Health & Fitness
Gateway-Sunrise Rotary "Run Around the Pier" Draws Over 400 Runners
Beautiful blue skies and a pleasant breeze provided an ideal setting for
the Gateway Radiology-St. Petersburg Sunrise Rotary's second annual "Run Around the Pier" on Saturday, October 12. The 5K (3 mile) race was preceded by a one mile fun run.
Chris Hough of Tampa topped the male runners with a time of 17:22. Christine Noordstar of Tierra Verde clocked a time of 17:58 to finish 1:01 ahead of Lisa Valentine also of Tierra Verde, who finished second. The top twenty-five women runners finished the course in 26:27.
Hough was thirty seconds ahead of second place finisher Scoot Fountain's 17:52. The event's top 25 men completed the 5K distance in 21:46.
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