Central Minnesota Get Your Rear in Gear 5K

September 6th, 2008

Central Minnesota Get Your Rear in Gear 5K Run/Walk/Bike Tour Fun Fest to benefit the Hind Site Fund at CentraCare Foundation.

CENTRAL MN RESULTS

Prefer to mail in your donation?  Download this Donation Form to include with your check made out to Get Your Rear in Gear - Central MN.  Please indicate if you are supporting a Team.

JOIN US for the inaugural Central Minnesota Get Your Rear in Gear 5K and FunFest. Monies raised will support the Hind Site Fund to support colon cancer education, screening and the promotion of complementary medicines in Central Minnesota. Other activities include a Spaghetti Dinner, Live Music and Silent Auction. Learn about cancer prevention and complimentary therapies at Interactive displays along with great games for the kids - fun for the whole family.

Activities Schedule

2:00 - 3:45	Registration for Bike Tour and 5K Run and Walk
3:00	Mountain Bike Tour
4:00	Get Your Rear in Gear 5K Timed Run
4:00	Get Your Rear in Gear 5K Walk
4:00 - 8:00	Family Fun Fest
4:00 - 7:30	Pasta Dinner, Silent Auction and Live Music
7:30 - 8:00	Celebration Presentation

3:00 – 3:45

Mountain Bike Tour – Quarry Park

Your donation to the Hind Site fund will provide you with an event gift bag and full access to the Quarry Park biking trails for 45 minutes. The park contains 643 acres and there are several levels of mountain biking trails to entertain your entire group. Our volunteers are stationed throughout the park and will help guide you over billion-year-old bedrock on your journey through one of the most unique nature preserves anywhere.

4:00 – 5:00

Get Your Rear in Gear 5K Run/ Walk – Quarry Park

For the runners, chip timing will provide an accurate system to track your dash through our off road course. You will scamper over trails that are sometimes smooth, sometimes muddy, but always beautiful. You may not want to use best running shoes on this run! The course winds past ponds, quarries, open prairie, wetlands, and has just enough hills to keep your heart pumping. Awards will be given to the top overall male and female 5K run finishers and to the top male and female in multiple age categories.

For the walkers, explore the many natural scenic features of the Quarry Park including oaks and aspens to yellow ladyslippers, Indian paintbrush, prickly pear cactus and the tubercled rein orchid. Man-made features include sizable hills composed of quarried rock remnants (grout piles), and 30 granite quarries, most of which are now filled with water and form picturesque rock-fringed ponds.

4:00 – 7:00

Spaghetti Dinner - Discovery School

Whether you’re biking, running, walking, or just looking to feed your team on the cheap our Spaghetti Dinner will fill you up. Dinner price is $7.00 for Adults and $4.00 for kids 10 and under.

Pasta Dinner tickets can be purchased along with your registration for the Bike Tour, Run or Walk go to www.hind-site.org for information on how to purchase tickets.

4:00 – 8:00

Family Fun Fest – Discovery School

Something fun for all ages. Inflatable games and magic for the kids and colon bingo for the older crowd. There is also an education area for those interested in learning about colon cancer, colon screening, and complimentary therapies used in tandem with traditional medicines. How about a massage, reflexology, or ionic footbath? Want to learn about Tai Chi, qigong, or how chiropractic medicine is used to help cancer patients?  Stop by for a fun learning experience.

4:00 – 7:15

Silent Auction – Discovery School

Hundreds of unique and original items in several different categories will be up for bid during our silent auction. Each category will close at a different time, so stay close and bid often and be prepared to take home at least one special item from our event.  Credit or debit cards only please.

4:00 – 7:30

Live Music – Discovery School

Toe tapping tunes from some of the areas talented and surly most generous musicians.   Are you ready to shake a leg?
CD’s available so you can take home some memories.

7:30 – 8:00

Celebration Presentation

Awards for 5k race will be handed out and a short presentation by Doug Randolph on battling colon cancer and the vision for the Hind- Site fund.