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May Day Mud Run
| Tlingit-Haida Community Center, Hospital Drive, Juneau | Start Time: 2:00 PM. Low tide was 2:30 PM at 1.9 feet.
Location: Tlingit-Haida Community Center, Hospital Drive, in the Salmon Creek area, finishing at Fish Creek
Distance: approximately 7.9 miles
Registration Fee: $5, no pre-registration. Sign-up at 1:30 PM.
Contact: Dawn Rider, 789-2181 or 364-3410
Course: follow Glacier Highway, cross Egan Drive at Sunny Point, and enter the Mendenhall Wetlands. There is no set route across the flats.
Organizer Dawn Rider gave two rules: stay out of people's yards in the Bayview Subdivision across the channel, and cross the finish line at Fish Creek. "It is any way you want to go once you are past Sunny Point. That is part of the fun. You just need to know you are going to get very muddy." Runners were warned to expect knee- or possibly waist-deep water, and clean dry clothes left at the start were delivered to the finish.
A four-mile mud-only run started at the same time. The race was the second in the Empire Cup Runners Series, paying seven points to the winner of each of six divisions, six for second, five for third, and one point to every finisher.
Rick Thibodeau won in 40:47, the fastest time the race has recorded. That is the only finisher held here: the time comes from the 1990 report, which describes 1989 as the year "the art of cutting through Bayview Subdivision to North Douglas Highway was at its apex". About 45 people ran. No results list for 1989 has been found. | DefaultRaceDirector Unassigned | 1989-04-29 14:00:00 | no | yes | yes | Registration Form |