Ready, Set, GO!
Northside 5K Run/Walk & Finish Line Festival
GO! Northside 5K Run/Walk 2009 a Success!
Thanks to all who participated in GO! as a runner, spectator or volunteer! We had nearly 500 run in the race, with over 1000 involved as spectators and at the Finish Line Festival. Together, we are changing the Northside story one person and one event at a time!
If you ran in the race and want to check your time, go to www.andersonraces.com/events.htm.
And, check out this Star Tribune blog from our partner and Northside resident Neeraj Mehta.
View the 2008 GO! Photo Gallery
As I ran the route I found myself thinking how this little 5k had nearly the same level of emotional clout as my one and only full marathon I completed in the Twin Cities in 2001. The power of the full marathon was based on individual determination. Saturday’s run had everything to do with the determination of people across so many lines of difference to be successful in building our shared civic and social life. Having the children of race route neighbors out giving high fives to all of us runners and walkers will be a potent and happy memory for a long time.
GO! runner Eliot Howard
pastor of Linden Hills UCC