MR, 6.5MB, 

2MR,6.5MR,2MR 


(419) 829-2398 

jdjp@sev.org 

eliteendeavors.com 

Joan C. Banfield 4 Mile 

Run/Walk 

Dexter 9:15 am 

Hudson Mills Metro Park 

4MR/W, 1M kids run 

Bob & Katie Jazwinski 

(734) 424-0785 

jazzrun@charter.net 

www.jcbfoundation.org 

Lenawee Humane Society 

5K 

Adrian 9:00 am 

Running with E’s, 146 N. 

Main St. 5KR, 1MW 

Rebecca Parkhurst 

(517) 263-3463 

rparkhurst@tc3net.com 

www.lenhumanesoc.org 

Montreal 21K 

Montreal 9:00 am 

Parc Jean-Drapeau 

21KR, 5KR 

(416) 944-2765 







3:00 pm 

(734) 332-9314 



MSU Race for the Place 5K 

East Lansing 1:00 pm 

Jenison Fieldhouse 

5KR/W 

April Clobes 

(517) 333.2254 

aclobes@msufcv.org 

www.msufcu.org 

Playmakers Race Series 

Spring Fury Beginner/ 

Intermediate Adventure 

Race 

Holly 8:00 am 

Seven Lakes Statet Park 

8 hour sprint race 

Zac Chisholm 



(810) 239-00165 



Wednesday, April 25 

Hash Run 

Toledo, OH 

Bob Ampthor 

(419) 882-1711 


Thursday, April 26 

Hillsdale “Gina” Relays 

Hillsdale 10:00 am 

Hillsdale College track 


Bill Lundberg 

(517) 607-3155 

bill.lundberg@hillsdale.edu 

www.hillsdale.edu/chargers/mens/track 

4/26/07 to 4/28/07 





track meet 

Bill Lundberg 

(517) 607-3155 



4/26/07 to 4/28/07 

Rotary 5K Run 

St. Joseph 6:00 pm 

St. Joseph High School. 

5KR Sean Ebbert 

(269) 926-7281 

sebbert@pearsonconstruction.com 


Beat the Grandma 5K 


Union High School 

5KR Dan Droski 

(616) 987-9575 

droskidan33@netscape.net 

www.thekenyanway.us 

Borgess Run for the Health 

of It 


13.1MR, 5KR/W, 1 MFR 

Blaine Lam 

(269) 345-1913 

blainel@lamcreative.com 

www.borgessrun.com 

Cadillac Walk March of 

Dimes Walk America 

Cadillac 8:00 am 

Rotary Pavilion, 

Downtown Lakefront 

6MR/W 

Jennifer VanderWall 

(231) 947-2488 

walkamerica.org 

Calvin Spring Classic 


Calvin College Field House 

5KR/W, 1KFR 

(616) 526-6803 

5K@calvin.edu 

www.calvin.edu/classic/ 

Camp Pendalouan Trail 

and Road Race 

Montague 9:00 am 

Camp Pendalouan, 1243 

East Fruitvale Road 

5MR Don Correll 

(231) 894-4538 

doncor49@yahoo.com 


Country Music Marathon 

Nashville 6:45 am 

26.2 MR, 13.1 MR 

Elite Racing 

(615) 742-1660 

cmm@eliteracing.com 

www.cmmarathon.com 

FAB 5K 

Fowlerville 10:00 am 

Behind Munn Middle 

School 450N. Hibbard 

5KR Denise Tefft 

(517) 223-3098 

cdtefft@cac.net 

www.fowlervillesports.com 

Family Service and 

Children’s Aid 5K 


5KR/W, Kid’s Run 

Bruce Inosencio 

(517) 796-1444 

bruce@inosencio.com 

runjackson.com 

Hermes 10 Miler, Fleet Feet 

5K & Cleveland Kid’s Run 

Cleveland 8:30 am 

House of Blues, Downtown 

Cleveland 

10MR, 5KR, kids’ run 

(216) 623-9933 







Bill Lundberg 

(517) 607-3155 



4/26/07 to 4/28/07 


Kalkaska Wood Memorial 

Trout Run 

Kalkaska 10:00 am 

Mill Pond 

10KR, 5KR, 1MFR 

Cheryl Oslund 

(231) 342-6634 

oslundWRC@aol.com 

Lake Michigan College 

Spring Training 

Benton Harbor 9:00 am 

Lake Michigan College 

10KR, 5KR 

Andrew Cowan 

(269) 927-8100, x5101 

cowan@lakemichigancollege.edu 

Meijer Derby Festival 

Marathon, MiniMarathon 

and Relays 

Louisville, KY 7:30 am 

26.2MR, 13.1MR, relays 

(502) 584-6383 

minimarathon@kdf.org 

derbyfestivalmarathon.com 

Navarino Trail Run 

Shiocton, WI 10:00 am 

15KR, 5KR 

Jeff Crumbaugh 

(715) 460-0426 

info@greatlakesendurance.com 

greatlakesendurance.com 

Precious Gifts 5K Run/2 

Mile Walk 

Howard City 9:30 

amBethel Lutheran Church 

5KR, 2 MW, 3/4MFR/W, 

kids run 

Jody Warner 

(231) 937-4615 

bethelhc@pathwaynet.com 

R.A.T. Race 

Mt. Pleasant 9:00 am 

Wellness Central Fitness, 

2600 Three Leaves Drive 

10KR, 5KR, 1MR 

Julia Keepper 

(989) 779-5602 

jkeepper@cmch.org 

Road Ends 5 Mile Trail Run 


Pinckney Recreation Area 

5 MR 

(734) 929-9027 


trailmarathon.com 

Michigan Runner Race 

Series 

Shepherd Maple Syrup 

Festival 5K 

Shepherd 8:00 am 

Shepherd HS 5KR 

Rick Calhoon 

(989) 828-6601 

ricahoon@edzone.net 

www.edzone.net/~ricahoon 

Spring Run Off 


Springbank Park at Flint 

cottage 10KR, 3KR 


(519) 672-5928 



Step To Your Health 5K 

Saginaw 9:00 am 

Potential Energy Athletic 

Club, 6125 Gration 

5KR/W 

Potential Energy Athletic 

Club 

(989) 799-0550 

WYLD Bill 5K 



5KR/W Bill Lundberg 




Komen Greater Lansing 

Race for the Cure® 

Lansing 1:00 p.m. 

Lansing State Capitol 

5KR/W Steve Widder 

(517) 347-7572 

stevekwidder@cs.com 

komengreaterlansing.org 





3:00 pm 

(734) 332-9314 



Steelcase Grand Duathlon 


5KR, 30 KB, 5KR 

(810) 714-5784 

kenny@3disciplines.com 

3disciplines.com 

Trail Marathon Weekend 


Pinckney Recreation Area 

26.2 MR, 13.1 MR 

(734) 929-9027 


trailmarathon.com 

May 

Wednesday, May 2 

Run Fit 5K 

Novi 6:30 pm 

Novi Town Center 

5KR, 1MR, kids run 

(734) 929-9027 


www.runfit5K.com 

Friday, May 4 

Mason State Bank 5K 

Mason 7:00 pm 

Downtown Mason 

5KR/W, 1MFR, 100 yd dash 

Mason Chamber of 

Commerce 

(517) 676-1046 

masonchamber.org/5krun.htm 

Playmaker Race Series 

Saturday, May 5 

Blossomland Run for the 

Buds 

St. Joseph 11:30 am 

Whitcomb Towers 


Benton Harbor-St. Joseph 

YMCA 

(269) 428-9622 

bruce@bhsjymca.org 

blossomtimefestival.org 

Carrollton Lions Club 

Walk/Run for the Blind 5K 

Carrollton 8:15 am 

Carrolton High School, 

1235 Mapleridge Road 

5KR/W 

Craig Douglas 

(989) 399-8860 

cdouglas@carrollton.k12.mi.us 

Families of Spinal Muscular 

Atrophy Run, Walk & Roll 

5K 


Hawk Island Country Park 


Holly Schafer 

(517) 668-1810 

hollyschafer@comcast.net 

GRAAR Spring Challenge 



4-6 hour sprint race 

Michael Boks 

michael@graar.org 

graar.org/springrace2007.html 



5

Kiwanis 5K Run/Walk 

Clinton Township 

5KR/W 

raceservicees.com 




(734) 332-9314 



Race Judicata 

Bloomfield Hills 9:30 am 

Andover High School 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Denise Gac 

(248) 334-3400 

dgac@ocba.org 

ocba.org 

Toronto Ultra Race 


Summerlea Park 

100KR, 50KR, 30KR 

(905) 887-2589 

johnremington@hotmail.com 

ouser.org 


Triple Creek Dash 

Three Rivers 8:30 am 

10KR, 5KR, 1 MR/W 

Shannon Sziede 

(269) 273-9697 

shardy@threerivedrshealth.org 

www.threerivershealth.org 

Tulip Time Run for Habitat 


Centennial Park 5KR/W 

Roz Nienhuis 

(616) 393-8001 

tulip@tuliptime.com 

www.tuliptime.com 


Traverse City 1:00 pm 

training run up to 20MR 

Running Fit 

(231) 932-5401 

traverse2@runningfit.com 

www.runningfit.com 


Westland 8:00 am 

Nankin Mills on Hines Dr. 

training run up to 20MR 

Running Fit Racing 

(734) 929-9027 


www.runningfit.com/20_mi 

le_training.cfm 

Sunday, May 6 

Burns Park Run 


Burns Park Elem. School 

10KR, 5KR/W, 1/2 MFR 

Jackie Dalton 

(734) 747-6952 

A2boss@gmail.com 

www.burnspark.org 

Cinco De Mayo Fun Run 


Mexican Town from Patton 

Park to Clark Park 

5KR/W 

Rosalia Madrigal 

(313) 570-4803 

rmadrigal@bailarythns.com 

Course of Champions 


Kensington Metro Park, 

Possum Hollow 

5KR, 1MFR 

Jim VanDerWorp 

(248) 684-1710 

vanscabin@comcast.net 

milfordcrosscountry.com 

Dara Hosta Olmsted Spirit 

5K Race / Walk 

Olmsted Falls 9:00 am 

Olmsted Falls HS 

5K R/W, 2MW, kids run 

Fonda Hosta 

(440) 235-5631 

bfhos2001@ameritech.net 

www.spectralight.com 

Flying Pig Marathon 

Cincinnati, OH 6:00 pm 

26.2MR, 13.1MR, 

26.2Wheelchair, relay 

Iris Simpson-Bush 

(513) 721-7447 

info@flyingpigmarathon.com 

flyingpigmarathon.com 

National Kidney 

Foundation 5K Walk 

Lansing 1:00 pm 

Potter Park Zoo 

Joey Latterman 

(517) 351-1258 

jlatterman@sbcglobal.net 

Sporting Life 10K 

Toronto, ON 8:00 am 

Sporting Life, 2665 Yonge 

10KR 

Michael Brennan 

(416) 944-2765 




SudburyRocks!!! Race, 

Run, or Walk for Diabetes 

Sudbury 7:00 am 

26.2MR/W, 13.1MR/W, 

10KR/W, 5KR/W, 1KR/W 

Steve Matusch 

stevem@ionic-eng.com 

sudburyrocksmarathon.com 


Training Run 


Tortoise and Hare, 

Plymouth Road 


(734) 623-9640 



Vancouver International 

Marathon 

Vancouver, BC 6:30 am 

26.2 MR, 13.1MR, 26.2 

wheelchair, kids run 

(604) 872-2928 

info@vanmarathon.bc.ca 

vanmarathon.ca 

Willow Duathlon 

New Boston 9:00 am 

Willow Metropark 

5KR, 20KB, 5KR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 




Doozie’s Ice Cream Fun 

Run/Walk Series 

Mt. Pleasant 7:30 pm 

1310 East Pickard 

5MR, 3MR, 1 

Harry Plouff 

(989) 772-0323 

hplouff@yahoo.com 

www.edzone.net/~mphsstr/ 

Thursday, May 10 

Swartz Creek Challenge 

Swartz Creek 6:30 pm 

5KR/W John Gault 

(810) 238-5981 



Friday, May 11 

Big Ten Outdoor Track 

and Field Championships 

State College, PA 

track and field 

Big Ten 

May 11-13, 2007 

Downtown YMCA 

Wellness Center Invest in 

Youth 5K Run/Walk 


Riverfront Park 5KR 

Todd Fisher 

(517) 484-4000 

tdfisher@ymcaoflansing.org 

www.ymcaoflansing.org 


Arthritis Walk 


100 West Michigan Avenue 

3.1 MW, 1MW 

Arthritis Foundation, 

Michigan Chapter 

(248) 649-2891 

ccorey@arthritis.org 

www.arthiritis.org 

Dances with Dirt Indiana 

Indianapolis 

Eagle Creek Park 

50MR, 50KR, 100K relay 

Running Fit 

(734) 929-9027 


danceswithdirt.com 

Fifth Third River Bank Run 


25KR, 5KR/W, teams 

Kristen Aidif 

(616) 771-1590 

runinfo@53riverbankrun.com 

www.53riverbankrun.com 



Series 

Ganaraska Trail Runs 

Barrie, ON 9:00 am 

Horsehoe Valley Resort 

50KR, 25KR 

(705) 327-2156 

cdanrun@sympatico.ca 

ouser.org 


Ice Age Trail Run 

Whitewater, WI 6:00 am 

Southern Kettel Moraine 

State Forest, Lagrange 

Nordic Trail 

50MR, 50KR, 50K relay 

Glenn Wargolet 

(262) 495-3131 

glenn@iceagetrail50.com 

www.iceagetrail50.com 

Kate’s Challenge 

Essexville 8:30 am 

St. John’s Church 5KR/W 

Melissa Sochacki 

(989) 689-4925 

schockey6212@chartermil.net 

barc-mi.com 

Miles for Moms, K for 

Kids 


Ronald McDonald House, 

121 S. Holmes 5KR/W 

(517) 485-9825 

rmhmm@hotmail.com 

www.rmhmm.org/ 

Mississauga Marathon 10K 

& 5K 

Mississauga, ON 8:00 am 

Mississauga City Hall 

10KR, 5KR 

(905) 949-1910 

info@mississaugamarathon.com 

mississaugamarathon.com 

5/12/07 to 5/13/07 

River Rats Mad Rush 


Grayling 8:00 am 

Higgins Lake 

12 hr sprint adventure race 

35-45 miles 

Chad Swander 

(989) 348-05401 

chad@riverratsar.com 

www.riverratsar.com 

Run for the Kid of It 


Spring Valley Park, 2600 

Mt. Olivet 5KR 

Marnee Michalski 

(269) 372-8800 

funrun@bethany.org 

bethany.org/southwestmi 

St. Paul Spring Tune-Up 

Flint 9:00 am 

St. Paul Lutheran School 

5KR/W 

Roger Kilponen 

(810) 487-0954 

rkilponen@mindspring.com 


Sylvan Lake Shuffle 

Sylvan Lake 9:00 am 

Oakland County Boat Club 

5K R/W, 1K FR 

Michelle Allread 

(248) 683-5738 

michlegal@sbcglobal.net 

sylvanshuffle.com 

Toledo Symphony 

Stampede 


1838 Parkwood Ave. 

5KR/W 

Maribeth Stahl 

(419) 241-1272 

mstahl@toledosymphony.com 

toledosymphony.com 

Vicksburg Hearty Hustle 

Vicksburg 9:00 am 

Sunset Lake Elementary 

School 

5KRW, 1MFR, kids run 

Vickburg Community 

Education Nash 

(269) 321.1022 

skopalewski@yahoo.com 


Sunday, May 13 

Forest City Road Races 


London Life Building, 

Downton London 

26.2 MR, 26.2MR relay, 

13.1 MR, 10KR, 5KR/W, 

2.5K Family Run 

Sonya Slaven 

(519) 685-8689 

info@forestcityroadraces.com 

forestcityroadraces.com 

Mississauga Marathon 

Mississauga, ON 8:00 am 

Mississauga City Hall 

26.2 MR/Relay, 13.1 MR, 

2K FR/W 

(905) 949-1910 

info@mississaugamarathon.com 

mississaugamarathon.com 

5/12/07 to 5/13/07 






(734) 332-9314 



Nokomis Drum Run, Walk, 

Wheel 

Okemos 9:00 am 

behind Meridian Mall 

5KR/W/Wheel 

Adriana Greci Green 

(517) 349.5777 

info@nokomis.org 

www.nokomis.org 


Advance Packaging 5000 

Jackson 7:00 pm 

5KR/W, Kids Run 

Dave Knickerbocker 

(517) 788-9800 

dknick@advancepkg.com 



Bay Harbor 5K Run & 

Walk 

Bay Harbor 8:00 am 

Village at Bay Harbor 

5KR/W, kids race 

Bay Harbor Foundation 

(231) 439-2700 

info@bayharbor.com 

bayharborfoundation.com 

Bear of a Run 


Nelson Park 5KR 

Mary Olivieri 

(989) 772-9471, x209 

molivieri@isabellabank.com 

edzone.net/~mphsstr/ 

Confederation Park 5K, 

1K, Team Challenge 


Confederation Park 

5KR, 1KR 

(905) 562-8669 

instride@primus.ca 

instride.ca 

Cranbrook Fun Run 


Cranbrook Schools, 39221 

Woodward 

10KRW, 5KRW, kids run 

Tom Mecsey 

(248) 645-3078 

funrun@cranbrook.edu 

crannet.cranbrook.edu 

Crim Kids Classic 


Flint Cultural Center, 

Whiting Auditorium 

Courtyard, Kearsley Street 

diaper dash, toddler trot, 

1/4 MR, 1/2MR, 1MR 

Deb Kiertzner 

(810) 235-3396 

crim@flint.org 

Glio-Blastoff 5K Fun 

Run/Walk 

Ypsilanti 9:00 am 

EasternMichigan University 

Meghan Kimball 

(586) 468-4814 

mkimball@emich.edu 

www.braincancer5k.com 

Great Strides Walk for 

Cystic Fibrosis 

Comstock Park 10:00 am 

4500 West River Drive 

10KW Jay Simon 

(616) 241-2100 

jsimon@cff.org 

www.greatstrides.cff.org 

Healing Hands 

Flint 9:00 am 

Mott Community College 

5KR/W 

Genesse County Free 

Medical Clinic 

(810) 230-6492 


Heart & Sole 

Chelsea 8:30 am 

Chelsea Com’ty Hospital 

10KR, 5KR/W, 2 MR/W 

Cindy Cope 

(734) 475-4157 

CCope@cch.org 

www.cch.org 

Kalamazoo County Great 

Strides Walk for Cystic 

Fibrosis 

Portage 3:00 pm 

Celery Flats Park 

Walk; distance varies 

(800) 968-1050 

jmckay@cff.org 

www.cff.org 

Kent County Girls on the 

Run Celebretory 5K Run 


1001 E. Beltline NE 

5KR Melissa Chillag 

(616) 940-9888 

mchillag@gazellesports.com 

Komen Southwest 

Michigan Race for the 

Cure 


Arcadia Festival Site 

5KR/W, 1 MFR 

(877) 566-3679 

mary.peterson@wmich.edu 

komenswmichigan.org 

L’Anse Creuse High School 

Save the Manatee Run 


Huron-Clinton Metropark 

5KR, 2 MW 

Lesley Argiri 

(586) 783-6729 

Largiri1@hotmail.com 

LAP Scenic 

Challenge 5KR 



5MR, kids run 

Jerry Smith 

(517) 881-2525 

jsmith262@gmail.com 

Lory’s Place Run, Walk & 

Rock 


445 Upton Drive 

5KR/W Lisa Bartoszek 

(269) 983-2707 

lbartoszek@hospiceathome.org 

www.lorysplace.org 




(734) 332-9314 



Oaklawn Hospital 

Hospitality Classic 

Marshall 7:30 am 

10KR, 5KR, 5KFW, 1 

MFR, kids’ run 

Keith Crowell 

(269) 789-3911 

kcrowell@oaklawnhospital.com 

Run by the Bay 


Bay City State Rec. Area 

10KR, 5KR/W, 1/2MR, 

1/4MR Greg Rankin 

(989) 684-3487 

barc-mi.com 

Runnin’ With the Law 5K 


Griffs Icehouse, N. Division 

Ave/Coldbrook St. NE 

5KR Brian Gard 

(616) 456-3791 

grfootpursuit@hotmail.com 

www.tblofmi.com 

Silver Valley Trail Run 

East Tawas 10:00 am 

Huron National Forest, 

Tawas 

7KR, 5K Fun Run/Walk 

Dan Kammer 

(989) 469-3553 

kdkammer@m33access.com 

www.tawas.com 

St. Joseph Area Great 


Fibrosis 


Riverview Park 5KW 

(800) 968-1050 


www.cff.org 

Starker-Mann Biathlon 

Gaylord 10:00 am 

Otsego Club, 696 M32 

5KR, 30K bike, 5KR or 

5KR. 20KmtnB, 5KR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



YMCA Wyandotte River 

Run 

Wyandotte 6:00 pm 

BASF Waterfront Park, 

Wyandotte Shores Golf 

Course, 3625 Biddle, South 

of Eureka 

5KR/W, 1MFR/W, kids run 

Mary Reed 

(734) 282.9622 

downriverymca@ymcametr 

odetroit.org 


Blue Nose International 

Marathon 

Halifax, NS 

26.2 MR, 13.1MR, 10KR, 

5KR/W, relay, kids run 

info@bluenosemarathon.com 

bluenosemarathon.com 

Calhoun County Great 


Fibrosis 

Battle Creek 12:00 pm 

Bailey Park Complex 

5KR/W Jay Simon 

(616) 241-2100 

jsimon@cff.org 

www.greatstrides.cff.org 

Capitol Bancorp 5K for JA 


100 W. Ottawa 5KR/W 

Larry Richardson 

(517) 371-5437 

jamidmichigan@yahoo.com 

capitolbancorp5k.com 


Crazy Run 


after For Women Only - St. 

Joe’s Mercy Hospital 

5-8 MR 


(734)995-0961 



Dragon Dash 

Lake Orion 9:00 am 

Civic Center Park 8KR 

Jennifer Rowe 

(248) 391.0304, x140 

jrowe@oriontownship.org 

oriontownship.org 

Ferndale Foot Frolic 

Ferndale 9:00 am 

Kulick Community Center, 

1201 Livernois 

10KR, 1 MR, kids run\ 

Barbara Miller 

(248) 544-6767, ext . 262 

kulickcenter@ferndalemi.com 

For Women Only 5K 


St. Joseph Mercy Hospital 


Dawn Lovejoy 

(734) 827-2792 

fwo@aatrackclub.org, 

mlovejoy@glis.net 

www.aatrackclub.org/fwo/ 

Granger Paths 5K 

Run/Walk 

Granger, IN 9:00 am 

51446 Elm Road 

5KR/W Andy McGrail 

(574) 243-1452 

macruns26@aol.com 

grangerpaths.typepad.com 

Henry Ford Rock and 

Road 5 / 10K 

West Bloomfield 8:30 am 

West Bloomfield Family 

Aquatic Center 

10KR, 5KR5KR5KW1 

Mile FR 

(248) 451-1901 

westbloomfieldparks.org 

Racing 4 Your Memory 


Kensington Metro Park 

10KR, 5KR, 1MW 

Rachel Nyboer 

(248) 351-0280 

rachel.nyboer@alz.org 

www.alzgmc.org 

Railroader Trail Run 

Durand 10:00 am 

Durand Middle School 

10KR, 5KR/W, 1MFR 

Chris Lantis 

(989) 288-8782 

dogcoach@yahoo.com 




7

Rite Aid Cleveland 

Marathon & 10K 

Cleveland, OH 7:00 am 

26.2 MR, 13.1 MR, 10KR 

Jack Staph 

(800) 467-3826 

clevelandmarathon@earthlink.net 

clevelandmarathon.com 

Toledo Area Humane 

Society 5K Run for the 

Animals 

Maumee, OH 9:00 am 

UAW Hall, Arrowhead 

Park 

5KR 

Sherri Miller 

(419) 482-7101 


XTERRA Last Stand 

Triathlon / Duathlon 

Augusta 9:00 am 

Fort Custer State Park 

Tri or Du: 1/2MS/ 12.5MB/ 

4MR/ 2MR/ 12.5MB/ 4MR 


(419) 829-2398 

jdjp@eliteendeavors.com 



Hash Run 

Toledo, OH 

Bob Ampthor 

(419) 882-1711 


Thursday, May 24 

NCAA Division II Outdoor 

Track & Field 

Championships 

Charlotte, NC 

Johnson C. Smith Univ. 


