Swamp Run Starts 2010 Colonial Road Runners Grand Prix Season

Saturday’s Jamestown High School Swamp Run Starts 2010 Colonial Road Runners Grand Prix Season

The 17-race Colonial Road Runners Grand Prix Series begins its 2010 season Saturday morning, March 13 at Jamestown High School with the ninth annual Jamestown High School Swamp Run 5K. The mostly flat, out-and-back race starts on the school’s soccer field, and is mostly on the scenic, soft-surface Greensprings Trail, including wooden bridges over wetlands, before returning to a finish on the track.

Race day registration will start at 8 a.m. inside the high school. A one-mile fun run/walk starts at 9 a.m., with the 5K run/walk set for 9:30 a.m. A quarter-mile run/walk on the track concludes the running events at 10:30 a.m., with awards and door prizes at 10:45 a.m. All entrants receive a beautiful Swamp Run-themed T-shirt. The event is organized by and benefits the Jamestown High School Athletic Boosters Club.

For information on the Jamestown High School Swamp Run, contact race directors Jim Winthrop (564-7052) or Barbara Buehrle (221-0124).

Other CRR Grand Prix events for the early spring include the Yorktown Victory Run 8 Miler, starting at Newport News Park (April 3) and the inaugural Run the D.O.G. 5K, the first race ever to utilize the streets of Colonial Williamsburg, going past the historic Governor’s Palace and the Capitol Building before a return up Duke of Gloucester Street to Merchants Square. For information on all CRR Grand Prix events, contact Rick Platt (757-229-7375, rickplatt1@juno.com) or visit the CRR website: www.colonialroadrunners.org

Jamestown High School Swamp Run 5K

A Colonial Road Runners Grand Prix Event

Race day registration and packet pick-up starts at Jamestown High School, 3751 John Tyler Highway

(Route 5), Williamsburg

One Mile Fun Run/Walk – 9:00 a.m.

5K Run/ Walk – 9:30 a.m.

Quarter mile run/walk on the track – 10:30 a.m.

Awards ceremony - in the high school – 10:45 a.m.

Information:

Jim Winthrop (757-564-7052), race director

Barbara Buehrle (757-221-0124), race director

Rick Platt (757-229-7375), race coordinator

Registration:

$15 entry fee by March 7^th.

$20 late entry fee and race day.

No fee for 1 mile fun run and quarter mile fun run ($10 with T-shirt)

T-shirts guaranteed to first 200 entrants.

Awards:

Top 3 overall male and female in 5K. Top 3 male and female in 5-year age groups, from 14-and-under through 65-and-over. Top 3 male and female race walkers in 5K.

Directions:

From I-64, take exit 242-A (toward Jamestown ) on Route 199 West. At the fifth traffic light (approximately 5 miles), turn left onto John Tyler Highway (Route 5). At the third traffic light (approximately 3.5 miles), turn left onto Eagle Way, and Jamestown High School will be on the right. Drive to the back parking lot.