The Matanzas 5K in St. Augustine, Florida on January 27th upped its prize purse to $2,000. 1st - $500; 2nd - $200; 3rd - $100 plus $100 for masters winner and $100 for the winner who breaks the course record. For more information see
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Any takers? FYI the course record is 14:09 on the mens side and 15:42 on the womens.
Considering how fast all the letsrunners claim to be this should be an easy $600 for most.
Yet there are no takers on the challenge.
I told wingnut my brother he should go and win the money- him being a former HS 4;30 miler and all... he explained - Air fair to Fla. $229 return,Hotel Roach $119, $75 Race entryfee,In room call out massage by Miss Yoki $125-extra services tip for Miss Yoki $100,$15 Early bird dinner pre race, $12 extra large Tee shirt "I HEART FLA LA LA " for my fat slob brother onenut, Home-Airport/hotel transportation x 4=$80, $12 lunch at airport waiting for return flight race day-$25 airport Dinner waiting for return flight,Airmailed copy of local paper with results $8.
Therefor he would only be in the hole~ $200 bucks if he won the race.
I'm sure if I trained for a few weeks I could break 14 and win the cash.
Don't joke about that!
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A few notables to have run this race in the past:
Jen Rhines, Jerry Lawson (Course Record - 14:09), Carrie Tollefson, Sam Vasquesz, Zeph Joseph, John Tuttle, Andrey Kuhnetsov, Kim Pawelek, Keith Brantly, Tatyana Pozonyakova, Darin Shearer, Sergey Shalonever, Connor Holt, Tatiana Titova, Galina Alexandrova (Course record - 15:42), Ramilla Buramgulova, Firaya Sultanova.
Andrey Kuhnetsov,
Tatyana Pozonyakova,
Sergey Shalonever,
Tatiana Titova,
Galina Alexandrova (Course record - 15:42),
Ramilla Buramgulova,
Firaya Sultanova.
So you're saying there's no drug testing?!!!!
Just because they have Russian names you accuse them of being drug cheats?
An irishman training in Gainesville is going to show up and take the purse! Enough said.
Did I accuse anyone? Not exactly, but you didn't have any trouble making the connection did you?
Who can really know since almost none of them is subject to out-of-comp testing because they conveniently live and train out their federation's pervue and USADA simply says "they're not our athletes, so they're not our problem." Very few of them run races where there's testing, and when they do, like Grandma's, people get busted.
Oh, and not all Eastern Euro's are Russian, and at least one of your listed celebrities has been busted and suspended in the past, but you probably knew that.
Actually I didn't know that. Which one?
Also, who's the Irishman coming?
Ryan wooodies
is that new masters 35yrs old or old masters 40yr old?
Woods won last year in I think 14:48.
nope
OK so who is it?
Come on who is the surprise irsih dude?
Mark Carroll?
Amy Rudolph ended up winning on the women's side.