5/24/07 to 5/26/07 

NCAA Division III 

Outdoor Track & Field 

Championships 

Oshkosh, WI 

U. of Wisconsin, Oshkosh 

(920) 424-1034 


5/24/07 to 5/26/07 


NCAA Division I Outdoor 

Track & Field Mid East 

Regional 

Columbia, MO 

University of Missouri 


5/25/07 to 5/26/07 


Alma Highland Festival 5K 

Alma 9:15 am 

Alma College campus 

5KR/W Craig Tubbs 

(989) 681-5881 

ctubbs2485@aol.com 

almahighlandfestival.com 

Bayshore Marathon 

Traverse City 7:00 am 

Northwestern Michigan 

College 

26.2 MR, 13.1MR, 10KR 

Jim Dombrowski 

(231) 941-8118 

tctc@chartermi.net 

bayshoremarathon.org 

Du the Pointes 

Grosse Pointe 

Tri: .6M sw, 31 M bi, 6.2 

MR, also sprint tri, Du: 

2MR, 31MB, 3.1MR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



Eastern Ottawa Young Life 

5K and Fun Run 

Hudsonville 8:30 am 

3835 Baldwin 

5KR/W, 1MFR, 1/2MFR 

Chris Theule-VanDam 

(616) 895-7994 

theule@altelco.net 

www.eo.younglife.org 

Fruitport Old Fashioned 

Days Run 

Fruitport 9:30 am 

10KR, 5KR 

Donald Wood 

(231) 865.6273 

Great Race Sports Festival 

XXVII 

Elkhart 7:30 am 

Jim Ryun Mile, 1MS, 

Basketball 

Ron Schmanske 

(574) 296.5890 

wow@michiana.org 

thegreatrace.net 

May 26-28, 2007, also 

13.1MR, In-line Skate, 

10KR, 25KB, 50KB, 

10KWh, 9M canoe/kayak, 

5KR/W/FW 

Iron Wolf 

Omer 7:00 pm 

Sundae’s Afternoon 

40KB, kayak, 10KR 

C. Hilyard 

(989) 846-6018 

hilyards@m33access.com 

witchywolfrun.com 

Mackinaw Memorial 

Bridge Race 

Mackinaw City 6:00 am 

Mackinaw City Recreation 

Complex 

5.4 MR 

Mackinaw Area Visitors 

Bureau 

(800) 750-0169 

info@mackinawcity.com 

mackinawcity.com 

MDS Nordion Race Day 

Ottawa, ON 5:00 pm 

Intersection of Elgin and 

Laurier Streets 

10KR/W, 5KR/W 

Jim Robinson 

(613) 234-2221 

info@runottawa.ca 

runottawa.ca 

2 day event; ING Ottawa 

Marathon, Half marathon, 

2K Fun Run on Sunday 

Rochester Heritage Festival 

Rochester 7:30 am 

Rochester Hills Public 

Library 5KR/W 

Melissa Humbyrd 

(248) 656-8308 

melissa@rararecreation.org 

www.rararecreation.org 

Snug Harbor Kick Off to 

Summer 5K Run/Walk 

Grand Haven 9:00 am 

Tri Cities Family YMCA 

5KR/W/Wheel, kids run 

Grand Haven YMCA 

(616) 850-9300 

martens@iserv.net 

tcfymca.org 

Sulphur Springs Trail Runs 

Dundas, ON 6:00 am 

100MR, 50MR, 50KR, 

25KR, 10KR 

(905) 333-0652 

ouser.org 


Three Rivers 12K Race 

Fort Wayne 8:30 am 

Indiana Tech, 1600 E. 

Washington Blvd. 

12KR Josh Brunson 

(260) 496-8000 

info@3riversrunning.com 

www.3riversrunning.com 



XXVII 

Elkhart 7:30 am 

10K In-line Skate 

Criterium, Bike criterium, 

9M canoe/kayak 

Ron Schmanske 

(574) 296.5890 


thegreatrace.net 3 day 

festival: also 1MR (track), 

1MS, basketball, 13.1MR, 

13.1M In-line Skate, 

10KR/W/Wheel/Handcycle, 

25KB, 50KB, 10KWh, 

5KR/W/FW 

ING Ottawa Marathon 

Ottawa 7:00 am 

Intersection of Elgin and 

Laurier Streets 

26.2 MR/W, Wheel, 

13.1MR/W, 2KFr 

Jim Robinson 

(613) 234-2221 

info@runottawa.ca 

runottawa.ca 

2 day event; MDS Nordion 

Race Day 5K and 10K on 

Saturday 

Memorial Day Run 

Bad Axe 9:00 am 

Bad Axe Middle School 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Patricia Kellermann 

(989) 375-2522 

ktrebor@auci.net 

barc-mi.com 




(734) 332-9314 



X-Tri Boyne Highlands- 

Series Opener 


Boyne Highlands Resort 

5KR, 20KB, 5KR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 

info@3disciplines.com 


Monday, May 28 

Big Foot Challenge 

Dansville 9:00 am 

Dansville High School 

8KR, 5KR/W, kids’ run 

R.C. Ryder 

(517) 623-6119 

rcryder@core.com 


XXVII 

Elkhart, IN 7:30 am 

13.1MR, 13.1M In-line 

Skate, 10KR/W/Wheel/ 

Handcycle, 25KB, 50KB, 

10KWh, 5KR/W/FW 

Ron Schmanske 

(574) 296.5890 


thegreatrace.net 

3 day festival: also 1MR 

(track), 1MS, basketball, 

10K In-line Skate 

Criterium, Bike criterium, 

9M canoe/kayak 


Series 

Grosse Ile Memorial Day 8K 

Grosse Ile 8:30 am 

Grosse Ile High School 

8KR, 1MFR 

Greg Everal 

(734) 507-1789 

cgregrun50@comcast.net 

www.islandroadrunners.net 

Hartland Memorial Day 

Run/Walk 

Hartland 8:00 am 

Hartland High School 

5KR, 3KW 

Rob Buti 

(734) 451-2444 

rjb0017@aol.com 

hartlandschools.us/athletics/Events/Run/ 

Jenison Ambucs Memorial 

Day Race 

Jenison 8:00 am 

5KR Rod Weersing 

(616) 318-9170 

rweersing@bankatbyron.com 

www.classicrace.com 

Kip Boulkis 5K 

Perrysburg 8:00 am 

Woodlands Park 

5KR, 1MFR 

Kelly Chalfant 

(419) 872-8001 


Run to Climax 

Climax 8:15 am 

E. Maple & Church 

7KR , 2MW 

Richard Williams 

(269) 626-8611 

spmtn@hotmail.com 

msu.edu/~weessie2/climax/c 

limax.htm 

Welcome Back the Sun Run 

Petoskey 9:00 am 

Petoskey marina 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Kenny Krell 

(866) 820-6036 

kenny3dracing@yahoo.com 


Tuesday, May 29 

Johnson Park 4 & 6 Mile 

Run 

Grand Rapids 7:00 pm 

Johnson Park 

6MR, 3MR, 3M Race 

Walk 1.5MR, Kids FR 

Rich Hunfield 

(616) 987-9097 

nursemia2000@yahoo.com 


June 

Friday, June 1 

Cooley Law 5K Race for 

Education 


State Capitol 5KR 

Terry Carella 

(517) 371-5140 X 2916 



carrellat@cooley.edu 

cooley.edu 


G-A Country Gallop (Ken 

Coates Memorial) 

Galesburg 6:00 pm 

Galesburg-Augusta HS 

5KR/W Nancie Coates 

(269) 665-9312 

ncoates@excite.com 

Westover Shore to Shore 

Relay 

Port Stanley to Grand Bend 

8:00 am 300KR/W 

John Salt 

(519) 453-3255 

john@shoretoshorerelay.com 

www.shoretoshorerelay.com 

6/1/07 to 6/2/07 

Saturday, June 2 

100 Grand Bicycle Tour 


West Side Christian School, 

955 Westend Ave. NW 

15, 30, 62, 100M bike ride 

Rapid Wheelmen, Inc. 

(616) 453-7400 

100grand@rapidwheelmen.com 

www.lmb.org/rapidwheels 

Book’n 5K Run / Walk and 

1 Mile Story Time Strut 

South Lyon 7:30 am 

South Lyon High School 

5KR, 1MR 

Ed Bartone 

(734) 266-4724 

CBartone@salemsouthlyonlibrary.info 

Camp Rollerblade - Detroit 


Tricentennial State Park 

Allan Wright 

(888) 758-8687 

info@CampRollerblade.com 

www.CampRollerblade.com 

Dexter to Ann Arbor Kids’ 

Run 


kids runs 3-12 

Hal Wolfe 

(734) 487-5616 

runlikehal@yahoo.com 

www.dexterannarborrun.com 

Dodge Park 3.1 Mile Run 

Sterling Heights 8:00 am 

Dodge Park 3.1MR 

Michael Kostrzeba 

(586) 446-2705 

mkostrezeba@sterlingheights.net 

sterling-heights.net 

Eastern Community 

YMCA Kid’s Triathlon 

Oregon, OH 8:00 am 

Eastern Community 

YMCA, Pickle Road 

Matt Brenot 

(419) 691-3523 


Michigan Mile for Kids 


1 MR for kids 12 & under 

Kim Christian 

(517) 349-3803 

playmakers@playmakers.com 


Midland Community 

Center’s Dow Run/Walk 

Midland 8:00 am 

10KR, 5KR/W, 1 MFR, Tot 

Trot 

Jennifer Adamcik 

(989) 832-7937, ext. 2221 

dowrun@mymcc.org 

www.mymcc.org 

Oak Apple Run 

Royal Oak 9:00 am 

Downtown Royal Oak 

10KR, 2 MFR/W 

(248) 541-4502 

info@oakapplerun.org 

oakapplerun.org 

Shamrock 5K 

Brighton 8:30 am 

St. Patrick’s Catholic 

Church 5KR 

Chris Price 

(810) 227-6943 

raceservices.com 

Sunburst Races 

South Bend 6:00 am 

26.2 MR, 13.1 MR, 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Molly Sullivan 

(574) 647-3394 

msullivan@memorialsb.org 

www.sunburstraces.org 

Turtle Lake Resort 5K 

Run/Walk 

Union City 10:00 am 

5KR/W Turtle Lake Resort 

(517) 741-7004 

tlr@turtle-lake.com 

turtle-lake.com 

Clothing optional 

Walk for Wishes 


5KW 

Cara Ontiveros 

(616) 363-4607 

contiveros@wishmich.org 

www.wishmich.org 

X-Tri Stony Creek 

Shelby Township 9:00 am 

Stony Creek Metropark, 

Baypoint Beach 

1KS, 20KMB, 4MR, 2MR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



Sunday, June 3 

Catawba Island Club Run 

For Humanity 

Port Clinton 9:00 am 

Catawba Island Club 

Fitness Center, Northwest 

Catawba Road 

5 MR, 3MR/W, Kids Run 

Toni Garrett 

(419) 797-4424, ext. 269 

mschenk@cicclub.com 

Community Dream 5K 


Lansing Eastern HS 

5KR/W 

Kittie Lynch 

(517) 882-2977 

kittielynch@comcast.net 

www.communitydream.org 

Dexter to Ann Arbor Run 


Main Street & Ann Street 

13.1MR, 10KR, 5KR 

Hal Wolfe 

(734) 487-5616 

runlikehal@yahoo.com 

dexterannarborrun.com 

Hawk I Tri 



Tri: 400 meterS/ 15KIB 

5KR 

Jerry Smith 

(517) 881-2525 

Jsmith262@aol.com 

www.hawk-i-tri.com 

Michigan Humane Society 

Mutt Marches 

Grosse Pointe Shores 8 am 

Edsel & Eleanor Ford 

House 

up to 5MW 

Michigan Humane Society 

(248) 799-7400 

michiganhumane.org 




(734) 332-9314 



Seahorse Challenge 

Triathlon and Duathlon 


Coldbrook Park 

1.5KW/ 40KB/ 10KR or 

5KR/ 20KB/ 5KR, or 

500meter S/ 20KB/ 5KR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



Tuesday, June 5 

Catholic Central 10K Relay 

Run 


Catholic Central 

10K track relay, 2 person 

teams 

Steve Wilcox 

TreeRunr3465@sbcglobal.net 


Wednesday, June 6 


Promotions 

Harrison Twp 7:00 pm 


2MR Bob Blunk 

(248) 627-6619 







5MR, 3MR, 1 

Harry Plouff 

(989) 772-0323 



Flushing Evening 5k 

Run/Walk 

Flushing 6:15 pm 

Flushing HS 5KR/W 

John Gault 

(810) 487-0954 



Hash Run 

Toledo, OH 

Bob Ampthor 

(419) 882-1711 


NCAA Division I Outdoor 

Track & Field 

Championships 

Sacramento, CA 

State University of 

California at Sacramento 

(916) 566-2400 

http://ncaasports.com/track 

-and-field/schedules 

6/6/07 to 6/9/07 

Wayland Road Runners 3 

Mile Run 

Wayland 6:30 pm 

Wayland HS Track 

3 MR 

Ray Antel III 

(616) 792.2427 

coachantel@i2k.com 

waylandroadrunners.com 

Thursday, June 7 

Greater Kalamazoo Girls 

on the Run Celebration 5K 

Run 

Kalamazoo 6:30 pm 

5KR Mark Lay 

(269) 491-6855 

Mark.Lay@mpiresearch.com 

www.girlsontherunkazoo.org 


Ally Brunk Memorial 5K 

Potterville 9:00 am 

Potterville Public Library 

5KR Dan Brunk 

(517) 627-3715 

brunkdb@pps.k12.mi.us 

Big Mac Shoreline Scenic 

Bike Tour 


Mackinaw City HS 

25MB, 50MB, 75MB, 

100MB 

Mackinaw City C of C 

(231) 436-5574 

mackinawchamber.com 

Brian Diemer Amerikam 

5K 

Cutlerville 9:00 am 

68th St. between US-131 

and Division Ave. 

5KR/W, Jr. Jog 

Robert Hyde 

(616) 890-1337 

robhyde@diemerrun.com 

diemerrun.com 

Cereal City Classic 

Battle Creek 8:00 am 

Family Y Center 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Barbara Ramsey 

(269) 963-9622 

bramsey@ymcabattlecreek.org 

ymcabattlecreek.org/ 

Cheesetown Challenge 

Pinconning 6:00 pm 

Pinconning HS 

5 MR, 2 MR/W 

Marty Schultz 

(989) 879-5617 

marcheese@charter.net 

www.cheesetownraces.org 



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Curwood Festival Races 

Owosso 9:00 am 

301 S. Washington St. 

(Chemical Bank Office) 


Christie Usher 

(989) 723-2161 

curwood.festivalinc@verizon.net 

www.curwoodfestival.com 

Flag City USA Multisport 

Celebration 

Findlay 9:00 am 

Riverbend Park & 

Recreation Area 10KR/W 

Brian Robertson 

(419) 348-6714 

brobertson@givebackprogram.org 

fatrabbitracing.com 

Flirt with Dirt 

Novi 7:30 am 

Lakeshore Park 

10KR, 5KR 

Helen Ellis 

(734) 929-9027 

events@runingfit.com 

www.runflirt.com 

GO Michigan-VanBuren 

State Park 

South Haven 9:00 am 

Van Buren State Park 

5KR Kurt Maxwell 

(269) 637-2788 

maxwellk@michigan.gov 

I Gave My Sole for 

Parkinson’s Walkathon & 

5K Run 

St. Clair Shores 

11:00 am South Lake 

Schools HS Track 

5KR, 2.5MFR 

Michigan Parkinson’s 

Foundation Office 

(248) 433-1011 

mpfoffice@aol.com 

www.parkinsonsmi.org 

Lake Macatawa Triathlon 


Howard B. Dunton Park 

0.5MS/ 22.8 MB/ 4.8 MR 

Darrin Duistermars 

(616) 395-0178 

darrind@hct.holland.mi.us 

www.classicrace.com 

Mackinac Island Lilac 

Festival 10K Run and Walk 

Mackinac Island 9:30 am 

Mackinac Island School 


John Gault 

(810) 487-0954 

johncgault2@aol.com 

www.runmackinac.com 

Mayor DePiero’s 5K Run 

Parma, OH 8:30 am 

Byer’s Field 5KR 

Parma Parks & Recreation 

(440) 885-8144 

dean@deandepiero.com 

deandepiero.com 

Midwest Track & Field 

Meet of Champions 


Jackson HS Withington 

Stadium track & field 

Jerry Reis 

(517) 750-2836 

jreis42@comcast.net 

midwestmeet-teammichigan.com 

North Country Trail Relay 

Baldwin 6:00 am 

Bowman Bridge 

Campground 

77.7 M relay, 6 runner 

teams, 15 legs 2.3-9.2 miles 

Brian Buchanan 

(616) 786-2945 

nctrelay@nctrelay.org 

www.nctrelay.org 

River Run Classic 



Center 

5KR/W, 1/2M Kids R 

Bay Area Family Y - Invest 

in Youth 

(989) 895-8596 

ymcabaycity.com/events.htm 

Rose Run 


Point to point along 

Brown’s Road 

10KR, 5KR, 4 MW 

Kid’s Runs 

Mike McGlynn 

(517) 796-8485 

Mike_Mcglynn@jccmi.edu 


Run Drugs Out of Town 


Hines Park - Merriman 

Hollow 

5KR/W, 1MR/W, kids run 

Christen Ogden 

(734) 532-0076 

ogdenre@aol.com 

justsayrun.com 

Run For Youth 

Noquemanon Trail Run 

Marquette 9:00 am 

River Park Sports Complex 

25KTrail Run, 5K Trail 

Run 

Chad Mager 

(906) 228-4932 

info@runforyouth.org 

runforyouth.org 


Ann Arbor Triathlon / 

Duathlon 


Pinckney Recreation Area, 

Halfmoon Lake Beach 

Tri or Du: 1/2MS/ 14MB/ 

5MR or 2MR, 14MB, 

5MR 


(419) 829-2398 



Big Mac Shoreline Scenic 

Bike Tour 


Fort Michilimackinac Ride 

across the “Mighty Mac” 

Mackinaw Area C of C 

(231) 436-5574 

info@mackinawchamber.com 

www.mackinawchamber.com 




(734) 332-9314 



Racing for Recovery Half 

& Sprint Triathlon 

Monroe 7:30 am 

Sterling State Park 

1.2MW/ 56MB/ 13.1MR 

or 500meter S/ 14MB/ 5KR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 


racingforrecovery.com/half 

Scleroderma Run and Walk 

Birmingham 9:30 am 

Shain Park 

5KR, 3MW, 1MW, kids run 

Jennifer Viano 

(248) 865-7259 

jav4429@yahoo.com 

www.scleroderma.org/chapter/michigan 

St. Joe’s 5K Run, 2 Mile 

Walk 

Pewamo 8:30 am 

St. Joe’s Church 

5KR, 2MW 

Ken Kramer 

(989) 981-6656 

kramerklan8@hotmail.com 


Training Run 


Tortoise and Hare Running 

and Fitness Center, 

Plymouth Road 


(734) 623-9640 




Auburn Cornfest 5K 

Run/Walk 

Auburn 6:30 pm 

Western High School 

5KR/W 

Mitch Miller 

(989) 686-0246 

Runwild1128@hotmail.com 

barc-mi.com 

Swim Run Training Series 

Shelby Township 7:00 pm 

Stony Creek Metropark 

training: 400m or 800mS; 

1MR or 2MR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 




Grand Ledge Track and 

Field Series 

Grand Ledge 6:30 pm 

Beagle Middle School track 

meet-all comers 

Jeff Crowe 

(517) 627-9076 

jeffc@playmakers.com 


Human Race 


Reservation, East Remus 

Road 5KR 

Harry Plouff 

(989) 772-0323 



Track Club Summer Series 


Traverse City Central HS 

3MR, 2MW 

(231) 941-8118 


http://www.tctrackclub.com 

Wayland Road Runners 5K 

Run 



Ray Antel III 

(269) 792.2427 



Friday, June 15 

Kids’ Klassic 


YMCA on Maple St. 1KFR 

Patricia Pettinga 

(269) 343-0747 

mrcpr@kresanet.org 

kalamazooklassic.com 

Kalamazoo Klassic on 

6/16/07 

Zanglin Downriver Run 

Trenton 7:30 pm 

West Jefferson & St. Joseph 

8KR, 1 MFR 

Total Runner 

(734) 282-1101 

totalrunner@totalrunner.com 

www.zanglinrun.com 

25th Anniversary and the 

last year for this event put 

on by the Zanglin Race 


Angel House 5K Run/Walk 

Mason 9:00 am 

Hayhoe River Trail 


Mary Reed 

(517) 882-4000, x 126 

maryr@childandfamily.org 

www.childandfamily.org 

Beat the Grandpa 8K 


John Ball Park Zoo 8KR 

Dan Droski 

(616) 260-2669 

coachdroski@aim.com 

beatthegrandma.mysite.com 

age and gender-graded 

Big Fish Triathlon, 

Duathlon, Sprint 

Hadley Township 8:00 am 

Big Fish State Park 

1.5KS/ 40KB/ 10KR; 

500mS/ 20KB/ 5KR; 5KR/ 

KB/ 5KR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



Camel Back 4 Miler 


4MR, 2MW, 2KFR, 1KFR 

Ron Brandt 

(419) 332-6292 


Fish Festival 5K 

Vermilion 9:00 am 

Sailorway Middle School 

(440) 967-4208 

info@vermillionymca.org 


Johan’s TriFest 

Hopkins 8:00 am 

Sandy Pines Resort 

Tri: 1.5KS/ 40KB/ 10KR 

Steve Webster 

(616) 261-9706 


www.johanstrifest.com 

Kalamazoo Klassic 


YMCA, 1001 West Maple 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Patricia Pettinga 

(269) 343-0747 

racedirector@kalamazooklassic.com 

kalamazooklassic.com 

kids race on 6/15/07 

Kids Triathlon 

Jackson 

Ella Sharp Park Swimming 

Pool 

triathlon 

Rick Wilson 

(517) 788-4040 

rwilson@cityofjackson.org 



Leamington Kids of Steel 

Triathlon 

Leamington 9:00 am 

distance varies by age 

Ben Balkwill 

(519) 257-6253 

tri_leamington@yahoo.com 

tomatoman.org 

Ludington Lakestride Half 

Marathon & 5K 

Ludington 8:30 am 

13.1 MR, 5KR 

Gary Andersen 

(231) 757-2166 

gandersen@westshore.edu 

www.ludington.org 

Lumberjack 100 

Wellston 7:00 am 

Manistee National Forest 

100 M MB 

Rick Plite 

(616) 863-3291 

amtnbiker@chartermi.net 

www.lumberjack100.com 

Metroparks Happy Trails 5K 


Wildwood Preserve 

Marge Dembowski 

(419) 407-9727 

marge.dembowski@metrop 

arkstoledo.com 

www.signmeupsports.com 

National 24 Hour 

Challenge 

Middleville 8:00 am 

Thornapple-Kellog Middle 

School 

bicycle endurance ride: 

loops of 126.1 MB, 23.7 

MB, 7.5 MB 

John Obermeyer 

(616) 241-1969 

n24hc@aol.com 

www.n24hc.org 

6/16/07 to 6/17/07 

Open Door Julie 5K 

Run/Walk 

Commerce Twp. 9:00 am 

Walled Lake Northern HS, 

6000 Bogie Lake Road. 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Julie Leblanc 

(248) 363-6128 

juliejack3@aol.com 

opendooroutreachcenter.org 

Run Charlevoix 

Charlevoix 7:40 am 

Downtown Charlevoix 

26.2MR, 13.1MR, 10KR, 

5KR 

Jeff Suffolk 

(480) 226-4729 

info@redrockco.com 

redrockco.com 

Susan G. Komen Race for 

the Cure 


Comerica Park 

5KR/W, 1MW, 1MFR 

William D. Blaul 

(800) 527-6266 

raceforthecure@karmanos.org 

karmanos.org/detroitraceforthecure/ 


Adult Try-A-Tri 

Leamington, ON 9:00 am 

200meterS/ 10KB/ 2KR 

Ben Balkwill 

(519) 257-6253 


www.tomatoman.org 

Crazy Run 


Ypsi Convocation Center / 

Frog Island 5-8 MR 


734-995-0961 



Get It Goin On 

Elkhart, IN 8:00 am 

Heaton Lake 

Tri: 1KS/ 30KB/ 4MR/ 

2MR Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 






(734) 332-9314 



Open Water Swim 

Leamington 10:30 am 

Leamington Municipal 

Harbour 3KS, 1.5KS 

(519) 257-6253 



Plymouth YMCA Father’s 

Day Run 

Plymouth 7:30 am 

Downtown Plymouth 

10KR, 5KR/W, 1 MR/W, 

Triple (all 3 races, 10.3 

miles), Kid’s trot/jog 

Cindy Morency 

(734) 453-2904 

cmorency@ymcametrodetroit.org 


Start times permit running 

all three races (the triple). 


