Register for the Elks Care Elks Share 5K

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Registration is now open for the Franklin Elks Care Elks Share 5K which will be held on Saturday, May 7th in Franklin, Massachusetts.

This event will feature a 5K road race and walk through the local neighborhood with trophies for the top three finishers in various age categories. Refreshments will be provided and tee-shirts will be supplied to all that register online. Following the race will be a FREE pancake breakfast!  Proceeds from the Fourth Annual Elks Care Elks Share Road Race & Walk will be donated to the Franklin Food Pantry, local Wounded Warrior Master Sgt. Joseph Deslauriers and the Fisher House Foundation.

You can register for the Elks Care Elks Share 5K by clicking here and registering online.

Race Details:

– Check-in begins at 8:00 AM in the Franklin Elks Lodge

– Race begins and ends at the Elks (1077 Pond Street, Franklin, MA 02038)

– Indoor facilities

– T-Shirts to all online registered runners and walkers signed up by April 24, 2016 (S-M-L-XL-XXL)

– FREE post-race pancake breakfast!

– Each participant will be professionally timed by RACEWIRE

– Live results can be sent to your smart phone! Results will also be posted and available online.

– Awards will be granted to the top 3 male and female finishers in various age groups

– Water, coffee, bagels, oranges and bananas will be available for registered runners and walkers

– Sponsor tables available at Race Event

– Music, Raffles, and Post Race Celebration!!!!!

– Parking available at the Elks and at the VFW across the street

– The course is mostly flat ending with a roughly ½ mile dash to the finish line

Join Me at the Ironstone Derby 5K & Kentucky Derby Party

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You can celebrate the Kentucky Derby this May at an Andover horse farm, and all the fun will support a great charity. Join The Running Griffin at the Ironstone Derby 5K!

Ironstone Farm in Andover will host the “Ironstone Derby,” an afternoon 5-kilometer charity race-and-walk and barbecue followed by a Kentucky Derby party– all on the day of the Kentucky Derby, Saturday, May 7. The party includes a barbecue with ribs, barbecue chicken, pulled pork, hotdogs for kids and more. It benefits the nonprofit work at Ironstone Farm that helps children with special needs, veterans and others.

Register at www.lightboxreg.com/ironstone_2016.

The day starts with a stick-horse race for kids at 4 p.m., followed by the 5K race and walk at 4:30 p.m. and then a barbecue and after-party, all at Ironstone Farm horse farm on Route 133 in Andover, Mass. Some people come just for the party! Eat, play games, win prizes, see our horse-and-rider drill team perform, pick a favorite horse and watch the Kentucky Derby live on a big screen after the race! Lenzi’s of Dracut is expected to serve beer and a Kentucky bourbon drink. A live band and deejay will keep the party going, along with a magician and face painter for kids.

Race day is Saturday, May 7, and the race motto is “Run for the Roses – Stay for the Party!”

The Ironstone Derby 5K is a USATF-certified race. Runners and walkers who sign up by April 15 are guaranteed to receive a free short-sleeve tech shirt. Children 10 and under who run the stick-horse races will receive a free T-shirt. There are fun games and prizes for everyone after the road race.

Entry fees for the 5K are $25 for adults and $20 for youth 12 and younger. The cost is $10 for the kids stick-horse run. The adult 5K price will increase by $5 on April 19. Register at http://www.lightboxreg.com/ironstone_2016. Online registration will end Friday, May 6 at 11 a.m. There will be race-day registration on Saturday. Team registration is encouraged.

Prizes will be awarded for the largest team and the team that is most creatively dressed for the Ironstone Derby — think derby hats! Individual prizes, including Burtons Grill gift certificates and roses will be awarded to the top three male and female finishers. The top 12-and-younger 5K runners also will receive a prize.

The race benefits the nonprofit work of Challenge Unlimited Ironstone Farm, which serves children with special needs, veterans who’ve experienced trauma, people diagnosed with cancer, adults with special needs, teens at risk, elders with memory issues and others. Learn more at www.ironstonefarm.org.

