King photo: Overall Men's Winner Judson Cake with State Senator and Past Sub5 Club President Senator Nichi Farnham and one of her sons!
Photos courtesy of Ryan King FB
Photos courtesy of the Bangor Y
King photo: Close up of Kristine Guaraldo's overall women's cow bell for winning the 11th Annual Garelick Farms - Bangor Y Mile Milk Run
2011 Labor Day 5 Miler (David Colby Young will not be in Bangor this years)
file photo of Judson Cake
file photo of Kristine Guaraldo, 1st female finisher courtesy of David Colby Young
[Overall Results | Age Group Awards | Survivor Results ]
2009 Photos see:
2009 News Video
Photo courtesy of Run for Hope on Facebook
On Sunday, (09-13-2009), Charles & Paula Sawyer drove 1 hour north on Route 95 to run the “Race For Hope” which took place at the White House Inn in Hampden, a suburb a few miles west of Bangor. Paula tells us “”We ran the race last year and really were impressed with its organization, the participants, the food and the prizes. The event did not disappoint us this year. When we arrived at the hotel, we picked up our bib numbers and requested the bathroom facilities and the hotel manager gave us the key to the hot tub room where we were able to get ready for the race. The NBC affiliate (WLBZ, Channel 2 from Bangor) was there interviewing athletic teams from the University of Maine at Orono and we spotted the women’s hockey team, the women’s basketball team and the men’s cross country team and football teams all gathered in groups getting ready to run the race as well. Traditionally, the University of Maine athletic dept. also supports the cancer -fund raising event and this year all proceeds from the race were raised for the new cancer center which has been built and is part of Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.
It was a hot, sunny day and the race began at 11:30. Just before the gun was fired and the race began, the organizer presented plaques to three Bangor area cancer survivors. Each of the cancer survivors also spoke to the crowds about their experiences and thanked us for our participation in this event which was first initiated in 1994. Organizers of “Run for Hope” were inspired by Terry Fox, a cancer survivor in Canada, who lost his leg to the disease and walked the entire distance of Canada raising millions of dollars for cancer reserach. Since 1994, the race has been held every year and many notables have participated. This year, two area physicians, one a Bangor oncologist, ran the race and another female physician also walked the course.
The course has a good three hills in it and part of it was on an ascending cross-country path and the other parts were alongside highways and then through country paths and over railroad tracks. Charlie ran in the 23’s and came in first in his age and I ran 30.24 and came in first in my age. The field of men in his age category was huge because a lot of guys in their 60’s turned out for this event. Not so for the women in their 60’s. After the race, the awards ceremony took place in the parking lot of the hotel.
This hotel is beautiful and architecturally is patterned after the back portion of the White House in DC! There is an outdoor, heated swimming pool and all of the U. Maine/Orono college athletes cooled off after the event by throwing themselves into the pool! And yes, again, I had to take lots and lots of photos! I even took a photo of the WLBZ Channel 2 photographer who was photographing the college kids!:) The food was great and included Mrs. Field’s white and dark chocolate chip cookies, bananas, sliced oranges, low-cal sports drinks, orange juices, muffins, bananas and other pastries. At the awards ceremony, they presented blue, red and yellow ribbons for first, second and third in each category and then they announced at least 10-15 extraordinary door prizes all of which were overnight stays to hotels in Maine. The last name drawn was mine and I received an overnight stay to one of four hotels of my choice, one of which was the White House Inn. Another choice was the Black Bear Inn in Orono, Maine, another was the hotel next door to the Casino in Bangor and the fourth was the Fairfield Inn at Waterville. Right now, I am leaning toward the White House Inn! The food at the race yesterday was super. ”
See Paula Sawyer’s photo report below. All of these photos Paula Sawyer took at the White House Inn at the awards ceremony after the Run for Hope 5K was completed.
Past Year Results
Saturday, May 30
Golds Gives Back 5K, Golds Gym in Bangor, ME. Application
| Place | Name | Time | Age | Age Group Place |
| 1 | Andy Pierce | 20:59 | 28 | 1 |
| 2 | Wesley Allen | 21:01 | 24 | 1 |
| 3 | Michelle Roy | 21:54 | 33 | 1 |
| 4 | Brad Rand | 22:15 | 31 | 1 |
| 5 | Randy Chapman | 22:51 | 40 | 1 |
| 6 | Jonathan Roy | 23:27 | 34 | 2 |
| 7 | Dave Samuelian | 24:58 | 62 | 1 |
| 8 | Jenny Hartley | 25:30 | 32 | 2 |
| 9 | Katie Trudel | 25:35 | 25 | 1 |
| 10 | Michael Towle | 25:41 | 31 | 3 |
| 11 | Jessica Rideout | 26:32 | 30 | 3 |
| 12 | Robin Ogden | 26:40 | 27 | 2 |
| 13 | Candace Daily | 26:50 | 26 | 3 |
| 14 | Betsey Rand | 28:09 | 28 | 4 |
| 15 | Elaine Pratt | 28:33 | 23 | 5 |
| 16 | Brianna Pratt | 28:35 | 21 | 6 |
| 17 | Jeremy Cole | 28:43 | 29 | 3 |
| 18 | Judy Snow | 28:49 | 54 | 1 |
| 19 | Tara Monk | 29:44 | 39 | 4 |
| 20 | Dick Miles | 30:17 | 54 | 1 |
| 21 | Tammy Nelson | 31:39 | 45 | 1 |
| 22 | Sally Frost | 31:41 | 56 | 2 |
| 23 | Aaron Reynolds | 33:50 | 26 | 4 |
| 24 | Penny Cardello | 38:47 | ||
| 25 | Julie Shorey | 39:47 | 35 | 5 |
| 26 | Joann Brandt | 40:03 | ||
| 27 | Kristy Cole | 40:11 | 29 | 7 |
| 28 | Jenn Wilder | 40:12 | 32 | 6 |
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I had decided to run the Epic Sport Rabbit Run four miler, since on Mother's Day I'd be running with my daughter for the one mile fun run and the 5k...I thought it would be a nice warm up. I had some friends tell me I shouldn't do two races back to back yet...especially since the Mother's Day race was the big one I was looking forward to. In the first 500 yards of the Rabbit Run, there were two beaver dams that had flooded the trail. There was no way to run around it. So, thru it I ran. By mile two I had a significant hot spot on the bottom of my foot, by mile three it hurt, and since I was only a mile from being done...I just sucked it up and finished...though it hurt a lot. As soon as I looked at my foot, I realized what a mistake I'd made. The entire bottom of my left foot was a huge blister. At first I thought I'd just ruined my chances at a PR. Then when it got to be 9pm at night and I'd consulted all the websites and friends I knew about what to do...I realized that in order to heal, I couldn't do the Mother's Day race. My daughter was horribly disappointed, and so was I. I kind of cried about it for the first part of Mother's Day. I'm still healing...I at least went for a walk yesterday and used the treadmill...but it was still very sore. I was very disappointing...but the lesson was learned: Don't do anything major the day before a race that is important to you.
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