Series 

Run 4 Trails 


Hway 1, E of I 69 & 

Dupont Rd, near Leo- 

Cedarville 5KR 

Veep Races 

(260) 436-4824 

TrailRun@MitchHarper.com 

run4Trails.com 

Tomatoman Sprint 

Duathlon 

Leamington, ON 10:30 am 

Du: 2.5KR/ 20KB/ 5KR 

Ben Balkwill 

(519) 257-6253 



Wheelie Fun Triathlon & 

Duathlon Series 


Maumee Bay State Park 

Tri & Du: international 

and sprint 

(740) 342.0853 

kurek@hfpracing.com 

www.hfpracing.com 


Grandville High School 

Track Meet 

Grandville 7:00 pm 

Grandville High School 

1MR, 800meter R, 400 

meter relay, 100 meters, 

2MW Katie Dauksts 

(616) 914-0314 

katieanne111@yahoo.com 




Promotions 



5KR Bob Blunk 

(248) 627-6619 


geocities.com/arpraces/ 


Field Series 


Beagle Middle School 

track meet-all comers 

Jeff Crowe 

(517) 627-9076 



Hash Run 

Toledo, OH 

Bob Ampthor 

(419) 882-1711 





3MR, 2MW 

(231) 941-8118 


www.tctrackclub.com 

Twilight 5k 


Lansing River Trail, near 

Impressions 5 Museum. 

5KR/W Chuck Block 

(517) 702-0226 

cblock@lcc.edu 

runningfoundation.com 

Wayland Road Runners 

Prediction Run 



4 MR-no watches 

Ray Antel III 

(269) 792-2427 




St. Stan’s Polish Festival 


St. Stan’s Athletic Field 

5KR/W 

Jeff Hahn (989) 450-8973 

barc-mi.com 

Strides for Life 100 Mile 

Run 


Hope College 

25MR, 50MR, 75MR, 

100MR 

Barbara Minier 

(231) 828-5448 

barbaraminier@sbcglobal.net 

www.stridesforlife.com 

6/21/07 to 6/24/07 

Well Fit Steelhead Long 

Course Triathlon Camp 

St. Joseph 3:00 pm 

Holiday Inn Express 

camp 

Sharone Aharon 

(708) 660-9672 

sharone@wellfitinc.com 

4 day camp on Steelhead 

course, through 6/24/07. 

YMCA Retread Run/Shoes 

for Kids 

Flint 6:30 pm 

Downtown Flint YMCA 

5KR/W John Gault 

(810) 659-6493 


www.riverbendstriders.com 

Bring old, wearable running/walking 

shoes. 


Artful Dodger Riverview 

Run 

St. Clair 8:30 am 

St. Clair Riverview Plaza 

5KR 

Larry McKay 

(810) 329-2962 

larrymckay@allstate.com 

stclairchamber.com 

Binder Park Zoo Cheetah 

Chase 


7400 Division Dr. 

5KR/W, 1MFR 

Amy Riegel 

(269) 979-1351 

ariegel@binderparkzoo.org 

www.binderparkzoo.org 

Concord Classic 

Concord 8:00 am 

Concord High School 


David Jordan 

(517) 524-6995 

cclassic@frontiernet.net 


Covered Bridge Run 

Centreville 9:00 am 

Covered Bridge Park 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Peggy Hasse 

(269) 244-8361 

peggyrene@aol.com 

www.coveredbridgerun.com 

Michigan Sugar Festival 

Road Race 

Sebewaing 8:30 am 

Immanuel Lutheran Church 

5KR/W 

Debbie Arnold 

(989) 883-3592 

barc-mi.com 

Niagara Ultra 

Niagara on the Lake, ON 

7:00 am 

Kinsmen Scout Hall 

50KR, 25KR 

Henri Ragetlie 

ouser.org 


Out & About Autism 


Stony Creek Metro Park, 

Eastwood Beach Picnic 

Area 

5KR, 1 MW 

Anne Gacki 

(586) 447-2235 

support@macombasa.org 

macombasa.org 



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Portland St. Patrick Parish 

Festival 5K Run 

Portland 8:00 am 

5KR/W/Wheel 

Lisa Kemmis 

(517) 647-7696 

kemmisl@michigan.gov 

St. Patrick Parish Festival 

Solstice Run 

Northville 7:30 am 

Ford Field 

10KR, 5KR/W, Kids Run 

Alan Whitehead 

(248) 324-5080(w) or 

(248) 305-8838 (h) 

awhitehead@twmi.rr.com 

www.solsticerun.org prize 

St. Mark’s 5K Run & Walk 

for Charity 

Bridgeport 9:00 am 

St. Mark’s Church, 3060 

Williamson Rd. 

Mike Houle 

(989) 777-0240 

runwild1128@hotmail.com 

barc-mi.com 

The Chronicle Seaway Run 


Muskegan Family YMCA 

5KR/W, 15KR 

Chris Zart 

(231) 725-6333 

czart@muskegonchronicle.com 

www.mlive.com/seawayrun 

Tin Man Triathlon 

Jackson 

Ella Sharp Park Swimming 

Pool 

Tri: 200 meter S/ 7.5MB/ 

2MR 

Rick Wilson 

(517) 788-4040 

rwilson@cityofjackson.org 


CHOK YMCA 

International Bridge Race 

Sarnia 8:00 am 

Canatara Park, Sarnia; 

Bring birth certificate & 

picture id 

10KR, kids run 

George Heath 

(519) 336-9622 

gheath@xcelco.on.ca or 

bridgerace@ymcasar.or 

chok.com/Sports/bridgerace.php 

Hospice of Lenawee Run, 

Walk & Bike Tour 

Blissfield 8:30 am 

Runs begin at Blissfield 

High School, Ride begins at 

Siena Heights University, 

Adrian 

10KR, 5KR, 1 MFR, 50K 

Bike 

Art Weeber 

(517) 486-3196 

Michigan Challenge 5K 

Chase 


1200 W. Grand River 

5KR 

Michelle Tokan 

(517) 546-3920 

mtokan@howell.org 

michiganchallenge.com 

Motor City Triathlon 


Belle Isle 

Tri: 1.5KS/ 23MB/ 10KR 

or 500meter S/ 20KB/ 5KR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 






(734) 332-9314 


2h3.org/schedule.htm 

Pictured Rocks Run for 

Shelter 

Munising 8:00 am 

Alger Arena 

13.1MR, 5KR, FW 

Lynn Chamberlain 

(906) 387-1751 

prrfs@hotmail.com 

algercounty.com/roadrace/ 


Series 

Race for Life 


Riverwalk - Lion’s Club 

Pavillion 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Terry Schwartz 

(989) 894-0515 

terryschwartz@ameritech.net 

barc-mi.com 

XTERRA Torn Shirt Trail 

Triathlon /Duathlon 


Brighton Recreation Area, 

Bishop Lake 

Tri: 1/2 MS/ 15MB/ 6MR; 

2MR/ 15MB/ 6MR 


(419) 376-9496 



Monday, June 25 

Go the Distance Running 

School 

Toledo, OH 

8:30 am to 4:00 pm 

Toledo Area Metroparks 

camp, 12 years and older 

Keith Madaras 

(419) 287-4920 

kmadaras@wcnet.org 

gothedistance.org 

6/25/07 to 6/29/07 

different park each day 



Milford 

Kensington Metropark 


1MR or 2MR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



Tim Horton’s Peachbud 

Grimsby, ON 6:45 pm 

Peach King Centre 

10KR, 5KR, 1KR 

(905) 562-8669 


instride.ca 



Field Series 




Jeff Crowe 

(517) 627-9076 




Handicap Run 



4MR, 3MW 

(231) 941-8118 




Handicap Run 


Wayland HS Track 4 MR 

Ray Antel III 

(269) 792-2427 




44th Parallel XC Camp .. 

for Runners who Love to 

Wine 

Glen Arbor 3:30 pm 

Sleeping Bear Dunes 

3-7 MR 

Raymond L. Antel III 

(269) 792-2427 

coachantel@i2K.com 

www.44th Parallel.com 

6/28/07 - 7/1/07 



Promotions 



5KR Bob Blunk 

(248) 627-6619 



Beaverton 4 Mile 

Beaverton 9:00 am 

Beaverton HS 

4 MR, 2MW 

Larry Sroufe 

(989) 435-4111 

barc-mi.com 

Caledonia Kilt Klassic 5K 

Caledonia 8:30 am 

Lisa Taylor 

(616) 826-9584 

mizliztay32@msn.com 

www.kiltklassic.com 

Hills & Dales Races 

Cass City 8:00 am 

Hills & Dales Hospital 

8KR, 5KR/W 

Dave Wohl 

(989) 551-6248 

dwohl@hillsanddales.com 

hdghrehab.com 

LaSalle Bank Reeds Lake 

Run 


East Grand Rapids HS 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Susan Perry 

(616) 949-1750 

sperry@eastgr.org 

reedslakerun.com 

Run & Walk for Funds 

Northport 9:00 am 

Historic Northport Depot 

10KR, 5K R/W, 2 MFR 

George Anderson 

(231)386.5188 

gwanderson@chartermi.net 

X-Tri Novi 

Novi 8:00 am 


Tri: 1KS/ 20KMB/ 4MR, 

2MR 

(810) 714-5784 



July 

Sunday, July 1 

Dam Run 

Eaton Rapids 8:00 am 

Historical Society 

Headquarters, 625 State St. 

5KR/W Ed Bentley 

(517) 393-0041 

bentleye@michigan.gov 

Fifth Third Firecracker 

Triathlon 

Benton Harbor 8:00 am 

Jean Klock Park 

1/4MS/ 14MB/ 3MR, kids 

tri 

Tom Ziebart 

(269) 983-2453 

info@firecrackertri.com 

firecrackertri.com 

Howell Independence 

Aquathlon 


Howell City Park 

2KR/ 750mS/ 2KR 

Peter Bowen 

(517) 546-3920 

parksandrec@ci.howell.mi.us 

www.cityofhowell.org 

Merrell/Gazelle Sports 

Chameleon Adventure Race 

Belmont 8:00 am 

Cannonsburg Ski Resort, 

6900 Cannonsburg Rd NE 

6 hr sprint adventure: 

7-10MB/4-5MR / 5MI 

other 

Melissa Chillag 

(616) 940-9888 

mchillag@gazellesports.com 

chameleonadventurerace.com 




(734) 332-9314 



Pickerel Run 

Algonac 8:00 am 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Chris Piper 

(810) 794-7809 

piperck@aiis.net 


Wednesday, July 4 

Boyne City Independence 

Day Run 

Boyne City 7:30 am 

Downtown Boyne City 

10KR, 2 MR 

Barb Bryant 

(231) 582.9196 

runboyne@comcast.net 

www.boynecity.com 

GHXC Patriots Day 5K 

Road and Trail Run 


Grand Haven High School 

5KR, kids race 

Tom Laughlin 

(616) 846-5513 

tlaughlin@chartermi.net 

Hanover Firecracker 

Hanover 8:00 am 

Hanover Fire Station 

5 MR, 5KW, kids run 

Jeffery Heath 

(517) 563-2125 

jlheath_hft@yahoo.com 


Hash Run 

Toledo, OH 

Bob Ampthor 

(419) 882-1711 




Hungry Duck Run 

Brighton 7:00 am 

13.1MR, 5KR, kids fun 

runJulie Easton 

(517) 548-5842 

hungryduckrun@comcast.net 

www.active.com 

Lindsay’s Race 

Richland 8:00 am 

Gull Lake HS 

10KR, 5KR 

Roxanne Cornelius 

(269) 629-5141 

roxycornelius@aol.com 


Peachtree Road Race 

Atlanta 7:30 am 

10KR 

Atlanta Track Club 

office@atlantatrackclub.org 

USA Men’s 10K 

Championships 

Schoolcraft Firecracker 5 

Miler 

Schoolcraft 8:00 am 

Schoolcraft Middle School, 

747 East Clay Street 

5MR, 5KR/W, 1K Kids run 

Brenda Stoddard 

(269) 679-4958 

brenda.stoddard@verizon.net 

www.runotsego.com 

St. Mary’s Festival 

Westphalia 8:00 am 

St. Mary’s School 5KR/W 

Jerry Wirth 

(989) 587-6984 

Westphalia.race@yahoo.com 

Starr Spangled 5K 

Oregon 8:00 am 

Starr School 

Marc Ensign 

(419) 693-8618 


Tortoise & Hare 5K 


Tortoise and Hare 

209 E. Liberty 

5KR/W, kids dash 

Larry Bostwick 

(734) 623.9640 

events@tortoiseandhare.com 


Volkslaufe 

Frankenmuth 8:00 am 

Heritage Park 

20KR, 10KR, 5KR/W, 

2KFR 

Luke Foltz (989) 860-3388 

info@volkslaufe.org 

www.volkslaufe.org 


Series 

YMCA/ ALCA Firecracker 

Run 

Hastings 9:00 am 

Hastings YMCA on 

Algonquin Lake 

4.2 MR, 1M kids run 

Martin VanDenack 

(269) 838-5862 

mvandenack@v-tecsystems.com 

trilanders.org/alrun.html 

Thursday, July 5 


Graveyard Run 


Wayland HS Track 5 MR 

Ray Antel III 

(269) 792.2427 



Saturday, July 7 

Anchor Bay Triathlon 

New Baltimore 7:30 am 

1/2MS, 11MR, 3MR 

Mike Hoffard 

(586) 725-0291 

groovie56@yahoo.com 


Catch Your Breath Run & 

Walk 

Flint 8:00 am 

Flint Journal Building, 200 

E. First Street 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Mike Woolsey 

(810) 766.6275 

flintjournal.com/race/ 

Coach K 5K 

St. Louis 9:00 am 

St. Louis HS, 113 E. 

Saginaw St. 

5KR Kevin Palmer 

(989) 330-2430 

coachk5k@yahoo.com 

geocities.com/coachk5k 

Elsie Dairy Dash 

Elsie 7:30 am 

Village Main Street 

5KR/W 

Laura Braun 

(989) 834-5742 

laurabraun@hughes.net 

www.playmakers.com 

Glenside Rock and Roll 5K 

Run 

Muskegon 6:00 pm 

McGraft Park 5KR 

Dave Waterstradt 

(231) 727-2698 

dwaterstradt@wnj.com 

signmeupsports.com 

Hospital Hustle 

Bremen 5KR 

Sheila Kelty 

(574) 546-8006 

skelty@bremenhospital.com 

Keweenaw Trail Running 

Festival (2 Day Event) 

Copper Harbor 8:00 am 

Keweenaw Mountain Lodge 

25KR, 10KR, 6K Hill 

Climb, 2K kids’ run 


(715) 460-0426 



7/7/07 - 7/8/07 

Max’s Race 


Michigan State University 

auditorium 5KR/W 

Jim Matthews 

(517) 204-3257 

jim@gmachometeam.com 

www.maxsrace.com 




Detroit 3:00 pm 

(734) 332-9314 



Rollie Hopgood’s Midtown 

Taylor 5K Run 

Taylor 9:00 am 

Heritage Park, 12111 

Pardee 5KR 

Greg Everal 

(734) 282-1101 

everalracemanagement@co 

mcast.net 

downriverrunners.org 

Run Thru Purgatory 

Constantine 8:30 am 

10100 Preston Rd. 


Judy Elliott 

(269) 435-7567 

jelliott@constps.org 

www.constps.org 

Steve’s “Raider Stomp” 

Decatur 8:00 am 

Decatur High School 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Bob Smola 

(269) 423-5081 

btsmola@btc-bci.com 


Tuff Cross Country Camp 


Hope College 

camp Tim Ellis 

(937) 352-1260 

track@aia.com 

www.aia.com/track/youthcamps.aspx 

7/7/07 to 7/12/07 

Grand Haven Triathlon, 

Sprint Tri, & Duathlon 


Tri-Cities YMCA 

1.2MR/ 56MB/ 13.1MR or 

1.5KS/ 40KB/ 10KR or 

500meterS/ 20KB/ 5KR or 

5KR/ 20KB/ 5KR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 




Keweenaw Trail Running 

Festival (2 Day Event) 

Copper Harbor 7:00 am 

Eagle Harbor, Copper 

Harbor 

25KR, 10KR, 5.8K Hill 

Climb, 2K youth run. 


(715) 460-0426 

info@greatlakesendurance.c 

om 


7/7/07 to 7/8/07 

Run Your Bass Off 

Crystal Falls 9:00 am 

Runkle Lake Park 

10KR, 5KR/W - C.D.T. 

Crystal Falls Business 

Association 

(906) 875.4405 

crystalfalls.org/bass.htm 

Tuesday, July 10 

Richmond Park Cross 

Country 


Richmond Park 

5KR, 1.5MR, kids run 

Denise Bryan 

(616) 785-4943 

singsingstudio@aol.com 


Swim Run Training Series 2 




2MR or 3MR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 





Promotions 

Harrison Twp 

7:00 pm 


5KR Bob Blunk 

(248) 627-6619 







5MR, 3MR, 1 

Harry Plouff 

(989) 772-0323 




Field Series 




Jeff Crowe 

(517) 627-9076 



Huckleberry Hustle 5k 

Trail Run 

Flint 7:00 pm 

Cross roads Village & 

Huckleberry Railroad 

3MR/W 

Nicole Dunn 

(810) 736-7100 

ndunn@gcparks.org 

GeneseeCountyParks.org 


Run 



5MR, 4MW 

(231) 941-8118 




Handicap Run 



7MR 

Ray Antel III 

(269) 792-2427 




Bastille Days 5K Run/Walk 

and 15KR 

Fenton 7:45 am 

Fenton Community Center, 

Downtown Fenton 

15KR, 5KR/W, wheelchair 

Genesee County Habitat 

for Humanity 

(810) 603-1366 

office@geneseehabitat.org 

geneseehabitat.org/5k-run/ 



13

Kindleberger Summer 

Festival of the Arts 5K 

Run/Walk 

Parchment 8:00 am 

Kindleberger Park 

5KR/W Dale Turton 

(269) 385-4154 

kindleberger5K@charter.net 

www.kindleberger.org 

Lakeshore Miracle Run 


4684 66th Street 

10KR 

Adam Kunkel 

(616) 355-3789 

ask17@hotmail.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 


Series 

National Cherry Festival 

15K & 5K 


Eastern Elementary, 1600 

Eastern Ave. 

15KR, 5KR/W 

(800) 968-3380 

info@cherryfestival.org 

cherryfestival.org 

Planet Fitness Running 

Festival 

Spring Arbor 9:00 am 

Spring Arbor University 

Athletic Complex 

10KR, 5KR, kids run 

Mike Woolsey 

(517) 768-0929 

mwoolsey@hotmail.com 


Port Austin Run for Youth 

for Christ 

Port Austin 8:30 am 

Gallup Park 

8KR, 2 MR/W 

Charlotte Thuemmel 

(989) 738-8772 

bigkidjp2@charter.net 

www.parun.org 

Red Carpet Run 5K 


5KR, kids’s run 

Anna Step 

(734) 929-9027 

randy@runningfit.com 

runningfit.com 

Ages 13-23 

redcarpetrun.com 

X-Tri Holly 

Holly 8:00 am 

Holly Recreation Area 

1KS, 20KMB, 5KR, 2MR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 




Crazy Run 


Gallup Park 

5-8 MR 


(734) 995-0961 



Gallup Gallop 


Gallup Park 

5KR/W, 1 MR 

Jo Darlington 

(734) 769-1925 

jorunner1966@yahoo.com 

raceservices.com/ 

Interlochen Music Fest Tri, 

Du Sprint 

Interlochen 8:00 am 

Interlochen State Park 

1.5KS/ 40KB/ 10KR or 500 

meter S/ 20KB/ 5KR or 


Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



Kiwanis Island Run 

Eaton Rapids 8:00 am 

13 S. Main Street 

5KRW Linda Goodnoe 

(517) 230-1161 

lindagoodnoe@rossassociates.net 




(734) 332-9314 



Painesville Party in the 

Park 5 Mile Run 

Painesville 7:00 am 

Painesville Square 

5MR, 2MW 

Dave Whittaker 

(440) 392-5912 

recreate@Painesville.com 

www.painesville.com 

Perch Run 

Fairhaven 8:00 am 

Immaculate Conception 

Church 4 MR, 2MFW 

Jane Petitpren 

(586) 725-1762 

info@icperchfestival.com 

icperchfestival.com/perchrun.html 

Waterloo Triathlon / 

Duathlon 

Grass Lake 8:00 am 

Big Portage Lake, Seymour 

Road 

Tri: 1/2MS/ 16MB/ 5MR; 

Du: 2MR/ 16MB/ 5MR 


(419) 829-2398 





Milford 7:00 pm 



2MR or 3MR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 





Promotions 



4MR 

Bob Blunk 

(248) 627-6619 




Field Series 




Jeff Crowe 

(517) 627-9076 



Hash Run 

Toledo, OH 

Bob Ampthor 

(419) 882-1711 


Ophelia Bonner 

Scholarship Run 

Flint 6:30 pm 

U of M Pavilion, Saganaw 

& Kearsley Streets 

8KR/W, 1MR 

John Gault 

(810) 487-0954 




Handicap Run 



7MR, 4MW 

(231) 941-8118 




Track Runs 



3200, 400, 200, 100 meter 

runs 

Ray Antel III 

(269) 792-2427 



Friday, July 20 

Great Lakes Relay 

Eastpointe 6:00 am 

Begins near Tawas; finishes 

in Empire 270 M Relay 

Bob Baril 

(313) 885-3256 

info@greatlakesrelay.com 

greatlakesrelay.com 

July 20-22, 2007 

Summer Night 5K 

London, ON 7:00 pm 

Barking Frog, Richmond 

Street 


Runners’ Choice 

(519) 672-5105 




Alpenfest Run 


Pavilion on Court Street 

12KR/W, 5KR/W, 1 MFR 

Mike Tarbutton 

(989) 732-6521 

mtarbutton@otsegocountymi.gov 

otsegocountyparksrec.com 

Chris Cook Memorial Run 

Fremont 8:30 am 

204 E. Main Street 

10KR, 5KR 

Roger Bradshaw 

roger@theracedirector.com 

www.theracedirector.com 

Damn Tuff Ruff Bluff Trail 

Run 

Owen Sound, ON 8:00 am 

Harrison Park 

50KR, 25KR 

Brad Morley 

(510) 376-2156 

barber.dj@sympatico.ca 

ouser.org 


Great Lakes 

Triathlon/Duathlon 

Middleville 8:00 am 

YMCA Camp Manitou-Lin 

Tri 1/2 MS, 18MB, 4.5MR; 

Du 2MR, 18MB, 4.5MR 

Wayne Brown 

(616) 822-7968 

racedirector@greatlakestr.com 

www.greatlakestri.com 

Hess Lake Erv McLauchlan 

Memorial 10K Run/Walk 

Newaygo 9:00 am 

Hess Lake, River Valley 

Community Church 

10KR/W 

Alexis Mick 

(231) 282-0581 

amich@newaygo.net 

http://hesslake.com 

Hillsdale Baptist Church 

Sonshine 5K Run 


2211 W. Bacon Rd. 


(517) 439-9711 

pamlvt@frontiernet.net 

www.hillsdale-baptist.org 

Our Redeemer Cares 


Our Redeemer Church 


Mark Burke 

(989) 835-4188 

www.ourredeemerchurch.com 

Planet Fitness 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 


Republic Bank Canal 

Run/Walk 

Hancock 7:00 am 

McLain State Park to 

Hancock 10MR/W 

Ross Cooney 

(906) 487-6233 

rcooney@republicbk.com 

www.keweenaw.info/events 

_35_canalrun.aspx 

VASA Trail Dirt Dash 

Relay 

Acme/Traverse City 8:00 am 

VASA Trail Head 

6KR, 11KR , 11K, 6K- 4 

person team relay 

Mike Decker 

(231) 932-5401 golden_Zatopek@hotmail. 

com 

Venetian River Run 

St Joseph 8:45 am 

Whitcomb Towers 5KR/W 

Venetian Festival 

(269) 983-7917 

stevenhilda@qtm.net 

www.venetian.org 


Ele’s Race 5K 

Okemos 9:00 am 

Jackson National Life 

Insurance Company 

5KR/W, 1M kids run 

Katie Cervenak 

(517) 482-1315 

kcervenak@elesplace.org 

elesplace.org 




Ohio/Michigan 4 Mile Run 

Sylvania 9:00 am 

Pacesetter Park 

4MR, 1M Kids FR 

Louise Miklovic 

(419) 868-1295 

YMCA Happy Trails 

Triathlon 



.6S, 20kB, 5KR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 




Aman Park Trail Run 


Pigeon Creek Park 

5.5MR, 1.5M kids run 

Jon Manion 

(616) 530-2002 

a04623@allstate.com 




Field Series 




Jeff Crowe 

(517) 627-9076 



Run the Mountain 


Mountain Town Station 

5KR Harry Plouff 

(989) 772-0323 



Track Run 


TC Central HS 5KR 

(231) 941-8118 



Wayland Road Runners 5K 

Cross Country 


Orchard Hills GC Shelbyville 

Ray Antel III 

(269) 792-2427 



Thursday, July 26 

Wish-A-Mile 300 Bicycle 

Tour 

Traverse City to Chelsea 

7:00 am 300M B ride 

Rebecca Bunting 

(888) 857-9474 

rbunting@wishmich.org 


7/26/07 to 7/29/07 


Alden Run 

Alden 9:00 am 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Jan Cummings 

(231) 331-6620 

jalynpineview@yahoo.com 

Best Source Credit Union 

Heart of the Hills 

West Bloomfield 8:00 am 

Andover HS 

10KR, 5KR 

Tansley Stearns 

(800) 666-4500 

tansley.stearns@bestsourcecu.org 

www.heartofthehillsrace.com 

Bryan Fire Department 5K 

and Fun Run 

Bryan 9:00 am 

Recreation Park 

5KR, 1MRF 

Joel DeLong 

(419) 636-4232 

jdelong@cityofbryan.com 

Byron Bank 5K 

Byron Center 8:30 am 

Byron Bank, 2445 84th St. 


