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| Event Name | Governor's Cup Fun Run |
| Location | Alaska State Capitol, Fourth Street, Juneau to the base of Hospital Drive |
| Description |
Distance: 3.09 miles Location: start at the Alaska State Capitol, Fourth Street; finish at the base of Hospital Drive Course: out Calhoun Avenue past the downtown sights, a climb through the Highlands, then a flatter run along Glacier Avenue to the finish The Governor's Cup Fun Run, a 3.09-mile race, walk, jog or rollerblade, with a mass start at the Capitol. Ribbons to the first three in each division, plus race-walking and rollerblade. A race in the Empire Cup Runners Series. |
| History |
The 1990 Governor's Cup Fun Run, 3.09 miles on Saturday 14 July, from the Alaska State Capitol to the base of Hospital Drive. It drew 271 runners and rollerbladers to a mass start at the Capitol. The course went out Calhoun Avenue for a quick glimpse of the downtown sights, climbed through the Highlands, and settled into a steadier, more level pace along Glacier Avenue to the finish. The Thibodeau brothers fought out first place. Rick, of Juneau, won in 15:33; Guy, cross country coach at the University of Alaska Anchorage, was six seconds behind. A third brother, Ray, was ninth in Men 20-29. Scott McNeil was third across the line in 16:25. Shelly James was the first woman in 19:01 and Dawn Rider the second in 20:53 - the Empire put the gap between them at 52 seconds, where the times it printed differ by 1:52. "The first mile is all hills, it's really hard. The race is so short you just have to gut it out. It's not my favorite race, but I felt I finished real strong anyway. I did really well this time," Dawn Rider said, adding that she prefers 10Ks. The field was not all racers. It drew what the Empire called more than a handful of strollers, walkers, joggers and two race walkers. Scott Fischer was first across the line on rollerblades in 12:00 and Nona Head the first woman on them in 15:40. Race organizer John McConnochie divided the field by predicted finish time and staggered the start with marker lines painted on the pavement, after years in which the size of the field had people tripping at the start. "All of the runners felt it was a really well-run race. A lot of people were impressed with how smoothly the start went," Rider said. Forty three volunteers took part. Shelly James and Rick Thibodeau received the Governor's Cup award at the finish line, each to hold it for six months. Rod Swope, Commissioner of Natural Resources, represented the governor; the Empire printed the name as "Steve Cooper", and Alaska's governor in 1990 was Steve Cowper. SOURCES: "Governor's Cup race draws 271", Juneau Empire, Monday 16 July 1990, page 9, continuing on page 10; and the finish list on page 10, headed "1990 Governor's Cup Fun Run / July 14. 3.09 miles. Time in minutes, seconds." NOTES ON THE LIST. The divisions add to exactly the 271 of the headline, so nothing has been lost between the two columns. 269 of them are held here. Two finishers cannot be made into runners: the Empire prints the 27th woman in the 30-39 division, in 33:15, as "Smith (first name unavailable)", and the eighth man in the 14-19 division, in 25:55, as "no name available". Two runners are printed with no time at all, Phillip Florendo in Men 20-29 and George Partlow in Men 40-49, and are held here with a zero time and a note. Tom Waldo's 18:19 is printed at eighth in Men 30-39, ahead of a ninth place of 18:12; both are stored as printed. The list gives the surname of Brett and Mark Neyhart as "Weyhart" in the same paragraph, and each of those two rows carries a note saying so. The rollerbladers are recorded as a race of their own rather than as a division of the run, with no distance, because no source gives the length of their course and the 1988 clipping says it differed from the runners'. |
| Race Director | DefaultRaceDirector Unassigned |
| Date and Time | 1990-07-14 10:00:00 |
| Relay/Team Events? | no |
| Empire Cup | yes |
| SERR Event | yes |
| Registration Form | Registration Form |
| information / results | Distance | Entrants | Comments |
| 3.09 Mile | 3.09 miles | 259 | |
| Rollerblade | 0 miles | 10 | |
| Thank you! | 1 | ||
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