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Thanksgiving Morning

Turkeython

and canned food drive

The #1 Thanksgiving event in NW Oregon!

November 24, 2011

Cook Park Durham Park Tualatin Park

Oregon

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Get ready for a great run before your Thanksgiving meal. And, bring two cans of food to be given to Sherwood's Catholic Church Food Bank as part of Ricky Wilder's Eagle Scout project.

Kids Race, 1k, 5K, 10K

cannedfood Bring two cans of canned food. The food will be delivered to St. Francis Church Food Bank in Sherwood, Oregon. Ricky Wilder of Tigard, Oregon is coordinating this project as part of his Eagle Scout project requirement. We are pleased to have Ricky helping the Sherwood Catholic Church Food Bank. Maybe that is why so many folks from Sherwood are registering!

http://www.stfrancissherwoodschool.org/

http://www.stfrancissherwood.org/

The Turkeython welcomes people who are registering from the following cities:

Albany, Aloha, Astoria, Banks, Beaverton, Bell Isle, Bend, Boring, Bothell, Burns, Canby, Cave Junction, Clackamas, Cornelius, Damascus, Dayton, Durham, Eugene, Forest Grove, Gaston, Gresham, Hillsboro, Hubbard, Keizer, Kent-WA, King City, Klamath Falls, Lake Oswego, Lansing-Michigan, Los Angeles, Lincoln City, Marylhurst, McMinnville, Milwaukie, Newberg, Newport, Celina-Ohio, Olympia, Oregon City, Orlando-Fl, Portland, Port Ludlow, Reno-Nevada, Richland-WA, Roseburg, Salem, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Sherwood, Silverdale, Silverton, St. Helens, Sublimity, Tigard, Tualatin, Vancouver, Warrenton, West Linn, Wilsonville, Woodburn, Woodbridge, Woodstock-Illinois

- lots from Sherwood, Tualatin, and Tigard!

What a great event this will be!

No curbs to run over, no roads to run on, no traffic to dodge!

Coming from everywhere! - We are coming up from San Francisco to spend Thanksgiving with my husband's family, who lives in the Portland area. We used to live in Boston and did a turkey trot there every year, so we were looking for a similar event in Portland. Looking forward to it!

Thanks, Elise

About the race:

Thursday November 24, 2011

Event	Start
Day of race registration begins	6:30 am
5K 10K start for 30 runners who have run the 5K in 21 minutes or 10k in 42 minutes. First 30 to email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it will be in this heat. Send time of recent races for verification.	8:45 am
5K 10K start. All will start in a 10-minute period.	9:30 am
Kids Race & 1K will start as soon as possible. We may have several starts so folks can get home.	11:00 am
Results Posted	Instantly
Awards Ceremony - 15 minutes after first 5k runners finish, and again 15 minutes after first 10k runners finish.

The race will officially begin at 9:30. The event anticipates 500 participants - and we all can't start at once! We will have a wave start with the faster runners starting first. Every 30 seconds after that we will have 20-30 more runners begin the race. Each runner will receive his or her own start time by virtue of the world-class timing equipment that allows individual starting times. Your time starts when you cross the starting line.

Uberthons is the only running group in Portland or Seattle with this great timing equipment! Chip-timed, keep the chip. Radio Frequency Identification Chips on the back of your bib. Your name in the lights on Thanksgiving morning on big screen TV's. Wear your bib chest high on the front!

Entry Fee Schedule

Kids Race FREE to kids 13 and under

(300 Kids would be a perfect event)

# of kids registered so far 62

UberKids ages 13-and-under race free

1K Run/Walk $5

5K Run/Walk $25

10K Run/Walk $35

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Location

Cook Park Durham Park Tualatin Park

9000 SW Durham Road

Tigard, OR

Start/Finish Line is in Cook Park. Park in Cook Park.

Uberthons timing system includes putting your name in the lights, not on the ground!

Drawings

11/09/2011 Stephanie Bremner, Tigard, Registered on 10/08/2011 Winner of a $5 card at Davidson's Casual Dining in Tigard, Oregon. Randomly selected from all those who registered before 7:30 PM on 11/09/2011

11/11/2011 Allison Bannan, Portland, Registered on 10/28/2011 Winner of a $5 card at Davidson's Casual Dining in Tigard, Oregon. Randomly selected from all those who registered before 8:00 AM on 11/11/2011

11/14/2011 Scott Fisher, Registered on 11/06/2011 Winner of a $25 gift certificate to Famous Daves Legendary Pit Bar-B-Que.

Watch for the next drawing at www.facebook.com/uberthons

Everyone

who registers gets a pumpkin or apple-cranberry roll made by Fancy Farm Bakery in Sherwood, Oregon. We have lots of rolls ordered!

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Enjoy the FRUIT JUICE BAR. 100% juice. Five to choose from, and hot chocolate. No heavy bagels today. Water and juice. Go home hungry!

First 150 kids 13-and-under with parent registration get a t-shirt

Others may purchase a shirt at the event.

Very good award for this day! (Eat more pie!)

BRING HOME THE PIE! Pies are on order for this event!

Female Overall Winner
1st Place	3	Big Thanksgiving Day Pies
2nd Place	2	Big Thanksgiving Day Pies
3rd Place	1	Big Thanksgiving Day Pie

Male Overall Winner
1st Place	3	Big Thanksgiving Day Pies
2nd Place	2	Big Thanksgiving Day Pies
3rd Place	1	Big Thanksgiving Day Pie

Female Age-Group Winners
1st Place	1	Big Thanksgiving Day Pie
Drawings for pies for all others

Male Age-Group Winners
1st Place	1	Big Thanksgiving Day Pie
Drawings for pies for all others

Everyone takes home a Thanksgiving roll! Eat, and enjoy. Everyone takes home a Fancy Farm Bakery roll!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Links to articles about Costco pies:

http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/nutrition-calories/food/costco-bakery/pumpkin-pie/

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/foodwine/2008437456_pies26.html

http://www.livestrong.com/article/342175-the-calories-in-a-costco-chocolate-cream-pie/

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Ashley is coming all the way from Celina, Ohio, and Monica is coming from San Diego. These gals are huge Tennessee Vols Fans. Go Big Orange. They scoured the country and found the Turkeython! We welcome anyone from Hillsboro Aviation!