Scott Ellison 

(616) 588-7454 

sellison@bankatbyron.com 

bankatbyron.com 

Coast Guard Festival 


YMCA 10KR, 5KR 

Kristin Aidif 

(616) 774-8142 

ymca@tcfymca.org 


Champion Chip Tiing 

Grand Island Trail 

Marathon & 10K 

Munising 7:00 am 

Williams Landing, Grand 

Island, Lake Superior 

26.2 MR, 10KR 


(715) 460-0426 

jcrumbaugh@charter.net 


Grand Woods 5 K 


Grand Woods Park, Delta 

Township, Willow Road, 1 

mile west of Waverly Road. 

5KR - trail 

Chuck Block 

(517) 702-0226 



Hudson Booster 5k Cross 

Country Open 

Hudson 8:30 am 

Hudson High School Cross 

Country Course 5KR 

Ron Carpenter 

(517) 286-6931 

lowgrade@hotmail.com 

Mystery Hash Run 


5MFR 

Todd Prom 

(269) 345-3076 

todd.prom@workdtravel.com 


Old Fart Cross Country 

Series 


Deross 5KR 

(616) 249-1849 

rmd@actionpackaging.com 

www.oldfartcross.8k.com 

Race for Hope 

Tipton 9:00 am 

Hidden Lake Gardens 

3MR/W 

(517) 264-8221 

spencer.ruffner@wacker.com 

raceforhope.bravehost.com 

Road Runner Classic 


Maybury State Park 

8KR, 5KW, 1MFR 

Gary Haf 

(248) 231-6114 

run _gh@yahoo.cojm 

northvilleroadrunners.org 

Steve’s Run 

Dowagiac 9:00 am 

10KR, 5KR/W, 1 MFR/W 

Ron Gunn 

(269) 782-1210 

rgunn@swmich.edu 

swmich.edu/fireup/stevesrun/ 

Tuuri Race Day 5K Run 

Walk & 10K Run 

Flint 7:30 am 

Hurley Medical Center 

10KR, 5KR/W, 1MW, Kids 

Run 

Kay Kelly 

(810) 257-9428 


X-Tri Ionia 

Ionia 8:00 am 

Ionia State Park 

1KS, 20KMB, 5KR, 2MR 

(810) 714-5784 




Carrollton Charity Road 

Races 

Carrollton 6:00 am 

Carrollton High School, 

1235 Mapleridge Road 

26.2 MR, 20KR, 10KR, 

5KR/W 

Craig Douglas 

(989) 399-8860 

cdouglas@carrollton.k12.m 

i.us 

Clark Lake Lions Triathlon 

& Duathlon 

Clark Lake 8:30 am 

Clark Lake Beach Club 

.5 MS/ 13 MB/ 4 MR or 

2.4MR/ 13MB/ 4MR 

Skip Wilcox 

(517) 592-5486 

wilcoxsk@frontiernet.net 

www.clarklaketri.com 

Elite Endeavors Women’s 

Only Triathlon Duathlon 

Sylvania, OH 7:30 am 

Centennial Terrace & 

Quarry 

Tri: .4MS/ 12MB/ 3MR; 

Du: 1MR/ 12MB/ 3MR 


(419) 829-2398 

jdjp@sev.org 


Mackinaw Multi-Sport 

Mix 


Downtown Mackinaw City 

Tri: 5KR/ 800meter S/ 

30KB/ 5KR; Du: 2MR/ 

30KB/ 5KR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



Rudyard Summerfest Road 

Race 

Rudyard 9:30 am 

Rudyard HS 5KR 

Gary Davis 

(906) 478-5244 

gdavis@sault.com 

Rudyard Lions Club 

Triathlon 

Rudyard 9:30 am 

Rudyard High School 

5KR/ 25KB/ 1/4MS (pool) 

Gary Davis 

(906) 478-5244 

gdavis@sault.com 







2MR or 3MR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



August 

Wednesday, August 1 

Hash Run 

Toledo, OH 

Bob Ampthor 

(419) 882-1711 



Alternating Relay 



4 x 1 MR/W 

(231) 941-8118 




Relay 



8M 2 person relay 

Ray Antel III 

(616) 792.2427 



Friday, August 3 

St. John’s Festival 5K 

Run/Walk & 1/4M Tot Trot 

Essexville 6:30 pm 

Corner of Pine & Hudson 

5KR/W, 1MR 

Wade Schaefer 

(989) 894-2753 

wadebaha@aol.com 

barc-mi.com 

Saturday, August 4 

Allen Park Street Fair 8K 

Allen Park 6:00 pm 

Allen Park Presbyterian 

Church, 7101 Park Ave. 

Tony Mifsud 

(734) 282-1101 

tonymifsud150@aol.com 

www.totalrunner.com 



15

Cougar 5K 


Catholic Central Athletics 

Fields 5KR/W 

Jackson Fox 

(616) 774-4713 

jackson_1_fox@yahoo.com 

grcatholiccentral.com/cc/sp 

orts/Courgar5K.htm 

Daily News Crystal Lake 5 

Mile Run 

Crystal 8:00 am 

Crystal Elementary School 

8KR, 5KR 

Crystal Chamber of 

Commerce 

(989) 235-5454 

crystalchaamber@cmsinter.net 

Harbor Days Harborun 

10K 

Elk Rapids 8:30 am 

10KR, 5KR, FR 

Elk Rapids Area C of C 

(800) 626-7328 

info@elkrapuidschamber.org 

www.elkrapidschamber.org/ 

Lake Shore Miles for Meals 


Pere Marquette Beach 

3MR/W 

Mary Beth Werner 

(231) 755-0434, ext. 3011 

mwerner@nutritionalservivces.org 

www.nutritionalservices.org 

Mark Mellon Triathlon & 

Duathlon 


Otsego Lake County Park 

Tri: .6M sw/ 31 M bi/ 6.2 

MR, also sprint tri, Du: 

2MR/ 31MB/ 3.1MR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



Mt Morris Poker Challenge 

Mt. Morris 8:00 am 

Mt. Morris Middle School 

12KR, 5KR/W, 1MR, Little 

Joker Shuffle 

Riverbend Striders 

(810) 659-6493 

gracemgt@aol.com 


Pig Gig “Run for Fun” 


Bay Co. Community Center 

5KR/W 

Ann Gasta 

(989) 415-5593 


Ready Or Not 5K 

Otsego 8:00 am 

Memorial Park 

5K/W, 1MFR 

Steve Long 

(269) 808-0613 

otsegocoach@yahoo.com 

runotsego.com 

Run Clark Lake 

Clark Lake 8:30 am 

12KR, 5KR/W, 3/4K Kids 

FR Pat Dwyer 

(517)782-6106 

patdwyer@prodigy.net 


Shermanator Triathlon 

Augusta 7:30 am 

Sherman Lake YMCA 

5KR, Triathlon 

Jeff Brown 

(269) 731-3045 

JeffB@ymcasl.org 

shermanlakeymca.org 

Streets of Fire 8K 


Kosciuszko Hall, 935 Park 

NW 8KR/W 

Mike Ball 

(616) 662-0122 

shermbelle@comcast.net 


Wayland Summerfest 

Wayland 8:00 am 

Wayland City Park 

10KR, 5KRW 

Sue Brewer 

(269) 792-0002 

sue_brewer@hotmail.com 

Whirlpool Steelhead 70.3 

Triathlon 

Benton Harbor / St. Joseph 

7:00 am 

Jean Klock Pa 

1.2 MS/ 56 MB/ 13.1 MR - 

half ironman 

Tom Ziebart 

(773) 404-2372 

info@caprievents.com 

steelheadtriathlon.com 

Ironman qualifier 

Women’s Distance Festival 

5K 


Hammerschmidt Center, 

Pearson Park 

5KR/W 

Terri Kaczor 

(419) 833-6365 


Sunday, August 5 

Bath Trail Run 

Bath 9:00 am 

Bath High School 


Rick Hammond 

(517) 641-6947 

runbathrun@hotmail.com 

bathboosters.com 

Craig Greenfield Memorial 

Triathlon & Duathlon 


Deer Lake Beach 

1000 meter S/ 16MB/ 4MR 

or 2MR/ 16MB/ 4MR 

(810) 714-5784 



Rutka 5K 


Gallup Park 

5KR, 3MW, kids’ dash 

Kathleen Gina 

(734) 369-2492 

rutka@aatrackclub.org 

www.aatrackclub.org/rutka 


Training Run 



Plymouth Road 


(734) 623-9640 



Monday, August 6 

Michigan Senior Olympics 

Summer Games 

Oakland County 8:00 am 

5KR 

(248) 608-0250 

michiganseniorolympics.org 

8/6/07 to 8/11/07 

Tuesday, August 7 


Summer Games 


10KR 

(248) 608-0250 


8/6/07 to 8/11/07 

Track Meet - Catholic 

Central 


100 meter R, 1MR, 800 

meter R, 2MR 

Steph VanHowe 

(616) 406-7441 

irun2@comcast.net 







5MR, 3MR, 1 

Harry Plouff 

(989) 772-0323 




Run 



15KR, 4MW 

(231) 941-8118 




Fun Run & Tube Steak 

Banquet 


Gun Lake State Park 4MR 

Ray Antel III 

(269) 792-2427 



Thursday, August 9 

Great Pizza Challenge 

Flint 6:30 pm 


5KR/W, 1/4 MR 


(810) 487-0954 



Ice Cream Mile 


Traverse City Central Track 

1MR 

Traverse City Track Club 

(231) 883-4516 


tctrackclub.com 


Access First Wildcat Classic 

5K 

Mattawan 6:00 pm 

Mattawan High School 

5KR/W 

webdzyner5@msn.com, 

lori@mattawan.org 

www.mattawandaysfestival.com 


Summer Games 


triathlon 

(248) 608-0250 


8/6/07 to 8/11/07 


Crystal Lake Team 

Marathon 

Beulah 8:00 am 

Beulah pavilion 

26.2 M Relay 

Paul Szymanski 

(231) 882-7212 

paul@lakeshoretitle.net 

Dwayne Rau Memorial 

Road Race 

West Branch 8:30 am 

Surline Middle School 

5KR/W, kids 2.5KFR 

Marjorie Taylor 

(989) 345-0901 

raut@m33access.com 

Greater Cleveland Youth 

Triathlon 

Mentor, OH 8:00 am 

Headlands State Beach, 

9601 Headlands Rd. 

Mickey Rzymek 

(330) 686-0993 

GCTriathlon@aol.com 

GreaterCleveland.com 

Home Run 5K 

Comstock Park 8:30 am 

Fifth-Third Ballpark 

5KR/W 

Tina Porcelli 

(616) 890-9356 

tporcelli@whitecapsbaseball.com 


Legend 5 & 10 Mile Trail 

Run 

Laingsburg 8:00 am 

Lake Ovid, Sleepy Hollow 

State Park 

10MR, 5MR 

(734) 929-9027 


www.runlegend.com 


Summer Games 


track and field: 100m, 

800m, 200m 

(248) 608-0250 


8/6/07 to 8/11/07 

Mint City 10 Miler, 5K & 

Family Fun Walk 

St. Johns 8:00 am 

900 W. Townsend St. 

10MR, 5KR 

Kathy Kushmaul 

(989) 224-6881 

mintcity10miler@yahoo.com 

clintonmemorial.org 

Paavo Nurmi Marathon 

Hurley, WI 

Upson to Hurley 

26.2MR, 2 & 5 person 

relays 

Rick Kelly 

(866) 340-4334 

hurley@hurleywi.com 

www.hurleywi.com 

Popson Five 


Brother Rice HS 5KR 

Patrick Davey 

(248) 585-6676 

defcomp01@hotmail.com 

Run Thru Hell 


Hell Creek Ranch, Cedar 

Lake Rd. & Paterson Lake 

Rd. 

10 MR, 4.8 MR 

Harrison D. Hensley 

(734) 878-6640 




Second Chance at Life 


Hines Park 5KR/W 

Shelly Morell 

(734) 513-5187 

smorell@wowway.com 

secondchanceatlife.org 

Summer Training 

Run/Walk on the Crim 

Course 

Flint 8:00 am 

Downtown YMCA 

10MR/W, 8KR/W 


(810) 238-5981 

Sylvania SuperKids 

Triathlon / Duathlon 


Olander Park 

distance varies by age 

group 


(419) 829-2398 

jdjp@sev.org 


X-Tri Battle Creek 

Battle Creek 

Ft. Custer State Park 

1000meterS/mtnB/4MR; 

2MR/mtnB/4MR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 


www.3disciplines.com 


Greater Cleveland 

Triathlon 

Mentor, OH 7:00 am 

Headlands State Beach, 

9601 Headlands Rd. 

half iron triathlon, half 

iron 3 person relay, 

aquabike, sprint triathlon 

Mickey Rzymek 

(330) 686-0993 

GCTriathlon@aol.com 

GreaterCleveland.com 

ING Edmonton Marathon 

Edmonton, Alberta 

26.2MR, 13.1MR, 10KR 

John Stanton 

(780) 433-6062 

edmevents@runningroom.com 

edmontonmarathon.ca 

5K, kids run on 8/11/07 

Lansing Legislator Tri, Du, 

Sprint 


Sleepy Hollow State Park 

1.5KS/ 40KB/ 10KR or 

500meterS/ 20KB/ 5KR or 


Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 

info@firecrackertri.com 


Leg It for Life 5KR/W 


East Lansing Soccer 

Complex 5KR/W 

Ken Bialek 

email@legitforlife.org 

legitforlife.org 


Mary Angela Run for 

Angela Hospice 

Farmington 9:00 am 

Oakland Community 

College, Orchard Ridge 

Campus 10KR, 5KR, 

1MW, 1M kids’ run 

Dan Jess 

(734) 953-6015 

lnorton@angelahospice.net 

Milford Memories 5K 


5KR, 1 MFR 

Anne Gault 

(810) 659-6493 


milfordmemories.com 

Sylvania Triathlon/ 

Duathlon 


Olander Park 

Olympic Tri, Sprint Tri, 

Du: 3kR, 40KB, 10KR 


(419) 829-2398 

jdjp@sev.org 


MidEast Tri / Du 

Championship 2007 

The Big Mur 5K 

Tipton 8:00 am 

HiddenLake Gardens 

5KR/W, 1MFR 

Pat Richardson 

(517) 529-9784 

patjrichardson@comcast.net 

thebigmur.com 



Shelby Township 



2MR or 3MR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 




Hash Run 

Toledo, OH 

Bob Ampthor 

(419) 882-1711 


Strider Track Meet 


Mt. Pleasant HS Track, 

1155 South Elizabeth 

5MR, 3MR, 1 

Harry Plouff 

(989) 772-0323 




Run 


TC Central High School 

4MR, 2MW 

(231) 941-8118 



Thursday, August 16 

Bauman’s Running and 

Walking Shop Charity Race 

Flint 6:45 pm 

Kettering University 

Recreation Center 

5KR/W 


(810) 238-5981 

riverbendstriders.com 

Thunder Bolt 5K / 

Maritime 5K 

Whitehall 6:30 pm 

Funnel Field 5KR 

Joe Wolters 

(231) 828-5448 

jdwolters6436@wmconnect.com 



Howell Melon Run 

Howell 6:00 pm 


10KR, 5KR, kids’ run 

Beth Schrader 

(517) 546-0693 

parksandrec@ci.howell.mi.us 

www.cityofhowell.org 

Pemberville 5 Miler 

Pemberville, OH 6:30 pm 

5MR, 1MFR 

Mitch Freeman 

(419) 287-3889 

www.fivemiler.org 


Bill’s Run Richmond Run! 

Richmond 8:00 am 

Beebe Street Memorial 

Park, Downtown 

Richmond 

8KR, 5KR/W, 1 MFR 

Stacie VanKirk 

(586) 727-3064 

parksandrec@comcast.net 

cityofrichmond.net 

Fallsburg Park Half 

Marathon & 8K Road Race 

Lowell 9:00 am 

Fallsburg Park 

13.1MR, 8KR 

Dan Droski 

(616) 260-2669 

CoachDroski@aim.com 

www.fallsburghalf.8k.com 

Fermi 2 Energy Run 

Monroe 8:30 am 

Monroe County 

Community College 

5KR, 1MFR, kids run 

Wendy Spicer 

(734) 586-4168 

spicerw@dteenergy.com 

misd.k12.mi.u2/projread/ 

Glen Lake 1 Mile Fun 

Run/Walk/Nordic Walk 

Maple City 10:00 am 

Glen Lake Schools 

1M R/W/NW, kids run 

Coach Edwards 

(231) 334-3080 

getfit@skiwalking.com 

skiwalking.com 

Hudsonville Fall Festival 5K 

Hudsonville 8:00 am 

5340 Plaza avenue, Suite A 

5KR/W 

Hudson Area C of C 

(616) 662-0900 

hcc@netpenny.net 

hudsonvillechamber.com 

Iroquoia Trail Test 

Kilbride, ON 8:00 am 

Kilbride School 32KR 

Geoff Sheppard 

(905) 319-2629 

sheppardhg@sympatico.ca 

ouser.org 


Mendon Heritage 5K Run 

& Walk 

Mendon 9:00 am 

Mendon Elementary School 

Kevin Kline 

(269) 209-5364 

kevin@keystonelake.com 

Mitchell’s Run Through 

Rockford 


Downtown Rockford 


Steve Peterson 

(616) 863-9168 

mitchellsrun@charter.net 

mitchellsrun.org 

Origami 5K 

Run/Walk/Wheel 

Mason 8:30 am 

3181 Sandhill Rd. 

5KR, 1MW 

Eric Hannah 

(517) 336-6060 

ehannah@origamirehab.org 

www.origamirehab.org 

Sanford and Sun Triathlon 

Sanford 8:00 am 

Tri: 1000-meter S/ 30KB/ 

5KR; Du: 500-meterS/ 20K 

B/ 5KR 

(810) 714-5784 



St. Joseph Island Cornfest 

Run/Walk 

St. Joseph Island 10:00 am 

Richards Landing 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Ray Stortini 

(705) 246-2661 

ray.stortini@sympatico.ca 

stjosephislandcornfest.com 

Three Rivers Triathlon & 

Duathlon 

Three Rivers 8:00 am 

Corey Lake 

Olympic 1.5KS/ 40KB/ 

10KR; Sprint 300ms/ 

18KB/ 5KR; Du 5KR/ 

40KB/ 10KR 

Emmanual Millet 

(269) 278.2075 

emillet@aquamantri.com 

aquamantri.com 


Crazy Run 


Lillie Park 5-8 MR 

(734) 995-0961 



Lapeer Days Race 

Lapeer 8:30 am 

Downtown Lapeer 

4MR/W, 1/4 MFR 

Ken Deighton 

(810) 342-5345 

kend@mclaren.org 

Montrose Blueberry Festival 

Montrose 8:00 am 

Montrose Hill McCloy HS 

5 MR/W 

Mandy Suwienski 

(810) 449-8340 

mandy@bluberryrace.com 

blueberryrace.com 



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Petoskey EPIC Triathlon & 

Duathlon 

Petoskey 8:00 am 

1000meterS/ 25MB/ 5MR 

or 2MR/ 14MB/ 5MR or 

500meterS/ 12.4MB/ 5MR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5768 



Vietnam Veterans United 

Annual 5K Run 

Allen Park 9:00 am 

Champaign Park 

5KR, 1 MR/W 

Ray Joaquin 

(734) 552-8538 

rjfordone@comcast.net 


Riverside Park Co-Ed Relay 


Riverside Park 

X-C relay, 4 alternating 

.5mile laps Jim Anton 

(616) 776-6134 

james.m.anton@usps.gov 



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 

crim@flint.org 

www.crim.org 


Series 

Hastings Summerfest Run 

Hastings 8:30 am 

Hastings Middle School 

10KR, 5KR/W, kids run 

Jamie VerStrate 

(269) 948-3139 

wellness@pennockhealth.com 

www.pennockhealth.com 

Ithaca Fun Fest 5K 

Run/Walk 

Ithaca 9:00 am 


Todd or Lori Crawford 

(989) 875-3663 

toddcrawfordslf@yahoo.com 

www.ithacami.com 

Kaleva Finnish Line 5K 

Run Walk 

Kaleva 9:00 am 

Kaleva ES, 5KR/W 

Brian Smith 

(231) 362-3793 

asialarelk@aol.com 

www.kalevami.com 

Portland Riverfest Run 


Porland High School, 

13.1MR, 5KR, wade & 

bike, non-competetive walk 

David Hoort 

dhoort@hotmail.com 

PortlandRunningClub.hom 

estead.com 

Somerset Stampede 

Somerset Center 7:30 am 

Somerset Beach 

13.1MR, 5KR/W 

Dave Parham 

(517) 780-4216 

somerset-run@earthlink.net 

www.somerset-run.com 

Tahqua Trail Run 

Paradise 8:00 am 

Tahquamenon Falls State 

Park, Whitefish Bay to 

Upper Tahquamenon Falls 

25KR, 8KR, 1M kids’ run 


(715) 460-0426 



Wabash Cannonball Run 

Whitehouse, OH 6:00 pm 

Village Park, State Rte 64 

5KR, 5K Inline Skate 

Ed O’Reilly 

(419) 360-3709 

wearinthgreen17@aol.com 


Ludington Light House 

Triathlon & Duathlon 

Ludington 8:00 am 

Ludington Public Boat 

Launch 

1000meterS/ 40KB/ 10KR 

or 500meterS/ 20KB/ 5KR 

or 5KR/ 20KB/ 5KR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5768 



Quebec City Marathon 

Quebec City, QC 8:20 am 

26.2MR, 13.1MR, 10KR, 

team challenge, kids run 

(418) 694-4442 

info@runquebeccity.com 

runquebeccity.com 

XTERRA BlackHawk Off- 

Road Triathlon/Duathlon 

Montague 9:00 am 

YMCA Camp Pendalouan, 

1243 East Fruitvale Rd. 

Tri: 1000 meter W/ 13MB/ 

10KR; Du: 10KR/ 13MB/ 

10KR 

Matt Vander Sys 

(231) 744-9138 





Milford 


training: 1KR, 800m or 

1200mS; 3MR or 4MR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 




Hash Run 

Toledo, OH 

Bob Ampthor 

(419) 882-1711 


September 

Saturday, September 1 

Boyne Mountain Triathlon 


Deer Lake, Boyne 

Mountain 

1KS/30KB/4MR, 2MR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



road bike tri/du Saturday; 

mtn bike tri/du Sunday 

Celebrate Westlake 

Westlake 8:30 am 

St. John West Shore 

Hospital, 29000 Center 

Ridge Road 

5MR, 3.4 MW, 1MFR, 1/2 

MFR, Kids FR 

Dave Camerino 

(440) 808-5700 

romalley@cityofwestlake.org 

celebratewestlake.com 

Labor Day 30K Run & 

10K Walk/Run 


2025 Milford Rd. (Baker’s 

Restaurant) 

