Good luck to anyone else who is running the race as well. Please let us know if you are running the Boston Marathon this year in a comment below.

The team members are:

Mens Open Division

Bill Basta
Chris Garges
Tim Schneider

Womens Open Division

Nicole Lisicky
Patty Pitera
Linda Sharkey

The road is being reduced in width to address maintenance of a retaining wall. The work is expected to take up to 90 days.

In addition, the trail adjacent to the Little Lehigh Creek will be closed until further notice.

LVRR encourages you to please stay off the path near the retaining wall. This is a serious matter and we encourage everyone to avoid the path between Robin Hood Bridge and the water pump area.

Race results can be found on our Results page, http://lvrr.org/races/results/.

We had the largest number of participants in this year’s Kids Run compared to any other year in our 35 year history of the race. Thank you, parents, for getting your children involved in fitness and being a part of our event.

This is a reminder that you have registered for this Sunday’s Emmaus 4 Miler. Numbers and race shirts can be picked up in the Emmaus High School Gymnasium starting at 8AM. Please check your bib information and report any errors to the head timer in the gym office before the 9:30AM start. Also, there are locker rooms and showers available, if interested.

Please remain after the race, as there is plenty of post-race food and beverages for all runners. In addition, before the awards are given, we will have a raffle for a number of great prizes- hang on to your race number in order to win any of the following:

2 pair of Season Tickets to the Valley Preferred Cycling Center in Trexlertown
2- one hour Massages from Laurie Reinhart, DC
2- $35 Gift Certificates from The Finish Line Running Store
1- Artisans’ Salon & Day Spa Signature Pedicure & Manicure
1- $20 Gift Certificate to A & H Sporting Goods in Allentown
8 Pair of “Iron Pigs” Field Level Tickets to the Sunday, April 29th game vs. the Scranton/Wilkes Barre Yankees – 1:35PM start.

Thanks for registering for our Scholarship funding race.

HCM Founder and President, Mike Marsteller, expressed his gratitude, stating “I’m touched by LVRR’s
support because we are both local organizations with different missions, but a common bond of making
our community a better place.” And that these organizations clearly do. To illustrate the full circle
impact, it was a mere day after the Superbowl 10k race that HCM Foundation was approached with
its next service request from the social work department at Fox Chase Cancer Center—a request the
organization could accommodate thanks to the proceeds of this race. A local woman was about to be
scheduled for her radiation treatments, lasting 5-6 weeks. Living in a nursing home, she couldn’t afford
transportation to and from the hospital. HCM Foundation has stepped up to cover the cost of a shuttle
service to ensure that she can receive life-saving treatment.

In addition to charity partner opportunities, HCM Foundation raises the majority of its program
and service budget from the innovative “Team Challenge” philosophy. The HCM Team is a group of
athletes—from an array of backgrounds and fitness levels—who collectively support cancer patients,
survivors, and their families by translating their commitment to training and racing into direct
fundraising for HCM Foundation. Each member is asked to raise a minimum of $2,500 over the course
of the year through donations in support of their racing efforts, wrap around fundraising events, in-
kind goods and services and other creative means. Since the team’s inception in mid 2010, members
have collectively raised more than $30,000 to strengthen the vital mission of HCM Foundation, assisting
dozens of local families in battling the woes of cancer. For more information on the HCM Team
Challenge, please visit: http://hcmfoundation.org.

HCM Foundation is a non-profit organization that builds meaningful, comforting and long lasting
relationships that support families who are significantly impacted by cancer. When cancer enters
into the life of one person, it enters into the lives of their entire network of family and friends—
HCM Foundation is the compassionate link within the community that keeps this network together,
motivated and strong. The main mission of the Lehigh Valley Road Runners is to promote youth running
in the Lehigh Valley. The Road Runners also strive to develop and promote distance running and racing
in the greater Lehigh Valley area, to provide information and social activities, and to enhance training
opportunities in a supportive atmosphere for all runners of all abilities. United, these organizations
change lives…one race, runner and cancer patient at a time.