Race Recap: Havelock Run

June 1 was the perfect day for the 41st annual Havelock Charity Run.  Perfect in many ways, but here are 41 of the most perfect ways:The Weather!!

1. 60 degrees at the start without any wind or rain!

The Course!!

2. Havelock Avenue: The road construction from 70th to 84th Street was far enough along that runners had a brand-new surface to run on.
3. A brand-new roundabout was put in on Fremont Street!
4. 68th Street was re-surfaced! WHAT?!?

Race Statistics

5. Did you know that 365 people finished the 3k?
6. Or that 296 people finished the 10k?
7. So that’s 661 people who took home the coolest sunglasses ever!
8. It also took about 75 volunteers to pull this thing off. Wanna volunteer next year?
9. And what about those T-shirts? The Pinnacle Bank marketing team did an awesome job with the design again this year!

The Teams!!

10. Open 10k team WINNERS – LRCN 10K Men
11. Corporate 10k team WINNERS – Lincoln Running Company! Yay!
12. Mixed 10k team WINNERS – Screw Chad (Who’s Chad?)
13. Women 10k team WINNERS – Oxymoron Women
14. 28 teams finished the 10k race.
15. 10 teams beat the Pinnacle Bank team in the 10k!
16. Open 3k team WINNERS – LRCN (Again?)
17. Corporate 3k team WINNERS – Team EA Runners
18. Mixed 3k team WINNERS – LRCN Mixed 3k
19. Women 3k teYouth 3k team WINNERS – Pants on Fire (I’m not lying!)
20. 15 teams finished the 3k race.
21. 5 teams beat the Pinnacle Bank team in 3k!

Overall Winners

23. Connie Belt was our wheelchair winner – Way to go Connie!
24. Johnny Rutford won the Nebraska RRCA 10k Championship for the open men!
25. Mary Noel won the Nebraska RRCA 10k Championship for the open women!
26. The Men’s Masters Nebraska RRCA 10k champion was Ryan Regnier.
27. The Women’s Masters Nebraska RRCA 10k champion was Ann Ringlein.
28. The Overall Men’s 10k winner was Johnny Rutford.
29. The Overall Women’s 10k winner was Mary Noel.
30. The Overall Men’s 3k winner was Tim Grundmayer.
31. The Overall Women’s 3k winner was Erica Doering.

Other Notable Performances

32. Larry DeVries, finished his 40th Havelock Charity Run 10k.
33. Our oldest competitor was Betty Petersen, but we won’t list her age here!
34. The youngest competitors were both 3-years old! Hailey Doernerman and Mia Reinbold - Way to go, girls!

Charities

35. Every team that beat the Pinnacle Bank team was awarded $100 to their chosen charity!!
36. Every team that did not beat the Pinnacle Bank team was still awarded $75 to their chosen charity!! Thanks Pinnacle Bank, you’re the best!
37. Charities from 10k teams that beat the Pinnacle Bank team were awarded $1000!
38. Charities from 3k teams that beat the Pinnacle Bank team were awarded $500!
39. Because of all the awesome teams, a total of $4,425 was donated to local charities!
40. The most popular charity to donate to was The People’s City Mission.
41. Did I mention that we raised $4,425 for charity?

Thanks to everyone who helped to make the 41st Havelock Charity Run a HUGE success!!  We can’t wait to do it again next year.—Clark and Ryan, co-directors, Havelock Charity Run