40% Discount at SLS3

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The Running Griffin is pleased to announce a great deal for our readers. Thanks to our friends at SLS3, all readers of The Running Griffin will receive 40% off the entire lineup of gear at SLS3.

SLS3 stands for: German Design – Premium Quality – 100% Satisfaction. Every item they create is thought through and developed from scratch, thoroughly tested and then, if deemed awesome, put into production. SLS3 is convinced that you will love their products as much as they love creating them for you.

SLS3 offers some great compression gear and run belts, as well. As a runner, you know the benefit of using compression as part of your running routine and we always need an extra place to store keys, a drivers license or energy packs while out on a run. SLS3’s products are made with a high quality that is sure to last.

Readers of The Running Griffin can receive 40% off the entire line of SLS3 gear when shopping online. All you need to do is enter discount code BLOG40 at checkout and you will receive 40% off your entire purchase. Be sure to tell them The Running Griffin sent you!

 

 

Metrowest K9 5K

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The Ashland Sporting Association (ASA) and the Massachusetts Veterinary Medical Assoc. Charities (MVMAC) in collaboration with theMetroWest YMCA is excited to announce that on Saturday, June 4, 2016 the first annual “METROWEST K9 5K”, which includes a 5K run for individuals and a 5K run/walk with your dog through the woods at the Metrowest YMCA outdoor facility in Hopkinton, MA.

These three (3) non-profit organizations have come together and proceeds from the event will be donated to the MVMA Charities to sustain and develop programs that serve all communities in Massachusetts

The MVMA Charities is the charitable arm of the Massachusetts Veterinary Medical Assn (MVMA). It provides financial assistance for emergency care of un-owned or unclaimed stray animals in an effort to get these animals rehabilitated and into new homes. The MVMAC also finds efforts to help with animal issues that may arise in an emergency or disaster situation, through education and training.

This new and exciting event is family and pet friendly with festivities that will draw from the Ashland, Holliston and Hopkinton, Metrowest, Greater Boston and Western Massachusetts communities.

For more information to register, sponsor, donate, or volunteer please visit: www.metrowestK95K.com or please contact co-chairs Steve Greenberg at (508) 641-1222 or steveg@metrowestK95K.com or David Schwarz, D.V.M. at (508) 561-7167 or dschwarz@metrowestK95K.com

 

SmartyPants Vitamins: A Smart Addition to Your Routine

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If you are a runner, simply heading out and pounding the pavement isn’t going to get you to your peak performance. Rather, runners must supplement their running with good nutrition which includes utilizing a strong vitamin component to their diet. SmartyPants Vitamins offers runners several different options of vitamins available all with the same quality ingredients and formulated to take your running to the next level.

SmartyPants targets those nutrients toughest to get from food, acquire the very best available forms of those nutrients, and combine them all into one (tasty) supplement. SmartyPants vitamins contain only natural ingredients that are not genetically modified (non GMO).Every bottle includes three delicious flavors of gummies (lemon, strawberry banana and orange) with no synthetic colors and no artificial flavors, sweeteners, preservatives or any other junk.

At SmartyPants Vitamins they are all about simplifying health. That’s why they make the Good Gummy, delicious and premium all-in-one complete gummy vitamins that combine nutrients like omega 3s, soluble fiber, vitamins D3 + B12 that are toughest to get in the right amount from our diets.

I have tried both the Adult Complete and the Adult Complete + Fiber and both are great ways to supplement the nutrition required to be at the top of your game. The Adult Complete + Fiber allows you that little extra boost you may need to help things along but does so in a less offensive way than other OTC options available.

SmartyPants has a variety of different products you will want to check out including men’s and women’s vitamins, prenatal vitamins and vitamins for the younger runners in your home.

For more information about SmartyPants Vitamins, please visit their website by clicking here. You can also “Like” them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter.