Hartshorne Memorial Masters Mile Update

Wineglass Running Club and Professor Bob Babcock Offer BIG PRIZE PURSE For Hartshorne Mile!

The Finger Lakes Runners Club wishes to thank the Wineglass RC and Bob Babcock for providing significant prize money for the 2001 masters miles, and for enabling us to offer T-shirts to all Hartshorne competitors this year.

As we go to press, I haven't researched enough information to give anyone the credit they deserve. But I do know, according to Bill Taylor, that the Wineglass Marathon made money this year, and we are the recipients of a gift to support our masters mile. We do love the Wineglass Marathon & Relay!

Professor Bob Babcock was the first to step forward last year and offer us a substantial donation for our 20th anniversary women's mile. Others followed, but Bob enabled us to have the most elite women's mile in the history of the event. Once again, thank you Bob for your generosity. We will give everyone more credit next issue in our post-race coverage. Also, thanks to the Tompkins County Trust Company (bank) for donating money to our mile.

Mark this on your calendars: We hope that fear and ego do not keep you from entering the oldest masters mile in the United States. We'll see you there! Spectating if not running.

January 20, 2001

34th annual Hartshorne Memorial Masters Mile and Women's 21st annual Masters Mile, Barton Hall, Cornell University. Time: TBA

If you have never run this mile, or if you did not run it last year and want to give it a go this year, contact Hoebeke to receive an entry. As you know, we do not print or distribute mile applications, that's up to Rick. Applications have been mailed out already.

Open to men ages 40-up and women ages 30-up (although emphasis on F40-up).

Several heats, based on qualifying standards and estimated performance.

Prize money for men's and women's elite invitational mile.

Contact: Rick Hoebeke, Meet Director, 2706 Agard Rd.,Trumansburg, N.Y. 14886. Phone: 607/255-6530 days or 387-6431 evenings.