Arlington Cooperation Foundation proudly presents Friends of the W&OD 10K, a unique race on a unique course, Saturday evening, July 26, 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 Ridge Road.
Registration is now open at www.marathoncharitypartners.org/friends.
From 2 pm to 5 pm the day of the race, ACF presents "College of the Environment -- Green University," location to be announced. Environmental organizations are welcome to sign up to exhibit their programs and products at the College.
In addition, the College features presentations from noted environmental speakers: to be announced
The event emphasizes how runners can work to improve the environment. The race announcements are printed back-to-back with another flyer on recycled paper, all trash from the race will be recycled, race organizers will facilitate car-pooling, and the race will plant new trees along the W&OD Trail.
To register, see www.marathoncharitypartners.org/friends. Registration is $20 by March 31, $25 by April 30, $30 by May 31, $35 by July 13, and $45 by July 26 or at packet pickup during the College of the Environment.
Sponsors include: to be announced
Exhibitors include: to be announced
All participants receive a commemorative t-shirt printed by Sport Science of Vienna VA using a non-polluting ink fusion process. Sport Science will display the fusion process at the College of the Environment.
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 for 1st place in each 10-year age-group, male and female. The field is limited to the first 250 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.”
ACF is a co-op of six 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,
and ACF's six Marathon Charity Partners:
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For information, call 703-927-4833 or write racedirector@att.net.