2009 Turkey Trot Summary and Results

The Kalamazoo Area Runners wishes to thank all participants, volunteers and sponsors for their generous support of the 2009 Turkey Trot Time Prediction 5k Run. This year’s event established a new participation record with 449 finishers, shattering our prior record from last year of 369. The Turkey Trot has emerged as one of greater Kalamazoo's most rapidly growing events thanks to your overwhelming support.

At the conclusion of the morning's activities we were able to load a pick-up truck full of socks for the Kalamazoo Gospel Mission, and toiletries and toys for the Portage Community Center. In addition, $230 in race day cash donations was contributed to the Mission, and $135 to the Portage Community Center. An additional $53 in donations was contributed to KAR via online registration.

The overall time prediction winner was Robert Crawford with an estimated finish time of 24:00 and an actual finish time of 24:00.07; a difference of only seven one hundredths. In 2nd place was Amy Krone with a predicted finish time of 23:00 and an actual time of 22:59.89, and in 3rd place was Lisa Koss with a predicted time of 26:26 and actual finish time of 26:26.24. Congratulations to all our Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot Time Prediction Run Finishers. Full results are located at http://michigancrosscountry.com/.

We hope you and your families had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and we extend our sincere thanks to each of you for your generous contribution. We also wish to thank our sponsor Agility Physical Therapy and Sports Performance, as well as Harding’s Friendly Markets-Portage Woodbridge, and Big Apple Bagels-Centre St & West Main for their in-kind support. We hope you will consider coming out to participate, volunteer or support next year's event as part of an annual holiday tradition.

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