Sunday, March 20, 2016

Fun Upcoming Running Races Charity events April- Selected by Kenneth Vercammen

Fun Upcoming Running Races Charity events April- Selected by Kenneth Vercammen

         If you are attending any of these charity races, please call or email Ken V. at Kenv@njaws.com  Often we car pool or meet at these events. I update this list at http://vercammensport.blogspot.com/

3/24/16 Melbourne, 5K, Downtown Melbourne, Manatee Park. ROY. FB
Apr 1
Cocoa Village, 5K, The Village Has Lost Its Idiot, 7:33 PM, Village Idiot Pub.

4/2 Cops & Robbers 5k Melbourne Wickham Park,
Titusville, 5K, Step Up for Autism, 8:00 AM, Chain of Lakes Park.

4/3/16  Indian Trails 15k & 3mile  9am Middletown  [Ken V is past 5k winner]  FB

4/9 Run w Royals Long B
4/9 St. barts 5k scotch plains
4/9 ARC 5k Asbury park
4/9 Institute Woods 6k Princeton

4/10/16 Lincoln Tunnel Challenge   8am  Our favorite store Shoprite Wakefern is a sponsor FB
4/16/16  Runapoloza Jersey Shore relay & The Asbury Park Half Marathon   FB

4/17 Unite 8k

4/23   JSRC 5k at Bar A FB
4/24 Franklin Food Bank  62 mile & 40-mile bike 62 Mile Metric Century -   7:30 AM, $45.00 40 Mile 6 Towns of Franklin

4/30 ___

5/1 Highland Park 5k      9am
5/1 Lawrenceville Big Red 5k   10:15

5/7 Soaring 5k Piscataway
5/7 Monmouth Beach 5k
5/7 Farmlands 62 mile bike- Central Jersey Bike Club Middletown
5/8 _
5/14 Key West 5k
5/14  Harvest of Hope 5k 9am North Brunswick Community Park (2053 Route 130 South) Ken V is past male winner overall.  http://www.2015harvestofhope5k.com
May 15  Inspire 5k 9am East Brunswick Community Arts Center, 721 Cranbury Road
5/21  Como Commotion By The Ocean Rumson Hash- Registration at The Windjammer. Seaside Park   hash Run starts at 10:17, with free beer prior, during and after. Return to the Windjammer in early afternoon  7:50  Dinner, more beer, band

5/22 Thorne 4m W. Long Branch 9am great JSRC http://www.thornescholarshiprun.org

5/22 Hair of Dog 5k Robbinsville

5/26  Legal Run Around Somerville 7pm
5/27 Friday LEGENDS OF BELMAR SKIPPED FOR 2016. KEN V daughter graduating college the next day  - “For 2017: 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   [same as U of Delaware graduation]
5/28/2016 Spring Lake 5 mile  8:30   free food and reduced price drinks Bar A after race benefiting Spring Lake Recreation  [same as U of Delaware graduation]

5/29 Navesink 1.2 mile swim

5/30 North Brunswick 5k

5/__ 50-mile bike
6/4      Runway 5k on the airport     9am Rio Grande, NJ near Wildwood
6/ 4  Elk’s Flag Day Parade, Wildwood
6/ 4  RVRR Towpath Training run benefit Cancer Institute & post run picnic
6/4 Avon 5k, 8:30 Avon, N.J.
6/5 Stomp the Monster 5K Marlboro, NJ.  The USAT-certified 5K goes off at 10:30. The event includes a festival featuring beer, food and fun after the race
6/11 __
6/14    Tuesday night Raritan Valley Road Runners RVRR 5k summer series Highland Park Donaldson Park  7pm 
6/ 18  Asbury  Park 1-mile swim  & ½ mile 8am
6/18 St. Anselm 5k Ocean
6/19  Jersey Shore Tri Asbury Park
June  19  Fuce 5K 8:30 Metuchen HS no awards but good cause
6/ 20  PRESIDENT'S CUP NIGHT RACE 5K, 8pm, Charlie Browns, Millburn Free beer, big post race party  
6/25 Union Beach 5k
6/26    Lager Run 5k Glen Ridge 5pm free beer
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/__ Frog Hollow 5k South Amboy
6/28      Tuesday night Raritan Valley Road Runners RVRR 5k summer series Highland Park Donaldson Park 7pm
6/30 Bloomfield 5 mile
7/ __ Stroudsburg 5k Ken V is past winner
7/ ___ Wilkes BERNIE'S MEMORIAL 3-MILE RUN/
7/__    8:30  AM  JIM THORPE        Carbon        RACE STREET RUN Jim Thorpe, PA
7/ __  Bradley Beach 1 mile swim 9:30
7/ 6      Woodbridge 4-mile   7pm  free pizza, music
July  9  Belmar Five Mile Run 5 mile, 8:30am Belmar NJ  Ken V is again setting up 5 teams to run. We need 20 runners who can break 50 minutes for 5 mile. Free food at Bar A after race and reduced price beer. Contact Ken to join our teams- “Legends of Belmar, US Olympic Development, RVRR Beer Mile Champs, etc - benefiting Goodwill Hose Volunteer Fire Co
7/10 War at Shore Long Branch Triathlon Sunday www.splitsecondracing.net/
7/12    Tuesday night Raritan Valley Road Runners RVRR 5k summer Highland Park Donaldson Park 7pm
July 15, 2016 Friday Vercammen Summer Blast Happy Hour
Free Food 5-7 Hot & Cold Buffet
$1.00 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