30KR and relay, 10KR/W, 

1/2 MFR 

Doug Klingensmith 

(248) 685-7580 

racedirector@laborday30k. 

com 

www.laborday30k.com 

Mercantile Bank Holland 

Rotary 5K 


Municipal Stadium 5KR/W 

Lori Varner 

(616) 482-0062 

lvarner@suburbaninns.tv 

hollandrotary.org 

Niles Triathlon 

Niles 8:30 am 

Barron Lake, Howard Twp 

Fire Department 

Tri: .5 MS/ 20.9 MB/ 5 

MR; Du: 5KR/ 20.9 MB/ 

5MR; 5KR 

Liz Capron 

(269) 684-5140 

csb@datacruz.com 

nilesoptimist.org 

Prairie View Triathlon, 

Duathlon 


Prairie View Park 

1KS/ 40KB/ 10KR 

(810) 714-5784 



Run Like The Wind 


Hines Park, Nankin Mills 

Picnic Area 10KR, 5KR 

Chuck Block 

(517) 702-0226 



Ryan Serber 8K Classic 


University of Toledo Glass 

Bowl 8KR 

Brad Fanning 

(419) 224-2484 

ryanserber.com 

Witchy Wolf Run 

Omer 7:30 pm 

Russell Canoe Livery 

15MR, X-C, 2 person relay 

Chuck Hilyards 

(989) 846-6018 

hilyards@m33access.com 

witchywolfrun.com 

Sunday, September 2 

Grand Marais Triathlon 

Grand Marais 1:30 pm 

Bayshore Park 

Tri: 1/4MS/ 18MB/ 3.1MR, 

10KR, 5KR 

Ed Bowen 

(906) 494-2700 

ebowen@jamadots.com 

grandmaraismichigan.com/ 

R. E. Olds Memorial Cross 

Country Trail 5K 

Lake 1:00 pm 

Mystic Lake YMCA Camp 

5KR/W 

Ricky Wright 

(989) 544- 2844 

rwright@mysticlakecamp.com 

mysticlakecamp.com 

Tortoise and Hare Training 

Run 



Plymouth Road 


(734) 623-9640 



X-Tri Championship 


Boyne Mountain 1KS/ 

30KB/ 4MR/ 2MR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



Monday, September 3 

4Sight 4 Miler 

Norton Shores 8:00 am 

Mona Shores HS 

4MR 

Don Correll 

(231) 578-7300 

doncor49@yahoo.com 

lakeshorerunners.org 

Belding Lions Labor Day 

Run 

Belding 8:30 am 

Belding High School 

5KR/W, 1MFR/W 

Will Youngs 

(616) 794-0384 

wyoungs@yahoo.com 

Cadillac Festival of Races 

Cadillac 9:00 am 

Veterans Memorial Stadium 

10KR, 5KR, Kid’s Run, Tri: 

5KR/ 12MB/ 2M Kayak 

Rich Langton 

(231) 920-1732 

rlangton@workplacechaplains.us 

workplacechaplains.us 

CrossRoads Labor Day 5K 

& Fun Run 

Temperance 9:00 am 

Indian Creek Park 

5KR, 1MR/W 

Thomas Kleman 

(734) 847-4635 

trkleman@yahoo.com 

Governor’s Labor Day 

Bridge Run 

Mackinaw City 5MFR 

Michigan Fitness 

Foundation 

(517) 347-7891 

mlieber@michiganfitness.org 

.michiganfitness.org/bridger 

un.html 

Labor Day Run & Potluck 


Chippewa Nature Center 

10KR, 5KR/W, 100 & 200 

meter FR 

Gary Scott 

(989) 835-8216 

gsracer@sbcglobal.net 


Mackinac Bridge Walk 

St. Ignace 7:00 am 

St. Ignace to Mackinaw 

City 

5MW 

Mackinac Bridge Authority 

(906) 643-7600 

mackinacbridge.org 



New Haven Road Race 

New Haven, CT 20KR 

newhavenroadrace.org 


Tuesday, September 4 

Johnson Park Cross 

Country 5K 


Johnson Park Cross 

Country 5KR 

Anne Heathcote 

(616) 723-5638 

aheathcoterunner@yahoo.com 

Wednesday, September 5 

On the Right Path 

Clio 6:30 pm 

SS Charles & Helena 

Church 

5KR/W, 2MFW 

Mike Manor 

(810) 686-1875 

www.racesservices.com 


Dances with Dirt 

Pickney/Hell 7:30 am 

Pickney Recreation Area 

50MR, 50KR, 100 K Relay 

(734) 929-9027 

susan@runningfit.com 

danceswithdirt.com 

Fit Novi - Triathlon 

Novi 8:00 am 


Tri or Du: 800 meter S / 

15MB / 5KR /2MR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



Foote Hospital Run 


5 MR, 5KW, Kid’s Run 

Foote Hospital Community 

Relations 

(517) 788-4970 


Frontier Days 5K 

Charlotte 9:00 am 

Hayes Green Beach 

Hospital 5KR 

Dawn Rodman 

(517) 543-9575 

Drodman@hgbhealth.com 

www.hgbhealth.com 

Grape Lake 5K Run/Walk 


Lake View Community 

Hospital, 408 Hazen St. 

5K R/W Mike Matthews 

(269) 657-1559 

mmatthews@lakeviewcares.com 

lakeviewcares.com 

Haliburton Forest Trail 

Runs 

West Guilford, ON 6am 

100 MR, 50 MR, 50KR, 

25KR 

Helen Malmberg 

(416) 422-5130 

helen.malmberg@dhltd.com 

ouser.org 


Mackinac Island 8 Mile 

Road Race 


Mission Point Resort 

8 MR/W, kids run 

John Gault 

(810) 487-0954 

runmackinac@aol.com 

www.runmackinac.com 

Miles for Mentoring 5K 

Zeeland 8:30 am 

Lawrence Park 


Jennifer Baier 

(616) 396-7811, ext. 202 

jenniferbaiervista@gmail.com 

Ottawa International Self 

Transcendence 

Ottawa 8:00 am 

Terry Fox Track 

24 hour race 

Alan Ferguson 

(613) 991-6792 

ouser.org 


Reeds Lake Triathlon 

East Grand Rapids 7:30 am 

John Collins Park 

1/2MS, 18MB, 5MR 

Susan Perry 

(616) 949-1750 

sperry@eastgr.org 

reedslakerun.com 

River Trail Half Marathon 

Lupton 10:00 am 

Rifle River Recreation Area 

13.1MR 

Vicki Willard 

(989) 883-9593 

iwillrun@sbcglobal.net 


Run Drugs Out of Town 




Alissa Parks 

(517) 545-5944 

rundrugsoutoftownrun.org 

Run for Ryan 

Flat Rock 5:30 pm 

Flat Rock Community HS 

8KR, 1 MR/W 

Evelyn Sergent-Kosowski 

(734) 676-4296 

aclark@heritage.com 

heritage.com/ryansfriends/r 

yansrun.htm 

Run for the Prize 


4610 Belding 

5KR/W Michelle Burdsal 

(616) 866-8110 

rungirlrun92@yahoo.com 

cosrock.org 

Splash & Dash 5K 


Blythefield Christian 

Reformed Church 

5KR/W 

Bette O’Connor-Rogers 

(616) 866-2657 

rogersclan4@msn.com 

Tortoise & Hare Cross 

Country Classic 



5KR, 2MR 

Larry Bostwick 

(734) 623.9640 



Witch’s Hat Run 

South Lyon 8:30 am 

South Lyon HS 

10KR, 5KR/W, 1 MFR 

Greg Sadler 

(248) 437-6254 

greg@slxc.com 

www.slxc.com 


Chicago Half Marathon 

Chicago 7:30 am 

Museum of Science & 

Industry 13.1 MR, 5KR 

(312) 347-0233 

thehalfmarathon@aol.com 

chicagohalfmarathon.com 

Fit Novi - Half Marathon, 

10K, 5K, Money Mile 

Novi 8:00 am 

Civic Center Park 

13.1MR, 10KR, 5KR, 

1MR 

(810) 714-5784 



Kellie Sebrell DeWitt 5K 

Trail Run 

DeWitt 9:00 am 

DeWitt High School 5KR 

Rita Wieber 

(517) 669.8102 

rmwieber@attbi.com 


Race for Reason 


University of Michigan - 

Ingalls Mall 5KR/W 

Shamaila S. Khan 

(734) 615-8933 

pfundrace@yahoo.com 

www.pfund.umich.edu 

Sparrow Women Working 

Wonders 5K 


Hawk Island Park 

5MR, 5KR 

Alex Wiesner 

(517) 333-0858 

Alex@Wiesner.com 

sparrow.org/foundation/def 

ault.asp 

Springbank Half-Marathon 

and 5K 


Stone Cottage, Springbank 

Park 

13.1 MR, 5KR, kids run 


(519) 672.5928 



Vineyard Classic 


Van Buren Mental Health 

60MB, 39MB, 22MB tours 

Donna Oas 

(269) 657-6309 

dnroas@mac.com 

www.wineandharvestfestival.com/tour.htm 

Windmill Pointe Triathlon 

Grosse Pointe Park 8:30 am 

Windmill Pointe 

Tri: 4M Inline 

Skate/9MB/2MR 

Bike Blades and Boards 

(313) 885-1300 

info@bikesbladesandboards.com 

bikesbladesandboards.com 






training: 800 meter S/ 1/2 

MR/ 5KR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



Wed., September 12 

Hash Run 

Toledo, OH 

Bob Ampthor 

(419) 882-1711 


Friday, September 14 

Spartan Invitational 

East Lansing 

Michigan State University 

XC meet 

Walt Drenth 

(517) 355-1640 

drenthw@msu.edu 


Footrace 5K 


Horizon Park 5KR 

Harry Plouff 

(989) 772-0323 



Gazelle Sports Bridge Run 


Rosa Parks Circle 

10MR, 5KR 

Doug Bostian 

(616) 890-5978 

dbostian@rungazelle.com 

thebridgerun.com 

Grosse Pointe Run 

Grosse Pointe 8:30 am 

GP Farms Pier Park 

10KR, 5KR/W/Wheel, 

1MFR 

Bill Lacey 

(586) 774-7600 

williamelacey@ameritech.net 

Harvest Stompede 

Suttons Bay 9:30 am 

Ciccone Vinyards, Leelanau 

Peninsula 

7MR, 5KR, 3MW 

Rick Coates 

(231) 938-1811 

rick@lpwines.com 

www.lpwines.com 

Mt. Baldhead Challenge 


Downtown Saugatuck 

15KR, 5KR/W, kids run 

Mike Shaw 

(616) 355-9156 

michaelrayshaw@yahoo.com 

www.mtbaldhead.com 



19

Nike-Holly Cross Country 

Invitational 

Davisburg 7:45 am 

Springfield Oaks County 

Park 

X-C meet, 5KR, 2MR 

Matt Weisdorfer 

(248) 328-3242 

mweisdorfer@holly.k12.mi.us 

hollyareaschools.com/hhs/activ 

ities/site/xxcountry/home.html 

North Country Trail Run 

Manistee 7:30 am 

Big M Trails, Manistee 

National Forest 

50MR, 26.2 MR 

Steve Webster 

(616) 261-9706 


www.stridersrun.com 

St. John Applefest 

Fenton 9:00 am 

10KR, 5KR/W, 1MR, 1/4 

MR 

Tim & Mary Arthur 

(810) 735.9193 

TArthur7190@aol.com 


St. Mary Mercy Hospital 

5K Run for Cancer 

Livonia 9:00 am 

St. Mary Mercy Hospital, 

36475 Five Mile Rd. 

5KR Carlos Junca 

(734) 655-1402 

juncac@trinity-health.org 

www.stmarymercy.org 

United States Air Force 

Marathon 

Dayton, OH 7:00 am 

26.2 MR/W, Wheel, 

13.1MR/W, relay, 5KR 

(800) 467-1823 

USAF.Marathon@wpafb.af. 

mil 

www.usafmarathon.com/ 

Walk to Cure Diabetes 


Ella Sharp Park 5KW 

Annette Guilfoyle 

(616) 957-1838 

westmichigan@jdrf.org 

www.jdrf.org 


Crazy Run 


South Parks 5-8 MR 


(734) 995-0961 



CVS/Pharmacy Downtown 

5K 

Providence, RI 

5KR 

www.cvsdowntown5k.com 


Greenville Area Great 


Fibrosis 

Battle Creek 12:00 pm 

Greenville Community 

Center 5MW 

Cystic Fibrosis Office 

(616) 241-2100 


www.cff.org 

Playmakers Autumn Classic 

8K 

Haslett 9:00 am 

Haslett Michigan, Lake 

Lansing Park, North 

8KR/W, 1MFR, 1/2 M FR 

Curt Munson 

(517) 349.3803 

playmakers@playmakers.com 

www.playmakers.com 


Rushford Rustic Rhodes 

Race & Family Day 

Rhodes 3:00 pm 

Rushford Farm, Schaard 

Rd., Rhodes, MI 

5K Steeplechase R/W 

Tom Rushford 

(989) 684-9299 

Runwild1128@yahoo.com 

barc-mi.com 

Stony Creek Triathlon 

Championship 



1MS / 40KB / 10KR, or 

500mS / 20KB / 5KR or 

5KR / 40KB / 10KR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



Tower Run for Education 

Michigan City, IN 8:30 am 

Washington Park 

8KR, 5KW 

Ryan Bos 

(219) 874-8927 

run@toweronline.org 

www.toweronline.org/run/ 


Fallasburg Park Trail 5 

Mile Fun Run 


Fallasburg Park 5MR 

Don Huizinga 

(616) 987-9097 

donh@yahoo.com 


Run For the Hills 


Forest Hills Aquatic Center 

5K R/W, children’s FR 

Forest Hills Public Schools 

(616) 493-8500 

fhef@fhps.k12.mi.us 

www.fhef.org 


Delta Invitational 

University Center 9:00 am 

Delta College 

2MR - open 

Ted Davenport 

(989) 893-1093 

Detroit Catholic Central 

Cross Country Invitational 


Cass Benton Park 

HS X-C, Open races 

Tony Magni 

(248) 596-3830 

tonymagni@catholiccentral.net 

www.cathloiccentral.net 

Dunes Duathlon 

ALTERNATE DATE: 

9/29/07 


Saugatuck Dunes State Pk 

5MR, 17.8 MB 

Joes Nemes 

(616) 566-2085 

racedirector@dunesdu.com 

www.dunesdu.com 

John Rogucki Memorial 

Kensington Challenge 

Milford 8:30 pm 

Kensington Metropark, 

Martindale Beach 

15KR, 5KR, 1/2 MR 

Jo Darlington 

(734) 769-1925 

jorunner1966@yahoo.com, 

www.aatrackclub.org 


Series 

Michigan State Police Fall 

Color 5K 


Maybury State Park 

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 

9:15 am 

Boathouse Bar and Grill 

5KR, 1MR 

Susan Byrnes 

(419) 285-2306 

byrnespib@thirdplanet.net 


Oakland Township 

Curamus Terram 5K & 

Half Marathon 

Oakland Twp 9:00 am 

Paint Creek Cider Mill 

13.1MR, 10KR, 5KR 

Marc Edwards 

(248) 935-9004 

marc3815@aol.com 

www.oaklandtownship.org 

Old Boys Oktoberfest 1/2 

Marathon and 5K Run 

Spring Lake 9:30 am 

Old Boys Brewhouse, 971 

W. Savidge 

13.1MR, 5KR 

Matt VanderSys 

(231) 744-9138 



Peacock Strut 

Portage 8:00 am 

Celery Flats 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Diane Schrock 

(269) 323-1942 

d.schrock@charter.net 

www.iserv.net/~pcoc 

Phil Loomis Invitational/ 

Cit Pat Awards Ceremony 


4 MR, 5KW 

Bob Gilmore 

(517) 782-2071 

rtgilmore@cmsenergy.com 


Running Fit Cross Country 

Meet 


Oakland College 

cross country 

(734) 929-9027 



Vasa Trail Run 


Vasa XC Ski Trail Head 

25KR, 11KR, 5KR 

George Kuhn 

(231) 941-8118 



Walk for Wishes 

Kalamazoo 

5KW 

Cara Ontiveros 

(616) 363-4607 

contiveros@wishmich.org 


Women Only Road Race 


Riverfront Character Inn - 

Downtown Flint 

5KR/W 

Hillary Holbel 

(810) 235-4907 




Addison Oaks Fall Classic - 

MMBA 

Romeo 

bike tour 

Anne Gault 

(810) 487-0954 



Autumn Colors Triathlon 

and Duathlon 

Holly 9:00 am 

Holly Recreation Area 

1000 meter S/ 30KB/ 5MR 

or 2MR/ 18MB/ 5MR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



Birmingham Lions Run for 

the Blind 


Downtown Birmingham 

10KR, 5KR, 1 MW 

Keena B. Catanzaro 

(248) 435-1100 

ReMaxKeena@aol.com 


Cleveland Heroes Run 


St. Joseph Academy 

5MR, 2MR/W 

(216) 631-8455 

tomross@cppa-u.com 


Fox Cities Marathon 

Neenah, WI 

Riverside Park 

26.2 MR, 13.1 MR, relay 

Debbie Jansen 

(920) 727.1726 

debbie.jansen@community 

firstcu.org 

www.foxcitiesmarathon.org 

Michigan Big 10 Run 



Central Campus Diag 

10 KR, 100 yd kids’ dash 

Kathleen Gina 

(734) 369-2492 

info@bigtenrun.com 

www.bigtenrun.com 

River Road Run 

St. Marys, ON 11:00 am 

St. Mary’s Quarry 

14 KR, 3 KR 

Marco Balestrin 

(519) 248-1675 




Run 


Tortoise and Hare Running 

and Fitness Center, 

Plymouth Road 



(734) 623-9640 





Gallup Park 

3MW 


Rita Combest 

(248) 355-1133 

rcombest@jdrf.org 

walk.jdrf.org 


Warren 9:30 am 

GM Tech Center 1MW 

Rita Combest 

(248) 355-1133 

rcombest@jdrf.org 

www.jdrf.org 

Wed., September 26 

Hash Run 

Toledo, OH 

Bob Ampthor 

(419) 882-1711 



Diehl’s Ciderfest Run 

Holly 8:30 am 

Diehl’s Cider Mill 

4 MR, 1MFR 

Chris Diehl 

(248) 634-8981 

Chris@DiehlsOrchard.com 

www.diehlsorchard.com 

Dunes Duathlon 

ALTERNATE DATE: 

9/22/07 


Saugatuck Dunes State Pk 

5MR, 17.8 MB 

Joes Nemes 

(616) 566-2085 

racedirector@dunesdu.com 

www.dunesdu.com 

Genesys 5K Run/Walk 


5KR/W 

Dave Walters 

(810) 606-7909 


www.genesys.org/ 

Komen Grand Rapids Race 

for the Cure 

Grandville 8:30 am 

Rivertown Crossings Mall 

5KR, 1MW 

Denise Blunk 

(616) 752-8262 

grkomen@unitedwaycares.com 

komengr.org 

Park 2 Park Half Marathon 

and 5K 


1627 W. Lakewood Blvd. 

13.1MR, 5KR, kids’ run 

Sherrie Kornoelje Santos 

(616) 399-9190, x 103 

sherriek@harderwyk.com 



Parma Day Harvest 

Festival 

Parma 8:30 am 


Shelly Campbell 

(517) 392-7468 

shellzcamp96@yahoo.com 

Road Runner Akron 

Marathon 

Akron 8:00 am 

Lockheed Martin Airdock 

26.2 MR, relays 

Tom Koch 

(330) 375-2RUN 

tk@zajacpr.com 

akronmarathon.org 

Run for the Son 

Portage 5KR/W 

Cheryl Garlick 

(269) 720-0567 

sgarlick@mallcitycontainers.com 

www.kazoodc.org 

Third Coast Metro Trek 



Downtown Kalamazoo 

Run/ Bike/other adventure 

race 

Chris Lampen-Crowell 

(269) 342-5996 

ccrowell@gazellesports.com 




Nankin Mills on Hines Dr. 

up to 20M training run 

(734) 929-9027 





Ah-Hab-Awen Park 5KW 


(616) 957-1838 


www.jdrf.org 



Sunset Park 5KW 


(616) 957-1838 


www.jdrf.org 


Apple Cider Century 

Bicycle Tour 

Three Oaks 7:00 am 

Three Oaks Elementary 

School 

25 MB, 50 MB, 75 MB, 

100 MB 

Bryan Volstorf 

(888) 877-2068 

bryan@applecidercentury.com 

applecidercentury.com 

Big House / Big Heart 5K / 

5 Mile 

Ann Arbor University of 

Michigan Stadium 

5MR, 5KR 

(734) 929-9027 



Boyne 2 Boyne Marathon 


Boyne Highlands 

26.2MR, 13.1MR, 10KR, 

5KR, FR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



Capital City Half 

Marathon and 5K 


Impression 5 Science 

Center 

13.1MR, 5KR, 1MFR, 1/4 

MFR 

Dick Miles (517) 332.2681 

rmileselan@comcast.net 

www.ccriverrun.org 


Komen Northwest Ohio 

Race for the Cure 


Downtown Toledo, Summit 

& Washington 

5KR/W 

Cindy Turner 

(419) 824-1789 

raceinfoline@hotmail.com 

www.nwohkomen.org 

Scotiabank Toronto 

Waterfront Marathon 


Metro Hall, downtown 

26.2 MR, 13.1MR, 5KR 

Alan Brookes 

(416) 944-2765, ext. 502 

info@torontowaterfrontmarathon.com 

torontowaterfrontmarathon.com 

The Standard Run for the 

Grapes Cogeco Half 

Marathon / 5K 

St. Catherines, ON 8 am 

Market Square 

13.1MR, 5KR 

(905) 562-8669 


instride.ca 

October 

Thursday, October 4 

White Pumpkin 5K 

Caro 6:00 pm 

Davenport University 

5KR/W 

Vicki Willard 

(989) 673-4241 

whitechiro@centurytel.net 

Saturday, October 6 

Communities Respond to 

Overcome Poverty - CROP 

Run 

Macon 10:00 am 

White Church 10KR, 5KR 

Spencer Ruffner 

(517) 605-5427 

sruffn@cs.com 

churchworldservice.org 

Portage Invitational 

Portage 8:30 am 

x-c meet, open 5K 

Dan Wytko 

(269) 323-5233 

dwytko@portageps.org 

www.portageinvite.com 

Red October Run 

Wayne 9:50 am 

Oakwood Annapolis 

Hospital 

10KR, 5KR/W, 1M kid’s 

run 

Cynthia Cook 

(313) 586-5486 

cynthia.cook@oakwood.org 

www.oakwood.org/redoctoberrun/ 

Remembrance Run 


Timber Ridge 

5KR/W, 1MR/W 

Michelle Witkop 

(231) 941.8118 



Wayne County Cross 

Country Championships 


Willow Metropark, 

Chestnut Picnic Area 

5KR 

Geoff Baker 

(734) 416-7774 

Bake272@aol.com 

www.salemcrosscountry.org 

Sunday, October 7 

Betsie Valley Run 

Thompsonville 

9:00 am 

Crystal Mountain Resort 

13.1MR, 10KR, kids run 

Kyle Fitzpatrick 

(231) 378-4100 

DFitzpatrick@acegroup.cc 

betsievalleyrun.com 

Farmington Fall Classic 

Farmington 10:00 am 

Heritage Park, Farmington 

Rd. 

