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The Extra Mile
Hard work has running community humming.
From lectures to championship races, a lot of what is happening in the running community recently is the result of hard work. It is about providing educational outreach, training groups, and it is about offering the southern region a chance to visit the state’s capital.
The developments around us are encouraging for our future, and involve both long-time community residents as well as talented high school runners. We are a community where the past and future make for a promising today.
Within the running community:
River Region Runners has been selected to host the Road Runners Club of America’s (RRCA) Southern Region 5K Championship next year with its Labor Day 5K run.
The designation is in recognition that the running club managed a good event Sept. 5, when the Labor Day 5K run was recognized as the 2011 Alabama RRCA 5K State Championship.
The RRCA Southern Region covers Alabama, 10 other states, as well as Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. R3 Labor Day Run 5K is the only regional to be hosted in Alabama next year, although the Woodstock 5K in Anniston is RRCA National Championship 5K.
R3 Labor Day Run 5K 2012 takes place Sept. 3.
An ongoing AUM Sports Medicine Lecture series Thursday presents keynote speaker Robert Keith, professor of nutrition at Auburn University. He will speak at AUM from 6:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the Taylor Center, room 221, and will discuss “Nutritional Supplements Related to Training and Performance.”
The first speaker in the series was Michael Green, this year’s Montgomery Half Marathon winner, and an assistant professor of exercise physiology in the department of kinesiology and health promotion at Troy University. He spoke on half marathon preparation
Montgomery Multisport meets almost daily for group runs, cycling and even for swim workouts. A Yahoo group, MontgomeryMultisport, is the best way to find information on who is running what and at what pace. Generally, the MMS group meets in front of the MMS store at 8107 Vaughn Road in the Peppertree Shopping Center. Information: sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/montgomerymultisport
MetroFitness Metro Milers meets every Monday and Thursday at 5:30 a.m. Anyone can join the group, but for those needing extra instruction or assistance will need to be a MetroFitness member. The group meets in the MetroFitness parking lot at 7150 Halcyon Park Drive, and runs between three to six miles or more.
Prattville Christian Academy students won the relay division at the Montgomery Half Marathon last weekend. I mentioned this in a story last week, but it merits recognition one more time. Of the 15 teams competing, PCA Fleetfeet won with a time of 1:42:09. Team members were Paul Ewing, 14; Evan McCullers, 15; Ansley Story, 14; and Madison Thompson, 14.
UPCOMING RACES
7:30 a.m. Oct. 15: Chili Trot 5K and 10K, Bridge of Life Assembly of God Church, Montgomery. Info: active.com
8 a.m. Oct. 22: Spinners Great Pumpkin Runs, Prattville.
8 a.m. Oct. 29: Saints and Sinners 5K and 1-mile, Montgomery. Info: www.riverregionrunners.com
7 a.m. Nov. 5: Tomahawk Trot 5K and 1-mile, Wetumpka. Info: www.riverregionrunners.com
7:30 a.m. Nov. 12: Glynwood Baptist Church 5K and 1-mile, Prattville. Info: www.active.com
Nov. 19: Turkey Burner 5K and 1-mile, Montgomery.
Credit to Kym Klass, an avid runner and a metro reporter for the Montgomery Advertiser.
