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May Day Mud Race
| Fish Creek, North Douglas to the Tlingit Haida Community Center, Salmon Creek, Juneau | Distance: 7.9 miles, point to point
Location: start at Fish Creek on North Douglas, finish at the Tlingit Haida Community Center by Salmon Creek
Start Time: 4:00 PM, one minute before low tide
Registration Fee: 4 dollars, including admission to the Queen Ida concert
The second annual May Day Mud Race, run on a 1.2 foot tide the Empire called "slightly more challenging than last year's minus one inch tide". Runners took off from Fish Creek, crossed the flats near the runway and followed the old highway to the finish. The Habitat Division of the Department of Environmental Conservation supervised the course to avoid damage to the wildlife.
Art Rodriguez won in 46:42, seventeen seconds ahead of Phil Peck. Mary Hakala took the women's open division in 57:31. Forty-three finishers are listed, in six divisions. Margaret Levitt was last in 1:42:42 and was given a 25 dollar gift certificate for it.
Over 300 dollars of prizes were put up by Juneau businesses, down to a lunch for two in the junior division. Festivities afterwards were at the National Guard Armory: a gumbo dinner at 7:00 PM and a concert by Queen Ida, a Cajun band from Louisiana, at 9:00 PM.
The course ran Fish Creek to Salmon Creek this year. By the fourth annual in 1984 it was being run in the opposite direction over the same 7.9 miles.
Times are printed as minutes and seconds, with the minutes running past sixty, and are converted here. | DefaultRaceDirector Unassigned | 1982-05-01 16:00:00 | no | no | yes | Registration Form |