Boys and Girls Club run offers healthy activity for Moses Lake
Tiffany Sukola | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 3 months AGO
MOSES LAKE - More than a hundred runners raced through parts of Moses Lake during Saturday's Marathon and Family Fun Run hosted by the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Columbia Basin.
Runners had their choice of a marathon, half-marathon, 10-kilometer or five-kilometer race. Proceeds from the annual event will go right back to the Boys and Girls Club, said organizers.
Volunteer Julie Knapp said just over 100 people registered for the race this year. Last year, about 120 people ran in the event, she said.
A number of registered runners signed up the day of the marathon, said Knapp.
Marathon runners started their race at 7 a.m., while runners in the half-marathon race started a half-hour later. The 10K and 5K races began at 8 a.m.
All runners began their races at the Moses Lake High School track. The marathon and half-marathon courses took runners through the Dune Lakes area, along country roads before turning around and finishing at the high school.
10K runners turned around at the Grant County Fire District No. 5 station on Potato Hill Road.
Boys and Girls Club Executive Director Brant Mayo said the group is still calculating how much the event raised.
Ten runners participated in the marathon portion of the race, according to race results.
Coeur d'Alene resident Danielle Parks was the first marathon runner to cross the finish line, with a time of 3 hours, 29 minutes, 2.9 seconds.
John Hummel, of Bend, 3:49:55.4; Miranda Bachman, of Pasco, 3:50:55.8; Fred Harris, of Othello, 3:58:05.4 and Eric Lafontaine, of Moses Lake, 4:01:03.1 finished after Parks, respectively.
In the half-marathon race, Kevin Adkisson, of Ellensburg, finished first with a time of 1:25:38.3.
Moses Lake residents Eric Olson, Tyler Wallace, Allycia Green and Holly Martin made up the rest of the race's top five finishers with times of 1:28:11.3, 1:33:25.3, 1:42:28.1 and 1:46:46.1 respectively.
Thirty-five runners participated in the half-marathon.
Out of the nine runners in the event's 10K race, Moses Lake resident Alek Schwiesow came in first with a time of 38:42.1.
Adam Negrete, of Moses Lake, 44:55.8; Maeve Sayres, of Valleyford, 48:34.7; Regina Zamora, of Moses Lake, 56:29.3 and Kristi Hofheins, of Moses Lake, 1:08:44.3 were the rest of the race's top five finishers.
Out of the 56 5K runners, Othello resident Erik Ramirez finished first with a time of 20:04.1.
Ralph Holt, of Moses Lake, 21:08.4, Tony Parks, of Coeur d'Alene, 21:18.8, Jodi O'Shea, of Moses Lake, 21:25.3 and Carsen Weber, of Odessa, 22:07.3, rounded out the rest of the race's top five finishers.
To see more race results, visit www.buduracing.com/race-results.php. Click on 'August,' then select the Moses Lake event.
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