If you are attending any of these charity
races, please call or email Ken V. at Kenv@njaws.com
Often we car pool from East Brunswick /Edison or meet at these events. I update
this list at http://vercammensport.blogspot.com/
Fun Upcoming Running Races & Charity
events selected by Kenneth Vercammen
February 17, 2018 Manasquan Mid-Winter 2 mile Beach Run/Walk
11:00 Race starts on Ocean Ave, Boardwalk and you
run l 1/4 mile on the Beach, ending at Leggett's restaurant. Post race party at Leggett's, plenty refreshments
and food. Wakefern Shoprite co-sponsor jerseyrunner.com
Feb 18, 2018 ORC Winter Series 10am Ocean
County Park, Lakewood
Feb 25, 2018 Johnny Mac house of Spirits Train Run Snowball
Express approx 10:30 AM when train
leaves jsrc.org
Mar 10th, 2018
11:00AM Keith McHeffey 3 Mile Fun Run Sea
Bright, New Jersey
March 10 Guinness
run Highlands Bahrs
Landing Restaurant
2
Bay Ave., Highlands, NJ 07732
Annual Guinness Run fundraiser
The Highlands
Business Partnership’s 5th Annual Guinness Run fundraiser will be held on
Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 2PM. Registration is $30.00 and includes a
commemorative t-shirt, a Guinness Pint glass and access to the Post-Race Party
at Bahrs Landing Restaurant, with complimentary appetizers and Guinness Beer.
The race will begin at Bahrs, 2 Bay Avenue, where contestants will fill their
cup and race to Miller St., and back to the finish line at Bahrs. The
contestant with the most liquid in their cup at the finish line, wins the 1st
Place trophy and $100 in Bid Bucks. 2nd Place will receive a $50 Bid Buck. All
contestants are eligible to participate in the Post- Race Pub Crawl.
There will be a Post-Guinness Run Pub Crawl from 3PM-5PM, included with RUN
registration or $10.00 without RUN registration and $3.00 Imported Beer
specials at participating restaurants.
Guinness Run Rules:
All runners must be 21 years of age and proof of age is required the day of the
race. All registered runners will be issued a number to wear during the race,
this number must be worn during the race to qualify to win.
March 18, 2018 St. Paddy’s 5 mile 9:30 Freehold great
FARC event Dress warm FARC is a 501(c) 3 not for profit organization. which
typically donate over $25,000 each year to local charities. farcnj.com
Great event by
JerseyRunner.com & Gio Dr. T-shirt jerseyrunner.com
Wakefern
Shoprite co-sponsor
04/07/2018 Highland Games 5K Run
presented by Dunedin Scottish Arts Foundation
4/ 8/18 Dare to go Bare 5k Lake Como, Florida 9am
4/ 7/18 Indian Trails now 20k & 10k 9am Middletown [Ken V is past 5k winner] Croydon Hall School
raceforum.com
4/14- 4/15 ______
4/14/18 Tinton Falls 5k
4/21/2018 Runapoloza
Jersey Shore relay & The Asbury Park Half Marathon Wakefern Corporate Team Past Champion jsrc.org
[4/25/- 4/29 ABA New Orleans _____
April 28, 2018
ROOT OUT CHILD ABUSE 5K & 1 MILE KIDS FUN RUN Saturday, 7:30 AM 6500 MAGAZINE ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 701186500
MAGAZINE ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 7011870118
4/29 __
4/28/18 JSRC Lake Como 5k Romp 10am
Benefit
BPOE Elks Camp Moore for Children with Special Needs & Lake Como Giving
Tree
4.29.2018 29th Annual Tour de Franklin, Franklin Food Bank 62 mile & 40-mile bike 62 Mile Metric
Century or 40 Mile now Starts at Franklin High School
Sunday May 6, 2018 Highland
Park 5k Run in the Park
9am
5/12/18 Monmouth Beach 5k
9am
SAT MAY 19 2018 Follow
Me 5K Run MILLTOWN, NJ 8:30am & 1 mile walk American Legion
5/19/18 Como
Commotion By The Ocean Rumson Hash- at The Windjammer. Seaside Park hash Run starts at 10:17, with free beer
prior, during and after. 7:50
Dinner, more beer, band
5/20/18 NJ Sharing Network 5k Long Branch 8:30
May 25, 2018 “Legends
of Belmar” Friday night of Memorial Day - “Start of Summer
Happy Hour with the Legends of Belmar” Join Ken V and friends the Friday
night before Spring Lake 5 race for "Legends Night" in Belmar at
D’Jais 5:30 free food Ocean Ave. Belmar, 7:30 Bar Anticipation 16th
Ave not a race, just social event The greats of Belmar beach
volleyball, friends of Holme band and the beach start Memorial Day at D’Jais
& Bar A. Give out American Flag stickers to lucky customers to show your
support for USA and those who served. Marty P, John C. Jim W, Chris K, maybe
even Daniel-son
May 26, 2018 Spring Lake Five
Mile Run Saturday 8:30am then
free food at Bar A.
