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Saturday, June 11, 2005 Pine Belt Pacers Bob Clark, Jerry Worley, Keith Barrett, Becky Ryder and Martha Ray Sartor participated in the Blueberry 5K Run. Burtch Davis and Hollie Ryder provided moral support near the finish line. All runners did well. No, I did not pick up the results. When you place 100th you are really not interested! Bob and Becky were first in their age groups, Keith was second in his, and Martha Ray was third in hers. The blueberries were wonderful. Keith won a door prize of blueberry bushes. He was more excited about that than winning a trophy. It was enjoyable visiting with friend Shirley Wiltshire, festival organizer and new Poplarville City Councilwoman as well as other Extension and Experiment Station co-workers. The Rotary Club hamburger I ate for lunch was delicious! I had enough will power to pass up the other festival goodies. Until next year . . . . . Submitted by Martha Ray Sartor
Several from the coast journeyed up to the Blueberry run in Pouplarville today(06/11/05). It's nice little hilly 5k that is usually sweltering hot. Not today, thank God! Anyway the run makes for a nice family outing. They have vendors set up to take your money for everything from a chance to win a Harley to ridding the train out to the experimental farm. Oh yeh, Any thing that can be made out of blueberries are for sale also plus wooden stuff and plants and bushes. Everywhere I looked there were women shopping and men carrying stuff. Ok back to the race. What can I say but it was a hilly 5k that took off and wound around out to a long road that went up a long hill. Right before we got to the 1st mi. mark a big guy passes me that had a gut like I used to have. I nudged Mike Denton, letting him know we would be scraping this guy off the road latter. The rest of the course was uneventful except that they had the water stations on the wrong side of the road. Also less than a 1/2 mi. to go we ran by a cemetery. I thought, this is good if I die here they wont have to carry the body too far. I managed to get to the finish line. There were several folks from New Orleans and Hattiesburg plus our contingent of gulf coast folks. The only draw back to the awards was the fact they didn't give a masters and a grandmasters. Yours truly would have gotten the grandmasters as I was the 1st guy over 50. Just my luck. And Nancy Phillips would have gotten the Masters women. Let's not leave Leonard out. He was 4th overall and got 1st in his age group. Max asked him how long had it been since he just placed in his age group instead of winning the race or at least winning the masters. He just grinned. Max was second over all and he got a 1st. in his age group. They gave big trophies. I suggested after the race that they cut back on the size of the trophies and give more of them. Duly noted the lady said. Some little kids won trophies as big as they were. Speaking of little kids the 1st woman was 11 years old. Lots of nice door prizes were given out. Free meals, plants and bushes, Marie Brandenburg won a big basket filled with stuff (girl stuff) and Mice Miceanhimer won a lube job. After race fare was oranges, nanners, water, Gatorade and blueberries. I asked Martha Ray Sorter to get the results So check the Pinebelt Pacers for the overall finishers. © Bob Clark
The rains from the tropical storm/hurricane stayed away long
enough for me to run (race) my first 5K since February. At
that time, I injured myself to the
extent that I wasn't able to run for about 6 weeks. It's
taken me this long to feel that I could enter a 5K
without *knowing* that I'd
re-injure myself.
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