Road Runner To Give Awards For Race Winners, Plus Medals and Tributes

Road Runner Shoes in Concord has offered $100 worth of shoes to the first place overall winners in our three race distances: 5K, 10K and the half-marathon.

There will be first place awards for for men and women from Road Runner.

We greatly appreciate Road Runner's unsolicited offer of shoes for our race winners. This is the first time we've had a prize other than water conservation kits for our race winners.

We'll also have neat metal four-color medals this year with our tarantula logo for all of our age-group winners, and all the participants of our free 10K Kids' Run.

We've been real pleased with our medals the last few years, and this version is expected to be quite colorful and we hope something you'll want to keep for a long time.

One other new award we'll have is our "Bonnie Couch Memorial Award"

Bonnie worked at CCWD for 36 years, and participated in all of our running and bike events at Los Vaqueros. She passed away earlier this year.

We're planning to have a plaque at the one-mile mark remembering Bonnie, and will give special awards to the men and women who pass there first in all three races. We're still trying to figure out what the awards will be. We'll let you know when we do.