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Cannon 5K keeps DNR specialist on run
By JOE SHAFRAN
Instead of the runner of the week, I’m going to name a race director of the week. and combine it as the race to note. Wendy Scarborough, who in the month before the Joe Cannon 5K run and walks at Harmans Park at Hanover, March 24th and who is listed as the contact, puts more miles on her feet than most of those who do distance runs. She could walk, but she seems to do this little jog wherever she goes and with a constant smile on her face. I’ve made mention of the Joe Cannon 5k as a calendar item in this column many times the past few years and the the name of the charity where the proceeds of the run go has always intrigued me. It’s called Recreation Deeds for Special Needs, so last week, I went over to the Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks where Scarborough has been employed the past few years to find out I’ve been to the run at the Park, but race day is not the place to talk to the long–time director. She’s dashing around caring for her people with special needs, but she is a race director and has to put on a race and 2 walks for a few hundred registrants. Scarborough is full-time at the County agency listed as Recreation Supervisor, Therapeutic, with lots of Department responsibilities but in her 80 volunteer hours each week, she caters to the needs of children of all ages who have special needs. However, running and sports do run in her family and in her office also her daughter Lisa is at Penn State and is on the club field hockey team and is in training to run a marathon. She will run the Joe Canon 5K. This is the daughter who made headlines at Broadneck High School in recent years as the goalie on the 2002 state championship field hockey team and two of Wendy’s part-time office assistants, must have been hand-picked because they are well-known runners in this area, Scott Koehler and Bill Hatcher. One of the other reasons for my visit with Scarborough was to help finalize plans for the kickoff at the March 24th event of the runner’s I.D. project, that I had written about earlier and that caught the eye of Scarborough and also the County Department of Helath and it’s Learn to Live Program. The Health Department has created a runners I.D. tag that will be distributed free to runners and others on race day.Kathleen Browning is in charge for the Deparment of Health. Also participating in the ID tag program are the Anne Arundel County Fire Department and its EMS services Battalion Chief Michael Cox is helping coordinate for those divisions.
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You would never know it by the news announcements that state put out the end of last week, but there is the Governor’s Bay Bridge Run the morning of Sunday May 7, It’s on the calendar of the Annapolis Striders Some 3,000 runners will be signed up to run. The news the end of the week, mentioned that the Bay Bridge Walk will be held on May 7th this year but not a word about the annual 10K run that morning. You would think the Governor,who made the announcement and in whose honor the race is run, would have mentioned the race when he announced the walk. The official news release made mention of only the walk. In all fairness. other than last year, both the walk and the run had been canceled three or four years since 2002 either because of weather, war or construction and while there are about 3,000 registrants for the run there are close to 30 or 40 thousand for the noon hour walk. I do believe the state benefits more from donations by the Striders than the agencies that allow the walk. And about the name of the race, The Governor’s Bay Bridge Run may be a misnomer. No one I talk with can remember a Governor running all or part of the race. So, let’s give it it’s due. The race is on. Melissa Currence is listed as director and her e-mail is bridge10k@hotmail.com
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Hint for runners. With some warmer weather marathons coming. I quote from a 2003 report in Runners World that I believe has gone unchallenged the past four years. It’s from a study by the International Marathon Medical Directors Association that suggests that marathoners should consume 13 to 27 ounces of fluid per hour with a ceiling of 27 ounces. When I ran 3 ½ hour marathons, I never passed up a water stop and rather than drop my cup on the ground, I collected them to keep track and figuring about 7 ounces that made it down the gullet at each stop, I crossed the finish line with about 9 cups stacked up.
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Running Calendar
March 3: Severna Park, 9 a.m. 12th Annual 5K Family Fun Run/Walk at the High School sponsored by the PTSO. Call either Wendy Galloway at 410.384.9496 or Jane Hunigan 410.647.1167.
March 4: 7:30 a.m. The B&A Trail, Marathon and Half and Kids Run. Severna Park. Donna Cogle is race director. Registration closed.
March 24: 9 a.m. Joe Cannon Stadium, Hanover. The Joe Cannon 5K Run and Fun Walks. Call Wendy Scarborough, 410.222.7313, ext. 3554
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