Spring Training 5K Run

What a great day, and great turnout for our Britson Park 5K Spring Training 5K Fun Run/Walk. After weeks of substandard weather, we had a really nice day for the event. And people must have known it. We ended up with 198 entrants for the race. About 140 pre-registrations, and the rest were walkups.

All the runners got free pancakes as well, served by the Roland Kiwanis. We had another 50 some walkups for pancakes only as well. Then we sold a few memorial bricks for the park as well.

So this was a really nice fundraising event for Britson Park. Big thanks goes out to the Roland Kiwanis for supporting this event, and then also big thanks to our Britson Park committee.

We've had 3 races so far, with runners at around 125, 95, and then 198 for this, so that was a huge turnout for us. Most of the increase was in the number of kids running. Us old fuddy duddies complain about kids not getting off the couch and away from their video games. A bunch followed our wishes on Saturday.

The course was a little different this year. The runners reported it was a bit more challenging, as it went down a couple of Roland's "hilly" streets, the biggie was south bound on Main to the water tower, while running into the wind. We also got the runners out to Britson Park for the first time. We had to have one lane traffic on Maple to get them out there, but that went pretty well.

Here are the results