5/27/18
Navesink 1.2 mile swim 8:15 AM
5/28/18
North Brunswick Memorial Day 5k 8:30am
North Brunswick Community Park Route 130 South
6/2/18 Elk’s Flag
Day Parade, Wildwood
6/2/18 RVRR Towpath Training run benefit Cancer
Institute & post run picnic
6/ 9-10 __
6/12/18 Tuesday night Raritan Valley Road
Runners RVRR 5k summer series Highland Park Donaldson Park 7pm
June 14/18 Flag Day 5K in
support of our Hope for Veterans® Transitional Housing Program at 7 P.M. at the
Lyons VA Campus, 151 Knollcroft Road, Lyons (Bernards Township), NJ. runninginusa.com
Sat 6/16/18 Red Bank Classic 5k 8:30
6/__ Pancreatic Cancer 5k Run
for a Cure, 8am, Roosevelt Park, Edison,
6/ 17/18 Asbury Park
1-mile swim & ½ mile 7:30am
June 17/18 Fuce 5K 8:30 Metuchen HS
6/ 18/18 PRESIDENT'S
CUP 5k 8pm, Charlie Browns, Millburn Free beer, big post race party Ken V needs a ride from Edison or East
Brunswick or South Brunswick
6/23/18 Union Beach 5k
9am co-sponsor Wakefern Shoprite
unionbeach5k.com
6/ __ Rumson Hash’s 10 mile, 10 bar- Long Branch to Belmar
This is not a race. You run, bike or walk 10 miles to between 10-13 bars. Cheap
beer. They start at 10:17 at the Long Branch Train Station, then stop at Bars
in Long Branch, Deal, Loch Arbour, Asbury Park, Bradley Beach and Belmar. Finish at Bar A
6/24/18 Lager Run
5k Glen Ridge 5pm free beer compuscore.com
6/26/18 Tuesday
night Raritan Valley Road Runners RVRR 5k summer series Highland Park Donaldson
Park 7pm
6/__ Sunset Classic 5mile Bloomfield compuscore.com
More
Central Jersey charity races at:
Raritan Valley Road Runners www.rvrr.org
compuscore.com
July __ Saturday Race Street Run 15K, 4M run Jim Thorpe, PA
Carbon
Jul __ SCRANTON Lackawanna BLACK
DIAMOND SERIES-IRON HORSE 8K Montage Mountain Resorts Lodge, 1000 Montage
Mountain Road • Scranton, PA 18507 8k
TRAIL,
7/ __ Pocono
Family YMCA Freedom Festival 5K
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7/ Woodbridge Pizza
run 4-mile 7pm free pizza, Sewaren music co-sponsored by
Wakefern Shoprite raceforum.com
7/ 10, /18 Summer Series Tuesday night Raritan Valley Road
Runners RVRR 5k summer Highland Park Donaldson Park 7pm
July 13, 2018 Friday Vercammen Summer Blast Happy Hour
Free Food 5:30-7:30
$2.00 House drinks, house wine Drafts 6-7 [need
special wrist band from Ken V] Bar Anticipation, where the summer never ends
Games & prizes
This is
open to your friends. Please if attending also email Ken's Law Office at
VercammenLaw@NJLaws.com so we can put your name on the list for wristbands
July 14, 2018 Belmar
Five Mile Run 5 mile, 8:30am belmar5.com
7/__ Ocean Grove
Biathlon 2M run, 300 yd swim Ocean Grove fast short event. 8am
7/15/18 5k Run/Walk VFW Post #133
East Brunswick,
NJ 9:00 AM free burgers, beer food
Sunday
7/ 24/18 Summer Series Tuesday night Raritan Valley Road
