Cranberry Crawl 10K

The next event in the KVMS Point Series line up is the Cranberry Crawl 10K in Columbia, Missouri on November 13th. You can register online or download an entry form and map on The Food Bank website.  Check it out!  We hope to see lots of KVMS members sporting our colors.

Upcoming Events...

Check out the list of upcoming events to your right... there are lots to choose from!

The next event in the KVMS Points Series is the NEMO Triathlon at Thousand Hills State Park in Kirksville, Missouri.  We encourage all KIRKSVILLE MULTISPORT members to participate.  I've been told they plan to create a points breakdown for those on teams as well as those who do the entire event by themselves.  This is great news (for me) because I plan to ride for a team again this year!

We also received a few brochures promoting a new 5K/10K Fun Run and 2.1 Miles Walk sponsored by Mercy Medical Center in Centerville on Saturday, September 25th starting at 8:00 am.  Feel free to swing by for a brochure, or call (641) 437-4422 for more information. The official name is "In it for the Long Run - Mercy Pancake Day Fun Run".

Race Report: Roots 'n Blues Half Marathon and 10K

Multisport fans, a contingent of 13 traveled to Columbia to post finishing times in last Saturday's(9/26/09) Roots 'n Blues Half Marathon and 10K. The questionable early morning weather (read: rain) made for interesting races and turned the beginning of the last mile of each race into a steeplechase, but everyone survived, I think, and fun times were had by many or most.

Both courses started in downtown Columbia at 5th and Cherry, proceeded down through the Mizzou campus, cut behind the football stadium, over the footbridge over Providence, down the hill, and onto the trail system linking up with the KATY trail. The half-marathoners continued into the wilderness, then climbed Chapel Hill Road twice in two different locations, bookending a roller coaster run up hill and down dale in subdivisions, before finally levelling off at Forum, going downhill on Stadium, then rejoining the trail a mile from the finish, when we all entered a water-filled tunnel at the one-mile-to-go point for both distances. The last muddy mile to Flat Branch Park was a dash for the gold, or bbq at least.

The results for Kirksvillians are as follows:

(Allen Goans posted the fastest KV half-marathon time, hotly pursued by Ernest Motley. Megan Reilly did the honors for the fastest KV 10K time [and snared the first prize in the F30-34 division], with Caleb Todd only 2 places back. Bob Keough lucked out with a first place in the M55-59 division for the half, despite a lacklustre time. He'll keep the award, though.)

Here are the details:

10K Race: Time Place out of 306

Meg Reilly 49:29 31st
Caleb Todd 50:01 33rd
Camrion Carolan 59:26 120th
Lynda Konecny 1:01:13 138th

Half-Marathon: Time Place out of 653

Allen Goans 1:38:18 33rd
Ernest Motley 1:38:31 34th
Bob Keough 1:42:40 55th
Ashley Smith 2:01:25 222nd
Kandice Robinson 2:01:32 224th
Marilyn Mihalovich 2:10:41 363rd
Sara Sweet 2:21:57 494th
Jessie Schoonover 2:24:27 523rd
Sue Floyd 3:03:12 638th

Congrats to all Kirksville participants for representing the community, and for all loyal fans for your capable support. Next up on the Multisport radar: Truman Homecoming Bulldog 5K, October 10th, 2009.

Roots 'n Blues 'n BBQ / Half Marathon / 10k

Anybody from Kirksville going to Roots 'n Blues this Saturday?  Who's running the half?  Who's running the 10k?  Who's spectating? Let's meet up post run (if you're a runner) for beer and bbq, OR pre run (if you're a spectator - like me) for coffee and conversation!  Contact me brooke@originalspaperart.com or Allen allen@originalspaperart.com in advance so we can make plans to meet up and share race day stories!