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| Fitness Forum congratulates Sarah Schaefer (right)who ran her first half marathon April 24th. Sarah competed in the Country Music Half Marathon in Nashville TN her time was 2 hours 9 min. |
Fitness Forum Members Compete in Marathons
Jessica Sawyer and Natalie Miller (pictured: Bottom right) both
of Anna placed in a 5K held in Cape Girardeau. The race in Cape
was called the Mardi Gras 5K presented by Notre Dame High
School on February 28 at 8:00am. The proceeds of the race went
to cancer research. Natalie (pictured on the right) was the overall
female winner with a time of 21:05. Jessica took 2ndin her 30-39
age group.
Both Miller and Sawyer train at Fitness Forum in
Anna. They are currently training for a half marathon
(13.1 miles)in April but are competing in a few shorter
races before then. This saturday they are competing in a 10k
in Marion which runs thru the crab orchard wildlife refuge.
The St. Louis Marathon/Half Marathon (website is
gostlouis.org) will be at 7:00am on Sunday, April 11. There
are 12,500 runners in the Half Marathon. Usually they only
allow 10,000 runners but the demand was so high they allowed
2,500 more runners to register. This is the biggest it has
ever been. Miller said, "we will start in downtown St. Louis
and run all through the city and finish back in downtown.
This will be both our first half marathons and have been
training for 12 weeks for it."
Jessica has also registered for a half marathon in Chicago
in june. It is called the "13.1 marathon: Where the
Party meets the Pavement". This race is being held across
the U.S. in several major cities, "website is
131marathon.com". Jessica said, "my next goal is a> full
marathon".
A group from Fitness Forum will be attending the race as
spectators to cheer them on.
| Fitness forum recognizes Jessica Sawyer of Anna for her excellent run in the Chicago half marathon Sunday (June 13). The half marathon is 13.1 miles and Jessica finished with a time of 1:55:06. |