5KR/W 

Farmington Hills Parks and 

Rec. 

(248) 473-1800 

hsmith@ci.farmingtonhills.mi.us 


Great Pumpkin / Spooky 

Sprint Duathlons 



5KR, 40KB, 10KR or 5KR, 

20KB, 5KR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



Hidden Forest Trail Run 


Independence Oaks Park 

8.5 MR, 5.5 MR, 2.5 

MR/W 


(810) 487-0954 


Lakefront Marathon 

Milwaukee 8:00 am 

Grafton HS 

26.2 MR 

Kris Hinrichs 

(414) 476-7223 

lakefrontmarathon@sbcglobal.net 

badgerlandstriders.org/lakefront/ 

Lasalle Bank Chicago 

Marathon 

Chicago 7:40 am 

Grant Park 

26.2 MR, 5KR 

Carey Pinkowski 

(312) 904-9800 

www.chicagomarathon.com 

Medtronic Twin Cities 

Marathon 

Minneapolis 8:00 am 

26.2 MR, 10 MR, 5KR 

(763) 287-3888 

info@mtcmarathon.org 

twincitiesmarathon.org 

USA Men’s 10 Mile 

Championship 



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MSU Federal Credit Union 

Dinosaur Dash 


MSU Museum 

5KR/W, 1MR/W, kids run 

Bill Matt 

(517) 355-2370 

dinodash@museum.msu.edu 

museum.msu.edu 



Run 



Plymouth Road 


(734) 623-9640 



Towpath Marathon 


Cuyahoga Valley National 

Park 

26.2MR, 13.1MR, 5KR 

Ohio Canal Corridor 

(216) 520-1825 

tstella@ohiocanal.org 

www.towpathmarathon.net 

Monday, October 8 

Tufts Health Plan 10K for 

Women 

Boston 

www.tufts-healthplan.com 

USA Women’s 10K 

Championship 

Wednesday, October 10 

Hash Run 

Toledo, OH 

Bob Ampthor 

(419) 882-1711 



Dodge the Leaves Duathlon 


Prairie View County Park 


Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



Greater Lansing Cross 


Grand Ledge 

cross country 


Oasis Zoo Run 


Toronto Zoo 

10KR, 5KR/W 

(416) 944-2765 




Reese Invitational 

Reese 9:00 am 

Reese HS 

5KR - open 

Dale Sage 

(989) 893-1093 

barc-mi.com 

Vulture Bait Trail Race 


Fanshawe Conservation 

Area 

50KR, 25KR, 10KR 

Nicki Lauzon 

(519) 951-0119 

vulturebaittrailruns@hotmail.com 

vulturebaitrace.com 



Aspen Attach MTB 

Duathlon and Race 


Gaylord Middle School 

Duathlon: 5KR/ 20KB 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



Autism Society of West 

Shore 5K Run / 2 Mile 

Family Fun Walk 


Grand Valley State 

University, Field House 

5KR, 2MW 

Colleen Hurley 

(616) 786-3754 

hurlepa@chartermi.net 

East Lansing Pumpkin Trot 


East Lansing Soccer 

Complex 5KR/W 

Dave Dekorte 

(517) 319-6897 

ddekort1@ci.eastlansing.mi.us 


Pinery Provincial Park 

Road Race 

Grand Bend, ON 9:45 am 

Downtown Grand Bend 

10KR, 5KR, kids run 

(519) 672-5928 

gbendrun@@hay.net 

www.eventsonline.ca s 

Portland St. Patrick Fall 

Festival 5K 


Grand River Avenue and 

West Street 5KR 

Dan Lawless 

(517) 647-1709 

PortlandRunningClub.hom 

estead.com 

Prince Edward Island 

Marthon 

Charlottetown 9:00 am 

26.2MR, 13.1MR/W, 


Myrtle Jenkins-Smith 

info@princeedwardislandmarathon.com 

princeedwardislandmarathon.com 

Pumpkin Trot 5K R/W 

St. Johns 1:30 pm 

St. Johns City Park 

10KR, 5KR/W, Kid’s Dash 

George Campbell 

(989) 224-6464 

geokath@voyager.net 

Toronto Marathon 


Mel Lastman Square, 

Yonge Street 

26.2 MR, 13.1 MR, 5KR, 

Honda Relay 

Jay Glassman 

(416) 972-1062 

torontomarathon@rogers.com 

www.torontomarathon.com 

Monday, October 15 

Jr. Greater Lansing Cross 

Country 

DeWitt 

cross country 


Tuesday, October 16 

HAWK Cross Country 

Invitational 

Saginaw 5:00 pm 

White Pine Middle School 

2MR - middle school 

Daryl Bernard 

(989) 797-1814 

dfbernar@stcs.org 


Grubers Grinder 

Holly 9:00 am 

Holdbridge State 

Recreation Area 

16MB 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



Indianapolis Marathon and 

Half Marathon 

Indianapolis 8:30 am 

Fort Harrison 

26.2 MR, 13.1 MR, 5KR, 

4 person relay, kids run 

Joel Sauer 

(317) 826-1670 

info@indianapolismarathon.com 

indianapolismarathon.com 

Mercantile Bank Run Thru 

the Rapids 


New Downtown YMCA 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Ardith Turpin 

(888) 909.2267 

aturpin@grymca.org 

www.campmanitou-lin.org 

Run on the Rez 5K 


Saginaw Chippewa Tribal 

Operations, Broadway & 

Leaton 

5KR Harry Plouff 

(989) 772-0323 



Run To Serve 

Jenison 9:30 am 

Holy Cross Lutheran 

Church 5KR/W 

Mark McCready 

(616) 457-3279 

run2serve5k@sbcglobal.net 

www.holycrossjenison.org 

Scary Runner 


Wild Woods of Terror 

5KR/W 

Bay City Runners Store 

(989) 686-8846 

barc-mi.com 

WMU Homecoming 

Campus Classic 


Western Michigan 

University Campus, 

Bernhard Center 

5KR/W, 1KFR 

Sue Beougher 

(269) 387-8402 

sue.beougher@wmich.edu 

www.wmich.edu/race 


Columbus Marathon 

Columbus, OH 7:00 am 

Broad and High Streets 

26.2 MR/W, wheelchair, 

marathon relay 

(614) 794.1566 

info@columbusmarathon.c 

om 

columbusmarathon.com 

Crazy Run 


Barton Hills 5-8 MR 


(734) 995-0961 



Detroit Free Press/Flagstar 

Marathon 


26.2MR, 13.1MR/W, 

teams, 5KFR/W 

Patricia Ball 

(313) 222-6676 

marathon@freepress.com 

detroitfreepressmarathon.com 


Series 

Racing for Recovery Run 


Lourdes College 

10KR, 5KR/W, 1/4 MFR 

Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 


racingforrecovery.com/half 

Rocky River Spirit 5K Run 

Rocky River, OH 9:00 am 

Rocky River High School 

Stadium 

5KR/W, 1/2 M Kids’ R 

(440) 823-4949 

Robin_Reinbold@admin.ro 

ckyriver.k12.oh.us 

www.lnoca.org/~rrcs/ no 

Wednesday, October 24 

Hash Run 

Toledo, OH 

Bob Ampthor 

(419) 882-1711 



Great Turtle Half 

Marathon 


Mission Point Resort 

13.1 MR, 5.7 MR/W 

John Gault 

(810) 487-0954 

JohnCGault2@aol.com 


KAR Halloween Hash & 

Kids Trick or Treat Mini 

Hash Run 


KVCC Texas Corners 

Campus, Texas Drive 

Trailhead 

3-7MR, 1/2MFR, kids’ run 

Dave Walch 

(269) 276-0431 

david.walch@pfizer.com 



Grand Rapids Marathon 


Grand Rapids 

26.2 MR, 13.1 MR 

Don Kern 

(616) 293-3145 

cooladventures@aol.com 

grandrapidsmarathon.com 

Halloween Haunting Run 

London, ON 9:30 am 

Springbank Park 

10KR, 3KFR/W 




(519) 672-5928 

info@runnerschoice.on.ca 


Niagara Falls International 

Marathon 

Niagara Falls, ON 9:45 am 

Albright-Knox Gallery. 

Buffalo, NY 

26.2 MR/W/Wheel, 13.1 

MR/W/Wheel, 5KR/W 

Jim Ralston 

(800) 563-2557 

nfcvcb@tourismniagara.com 

niagarafallsmarathon.com 

November 

Friday, November 2 

Night of the Day of the 

Dead 5K 

Ann Arbor7:00 pm 

UM North Campus 

5KFR 

Kathleen Gina 

(734) 369-2492 

thebigdog@twodogsrunning.com 

signmeup.com 

Saturday, November 3 

Jingle Bell Run/Walk for 

Arthritis 


Kalamazoo Valley 

Community College Acadia 

Commons 

5KR/W, Kids’ Run 

Scott Cleven 

(248) 649-2891 

scleven@arthritis.org 

jbrkalamazoo.kintera.org 

Randy’s Festival of Races 

Monclova, ON 9:30 am 

Monclova Primary School 

10 MR, 5KR, 1M Kids 

Ed O’Reilly 

(419) 360-3709 



Road to Emmaneus 

Marathon 

Buchanan 8:00 am 

The Lodge 

26.2 MR 

(734) 929-9027 



U of M/MSU Tailgate 

Challenge 

Flint 9:00 am 


5KR/W 


(810) 487-0954 



US. Olympic Team Trials - 

Men’s Marathon 

New York 

26.2MR 

New York Road Runners 

(212) 860-4455 

webmaster@nyrr.org 

nyrr.org 

US. Olympic Team Trials - 

Men’s Marathon 

Sunday, November 4 

Grand Mere Grind 

Stevensville 9:00 am 

Grand Mere Stsate Park 

10KR 

Dave Clayton 

(269) 983-2822 

dave_l_clayton@whirlpool. 

com 

grandmeresports.com 

ING New York City 

Marathon 

New York City 10:50 am 

26.2 MR 

Mary Wittenberg 

(212) 423.2249 

www.nyrrc.org 

Turkey Trot Cross 

Country Run 

Mt Pleasant 3:00 pm 

Deerfield County Park 

6KR X-C 

Harry Plouff 

(989) 772-0323 


www.edzone.net/~mphsstr 

Wed., November 7 

Hash Run 

Toledo, OH 6:30 pm 

Bob Ampthor 

(419) 882-1711 



ANG Road Hawg Classic 


Battle Creek Air National 

Guard Base 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Michael Wilson 

(269) 969-3441 

road.classic@mibatt.ang.af.mil 

www.roadhawgclassic.com 

Don Dansereau Memorial 

Scholarship 5K Run/Walk 


Bay Arenac ISD Career 

Center, 4155 Monitor 

Road 

5KR/W 

John Metevia 

(989) 832-2267 

jmetevia@yahoo.com 

barc-mi.com 

Iceman Cometh Mountain 

Bike Race 

Kalkaska 8:00 am 

27MB 

(231) 922-5926 

race@iceman.com 

www.iceman.com 

Muskegon Turkey Trot 5K 


Orchard View Middle 

School 

5K Trail R 

Joe Wolters 

(231) 828-5448 

jdwolters6436@wmconnect.com 


Scarecrow Sprint XC Race 

Fremont 10:00 am 

Walsh Park 

5KR 


(419) 334-5906 

mdglotz@fremontohio.org 

Tim Horton’s Casablanca 

Classic 10 Miler / 1 Mile 

Grimsby, ON 10:30 am 

Casablanca Winery Inn 

10MR, 1MR 

(905) 562-8669 


instride.ca 


Ann Arbor Turkey Trot 



10KR/W, 5KR/W, 1MFR, 

200mFR 


(734) 623-9640 



Roseville Big Bird Run 

Roseville 10:00 am 

10KR, 1MR/W, 4KR 

Tony Lipinski 

(586) 445-5480 

alipinski@roseville-mi.com 

The Burg Run 

Laingsburg 2:00 pm 

8008 Woodbury Road 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Scott Danek 

(517) 324-1266, ext. 3 

email@tdwealth.com 

www.leaf4Kids.com 

Turkey Trot Splash & Dash 

Boyne Falls 10:00 am 

Avalanche Bay, Boyne 

Mountain 

5KR/W, 1/2K kids run 

Brenda Ann Walli 

(269) 549-6838 

bwalli@boyne.com 

www.avalanchebay.com 

Entry fee includes admission 

to Avalance Bay 

Indoor Waterpark 

Tuesday, November 13 

Wayne County Lightfest 8K 

Fun Run/Walk 

Westland 7:00 pm 

Hines Park 8KR/W 

Tony Mifsud 

(734) 261-1990 

www.waynecountyparks.org 


One Hill of a Run 


1800 Tremont 

10KR, 5KR 

Dan Droski 

(616) 260-2669 

droskidan33@netscape.net 

onehillofarun.mysite.com 


Crazy Run 


Ann Arbor Hills 5-8 MR 


(734) 995-0961 



Hannukah Hustle 5K 


Shalom Village, 60/70 

Macklin St. 

10KR, 5KR, 1KW 

Kelly Arnott 

(905) 639-8053 

vrpro@cympatico.ca 

www.vrpro.ca 

Run/Walk for Shelter 5K 


Ella Sharp Park Museum 

Grounds 

5KR/W, kid’s run 

Karen Turisch Sine 

(517) 784-6620 

jacksonhabitat@acd.net 


Monday, November 19 

NCAA Division I Cross 


Terre Haute 11:00 am 

Wabash Family Sports 

Center 10KR, 6KR 

NCAA 

(812) 237-4040 

ncaasports.com 

Wed., November 21 

Hash Run 


Bob Ampthor 

(419) 882-1711 

www.mudhennhhh.com 

Thursday, November 22 

Ann Arbor Turkey Trot 



Sports Coliseum 

3MFR/W 

Jeff Suffolk 

(248) 493-5911 

info@redrockco.com 

www.active.com / redrockco.com 

Fifth Third Bank 

Thanksgiving Turkey Trot 


10KR, 5KR, 1MR 

The Parade Company 

(313) 923-7400 

www.detroitturkeytrot.org 

Galloping Gobbler 4 Miler 


University of St. Francis, 

Hutzell Athletic Center 

4MR, 2MW 

Mitch Harper 

(260) 436-4824 

mtchharper@aol.com 

FortWayneGobbler.com 

Grand Rapids Turkey Trot 

10K 


East Grand Rapids Library 

10KR 

grturkeytrot@gmail.com 

grturkeytrot.googlepages.co 

m/home 

KAR Thanksgiving Day 

Turkey Trot Prediction Run 


Kalamazoo Valley 

Community College,Texas 

Corners Campus 

5KR Scott Taylor 

(269) 679-2351 

sctaylor75@verizon.net 




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Lansing Turkeyman Trot 


Lansing Community 

College 5KR 

Chuck Block 

(517) 702-0226 



Niles/Buchanan YMCA 

Thanksgiving Day Run 

Niles 9:00 am 

Niles/Buchanan YMCA 


Bret Hendrie 

(269) 683-1552 

bret.hendrie@nb-ymca.org 

nb-ymca.org 

Smoke the Turkey 5K 


St. James Club 5KR 

Elite Endeavors 

(419) 841-5597 

jdjp@sev.org 


Turkey Dash 

Avon, OH 9:00 am 

Red Tail Golf Club 

5KR/W 

Barb Piscopo 

(449) 937-6712 

nankonfoundation@kellnet.com 

nakonfoundation.com 


Fantasy 5K 

Howell 6:00 pm 

5KR 

Sarah Johnson 

(517) 546-3020 

bpilot@cac.net 

http://howell.org 

Holiday Hustle 

Maumee, OH 5:15 pm 

Maumee Indoor Theater 

5KR Edward O’Reilly 

(419) 360-3709 

wearinthegreen17@aol.com 



The Downtown Mile 


Rodger Young Park 1 MR 


(419) 334-5906 

mdglotz@fremontohio.org 

www.fremontohio.org 


Fit Novi - Candy Cane 5K, 

Santa Fun Run 

Novi 6:00 pm 

5KR Kenny Krell 

(810) 714-5784 



December 

Saturday, December 1 

Christmas Stocking Run 


4 MR/W 


(810) 487-0954 



Dickens of a Run 

Mt Pleasant 8:30 am 

Max & Emily’s, downtown 

5KR 

Harry Plouff 

(989) 772-0323 



Jingle Bell 5K for Arthritis 


Lourdes College 

5KR 

Michelle Dernier 

(419) 537-0888 


Jinglejog 5K Night Run / 

Jinglefest Parade 

Fenton 6:00 pm 

Fenton Community Center, 

150 S. Leroy 

5KR Ron Stack 

(810) 629-5447 

marketing@fentonchamber.com 

www.fentonchamber.com 

Reese Winter Road Race 

Series 

Reese 10:00 am 

Reese High School 

10KR, 5KR/W 

Rick Houghtaling 

(989) 693-6558 

badefrain@hotmail.com 

Run Like the Dickens 5K 

Run and Walk 

Tiffin, OH 9:00 am 

Seneca County Commission 

on Aging 5KR/W 

Nick Fabrizio 

(419) 448-5533 

fabdcrehab@yahoo.com 

hfpracing.com 

Salomon/Moosejaw 

December Chill 

Southeast Michigan 9 am 

8 hr sprint: canoeing/ MB/ 

orienteering/ trekkking/ 

fixed ropes 

Zac Chisholm 

(810) 239-00165 


infiterrasports.com/ar.htm 

Sunday, December 2 

Jingle Bell Run for Arthritis 

- Northville 


5KRW, 1/4 M Snowman 

Shuffle 

Mary Sue Lanigan 

(800) 968-3030, ext. 233 

mlanigan@arthritis-mi.org 

www.arthritis.org 

New Las Vegas Marathon 

Las Vegas 6:00 am 

26.2 MR, 13.1MR 

(702) 731-1052 

ccox@devineracing.com 

www.lvmarathon.com 

Tucson Marathon 

Tucson 7:00 am 

26.2MR, 13.1MR, relay 

Marilyn Hall 

(520) 577-6344 

marilyn.tucsonmarathon@y 

ahoo.com 

tucsonmarathon.com 

Wednesday, December 5 

Hash Run 


Bob Ampthor 

(419) 882-1711 


Thursday, December 6 

Run Through the Lights 


Gazelle Sports 

5KR 

Rob Lillie 

(269) 342-5996 

rlillie@gazellesports.com 



Jingle Bell Run for Arthritis 


Pierce Elementary School 

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19

Running Taxes 

Drawing by Anthony Snyder 

By Daniel G. Kelsey 

Taxes gonna break my back I swear 

Don't you know I pay a lot more than my 

share? 

I hate taxes 

- The Robert Cray Band, “1040 Blues” 

Near dark on a frigid day in early 

December I started off on a four-mile 

run, keeping to the village streets to 

avoid country winds. I'd turned my first corner, 

not two-tenths of a mile into my tour, my 

furnace not yet fired up enough to drive away 

the cold, when I heard a voice with a slow, 

thespian cadence. 

“Could you move a little faster?” 

A jolly Republican - a heavyweight in a 

local church, former county commissioner, 

staunch Rotarian - had slowed his gas guzzler 

to pace me, powering down his window. A 

couple years earlier he'd sworn off jogging 

after surgery on a meniscus. Members of the 

fair sex, even businesswomen, who often tolerate 

indignities for the good of the order, 

were seen to shy away from Move a Little 

Faster to get out of the way of off-color jokes 

and pinches. 

Given the straight man, my punch line 

fell flat. 

“I will, starting about April.” 

Once he'd powered up his window, snugging 

up in his toasty cockpit and motored 

ahead, I thought of a better rejoinder. 

“I will, now that you've sent a wave of 

hot air my way.” 

I'd gone another mile, rounding two 

more corners, when a second voice yanked 

me out of my zone. Maybe my furnace had 

kicked on by now, but the voice, even with 

exhorting words, sounded warmer. 

“Hey, pick it up there.” 

Don Kern - director of the Grand Rapids 

Marathon, a former village resident now an 

international traveler - had slowed his van to 

pace me, powering down his window. 

Marathon Don had gone a long way in the 

running world without going too fast or too 

conventionally. Given the straight man, 

who'd never done anything to deserve a cut 

from me, my punch line came out of a cold 

and remote quarter, perhaps someplace Don 

had visited, say, Antarctica or the Andes 

Mountains. 

“I will, now that you've sent a wave of 

hot air my way.” 

Once he'd powered up his window, having 

given me a funny look, and motored 

ahead, I woke to my error. My rejoinder 

should have been something he or any other 

chilled hoofer could relate to. 

“I will, starting about April.” 

All of which leads me to a proposition 

for voters at the next electionl: Let's put a tax 

on wisecracks. Since everyone's a comic but 

me, everyone pays but me. 

Perfect. 

The U.S. Treasury Department, in an 

online summary of the nation's public-revenue 

history, recognizes “... a persistent wariness 

regarding taxation as part of American 

culture.” 

You don't say? 

From colonial times, America has written 

a conflicted record of excises, tariffs, customs 

duties, imposts, direct taxes, poll taxes, surcharges, 

value-added taxes, inheritance taxes, 

sales taxes, millages, real-estate taxes, capitalgains 

taxes and such like. But don't let it take 

your breath away, because some smart official 

might slap a levy on lost breath on the 

premise it's a gift or tax shelter. 

The federal government collected no revenues 

at all for 44 years between the War of 

1812 and the Civil War. Then Congress created 

the Revenue Act of 1861 to help pay for a 

war that drained up to $2 million a day from 

the treasury. First collected in 1862, the levy - 

3 percent on incomes below $10,000 and 5 

percent on incomes above - established the 

precedent of a progressive tax. 

Congress repealed the measure after the 

war. But the cows were out of the barn. 

20 M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 0 7

Congress enacted the next income tax 

with the Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894. The 

U.S. Supreme Court struck it down the next 

year as unconstitutional. 

But because revenue reformers believed 

that traditional excises and duties on goods, 

so-called sin taxes, unfairly burdened the 

poor, the idea of a graduated income tax, 

which collects more from payers who can 

afford to part with more, didn't go away. 

Years of bitter debate ended in 1913 with ratification 

of the 16th Amendment, allowing 

collection of an income tax. 

I don't know about Robert Cray, but I 

pay a lot more than my share. 

Doubtless every runner within earshot does 

too. Anyone well-heeled enough to buy at 

shops specializing in running gear has to go 

into shock at sight of a 1040 form. 

Yet even a century of income tax hasn't 

saved America from a mounting national 

debt. 

Baby Runner, born at the moment of this 

writing, begins her life $28,070.67 in the 

hole. If she gets an average job in Michigan 

on the day she's born, spending every penny 

she earns on debt retirement - not her debt 

but the nation's - she'll break even about the 

time she takes her first steps. Walking, not 

running. 

Suppose, though, that Baby Runner 

cracks wise a modest average of twice a day 

over a 90-year life span. That's 65,700 wisecracks. 