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The Turkeython event deserves the best, so Uberthons is bringing its latest and greatest timing equipment. The 5K and 10K will be chip-timed, and your results will be instantly available at the race site and on the webpage. For those of you who are competitive, this race is not gun-timed, rather it is chip-timed. That means, your starting time begins when you cross the starting line. You have not seen the likes of this timing equipment before!

If you are in a race that places you way in the back at the start, others will not have an unfair advantage because you have the same privilege of having a real time - start to finish - as those who were placed at the head of the pack. Don't tell anyone, but that really means your time could be the fastest even though you started at the back of the pack. Life really is fair after all!

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Come in 1st, 2nd, or 789th, you are a special finisher

uberthonslogo The event is an Uberthons sanctioned event. This event meets a participation requirement for the National Championship Event in Las Vegas on November 17, 2012. To learn about the qualifications of being invited to the National Event as an elite runner of as a person who enjoys getting fit and having fun while doing so, click on the National Championship button on Uberthons Home Page. We may see you there.

Course

5K Course. Start with the yellow arrows, turns into red and then blue for the finish. What a great, beautiful course.

10K Course will follow the 5K course twice.

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Age Group Categories

Age group categories are: 0-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60+ Age groups will be set so no more than 24 runners in an age group.

The Turkeython event is For Fun, For Competition, and For Fitness. If a question arises before or during the event about starting times or any other aspect of the event, Uberthons will make a determination of the answer to the question based on providing the most benefit to the most participants. Uberthons does not guarantee anyone he or she will set a personal record at the Turkeython, nor will Uberthons provide any special priorities to those who wish to set a personal record. Uberthons hopes you do set a personal record in the event. The event is managed for the pleasure and enjoyment of most of the participants and spectators. Anyone who tries to circumvent the management of this event for his or her own benefit will be asked to leave the event, and, as always, we wish you well, and we will refund your registration fee. Have a great Thanksgiving.

An invitation to all runners/walkers

We appreciate your interest in the Turkeython - it should be quite an event. You may even PR at this event! This event is not like the Uberthons Invitational held in October at the Portland International Raceway where the Uberthons 5k record was broken, and many PR's were set. The PIR venue is a fast venue. The Turkeython venue, like the PIR, is fast, and the Turkeython is pretty - and nice. We hope you set a Turkeython venue PR. The parks are open to the public, so be aware of early-morning joggers and walkers.

The Turkeython will be attended by several groups of people. They are:

Folks who want to do something special, like run a 5k or 10k. This may be the first time for them.
Folks who enjoy other people who strive to do something more. People like being around others with the same goals.
Folks who want his or her family to experience a running/racing atmosphere. Get the kids to enjoy running early, they say.
Folks who are making new resolutions.
Folks who want to run it off before they put it in.
Folks who want to impress themselves.
Folks who want to try to set a personal record.
Folks who want to share something special with the community.

Our timing system is composed of RFID antennas and chips. The chips are disposable. No one else in the Portland or

Seattle areas uses the same system. You have seen the system on this website. The system can be used for gun starts or chip starts, meaning the individual start times begin when a runner crosses the start line as you know. We plan to use two systems that are in sync with each other. One system will record start times, and the other will record finish times. This allows for interval-starting times.

We know you want to set a PR. And, we know you are capable. The Uberthons 5k record is 16:00 set by Brian Bernier of McMinnville just last week at the Portland International Raceway Invitational. Many runners set PR's at the PIR event. Some of our events are not venues in which a runner should try to set a PR. For instance, Brian ran a 17:30 split on the 10k at Mt. Tabor. He did not break the Uberthons record on the 10k, but would have broken it had the event been at the PIR Invitational instead of on an ancient volcano, which had a lot of terrain changes. He did, however, set a PR for the venue. He will strive to set PR's at different venues as we hold them. It will be a Venue PR. Champoeg Park and Magnuson Park in Seattle are other good places to set a PR, and Uberthons will provide many venues in which a lifetime PR may be set. Uberthons does not hold events on roads with traffic or curbs. Earlier this year, Uberthons held a memorial run for the family of a mother/wife who was run over and killed by a truck while she was on a run. Uberthons do not have runners participate in events on roads with curbs and trucks that run over people.

And, bring all your friends.

And, lastly, Uberthons says bring all your friends, but, what we really mean is this - if you have friends or acquaintences who want to come to the Turkeython, but have a choice to make between a turkey in the oven or the Turkeython, Uberthons wants them to do both. If folks want to run, let's have them run. A gift from you and Uberthons, let's say. Running on Thanksgiving morning can be a great tradition, but, if the economy has stolen the money from the running budget, let Uberthons know. If you want to, please help your friends, or have them email Uberthons at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and Uberthons will provide an unconditional free registration for them. They may choose to bring the entire family to enjoy the event - and to that Uberthons says "the more the merrier." If they want to run, let's get them to the event. How many friends do you have who would come under these conditions?

See you and your friends at the Turkeython

Alan R.

Partners/Beneficiaries

This event will benefit the Tigard High School Booster Club, the Tualatin High School Senior Grad Committee, and other booster clubs that participate; a portion of the registration fees will go to the organization that you indicate.

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