Runners RVRR 5k summer Highland Park Donaldson Park 7pm
July __ North
Brunswick Heritage Day 5K
7/___ RVRR Summer
Pub Crawl
7/21 Sprint, 7/22 Olympic NJ State Triathlon Sprint Mercer
County Park $
7/__ Rooney 1 mile swim Sea Bright
8:30 AM;
July __ SeasIT 5K Allenhurst
Nice scenic and flat
run through the neighborhoods of Allenhurst
7/25/18 Downtown
Westfield 5K Pizza Extravaganza 7pm Wakefern Shoprite co-sponsor compuscore.com
7/__ JFK Medical Center Miles for Minds 5K Roosevelt Park
Edison, NJ Wakefern
Shoprite co-sponsor compuscore.com
July ___ REV3 Triathlon Lake Harmony
8/__ Sea Girt 5k 8:30 am Wakefern Shoprite co-sponsor jsrc.org
8/__ Lavallette Ocean Mile Swim 8:00am
8/__ Belmar Tri 7am
$$
8/05/18 Triathlon/Duathlon/Aquabike
for Autism presented by Belmar and Lake Como *# SIGN
UP
8/05/18 Triathlon/Duathlon/Aquabike
for Autism presented by Belmar and Lake Como *# SIGN
UP
8/09/18 Vincentown Super Sprint Triathlon/Duathlon *# SIGN UP
8/___ Seaside Boyd One-mile Open Ocean swim. Now at 7:45 am Lincoln Avenue beach.
August 11, 2018 Asbury Sheehan 5k Asbury Park, N.J. 8:30am Wakefern Shoprite co-sponsor jsrc.org
8/ __ Bradley Beach
5k 8:30 Wakefern Shoprite co-sponsor eliteracingsystems.com
8/ 20 Ray Licata Long
Branch One Mile Ocean Swim 1 mile 8am
8/ ___ JSRC meeting
& BBQ Deal firehouse 6:15 [swim in
Ocean at 5pm sharp prior to BBQ]
8/__ Boys State 5k Hamilton
9/__ Monday Pier House
5K, Long Branch 8:30 - benefiting Valerie Center of Monmouth Medical jsrc.org
9/__ Fallen Heroes
Memorial Run Bar Anticipation, Lake Como 5k 9:30 Co-Sponsor Wakefern Shoprite compuscore.com
9/09/18 Hightstown Triathlon starting
at 7:00am
9/ __ JSRC Picnic at
Monmouth Park Racetrack
9/11 every year 911
Memorial run Belmar boardwalk to Spring Lake 6pm [not a race] jsrc.org
9/__ Ocean
Grove Run for Arts 5k 9am Co-Sponsor Wakefern Shoprite
9/__ Steeplechase 5k
& 10k Hillsborough 8:45
9/__ Metuchen Y Garbolino 5k
Roosevelt Park 8:30
09/__ KeyportFest 5K Fireman’s Park Saturday 8:30 am
10/__ Little Silver 5K Sunday 9:30 am Red Bank Regional High School
Sun 10/__
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Treasure Island Sprint
Triathlon/Duathlon/Aquabike and Kayak Triathlon
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600 meter swim,
10.5-mile bike, 3 mile run, Pt. Pleasant NJ
8:45
10/__ Eggs
10/ __ Metuchen Fair [not a race]
10/__ Sayreville Hit
the Bricks 5k 9:30
10/__ Rook Run Long
Branch 10am
10/ __ Cranford
5k CPL Breakfast Run 5k co-sponsor by Wakefern Shoprite oymp.net
10/ __ Race Against Hunger 5k Roosevelt Park 9am
10/21/18 East
Brunswick 5k & 10k 10am RVRR new
start EB Community Arts Center 721 Cranbury Rd. in East Brunswick) well run event www.ebrr.org, post race we go to Lori’s
Lakeside on Farrington Lake, North Brunswick
10/ __ Trick or Trot
5k 11am now at Deal Casino
