Friends of the W&OD 10K to continue tradition
as Washington area's "green" race
Arlington Cooperation Foundation proudly presents Friends of the W&OD 10K, a unique race on a unique course, Saturday evening, August 1, at 6:30 PM in Vienna, Virginia.
The 10K race (6.2 miles) runs on the pancake-flat Washington & Old Dominion Trail, one of the nation's best-known rails-to-trails parks, from Ayr Hill Road to Hunter Mill Road and back, with a short spur onto Clark's Crossing Road and Batten Hollow Road.
Registration is now open at www.marathoncharitypartners.org/friends.
From 4:15 PM to 8:00 PM on the day of the race, ACF presents "College of the Environment -- Green University™," at Centennial Park, the one-acre park surrounding the old red caboose at 131 Church Street NE in Vienna. Environmental organizations are welcome to exhibit for free, and environmentally-themed businesses are invited to sponsor the event. Both are welcome to show off their programs and products at the College of the Environment.
The event emphasizes how runners can work to improve the environment, to recycle, reduce, and re-use. The race announcements are printed back-to-back with another flyer on recycled paper, race organizers facilitate car-pooling, the race plants a new tree along the W&OD Trail at 5:30 PM before the College of the Environment, and all trash from the race is minimized and recycled.
To register, see www.marathoncharitypartners.org/friends. Registration is $35 by July 13, and $45 by July 26 or at packet pickup during the College of the Environment.
Sponsors include:
Pacers Running Stores
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Exhibitors include:
All participants receive a commemorative t-shirt printed by Sport Science of Vienna VA using a non-polluting ink fusion process that wastes no ink, unlike traditional screen printing.
The race offers cash prizes of totalling $1,000 -- $250 for 1st place • $150 for 2nd • $100 for 3rd • male and female -- plus gift certificates from sponsors including Pacers Running Store for 1st/2nd/3rd in each 10-year age-group, male and female. The field is limited to the first 300 entrants.
“By organizing the unique race, we encourage runners to understand their impact on the environment and how they can choose to mitigate that impact,” said race director Jay Jacob Wind. “Each of us has the tools to act to improve the environment -- our own hands, our feet, and our wisdom. Arlington Cooperation Foundation's motto is Think Globally, Run Locally.”
ACF is a co-op of charities whose mission is to work toward a sustainable future for our community by supporting, encouraging, educating, and disseminating information about good health, healthy nutritional choices, physical fitness, issues of public health, and the benefits of co-operative living.
The race is a benefit for Vienna-based Friends of the W&OD, working to maintain the trail
and its bridges, Vienna's three Boy Scout troops,
and ACF's 14 Marathon Charity Partners:
For complete information, see www.marathoncharitypartners.org/friends
For additional information, call race director Jay Jacob Wind (703-927-4833) or write racedirector@att.net.