By taxing 50 cents per wisecrack, generating 

$365 a year, or $32,850 over her lifetime, 

the feds could pay off her smidgen of 

the public's promissory note and pocket extra 

change for good works - that is, for small 

causes like war and peace. 

Presto, chango. 

There goes the national debt thanks to 

Baby Runner's wit. 

The Toiler 

The more Hans worked in home 

improvement, the beefier he got. He was 

never so conscious of his girth as on a project 

in a small town, renovating back-to-back toilets 

into a single bathroom. His display of 

sheer force as he sledgehammered through a 

wall, prised out cabinets and torqued out 

plumbing left the homeowner in awe. 

The energy the homeowner expended on 

his daily distance runs left Hans in awe. 

On a hot afternoon, as the homeowner 

admired his work, Hans talked about his 

days at a Big Ten school. “I went there on an 

athletic scholarship. I'll bet you can't guess 

what sport.” 

“Football.” 

“You'd think so, wouldn't you? It was 

track. I was a sprinter. For a while I held a 

high-school 400-meter state record.” 

Hans recognized the look on the homeowner's 

face; his thought couldn't have been 

more obvious or judgmental if he'd said, 

“What went wrong with you?” 

“I've got a family to feed. Not to mention 

Uncle Sam. Last year I paid $17,000 in 

taxes. You can't run circles around the IRS 

while you're running intervals around a 

track.” 

The Twain 

Sandy rented an empty store in Otsego 

and turned it into a gym. Brian started a kennel 

outside his hometown of Plainwell. The 

twain might never have met but for running 

and taxes. 

Known as the twin cities, Plainwell and 

Otsego mirror each other to such an extent 

that in the 2000 census the two registered 

identical populations, 3,933. 

A tad more than a mile of M-89 in 

Otsego Township separates the cities. 

Mayors Joel Thompson and Rick Brooks 

have a standing bet, payable at public meetings 

in November or December each year. 

Depending on which high school, the 

Plainwell Trojans or Otsego Bulldogs, wins 

the football game in one of the oldest rivalries 

in the state, Thompson serves Brooks 

pizza from an eatery in Otsego, or Brooks 

serves Thompson Plainwell's signature ice 

cream. 

Each city traces its economic life back to 

19th-century paper mills on the Kalamazoo 

River. Each city now wrestles with how to 

turn abandoned, unsightly, contaminated, 

rusty, weedy mills into going concerns. 

“Mirror” is an appropriate expression 

for the twin cities. In some respects each 

reflects an opposite image of the other. 

Plainwell Community Schools has a bond 

issue for a building project, just finished, 

which voters passed on a first try. Otsego 

Public Schools, maybe the more-conservative 

district, has an even bigger building fund, but 

the millage succeeded only after a series of 

defeats, and only after school officials 

soothed voters' nerves by dotting all i's and 

crossing all t's with a comprehensive marketing 

strategy. 

Sandy, chased away by Otsego's torn-up 

school grounds, drove once a week to 

Plainwell's finished stadium for her weekly 

track workout. The second time he saw her 

at the stadium, Brian, puffing and dripping 

from quarter repeats, approached her as she 

stretched. 

“I knew the second I saw you a couple 

weeks back, you're one of those fast girls 

from Otsego.” 

“The fast girls I know are from 

Plainwell.” 

“Too bad. That shoots down my idea for 

a city slogan: 'Well, just plain folks.'” 

Sandy thought it out before she hooted. 

“My idea's better: 'Where we see where we 

go.' Only I can't figure how to work the 'Ot' 

in there.” 

“If you're as quick on your feet as you 

are with a comeback, you're a keeper.” 

“My feet are quick enough when they 

don't have to trip through a construction site. 

The way things are going I might have to 

hang up my running shoes.” 

“Come again?” 

“Our school millage is killing me. It's 

hundreds of dollars out the window. My gym 

isn't exactly a cash cow. I might have to lay 

somebody off and pick up the hours myself, 

and there goes my running. What the people 

in Otsego were thinking when they voted for 

this school tax is beyond me.” 

“They were thinking about their kids. 

Obviously you're not.” 

“Let me guess. You can tell I'm nobody's 

mother by my trim figure.” 

“You're not thinking about police or firemen, 

either, except for how much they cost 

on your tax bill. But you wouldn't turn them 

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obbed your till at gunpoint. And you wouldn't 

be unhappy if the courts spent your tax 

dollars to throw the book at the creep, or the 

jail spent the dollars to lock him up. You 

wouldn't even be too unhappy if a state office 

spent the dollars to make sure you didn't pay 

too much for fire insurance.” 

“No one warned me there were footloose 

liberals in Plainwell.” 

“Come again?” 

“Footloose liberals. The kind who enjoy 

the healthy life of leisure and let small businesses 

carry the tax load. You'd have said yes 

on the library millage we voted down if you 

lived in Otsego.” 

“You bet I would've. And taxes from my 

kennel, if it was in Otsego, would've paid for 

more books and tapes, which you'd have 

checked out to get advice on speed training. 

Just like you've been checking out of Otsego 

to come run on this state-of-the-art track my 

kennel helped pay for. You know what? As 

far as I'm concerned, you're not welcome on 

this nice new tartan oval.” 

Sandy's tone was mocking as she turned 

away to start her workout. “And here I wanted 

to be as fast as a Trojan girl.” 

The Tithe 

Hans met Sandy when he bid on the job 

of expanding her gym into a vacant office 

building next door. He was impressed she'd 

done so well so young. 

But guessing Uncle Sam's demands on 

her income were still less than on his, he 

made her a wager that she couldn't guess 

what sport he'd gotten a scholarship for. If 

she was wrong, she'd pay the difference 

between their taxes for one quarter. If she 

was right, he'd pay all her taxes for the same 

period. 

She about dropped her jaw. “That's a big 

bet. But I'll take you up on it. Taxes are 

killing me.” 

As he shook her hand, his words echoed 

Robert Cray's lyrics in “1040 Blues,” a 

melody he'd never heard. “People like us, in 

business for ourselves, pay a lot more than 

our share.” 

“Some people don't pay a share at all. 

Like the church I'm going to. I say to heck 

with separation of church and state; let's take 

a huge weight off our shoulders and make 

religion pay taxes. There's got to be a big 

chunk of loose change lying around in church 

accounts.” 

The assets and income of U.S. churches 

are as hard to pin down as a sprinter off at 

the sound of a gun. Legal exemptions under 

the separation rule screen churches from disclosure 

of revenues and real-estate holdings. 

But every now and then a financial 

maneuver or economic report tips off 

observers, if they're curious enough to look, 

to the wealth in organized religion. A bond 

prospectus from a few years ago lists the net 

worth of Boston's Catholic Archdiocese, one 

of 28 in the U.S., at $572 million. One 

researcher estimates the value of the Vatican's 

investments in America at more than $500 

million. 

Protestant holdings prove at least as hard 

to quantify. But an annual report sets donations 

by Americans to Protestant charities at 

approximately $64 billion in 2003. 

Hans got nervous at the topic. “My 

church is pretty conservative. I wouldn't be in 

favor of the feds looking at our books.” 

“Hans. You're too big a man to run 

away and hide.” 

“OK, tell you what. I'd be in favor of 

taking a long look at so-called charities.” 

Records for 2001 show that tax-exempt 

entities filed 240,000 information returns 

with the Internal Revenue Service, with financial 

claims adding up to $1.6 trillion in assets 

and $897 billion in revenues. The category 

includes no churches, but lots of filers with 

religious affiliations. 

Hans warmed to the subject. “I'll go even 

further. Some churches, with a lot of money 

squirreled away, aren't even religious. Take 

Scientology.” 

The sect, in documents used to win taxexempt 

status as a church in 1993, claimed 

assets of $400 million. According to a New 

York Times story describing the status, 

Scientologists “appeared” to take in $300 

million a year from counseling fees, book 

sales, investments and other sources, spending 

the money on officials' salaries and preserving 

the scriptures of founder L. Ron 

Hubbard, whose writings and taped lectures 

represent the the organization's sole doctrine. 

Hans was verging on apoplexy. 

“Hubbard was a science fiction writer. If 

that's a church, I'm a monkey's uncle.” 

It's a good thing for Sandy she was more 

libertarian than conservative. When push 

came to shove she understood that government, 

if let into churches, might not stop 

until it wormed its way into homes, so she 

didn't press her case against separation. 

It's a good thing for Hans that Sandy 

was more democratic than libertarian. She'd 

admired his sprinting years earlier when her 

brother, much older than her, was his teammate 

in college track. 

“I'll have to be satisfied with knowing I 

can outrun you now. I'm letting you off the 

hook on that bet, even if it hurts. Hundreds 

of dollars out the window. It's enough to give 

me the blues.” 

The Tyro 

It's 74,000 years ago. On Sumatra, in 

Indonesia, the supervolcano Toba explodes, 

ejecting into the atmosphere thousands of 

times more material than the 1980 eruption 

of Mt. St. Helens. 

Toba devastates life on Earth through 

global cooling. During the subsequent wintry 

years the population of pre-humans dwindles 

to a precious few survivors, a bottleneck 

marked today in the human genome. 

Groan, a boy made inventive by post- 

Toba scarcity, noticed that a rival band 

always had more meat than other folk by 

virtue of its proximity to game left. His 

father, Groan, and his mother, Groan, tried to 

deter him, but he insisted on taking a new 

and thrilling idea to the rival band's leader, 

Grunt, son of a legendary hunter, Grunt, and 

a noted cave beauty, Grunt. 

“Cut every bit of meat from a kill into 10 

shares. Cut the liver, prime ribs, sirloin, 

brain, mountain oysters, all of it into 10 

shares. Give one share to me. I'll make sure 

the tithe gets to those who need it. That way 

we'll all get through the long winter. There 

will be no bottleneck then. What do you 

think?” 

Grunt grunted to his buddy, Grunt, and 

to his other buddy, Grunt. 

“Taxes!” 

Groan, hoping to become a grown man, 

ran for his life, but not fast enough. Alas, he 

was a boy so far ahead of his time that his 

two possible legacies, one in public finance 

and the other in racing, perished with him. 

If it hadn't taken so long for pre-humans 

to rebound, taxation might have come to be 

known as groaning, and somewhere there'd 

be a one-mile pursuit known as the Memorial 

Groan Kids Fun Run. 

The Tallyho 

My brother-in-law and niece, both dedicated 

runners now home in Illinois after a 

year in Florence, Italy, assure me that 

Europeans have no parallel to the American 

obsession with recreational weekend racing. 

Apparently Europeans fritter away their 

hard-earned euros on less-taxing frivolities. 

Let me say it right out. American runners 

vote a duty or excise on themselves when 

they consent to pay $20 or $25, often to 

causes in which they have no particular stake, 

in exchange for the right to beat their bodies 

into exhaustion in weekend races. 

Thus Sandy, Brian and the homeowner 

with the bathroom renovated by Hans, from 

the first time they pay a race entry fee, undermine 

their authority to grouse about the 

inevitable bill from the taxman. 

Runners were born to trim their wallets 

of largesse for the greater good. They will 

die, in fitness or in sickness, and still not be 

quit of claims against their estates. They're 

among the Robin Hoods of the modern 

world, robbing from the rich - themselves - to 

give to the worthy, if not necessarily to the 

poor. 

The medieval Robin Hood, judging by 

Hollywood images, collected dues with a 

jovial flourish and a witty word. Modern 

Robin Hoods, runners, would counter a 

defender of taxation like myself with smartaleck 

remarks. 

All the more reason for a tax on wisecracks. 

MR 

22 M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 0 7

Run Like the Dickens and Tiny Tim Trot 

Great Expectations Exceeded 

at Run Like the Dickens 

Photo by Charles Douglas McEwen 

Dot McMahan, bib no. 926, set a new course record in the 5K. 

By Charles Douglas McEwen 

HOLLY (12/9/06) - Cold, biting air that could 

take your breath away scared away no one at 

Run Like The Dickens. A record 726 hardy 

souls donned Goretex, stocking caps, reindeer 

antlers and other Yuletide apparel and raced 

through the streets of Holly. 

“This was actually the best weather we've had 

in our four-year history,” race director Rob 

Basydlo said. “It was cold but the sun was out. 

And the streets didn't have ice or snow on them.” 

The turnout easily beat last year's record of 

450. And thanks to Hansons-Brooks Distance 

Project runners, other standards fell as well. 

Clint Verran, 31, won the men's 8K with a 

course-record 24:14. The second finisher, Verran's 

Hansons-Brooks teammate Melissa White, 25, set 

a women's mark crossing in 27:43. 

“If Clint hadn't been here, this would have 

been the first time I beat all the men and women 

in a race,” White said. 

Though Verran was out of sight almost 

from the gun, White - who is originally from 

Rochester, N.Y., and now lives in Rochester, 

Mich. - had a solid effort. 

“I was with two guys at the four-mile mark, 

then surged and broke away from them,” she 

said. 

Behind the two Hansons runners, Kenny 

Wall, 17, of Flushing took second in the men's 

race (27:49). Kenneth Burgess, 25, of Ann Arbor 

was third (27:56). Gary Brimmer, 41, of Fenton 

was fourth overall and first among the masters 

(28:42). 

For the women, Rebecca Lovenheim, 25, of 

Canton finished second (30:05), followed by 

Sara Gerhardt, 18, of Macomb (31:45) and masters 

queen Gayle Kuipers, 41, of Holland 

(31:58). 

In the 5K, Richie Brinker, 30, a former 

Hansons-Brooks runner who now lives in 

Clarkston, won the men's race for the third year 

in row. His 15:16 just missed his 15:12 course 

record set last year. Brinker easily bested runnerup 

Brian Godar, 19, of Clarkston (17:16) and 

third-place Roman Krzyzanowski, 35, of 

Plymouth (17:26). 

Current Hansons-Brooks star Dot 

McMahan broke Suzanne Larsen's 18:12 

women's record in the 5K. The Wisconsin native 

ran 17:37. 

“It was a little hard to breath in the cold,” 

McMahan said. “My lungs took a beating.” 

Keith Hanson, who coaches McMahan, 

White and Verran, praised their efforts. “Dot 

had a solid performance and Melissa a good 

effort,” Hanson said. “But both are capable of 

running a lot faster.” 

Donna Palisca, 29, of Fenton was the 

women's 5K runnerup (18:28). Katie Jayne 

Vondette, 14, of Clarkston placed third (19:52). 

Defending-champ Larsen was a spectator 

this year. “I wish I could have run, but I have 

stress fracture in my foot,” she said. 

Husband Eric Larsen, who is coming off 

meniscus surgery, placed fourth among men in 

17:32. “Rob (race director Basydlo) puts his 

heart and soul into this race,” Eric said. “He 

also puts a lot of thought into it.” 

Run Like The Dickens raises money for the 

Holly High track team (which Basydlo coaches) 

and other school programs. Basydlo finished second 

among male masters in the 5K (18:36) 

behind champ Terry Castor, 42, of Goodrich 

(18:24). 

Teresa Wright, 46, of Linden was the top 

women's master (25:16). 

John Thomas, 51, of Linden won the men's 

5K walk (30:25). Susan Mora Fassett, 43, of 

Fenton led the women (31:20). 

The event included a Tiny Tim Trot for 

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Dr. Archie Attarian: 

Close Encounter After 26 Years 

By Riley McClincha 

Running log entry, Oct. 4, 1980: Ran 

Crim course twice, 20 miles with 

Terry Sly, Tom LeGalley, Archie 

Attarian and John Socey. Ran with them until 

16 miles, finished a minute behind them. 

We were all around 30 years old, except 

Dr. Attarian. It didn't seem right for him, at 

age 51, to stay with us that long - and then 

outrun me. 

Two weeks later we ran the Detroit Free 

Press Marathon. I finished far behind them 

all. 

I'd first seen Attarian in the Crim finish 

chute a year earlier. I was feeling proud about 

finishing 10 miles in 1:05, till I saw this 50- 

year-old man - old enough to be my dad - 

right in front of me. I glanced at the SOB's 

bib and memorized his name for future reference. 

Whether being beaten by an old man or 

woman, a kid, someone pushing a stroller or 

a man dribbling three basketballs, most runners 

have been humbled at some time as I 

was that day. 

The '80 Freep Marathon was the last 

time I saw Attarian. Over the past 20 years 

I've asked runners what happened to him. 

“He's still out there,” they'd say, “but he 

seldom races anymore.” 

On a recent cold January day, while running 

indoors at the Genesys Athletic Club in 

Grand Blanc, I passed an aged man shuffling 

on the track. I looked back and thought, 

“Omigod, it's Dr. Attarian!” 

I wanted to say something to him, but 

figured he wouldn't know me from Adam. 

Heck, I'd only run with him a couple times 

26 years ago. 

In the locker room later he asked me, 

“How was your run?” We chatted a moment 

before I realized that to him I was just an 

Adam. I wanted to learn more about him, 

though, so I asked how to contact him. He 

complied. 

A week later I met up with Dr. Attarian 

at his residence in Grand Blanc. He and his 

wife of 45 years, Pat, live in a condo that 

overlooks Smith Lake. They live alone now; 

their daughter and two sons are in there forties. 

We talked about the Freep Marathon 26 

years ago. He spoke modestly but with pride 

that he'd finished in 2:53; his first sub-3 

marathon. “I never broke three hours until I 

was in my fifties,” Attarian told me. 

“I was 3:20 that day,” I said sadly. 

“That's when I gave up my dream of breaking 

3 hours. “What was your best time at 

Crim?” I asked him. 

“That came the year after, in 1981. I ran 

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Archie Attarian runs one of the 

early Crims. 

63 minutes and finished fourth in my age 

group (50-59),” said the doc. (I looked it up: 

Jim Forshee, age 55, was first in 58:51, followed 

by Bill Chappell and Fred Hollapa.) 

Archie left the room and returned 

moments later with clippings from his 

younger days. He grew up and ran high 

school track in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he 

won the All City 1 Mile Title. Among his 

photos were ones of his parents, Peter and 

Sarah Attarian, Armenian immigrants who 

escaped genocide by the Turks 100 years ago 

and made it to Ellis Island. 

After Archie graduated in 1946, he ran 

with the prestigious Millrose Athletic 

Association. Out of school but still only 17, 

he helped the club take third in the National 

10K Cross Country AAU Junior Senior 

Championships that year. 

He didn't like running that far; the halfmile 

was his specialty. So when asked by the 

Millrose coach to be the club's third man in 

an upcoming marathon, Archie said no way. 

At 17 he felt he was too young to run that 

distance. He walked away, never to run for 

the club again. 

Attarian might have quit running entirely, 

but luck was on his side. At the AAU Cross 

Championships he caught the eye of the St. 

Francis College coach, who offered him a 

scholarship. It was a turning point in his life. 

Having no money, he had no plans to go to 

college. The scholarship put him on a path to 

become a doctor. 

While at St. Francis, Attarian ran a mile 

against - and beat - future basketball coach, 

broadcaster and hall-of-famer Al McGuire, 

then a student at St. Johns. They finished 1-2 

respectively. The two raced often and 

Attarian always won. 

“I'll get you next time!” McGuire would 

say. 

“That guy hated me,” Archie said. 

After two years at St. Francis he transferred 

to New York University and finished 

his degree there. While at NYU he ran for the 

New York Pioneer AAU Club, for which he 

placed fifth in the 1948 1,000-yard 

Championships at Madison Square Garden. 

“After I graduated in 1950 and began 

going to osteopathic school in Philadelphia, I 

quit running,” Archie told me. “I never ran 

again until 1968.” 

By then he was an anesthesiologist at 

Flint Osteopathic Hospital. His associates, 

knowing he was once a runner, asked him to 

join them on a jaunt through the neighborhood 

around FOH. 

“After two miles I couldn't keep up and 

my legs were killing me,” he remembered. 

But deep down he knew he was a better runner 

then his follow doctors. That was the 

impetus for him to pick up the sport again. 

After getting back into shape and eight 

years of staying at it, he did something that, 

at 17, was unthinkable: Archie ran a 

marathon. Thirty years after he refused to 

run 26.2 miles for Millrose AA, he finished 

the 1976 Detroit Marathon. 

“It was a horrible experience,” he 

remembered. “You had to run around Belle 

Isle five times. It wasn't until they changed 

the course and it became an international 

marathon, that I ran it again.” 

Archie ran 30 marathons in 10 years 

before giving up the distance in 1986. That 

included four Bostons and 10 sub-3 efforts, 

all while in his fifties. 

These days he works out at Genesys five 

days a week - doing weights, running or hitting 

the nordic track. “I usually run about 

four miles, two or three times a week. I do 

intervals of 400 yards with 100-yard walks,” 

he said. 

One thing Archie didn't talk about, being 

a man of reserve, was the Archie B. Attarian, 

D.O. Scholarship Fund. The Rachor Family 

Foundation, which set up the scholarship in 

his honor in 1999, awards it to Mott 

Community College students “facing economic 

hardship who are attempting to obtain 

an education and who may not qualify for 

academic awards.”

Running in the Family 

By Greg Janicki 

Runners are generally a friendly bunch. Push a couple marathoners 

into a quiet book club meeting and watch the conversation 

accelerate from nine minute pace to eight - make that 7:30 

pace if they're talking about qualifying for Boston. 

While we runners will talk about our running to anyone just 

because we love to share our experience, sometimes our enthusiasm 

for the sport is mistaken for a crusade to get all we touch indoctrinated 

into our “club.” We're occasionally viewed as the Hari Krishnas of 

the sport world - close your door if you're not interested 'cause we'll 

talk your ear off about our last training run through a foot of snow; 

our struggle against plantar fasciitis; or our pre-marathon dinner 

menu - all during the same elevator ride if you let us. 

Some who encounter us understand our unwitting evangelization 

as innocent enthusiasm and therefore think nothing of it. Others hear 

the calling and seek to adopt our lifestyle quickly, learning the terms 

and habits of veteran runners. 

But still others fall into a third often-overlooked group - the 

group that wants to join because they think you want them to, so you 

support them with ideas and coaching, which is interpreted as pressure 

and excessive competitiveness, which in turn leads to arguments 

and misunderstanding about the joy of running, the reason you do it 

and why you want others to feel this joy. 

This group is commonly referred to as “family.” 

It's not easy being the lone runner in a family. The 

marathon-widow, as some refer to it - 16 marathon training 

weeks that consist of running first, all others things 

third - is not an easy existence for the better half. So some 

spouses (and brothers, sisters or kids for that matter) join 

the fray just to see what it's like, to feel the pain, feel the 

joy, feel the pain. 

Sometimes they give it a try for a few weeks, then give 

it up like a well-intentioned, poorly-conceived New Year's 

resolution. Sometimes the attachment lasts and you have a 

running pal who you can share the pain, the joy, the pain. 

But sometimes the family member begins running for 

the wrong reason: to please you. And that reason can lead 

to a train wreck. 

So how can you tell when someone has started running 

for you and not for him or herself? You ask, “Honey, 

are you running for me or for you?” 

If the answer is “you,” which is often how running spouses start, 

the trick is to turn the “you” into “me.” But how? 

It's simple: learn about his or her goals. What does running 

enable? Is it fitness? Is it a sense of accomplishment? Running is a 

great way to teach goal setting because the results are so tangible and 

causal - running causes great visual things to happen: longer runs, 

lower weight, lower cholesterol, increased energy. 

Another idea: Find other runners whose demographics more closely 

match your spouse's. Local running groups are packed with every 

sort of runner … there is bound to be one who matches your spouse's 

pace, distance and maybe even life state - new to running, married to 

a runner, hates the way she looks in running shorts, etc. 

Of course, now your spouse has someone to complain to about 

you … but at least it's not you listening. 

Running is very personal. For every 101 runners there are 1,001 

reasons for running. The only thing common among us is our reasons 

are personal. 

Be thrilled when a family member expresses interest in our sport. 

But be sure he or she knows that you run for your reasons and he or 

she should run for his or her own. They don't have to be the same - 

and it's often better if they're not. 

After all, there are few things worse than being the second-faster 

runner in your house. 

Greg Janicki can be contacted at Runrun262@hotmail.com. MR 

I only learned about the scholarship doing an 

Internet search on Archie. Its qualifications show he 

hasn't forgotten his roots as the son of immigrants, having 

no money to go to college. 

