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THE BIG CHEESE 5K

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!

2010 Results CLICK HERE

9:30 a.m.

 

Looking for a Road Race to start off your Spring Season?

Love River Rat Weekend But Don’t Canoe?

Paddling that afternoon but need a warm up?

Or maybe you want to work off some of the Hospital Auxiliaries’ pancakes?

  

Whatever your motivation, come be a part of

River Rat Weekend in a whole new way and run

The Big Cheese 5K –  Running for Food & Fun.

The Fun part is obvious – It’s River Rat weekend, of course, and costumes are not only permissible they are encouraged –

but we also plan to do our part to bolster the efforts of the Athol Orange Food-a-Thon by donating all proceeds to that event.

The Food-a-Thon is held annually on the 2^nd Tuesday in April.

ast year the communities raised $29,000 to benefit the local food pantries.

 

The Big Cheese 5K kicks the annual River Rat Parade off at 9:30 a.m. sharp.

It’s a full 3.1 mile course that starts on School Street where the road meets Cottage St.

Runners will travel the parade route passing several event sponsors and turning left on Freedom St.

The route continues out and through Athol’s historic Pleasant Valley neighborhood

and loops back to at Finish line at the end of Cottage St. where it meets School St.

 

 

Other Race Features:

T-shirts to the 1^st 100 registered runners

Prizes for overall winners and top finishers in each age category

Prizes for best costumes, adult and youth

First Aid and Water station

Mile Markers

Closed roads for 1^st three quarter mile and trained volunteers at each intersection