Running USA wire 48-06-13

Issue 48-06-13 June 12, 2013




Upcoming Events
XTERRA Earth Conservancy Trail Run, Mocanaqua, PA, June 15
Set the Pace for Prostate Cancer, Denver, CO, June 15
Braves Country Father's Day 4 miler, Atlanta, GA, June 15
Trail Quake Half-Marathon, 10K, 5K, Saratoga, NY, June 15
Baltimore 10 Miler Baltimore, MD, June 15
The Wipro San Francisco Marathon, San Francisco, CA, June 16
XTERRA Muleshoe Trail Run, Spicewood, TX, June 16
Fathers Day 5K, St. Paul, MN, June 16
Estes Park Marathon, Half, Relay, 10K, 5K, Estes Park, CO, June 16
Run in the Name of Love, Carmel, CA, June 16
Ragnar Relay Wasatch Back, Logan, UT, June 21
Garry Bjorklund Half-Marathon: USA Championships Duluth, MN, June 22
Undy 5000, Denver, CO, June 22
Rock 'n' Roll Seattle Marathon, Seattle, WA, June 22
La Sportiva Summer Solstice, Beaver Creek, CO, June 22
Bluff Point Trail Run, Groton, CT, June 23
Scotiabank Vancouver Half-Marathon, Vancouver, CAN, June 23
Stadium Stampede, Denver, CO, June 23
Find the full Running USA events calendar here.




New Courses Announced for Chevron Houston Marathon Events
HOUSTON - The
Houston Marathon Committee, in conjunction with the
City of Houston, announced the new courses for the Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon. Lottery registration for the Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon will be open until June 20, with the selected runners announced on Monday, June 24. The 2014 races will start at 7:00 a.m. on Sunday, January 19.



"Houston is a wonderful sports town and the marathon has been a large part of that for over 40 years," said
Mayor Annise Parker. "There is no single-day sporting event with the history that the Chevron Houston Marathon has in Houston. The new courses will showcase our great city and all it has to offer to the 250,000 volunteers, spectators and runners from all 50 states and 30 countries."



The new marathon and half marathon courses will provide a better participant experience for the runner by giving them more space and wider roads to run on. The first eight miles, now populated with local businesses and easier to access through major thoroughfares, will improve the spectator experience as well.


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Competitor Group, WRAL-TV Announce Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Partnership
RALEIGH, N.C. -
Competitor Group, the leading active lifestyle sports media and event entertainment company, and Capitol Broadcasting Company announced a partnership with
WRAL as the presenting sponsor of the inaugural
Rock 'n' Roll Raleigh Marathon & ½ Marathon.


The international race series will make its North Carolina debut on Sunday, April 13, 2014 combining live entertainment and fitness, featuring bands performing at every mile along the course, cheerleaders encouraging runners throughout the race and a headline concert at the finish line.



Over the 16-year history of the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Series, charity participants have raised more than $287 million for a variety of worthy causes and nonprofit organizations. The energy and enthusiasm of the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon aligns perfectly with WRAL's belief in supporting national events in Raleigh.



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USATF Debuts Lifestyle Programming with "USATF 36: Sanya Richards-Ross"

INDIANAPOLIS -USA Track & Field this month launches its first foray into reality television programming with the debut of "USATF 36: Sanya Richards-Ross".


The USATF original program "USATF 36: Sanya Richards-Ross" will track the Olympic gold medalist for the 36 hours leading up to her season opener at the Nike Prefontaine Classic. The show will debut on NBC Sports Network on Friday, June 21 from 7:00-7:30 p.m. ET, and will re-air from 11:30 pm-midnight ET later that day. View the show's trailer here.


"USATF 36: Sanya Richards-Ross" will air during the 2013 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships and lead into Friday's ESPN 2 broadcast of the meet, which airs from 8:00-10:00 pm. View a full broadcast listing for the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships here.


The show is executive produced by USATF CEO Max Siegel, whose TV credits include producing and starring in the BET series "Changing Lanes" (2010) and the ESPN documentary film "Wendell Scott: A Race Story" (2011). "USATF 36: Sanya Richards-Ross"is produced by USATF Director of Entertainment Properties Adam Schmenk, a 2013 Emmy winner for his work with NBC at the 2012 Olympic Games.


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Monterey Bay Running Club Distributes Scholarships


MONTEREY, Calif. - For over ten years, the Monterey Bay Wednesday Night Laundry Runners (WNLRs) have provided scholarships to outstanding high school seniors throughout Monterey County. This year, a total of $11,000 in scholarship awards, ranging from $300 to $2000, were given to students who were nominated by their coaches and met the WNLRs running and educational criteria.


"Our running club is dedicated to distance running, health, and fitness and we want to encourage and recognize our local senior runners. We're proud that one of our 2008 scholarship winners, Diego Estrada, ran in the Olympics in 2012, but we're just as proud of Francisco Cornejo, one of our 2007 winners, who after earning a Master's degree in Education is back in our community teaching and coaching cross country and track," said Mike Dove, who created the WNLR Scholarship Program in 2001. The scholarships are derived from donations of the WNLR club members including a grant from the Big Sur International Marathon, a Running USA member race.



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NYYR Works with Partnership for a Healthier America to Encourage Young Runners


NEW YORK CITY - The
Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA), which works with the private sector and PHA Honorary
Chair First Lady Michelle Obama
to solve the nation's childhood obesity crisis, and New York Road Runners (NYRR) came together to announce a multiyear commitment to increase access to physical activity opportunities for kids across the nation. Over the next five years, NYRR will invest $7 million in its Mighty Milers program and distribute
its coaching and fitness resources for free, teaching and inspiring more than 500,000 kids to run. The new investment will continue NYRR's focus on reaching students in underserved neighborhoods.




"Currently, only about half of children in the United States receive the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity a day," said PHA CEO
Lawrence A. Soler. "Ending the physical inactivity crisis is an important part of reversing the childhood obesity epidemic. With commitments like the one New York Road Runners has made today, we move one step closer in the fight to end childhood obesity."


Mighty Milers, NYRR's national, school- and community-based K-8 running program, motivates children of all fitness levels to run or walk regularly and reach their personal distance goals. Over the next five years, through an investment of $7 million dollars, NYRR will expand the number of participating schools by 20 percent and increase the number of student participants by at least 25 percent. In addition, NYRR will disseminate its free digital teaching resource, Running Start, to at least 2,500 schools, arming them with the tools necessary to keep their students active.



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