The Noblesville cross country team will host the 30th annual Alumni and Friends 4000 Meter Cross Country Race at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 12 at the Chinquapin Ridge Miller Cross Country Course at White River Elementary School.
The course features: Split Rail fencing as markers, prairie grasses, wild flowers, perennial flowers, perimeter trail in wetlands, a 30-foot wooden bridge, twin hickory pass, horseshoe curve, Prefontaine’s trail, the Kennedy Loop, grassy paths, sweeping turns, and silhouettes of Kennedy, Jennings, Ryun, Prefontaine, Mills and Lash.
White River Elementary School is on Cumberland Road between 191st Street and Field Drive. Park in the southeast parking lot. The cost is a running T-shirt for T-shirt drawing and canned goods for the White River Christian Church Food Pantry.
Awards include the opportunity to run on the highly regarded Miller CC course, the most unique in the State of Indiana and the thrill of competition, cold water and watermelon at the finish.
Handicaps are determined by a runner’s expected 4K pace:
10:00 min pace = 25:00 4K
9:00 min pace = 22:30 4K
8:00 min pace = 20:00 4K
7:00 min pace = 17:30 4K
6:20 min pace = 15:50 4K
6:00 min pace = 15:00 4K
Phone Coach Graham at 317-313-9599 with any questions.
