Road Races

Kids Kampus Turkey Trot A Success

By Jason Meyer on Monday, November 29th, 2010

The sixth annual Turkey Trot 5K run and Family Fun Walk took place Thanksgiving morning at McDonald's in Huntington. The event had 511 participants in the 5K run/walk, and 71 participants in the fun walk, and raised over $9,000 for the Pathfinder Kids Kampus Scholarship fund.

Ronald McDonald started runners out at 8:00 AM at McDonalds on 60 Home Street in Huntington, and the runners ran past Pathfinder Kids Kampus child care center, through Huntington University, turned around at Parkview Huntington Hospital, and returned to McDonald's... Read More...

Heritage 5K run scheduled for June 19

By Rick Henly on Thursday, May 27th, 2010

This year's annual Heritage Days 5K run is scheduled for Saturday, June 19th starting at Kreigbaum Field.

The entry fee is $10 - Adult, $8 - 18-under, Family (up to four members) - $20.

There are multiple age groups again this year with the youngest group being 9 & under up to the 66 and over group... Read More...

Indy Mini-Marathon

By HFP Reporter on Saturday, May 15th, 2010

On May 8th, seventy-one runners from Huntington, twenty-nine from Roanoke, three from Markle and five from Warren competed in the Indy Mini-Marathon. The first runner to cross the finish line for Huntington was Austen Davenport who placed 43rd overall for men and seventh in the 20 to 24 division recording a time of 1:15... Read More...

4th Annual Pokagon Triathlon/Duathlon

By HFP Reporter on Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Pokagon State Park will host the 4th annual Pokagon State Park Triathlon/Duathlon on Saturday, May 22, at 9 a.m., using resources within the park and elsewhere in Steuben County. The event will be organized and conducted by TriFort Triathletes. Major sponsorship this year recognizes the Woman's Care Center for northeast Indiana... Read More...

Discover Roanoke 5K/10K

By HFP Reporter on Sunday, April 18th, 2010

On Saturday, nearly 300 hundred runners lined up for the start of the Discover Roanoke 5K/10K Run/Walk. In the 5K race, Josh McIntyre took first place honors with a time of 17:09 followed by Jake Crosley who was second in a time of 17:24:00; Paul Hernandez was third with a time of 17:34:00; Brian Vansoest was fourth with a time of 19:31:00, and Kyle Kerschner was fifth with a time of 20:28:00... Read More...

DiscoverRoanoke 10K/5K on April 17th

By HFP Reporter on Thursday, April 8th, 2010

The DiscoverRoanoke 10K/5K run/walk recently surpassed the 200 registrant milestone and the organizers are pleased to announce that Edward Jones has named Mrs. Kelly Yeiter as the official starter for the upcoming event.  The inaugural event will be held in downtown Roanoke on April 17th, 2010, at 9 am... Read More...

Power Soccer in town this weekend

By Rick Henly on Thursday, March 25th, 2010

A new and unique event will be in town this weekend. The Division I Midwest Regional competition of Power Soccer will be held at Huntington North High School in the gymnasium. The games begin at 9 am both on Saturday and Sunday.  The championship game will take place at 3:15 pm Sunday afternoon... Read More...

Johnson wins 'Turkey Trot'

By Rick Henly on Thursday, November 26th, 2009

The fifth annual Turkey Trot 5K run and Family Fun Walk took place today (Thanksgiving) at McDonald's in Huntington.  The event had over 334 running participants in the run and 53 participated in the fun walk, and they raised over $5,500 for the Pathfinder Kids Kampus Scholarship Fund.

Ronald McDonald was on hand to start the runners out a little past 8 a... Read More...

Huntington natives excel in Chicago

By Nick Johnson on Sunday, October 11th, 2009

Eight Huntington natives competed along with 45,000 other runners in the Bank of Chicago Marathon this morning.  The runners battled sub-freezing temperatures at the race start, and a fairly strong breeze to finish one of the largest marathons in the United States.  The race was won by 2008 Olympic Marathon Champion Sammy Wanjiru in a course record time of 2:05:41 (which is a record for the fastest marathon ever run on US soil)... Read More...

Njeri wins Heritage Days 5K

By HFP Reporter on Sunday, June 28th, 2009

The third annual Heritage Days 5K was held on Saturday and started ten minutes before the parade, giving the crowd an opportutnity to cheer on the runners.  The runners burst from the gate at the intersection of Home and Jefferson Street. They raced downhill through downtown on Jefferson Street and turned onto a side street to make the journey back up the hill to finish at Kriegbaum field... Read More...

Victory Noll Center 5K

By HFP Reporter on Saturday, June 20th, 2009

Submitted by Victory Noll Center:

HUNTINGTON, IN — Brian Fairchild and Heidi Blocker were the top finishers in the Victory Noll Center 5K run Saturday through the campus of Victory Noll. Fairchild was the overall winner in 22 minutes, 3 seconds on the course that included both a road section and trail run... Read More...