'Run Like a Mother' on Mother's Day in Ridgefield NewsTimesLive.com
RIDGEFIELD -- If you are a mother of young, or even teenage children, you're on the run, double time, for a good part of the day. If you have a job, the pace triples and the days race.
Which is why you might ask why, on Mother's Day, you should start out with a 5K race?
Exercise, solidarity, fun and a flower for everyone who crosses the finish line? Those are at least some of the answers for those who join in the second annual Run Like Mother road race here on May 10.
"People told me last year 'It's the best Mother's Day I ever had,'" said Megan Searfoss, the organizer of the event. "You get a T-shirt, you get a flower and your husband gets off the hook about serving you breakfast in bed.".....
....The idea for the race started a year earlier when Searfoss and her friends -- who call themselves, informally, The Ridgefield Racy Ladies -- held a private run for themselves in town on Mother's Day and had about 30 people join in......
... When Searfoss' husband, Chon, got a job in Greenwich three years ago, the Searfoss family -- Chon, Megan and their three daughters Abby, 16, Sarah, 11 and Jane, 9 -- moved to Ridgefield and they settled in. ...
===============================================================
Please send your comments, news tips and press releases to GreenwichRoundup@gmail.com or click on the comments link at the end of this post.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Useful criticism, helpful links and corrections and general comments are always welcome at Greenwich Roundup. Generally only spam ads and posts with very foul language get censored.
Contact me directly at GreenwichRoundup@gmail.com if you have a suggestion or comment you don't want publicized (but tell me so in your email).
I look forward to publishing your opinions.
COMMENTING RULES: We encourage an open exchange of ideas in the Greenwich community, but we ask you to follow our guidelines. Basically, be civil, smart, on-topic and free from profanity. Don't say anything you wouldn't want your mother to read!