Dr. Attarian is one of many people I have run with 

who have driven me to push harder and excel. All of us 

would be better to stop, take inventory and give our 

running inspirations - which includes our competitors - 

the recognition they deserve. Because of them we enjoy 

better fitness. They've added days, months, if not years 

to our lives. 

What amazes me most about Dr. Attarian is that in 

1959 he had his colon removed in an ileostomy operation. 

Since he resumed running in 1968, it has been 

with a disposable bag attached to his abdomen. It's not 

something he totally hides: you can see the bag sticking 

out from his running shorts. 

Not that I'd want to go through the extra trouble 

he does, but over the past decades there have been 

times I've envied Archie - as I've stood in porta-john 

lines, squeezing my cheeks. MR 


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Sully Sets New 

Canadian Record 

Melissa White Wins Disney Half 

Photo by Victah / photorun.net 

Kevin Sullivan (pictured here at the 

Reebok Boston Indoor Games), 

Brantford, Ont./ Michigan/ Reebok, 

set a 3,000 meter indoor Canadian 

record: 7:40.17, at the Tyson 

Invitational, Feb. 9, 2007. 

Verran Top 

American in Japan 


Melissa White celebrates with Pluto after finishing first woman and second 

overall (1:15:41) at the Walt Disney World Half Marathon, January 12, 2007. 

188 Finish Super Bowl 5K 

Despite Sub Zero Temperatures 


Top Americans from the Boston 

Marathon travel to Japan to compete 

in the Ohme-Hochi 30K. Clint Verran 

finished 6th in 1:34:49. 

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Photo by Dan Carey / photorunner.biz 

Grant Robison, bib no. 180, wore shorts in sub-zero temperatures on his way 

to winning the Super Bowl 5K, February 4, 2007, in Okemos. Gayle Kuipers finished 

first for the women.

By Dave Foley 

If you're a baby boomer, you've noticed our 

stuff - the toys we played with, records we 

listened to, sports equipment we used as kids 

- is appearing on walls and shelves of restaurants, 

bars and antique stores. 

You're trying to enjoy a meal but your 

eyes are riveted on your Schwinn Cruiser bike 

with chrome fenders and white sidewall tires 

standing on a ledge shelf, and the replica of 

your wooden steel-framed American Flyer 

sled hanging from the rafters. 

Whereas cleaning out the attic used to 

mean a trip to the Salvation Army or 

Goodwill, now we sell the stuff on eBay for 

several times what we paid for it. 

Next time we clean out a closet, we 

might want pause over those old t-shirts, 

shoes, magazines and race blanks. Are those 

items trash or treasure? 

When we start reminiscing about our days 

as young runners, we're not supplying information 

- we're giving history lessons. As we celebrate 

the 30th running of the River Bank Run, 

Crim or Free Press Marathon, those of us who 

ran the “first annual” will remember a different 

world. In the 1970s, a being a runner included 

these kinds of experiences: 

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Tales of an Ancient 

Marathoner 

Aid stations offered Gookinaid and ERG. 

As you approached them, volunteers 

would yell, “ERG, ERG, ERG,” which 

sounded like a cross between a tribal 

dance and a weight room full of lifters. 

“Goo” was not an energy product; it was 

what you had on your fingers after 

applying Vaseline to your crotch and nipples. 

White waffle weave long underwear was 

the only tight-fitting leg coverings worn 

by runners. Ballet dancers wore tights. 

Sweats were cotton and baggy instead of 

nylon or Gore-Tex. No one wore them as 

a fashion statement. 

Most running shorts were short and had 

no liners. Invariably the elastic waistband 

died in the clothes dryer, so you went 

from a 32” to 42” in one washing. We 

wore cotton underwear briefs inside our 

shorts. 

Running stores were few and far 

between. If you didn't live in a city, you 

bought your shoes out of Dave Hulsey's 

car trunk or ordered them by mail from 

Mark Bauman's running store. 

You were timed in races with hand-held 

stopwatches, and places were marked off 

on tic sheets. 

Digital watches were big and clunky and 

new on the market. Most of us timed 

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ourselves by turning the hands of our 

clock-faced watches to noon as the race began. 

All road-race age groups were 10-year 

brackets and the oldest was “50 and over.” 

You patched shoes by applying shoe goo 

to wear spots on the sole. 

Runner's World magazine offered lifetime 

subscriptions for $250. 

The highest race fee was $5 and most 

cost $2 or $3. 

5K races were called fun runs and results 

usually weren't tabulated. 

People kept asking you how many miles 

were in a 10K. 

Footstop, Great Lakes Track Club and 

Club Midwest were Michigan elite 

runners' teams. 

Almost all race courses were measured 

with car odometers. 

The winners of Boston and New York 

marathons were awarded a medal or 

trophy instead of money. 

The Detroit Free Press Marathon was 

known as the Motor City Marathon and 

run entirely on Belle Isle until 1978. 

Most race t-shirts had a one-color design 

and late registrants were invariably given 

an extra-large. 

Tiger, adidas, Puma, Nike, New Balance 

and Brooks were the most-popular 

running shoes. 

Frank Shorter owned a running store in 

East Lansing and raced Reed City's Herb 

Lindsay, the Running Times magazine 

Runner of the Year in 1979, '80, and '81, 

each year in the East Lansing 10K. 

The Pictured Rocks Road Race's length 

was 17.76K to commemorate the U.S. 

bicentennial. 

This writer wore way-too-short shorts 

and an orange cotton t-shirt that read 

“I'd Rather Be Fishing” for more than 80 

races from 1975-81. 

Whether you're an aging baby boomer or 

new to the sport, the act of running never 

changes and same good feelings are there to 

be experienced no matter how long you've 

been at it. 

Dave Foley, MR editor emeritus, is a new entry 

in the “60 and over” age group. The Cadillac 

resident augments running with snowshoeing, 

kayaking, cross-country skiing, biking, fishing, 

triathlons and steering clear of junk food - with 

intermittent success, alas. MR 

10th Annual 

SILVER VALLEY 

Trail Run 

Race location: 

Corsair Cross Country Ski Trail 

Silver Valley Trail 

Saturday 

May 19, 2007 

10:00 a.m. Tawas, Michigan 

7K Run 5K Fun Walk/Run 

Experience N.E. Michigan’s 

Huron National Forest 

Medals to top 3 in each age group 

Many Refreshments. . . 

Registration 7K Run: Early- $15.00 

Race Day- $20.00 

5K Fun Walk/Run: Early- $12.50 

✕ 

Race Day- $15.00 

For entry forms and information call 

1-800-55-TAWAS 

989-469-3553 

Sponsored by Tawas Area Lions Club 

8:00 am • Hartland High School 

• Awards for Runners, Walkers & 

Masters 

• A chip timed event 

• Benefits Hartland High School 

Cheerleading and Scholarship 

Program 

Register: 

hartlandschools.us/athletics/Events/Run/ 

Contact: 

Dennis Tierney (810) 632-6608 

tierneydennis@aol.com or 

Rob Buti (734) 451-2444 


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Bigfoot Boogie Snowshoe race 

Snowshoe Boogie 

Draws a Crowd 

New Year’s Eve Family Fun Run and Walk 

1,100 Belle Isle Runners 

Ring in New Year Right 

Photo by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios 

Rain didn’t discourage 1,100 runners on New Year’s Eve. 

By Charles Douglas McEwen 

Photo by Jeff Gaft 

Blaise Henning and Mike Decker share the lead in the 

Bigfoot Boogie 10K, with Doug Harger in close pursuit. 

By Dave Foley 

TRAVERSE CITY (1/27 /07) - If you're looking for a team to bet on for next 

fall's state high school cross country championship, bet on Petoskey. 

When results of the Bigfoot Boogie snowshoe race were posted, the male 

leader board read all Petoskey. Blaise Henning won the 10K, cousin Dereck 

Henning claimed the 5K and five other teammates crowded into the top-10 finishers' 

list. 

One hundred seventy-five racers set out in eight inches of powdery snow to 

face the realchallenge: sticks and logs poking out to trip the less-agile shoers. 

Then there was The Hill looming in the last quarter-mile to sap entrants' 

strength and slow to a walk those whose conditioning was suspect. The nightmare 

repeated for 10K shoers on the two-loop course. 

Mike Decker (45:34), who has won the 10K a couple times and was eighth 

in last year's National Snowshoe Championship, hung behind Blaise Henning 

(44:54), then outsprinted Doug Harger (45:35) to hold on to second. 

Michelle Paul, a former Yooper and now personal trainer in Florida, 

destroyed the myth that “to be a snowshoe racer, you must train in snowshoes.” 

Paul not only never practices snowshoeing, to be expected of a Floridian, she 

does all her running on a treadmill. 

Despite that, her 56:07 10K put her ahead of Julie Jenkins' runnerup 56:44. 

Jenkins, a 20-year shoer, still races in wooden snowshoes. 

Dereck Henning's 23:11 in the 5K outdistanced veteran Kevin Deyo (23:38) 

and Kelly Asa (24:01). The top three women were Carolyn Campbell (29:58), 

Jen Teeples (31:11) and Elizabeth Junewick (31:37). Full results can be found at 

www.runsnow.com. 

Running Fit sponsors the race. Randy Step, Dan Siderman, Mike Decker 

and Jeff Gaft handle the details of putting on the state's largest snowshoe race. 

If this year's times seemed a little fast, it's because the course was a little 

short: 2.8 miles for 5K and 5.5 miles for the 10K. Measuring a cross-country 

route through the woods in the snow is tougher than wheeling a road-race 

course. MR 

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BELLE ISLE (12/31/2006) - Is 37 the new 17? 

The Belle Isle New Year's Eve Family Fun Run, one of Michigan's 

oldest races, celebrated its 37th birthday this year. But like Jeanne 

Bocci, its director from the start, it keeps showing the sprightliness of a 

teenager. 

This year's race, presented by Michigan Runner, had close to 

1,100 runners and walkers, almost 200 more than last year. 

“It poured rain all day,” said Bocci. “I was surprised so many people 

showed up.” 

Bocci, who began this race back when Richard Nixon was in the 

White House and Neil Armstrong had recently set foot on the moon, 

hopes to keep going through its 50th anniversary, at least. 

“I really enjoy doing it,” she said. “As long as have the energy to 

lift banana and melon boxes, I'll keep at it." 

“Jeanne is the dynamo that keeps this race going,” said her husband, 

Jerry Bocci. “We've been married more than 40 years and I still 

don't know where she gets energy from.” 

This year's overall 4-mile winners were Matt Fecht of Warren 

(20:52) and Denisa Costescu of Novi (22:50). Fecht also won here 

2000, Costescu in 2004. 

Costescu's husband, Ovidiu Olteanu, led the men through the 

third mile. 

“I was in fourth through the mile,” said Fecht. “I caught the 

leader (Olteanu) at about two-and-a-half miles, took it from there and 

didn't look back.” 

Olteanu finished second in 21:16. David Demres of Rochester 

placed third (21:54). 

Costescu led the women from start to finish. “My 22:50 was pretty 

good for this time of year,” said the native Romanian, who won 12 

of the 23 races she entered last year after giving birth to a daughter. 

Rachel Griffin of Troy was second (24:38) and last year's winner, 

Marti Riemer-Reiss of Bellingham, Wash., third (24:49). 

“I love this race,” said Riemer-Reiss, 37. “I started doing it with 

my family when I was seven years old. This year my six-year-old 

daughter (Annika Reiss) did the mile for the first time (in 9:40). She did 

awesome!' 

“It's a great tradition,” said Annika's father, Dennis Riemer, who 

also ran. “It's a great way to celebrate New Year's instead of drinking 

and driving.” 

The 4-mile race and 1-mile run/walk were was sponsored by 

Galeana's Van Dyke Dodge, Hansons Running Shop and Waligorski 

Roofing. Proceeds went to Special Olympics. MR

By Ron Marinucci 

Ashley is my five-month old granddaughter. Like 

grandparents everywhere, I dote on her (and her 

older brother, Michael) and have been accused, 

unjustly I'm sure, of spoiling her. 

Last fall came a day I had eagerly awaited: I was 

going to take Ashley for her first run in the baby jogger. 

Most likely, you've seen such joggers at the local bike 

path, park or even at races (Kim Bruce won the 

Frankenmuth 5K last July while pushing one). They are 

specially-crafted strollers, with larger wheels and special 

straps, designed for running with the little ones. 

Several years ago, Michael and I had “run together” 

using the same jogger. He enjoyed being outside and 

seemed to relish the times in it. I've wondered if that 

experience has influenced him. I joke that Michael, now 

5, still can't walk - he runs everywhere, all the time! 

Ashley, born at the end of April, was too young to 

take out last summer. But mild fall weather afforded an 

opportunity for us to “run together.” 

I started walking with Ashley in the jogger, instead of 

Ashley’s First Run 

in her stroller, to get her used to it. She adapted well, as 

had Michael. In fact, she seemed to like it better than her 

stroller or buggy. 

More than she, I needed to reacquaint myself with 

the jogger. It wasn't the walking - and, later, running - 

that required extra attention, but the techniques. 

Although some pediatricians say baby-jogging is all right after six to 

eight weeks, I wanted to be sure. So I cleared it with Ashley's pediatrician, 

Dr. Rekha Kostecke, whose office is in Milford. 

Dr. Kostecke asked a few questions about weight and some of 

Ashley's minor conditions. “I see nothing wrong with it,” she finally said. 

Great! 

But the doctor had cautionary words. “I would start slow the first 

couple times.” 

“Maybe mix in walking and running?” I asked. 

“Yes, and if she's OK with that, you can keep going.” 

She also said to be certain “the child is securely strapped. Make sure 

the temperature is fine, no very cold weather.” That was all I needed to 

hear. 

Ashley and I went out the next day. It was a beautiful early-fall morning, 

sunny with temperatures in the 60s. I took a light blanket just in case. 

I strapped her in, making sure she was comfy, and off we went. 

Taking the doctor's advice, I walked a bit before running. Ashley was 

smiling; she has always liked being outdoors too. 

My first running steps were taken with apprehension. Would I 

remember how to do this? Would Ashley like it, the whole way? 

Churchill’s 40th 

Half Marathon 

Northwest Ohio’s oldest continuing road race 

Mostly flat and fast 

Medals to all finishers 

Long sleeve t-shirts 

Sunday, Mar 18 • 1 pm 

Monclova Community Center 

8115 Monclova Road, Monclova, Ohio 

Tbayford@charter.net waltchurchill@aol.com 

(419) 472-0077 

Entry forms at Toledoroadrunners.org 

Photo by Matt Maarinucci 

No need to worry. She seemed to love it. 

After giving me an initial “What is this, 

Grandpa?” look (my jogger has a see-through 

canopy), her smile returned quickly. She took in 

everything - flowers, trees, cars going by, lawn 

mowers roaring. Every so often she'd glance up 

through the canopy, checking if Grandpa was 

still there. 

For my part, running with the jogger was 

like riding a bike (or changing a diaper): it came 

back easily. Soon we were sailing along, striding 

and pushing. 

It wasn't completely smooth sailing 

though. Uphills proved challenging. Then a 

more-serious problem cropped up: Where did 

the sun go? While we were having all this fun, 

dark clouds had sneaked up on us. Uh-oh, could 

we get back home in time? 

Right about then, less than a mile from 

the house, Ashley started fussing. She started her 

“singing routine,” which she uses to avoid 

falling asleep. I knew what was next - some serious 

crying. Could we get home before the rain 

and the crying? 

Nope. 

Ashley started first, letting out some 

wails, but only a few and not for long. Just 

then it started to rain, only spitting. We were 

within three or four minutes of the house and there wasn't much rain. But 

it quieted Ashley, who was puzzled by it. Then she started getting excited, 

laughing. She wasn't really getting wet, thanks to the canopy and blanket, 

but she was enjoying it all again. 

As we hit the driveway, the skies opened up. We made the garage just 

in time. Ashley had a few rain splashes on her face, which I quickly dried. 

And she was laughing while kicking her legs in her typical show of excitement. 

Later, after a bottle, she took a two-hour nap. Whew! That running is 

tiring. 

According to my GPS, we covered about three miles with just a little 

walking. I was surprised that my pace was just over nine minutes a mile, 

not much slower than when I run alone. 

I was more winded than usual and my arms were tired from the 

pushing. It was a good workout. 

Two days later, when I strapped Ashley in the jogger for another go 

at it, I knew she had already become a “runner” - from her big smile. 

Ron Marinucci can be reached by 

e-mail at ron_marinucci@comcast.net. MR 

Ron Marinucci takes his granddaughter 

Ashley on her first run. 


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By Tom Henderson 

Running with Tom Henderson 

There I was, running along Hines Drive 

in Northville with Mr. Moose, known 

to the general public as Mike O'Hara, 

the long-time, long-suffering beat writer for 

the Detroit News. Why both “longs”? He has 

covered the Lions for many years. 

It was a rare Sunday off for MR. Moose, 

the News having decided not to send him on 

the road for the first round of NFL playoffs. 

“Anybody heard anything from Ann and 

Bill?” he asked, referring to Ann Boyd- 

Stewart and her husband, Bill. 

As a matter of fact, coincidentally, I had 

just heard from Ann and had been trading e- 

mails to find out what was up with the both 

of them. 

My day job these days is covering finance 

and technology for Crain's Detroit Business, 

where my first order of business each day is 

to wade through the mass of e-mails that 

come in overnight. 

Lo and behold, one day early in January 

there was one from Ann, whom I'd been 

meaning to reach out to for a possible column. 

Last I'd seen her was a few years ago at 

the Christmastime Festival of Lights 5K 

through the grounds at Domino's Farms in 

Ann Arbor. 

Until recently I'd received regular e-mails 

about races she and Bill were putting on in 

and around Ann Arbor under the name of 

Athletic Ventures, but those had stopped, too. 

What was up, I'd been wondering. 

Athletic Ventures put on races that were 

fundraisers for different charities. This had 

led to Ann doing fundraising for the 

Washtenaw Community College Foundation, 

which in turn led to her becoming director of 

development for Habitat for Humanity in 

Washtenaw County, then to a job at the 

University of Michigan as major gift officer 

(getting folks to kick in $100,000 or more) 

for the Department of Surgery. 

After four years there, last year she took 

the job of director of development for U-M's 

School of Natural Resources and 

Environment. It was in that capacity she e- 

mailed me, wanting to know if Crain's was 

interested in a grant program Google was 

involved with. 

That takes care of Ann's day job. But 

what else is up? Not content with degrees in 

economics and philosophy from U-M, she is 

in a master's program in philanthropic studies 

at Indiana University-Purdue University at 

Indianapolis and planning to start a doctorate 

in a year and a half or so, which likely 

will mean a move from Ann Arbor. 

What else? How's Bill? How's her running 

going? Here are excerpts from our e- 

mail correspondence: 

How old are you these days? 

Photo by Art McCafferty 

Ann Boyd Stewart (left) and Bill Stewart with Sheila Taormina (center) show 

off Sheila’s gold medal in swimming from the 1996 Olympic Games. Sheila 

spoke at the Domino’s Stompede expo in 1999 produced by Athletics Ventues. 

Forty-three, last October. 

Doing any racing? 

Once a year in Toledo. The first-place 

prize is season tickets to the Classics Series at 

the Toledo Symphony, and I am really enjoying 

my third year of season tickets. I think 

my time this year was in the 19s, but I really 

don't remember as I was being pretty mercenary 

- I ran to win tickets. It's not a big race, 

maybe 100 people, total. 

How many Olympic Marathon Trials did 

you run? Remember your times and finishes? 

I ran three - '92, '96 and 2000. I ran 

2:48 in both '92 and '96, and DNFed in 

2000 due to a sinus infection. I can't remember 

my places the years I finsihed. Once you 

fall off the front pack, you don't really care. 

The Domino's holiday race was a great 

race. My grandson got his start there doing 

the kids race. Whatever happened to that? 

We only did the Festival of Lights on New 

Year's once. It was too successful; after that we 

kept getting bumped around on the date because 

the Farms really didn't want us there; we took revenue 

away from them, because folks couldn't pay 

to drive through (to look at displays of lights along 

roads inside). 

We were really riding on our relationship 

with (Domino's owner) Tom Monaghan. 

Once Tom sold out, our days were numbered, 

which is kind of why I went into fundraising 

full-time. 

We continued to time other events 

throughout the year, but I found working 

full-time, training and timing events on the 

weekends to be a drag after a few years. I 

think our last timing event was July '05. I 

killed the Web site even before that - maintaining 

Web sites is very tedious. 

What's your current running regimen? 

Do you miss those days of PRs and killer 

workouts? 

Until two months ago I was still running 

twice a day but no workouts. I killed those 

about three years ago. I couldn't recover 

from a late-night workout with my work 

schedule. 

Then, about four months ago, Bill started 

coaching four women for the Olympic Trials. 

Being who I am, I started to do weekly workouts 

with them until they dumped me for 

mid-day workouts. Can't blame them; it's 

hard to run in the dark if you don't have to, 

and they don't. 

I run about 12 miles around 5 a.m. each 

morning, with a longer run (16 to 20 miles) 

on the weekend. Bill and I every now and 

then (probably today as it's his 64th birthday) 

go out and run some 200s, but it gets 

too competitive and neither of us will cry 

uncle, so Bill usually injures himself. Don't all 

couples go out and run 200s together on the 

weekend?” 

(Author's note: Bill Stewart once held the 

unofficial world masters record for the indoor 

mile with a 4:11 in 1983. It is still the American 

record. For an amazing 30 straight years (1960- 

89) he broke two minutes in the 800. 

Any competitive fires still burning? Goals 

to be met? Any comebacks when you finish 

school? 

Bill knows how to push those buttons. 

He usually tells me how the ladies are doing 

in their workouts or that I'm looking fat. It's 

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amazing how fast he can run after that comment 

at his age. 

I think I will always be the internallycompetitive 

person. I love challenges because 

I think it makes me a better person. The comfortable 

life is not worth living. And having 

Bill to always pull me off the ledge was 

important - he never had to motivate me, his 

role was to apply the brakes. 

I tended to lose a sense of self when training: 

not kinesthetic or proprioceptive sense, but 

a sense of limits. Bill would say “sense of mortality.” 

I never considered racing pain as a negative 

because it was under your control; in order 

to run your best, you looked at the discomfort 

and the sooner in a race it came, the better you 

knew you were doing. 

A marathon is such an interesting beast 

because it's the most life-affirming event if you 

train for it properly. It is a battle where the only 

enemy or force you are fighting is you and what 

you're able to accept on the day. 

I used to get all my affairs in order before 

a marathon because I really didn't know (or 

care) if I came back. 

Will I run another? I ran my first at age 

12 and I think I stopped counting after 20. 

It's not the distance that is a concern (anyone 

can cover 26.2 miles) but I'm too cheap to 

pay the fee for a marathon - even the training 

shoes are too expensive. So, probably no. But 

never say never. 

How is Bill doing, and what? 

Bill runs twice a day and just started 

coaching at Greenhills Academy High School 

- boys and girls cross-country and track. 

Besides that he's his usual pestiness. He 

reads all my textbooks to argue with me. I've 

been trying to explain to him that he did this 

trick with his other three wives before me 

and look where that got him. His first wife 

applied for law school and took the LSAT, 

and Bill secretly took the test as well and 

then showed her he scored higher. Wonder 

why they divorced? 

He's thinking of getting another Ph.D., in 

philanthropy. You may be reading about him 

in the obituaries soon. 

Isn't there a funny story about the first 

time you two met? 

As he passed me in Gallup Park, he said, 

“Good morning,” and I said “Good morning.” 

Then he went a little way down the 

path, said he thought I was too cute, turned 

around and ran with me all the way to 

Ypsilanti. 

I thought he was a creep and kept picking 

up the pace, which he found encouraging 

and offered to coach me because I “definitely 

had some talent.” I said, “I don't need a 

coach, thanks,” but didn't say it a mean way. 

When I got back to my apartment, 

exhausted trying to dump him, I told my sister 

about this weirdo, Bill Stewart. She called 

me an idiot and told me I should call him to 

apologize. 

I did, and the rest is 17 years of history. 

MR 

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