Representatives from the Air Force Marathon will have a booth outside of the registration tent on race day to answer your questions. With the marathon selling out earlier each year, they want to make sure that local runners have every opportunity to register and get into the race before the next price increase on April 2nd.
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Congratulations! You have blown away the previous record of sign-ups for the Harrigan’s 5k … on Wednesday, Jan 24th 2012, we went over the 150 mark, so (sorry to say) the tech shirts have all been committed. But, not to worry because we have the BEST cotton shirts around and there will be one for every one else, including volunteers.
We have already received 125 registrations – only 25 tech shirts to go so tell your friends the tech shirt window is closing. We have never had this many registrations this early – great for the charities.
We are very pleased that Cheryl’s (Town & Country Shopping Center) jumped at the opportunity to become a Harrigan’s 5k sponsor. They will be contributing dozens upon dozens of their delicious cookies to the runners. Because they must be ordered by 2/21 for the number of registrations received by then, we won’t have enough for everyone …they will be passed out on a first-come, first-served basis after the race. In addition, Cheryl’s will be providing a door prize.
If you are in the shopping center, please stop in to Cheryl’s to say hi & thanks – the same goes for Trader Joe’s who will again this year provide a shopping bag door prize chock full of good stuff.
January 12 — 53 runners have registered already and reserved their tech shirts. With the first e-mail scheduled to go out shortly, we expect the rest of the 150 tech shirts will be claimed rather quickly.
Last year, we were fortunate to have one very competitive crank chair athlete, although we were not especially prepared to support her. Starting in 2012, we are going to create a new standard for wheelchair support in the Miami Valley’s first chair-friendly 5k run/walk event.
The Harrigan’s entry forms now have a field for wheelchairs so we can be fully prepared to support each of you. We know some people use chairs competitively, and some don’t but still would like to come out for the experience. For safety, individuals participating competitively will start the race ahead of the main field, and individuals using wheelchairs that are participating in a non-competitive fashion will start after the main field.
One of our great charities, JDRF, fields a bicycle riding team. They have agreed to provide a rider to escort each participant using a chair – to lead you through the course since markings are painted on the street & may not be very visible and to clear the way (if necessary) for you.
Harrigan’s has wheelchair access, as does the registration tent, so there is no reason not to join us on March 10th. Know of someone that uses a wheelchair and would like to come out for the fun? Let them know they are welcome, and that we are ready to support them!
On-line registration is open here, and if you prefer to mail your registration, you can print off a mail-in form here.
Even before announcing that registration is open, we are delighted that 6 runners jumped the gun, so to speak, to claim the first 6 tech shirts … and since we are once again giving away tech shirts to the first 150 that register, now there are ONLY 144 to go. Shortly, we will be e-mailing everyone, so it might be wise to devote a very small part of your New Year’s Day to signing up.
More about this later, but if you have family or friends that want to be with you but not do the event, we are grateful for volunteers – see the volunteer tab for more info.
Calling all runners & walkers: Harrigan’s 2012 is scheduled for March 10, and we are looking forward to another great event.
The web site will be updated during the days ahead, and updates will be sent to everyone.
Happy Holidays from the Harrigan’s crew
So, hopefully everyone has fond memories of yesterday’s race. The weather cooperated, the prizes were good, and the winners were the winners. Life is good.
Speaking of prizes, we have prizes waiting to be claimed at Up & Running for the following people: Tanya Clark, Kenny Evans, Keri Blackburn, Carol Afandor, Barb Ryan, Debi Neace, Amy Riess, and Kari Saddoris. Pick up any time next week.
Speaking of the winners, if you are entitled to a medal and did not get it at the awards ceremony, head over to Up & Running where you can claim it. They have the results & the medals waiting for you from Monday onward.
There is a video from the helicopter posted to the Harrigan’s and Up and Running Facebook pages – fun clip – thanks to the terrific Harrigan’s Helicopter.
Once our volunteer photographer gives us the images, we will upload them to this site – will most likely take a week or more to get the gallery in place, so please be patient. We have a ton of shots for you.
Race results are available at Speedy Feet
Thanks again to everyone for making this event a fantastic success!
Although we ordered twice as many shirts (1000) as we had runners last year, they have completely sold out because online registrations more than doubled, with a late surge that came after the shirts had to be ordered.
We wait until the last minute to place our shirt order, and then bump that quantity hoping to get it close to right. So many runners wait to see what the weather is going to be that it is just impossible to know how many registrations there will be in time to get shirts ordered and produced. Good weather this year busted the shirt bank 
Yep – with a lot more runners this year, we have added two additional days of early packet pick-up for a total of three … Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings from 4 – 7 pm (March 16-18).
Make it easier on yourself by getting your packets and shirts early so you can arrive at the run already checked in on Saturday.
Early pick-up is at Up and Running.