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Frosty Road Race : Initial word out of the Old Colony camp is the race will be a go again next year.  Tentative plans are to have the initial race date between the Conference Championship football games and the Super Bowl, like it was this year.  The postponement date would then follow two weeks later, or the week after the Super Bowl.

Acushnet Road Race. In the January and February 2012 issue of New England Runner, The Acushnet Road Race was voted one of the top 80 road races in New England.  Now in its 32nd year, the race continues to provide top notch competition for both individuals and teams.  While credit certainly goes to the organizers, and the town, The loyalty of the runners who have come back year after year is an important part of the races success.

West Island 5K Road Race  The race committee now has the race web site up, and it is a beauty.  Log on to WWW.WestIsland5K.org

Gleason Family 5K New start time for this very popular race in May.  The start this year will be at 9AM.  Last year it was at 10AM.  I think this is a great move.  Onset Village that time of the year starts to get rather busy by 10AM.  Moving it up will give us a break from some of the traffic.  Besides, Anthony's Pizza tastes good anytime of the day.

Acushnet Runners Headed to New Bedford Half Marathon. Since the days when it was just John Anjos and I polluting the roads of Acushnet, there began an influx of really good runners.  Starting with Anna and Charlie Marshall, Dave and Kathy Laplante, along with brother Marc Laplante, there is now the likes of Cheryl Healy, Tarley Sumner, Jen Almeida, Danny Croteau, Joe Francisco, and Fred Da Costa just to name a few who now fly the town colors at local races thanks to the generosity of J&R Plastics.

With this in mind The Acushnet Road Race has stepped up and will be giving back to our runners for all of their hard work.  The Race will be sending our top finishers from last years race.  So far running for our town is Tarley Sumner, Jen Almeida, Kathy Laplante, Cheryl Healy, and Anna Marshall.  For the men, Joe Francisco, Charlie Marshall and Danny Croteau have committed. 

I have always been a believer in putting your best foot forward, and the Acushnet Valley Striders are going to be represented by some pretty fast feet.

Gateway Running Club   Ray Shield!   Ole JB is impressed with this Gateway Running Club, been watching you for the past year now since you opened your doors.  Got those track work outs going, trail runs like the one you have this Sunday at Miles Standish.  Then to top it off you send out maps to the members about the runs, and how they can do 18, or cut off to 13, 10 or 6. 

Now this is what I call a running club.  If you're a runner looking for some support and wanting to get better,  I can't see how you would be going wrong with the Gateway Running Club.  Not to mention that home for this Club is the beautiful Gleason YMCA in Wareham.