10__ HoBOOken 5K Halloween Fun Run hobooken5k.com/ Saturday
10 AM Pier A Park co-sponsor by Wakefern Shoprite
10/__ Frost on
Pumpkin 10k
11/__ Space
Coast Classic 2 mile 7AM, [15k 6:45] SATELLITE BEACH, FL US 32937 The
new course starts at Gleason Park and heads north and west to South Tropical
Trail Sunday Ken V is two-time
winner and was winning in 2014 then out kicked by 13 year old
11/__ Represent
(321) 5K Community Run 8:00AM Satellite Beach FL
https://runsignup.com/Race/FL/SatelliteBeach/Represent3215KCommunityRunWalk
11/ __ watch NY
Marathon [Ken competed in NY marathon
twice]
11/ __ RUN with the
VIKINGS 5K 10:00 AM South Brunswick High School, Bob Tona's event [Ken V can’t
attend , but it’s a good race]
11/__ Hashathon 6.6
Mile Cheesequake challenging, dangerous
trails, beer, great post race party with band, Mark Griggs’ great race 11am
11/__ Manasquan
Turkey Run 5-mile 11am party at taverns
after race discount beer co sponsor Wakefern Shoprite jsrc.org
NOVEMBER
__ Gobbler Express Train Run, Asbury Park, not
a race. Get on train in Asbury, go south and get off either Bradley, Belmar or
Spring Lake, then run back 2,4, or 6 miles, Post Run social at Johnny Mac’s
Located at 208 Main Street in Asbury Park – Across from Train Station co sponsor Wakefern Shoprite jsrc.org
11/ ___ Thanksgiving Day Princeton Trinity Church 5k 8:30
11/__ Born to Run 5 mile Freehold 11am
Friday
11/ __ Crazy Eddie
Memorial Hash run- not a race, trail hash with beverage stops Saturday
11/ __ Navesink
Challenge 15k & 5k 10am 10:10 for 5k Post race at Red Bank Elks [Ken V runs 5k]
12/ __ Big
Chill 5k Rutgers New Bruns 9:05
12/__ Jingle
Bell Bar A
12/ __ Jingle Bell Run for Arthritis 5k run 9:30
Metuchen NJ then mark trail afterwards
12/__ St.
Paul 5k at North Brunswick Community Park off Rt 130 9am to benefit St. Paul
Milltown
then just
mark Mystery Trail South B
12/__ Toys
for Tots 5K 10am Freehold NJ Tighe
Park
December __ (2017 board election) Q4 GMM: Wednesday RVRR Elections - Reformed Church
after 6pm group run
12/__ ___ mark mystery trail South B Dec. __
10:00am The Super Santa 5K in Morris Ginty Field, superheroracing.com then mark Mystery Trail South B
12/__ Raritan Valley Pub-crawl and sing Christmas
songs in New Brunswick, NJ at selected pubs. Song sheets to be provided. Wear
Santa hats.
12/ __ no
races, run w RVRR in am, then Rumson, then Summit hash at 3pm or mark Mystery
Trail South B
Jan __ Secret Mystery
Winter Trail Run 2.5 mile & 5 Mile Group Run 10:17am New Start Location: Secret Mystery wooded
area North Brunswick
Only
$20.00 via
https://runsignup.com
Jan 7, 2018 FARC
Freehold Winter 5k first five Sunday
Jan 21, 28, Feb 4
2018 Freehold Winter 5k 10:00am www.farcnj.com
1/27,
2018 RVRR Dinner & Awards -
6pm-11pm New Brunswick Elks Arrive on Time
Feb 4, 2018 FARC Freehold Winter 5k 10:00am
www.farcnj.com