7/16    Ocean Grove Biathlon 2M run, 300 yd swim Ocean Grove fast short event.  8am 
7/16 Undy 5k Long Branch
7/19 for profit Corporate fun run Raceway Park-Englishtown New Jersey $40
7/23 NJ State Triathlon Sprint Mercer County Park $
7/24 5k Run/Walk VFW Post #133 
East Brunswick, NJ 9:00 AM free burgers, beer food  [park near transmission place]
7/__      Eden Autism 5K Princeton, 9am
7/ __  RVRR Summer Pub Crawl
7/27 Downtown Westfield 5K Westfield Pizza Extravaganza 7pm
7/__ Parker House / Parkway Toyota Fun Run & Beer Party! in Sea Girt, New Jersey  9:47   [no more beer]
7/__ RVRR day at beach Belmar
7/26 Tuesday night Raritan Valley Road Runners RVRR 5k summer series Highland Park Donaldson Park 7pm 
7/__ Sea Girt 1 mile swim 8am
8/1  Belmar 1-mile swim  8:00 AM
August 6 Asbury Park 5K, Asbury Park, N.J. 8:30am Wakefern co-sponsor - benefiting Boys & Girls Clubs of Mon. Cty.
8/7  Belmar Tri 7am $$
8/13 Highlands 5k
8/14 Browns Mills tri
8/___   Hightstown Triathlon
8/___ Casey's 5K Run Oceanport
8/___ Lake Arrowhead Pa 5k  [Ken V is two time winner]
8/__ Seaside Boyd One-mile open ocean swim.   There was a beach barbecue with the awards ceremony after the swim featuring. Includes, beer, soda, water, hot dogs, hamburgers, and salads
8/__ Sea Girt 5k 8:30 am
8/21 Jersey City tri
8/21 Medoford tri
8/__  Bradley Beach 5k co-Sponsor Wakefern  8:30  
8/__ Rumson Hash Monmouth Park Trail run 10:17am   [Do the Triple & go to all three events]
8/__    Ray Licata Long Branch Ocean Mile Swim 1 mile 8am 
8/20/16  Belmar Chase 5k 8:30
8/21/16 NJ Sharing Network 5k Brookdale CC no awards
8/__  JSRC meeting & BBQ Deal firehouse 6:15  [swim in Ocean at 5pm sharp prior to BBQ]
9/ __   Scranton Capt. Minicozzi 5k  10am
9/5 Monday Pier House 5K, Long Branch 8:30 - benefiting Valerie Center of Monmouth Medical
9/__ Fallen Heroes Memorial Run Bar Anticipation, Lake Como 5k 9:30  Co-Sponsor Wakefern Shoprite
9/11 Highsttown tri
9/11 every year   911 Memorial run Belmar boardwalk to Spring Lake 6pm [not a race]
9/__    Ocean Grove Run for Arts 5k 9am Co-Sponsor Wakefern Shoprite
9/__ Asbury Park One More Tri 7:30
9/__    JSRC Picnic at Monmouth Park Racetrack
10/23  Race Against Hunger 5k Roosevelt Park
9/__    Seaside Park Tri   7:30
9/__ Metuchen Y Garbolino 5k Roosevelt Park
9/__   Monroe 5k 9am
9/26 Seaside Tri
10/__  Shillelagh 5K Bar A Lake Como, New Jersey, then Lake Como day with Holme Band playing

10/__ Rat Race Saturday, 10:17am    A hash style of running or walking 1 - 4 miles over woodland trails/swamp & stream followed by a fantastic party of beer, buns, burgers, pizza pie, music and games for prizes.
10/2   Treasure Island Sprint Triathlon 600 meter swim, 10.5-mile bike, 3 mile run, Pt. Pleasant NJ  8:45   
10/1 Metuchen Fair [not a race]
10/__ Jersey Shore Half Marathon & Lighthouse 5k   Sandy Hook 9:05 , then nice view from On the Deck Restaurant in Atlantic Highlands
10/__ Sayreville Hit the Bricks 5k 9:30
10/11  East Brunswick 5k & 10k   1pm RVRR new start EB Community Arts Center 721 Cranbury Rd. in East Brunswick)well run event Road closed to traffic   www.ebrr.org, post race we go to Lori’s Lakeside on Farrington Lake, North Brunswick
10/15 Cranford 5k  CPL Breakfast Run 5k  co-sponsor by Wakefern Shoprite
10/__ Shrewsbury 5k   9am
10/__ Pt. Pleasant Monster 5k
10/ __  Univ of Delaware 5k  
10/23    Trick or Trot 5k 11am now at Deal Casino
10/__  RVRR Halloween pub-crawl New Brunswick
10/__ Fall into Winter 5K,  8:00 AM, Cocoa Beach,  2 Minuteman Cswy on the beach. Ken V is past winner!
11/1/16   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/__ Melbourne, 5K, FIT Homecoming, 6:00 PM,  Friday night Meg O'Malleys.
11/6 Space Coast Classic 2 mile 7:15 AM, Melbourne Beach, 15K, Ryckman Park.  Ken V is two-time winner and was winning in 2014 then out kicked by 13 year old
11/13  Hashathon 6.6 Mile   Cheesequake challenging, dangerous trails, free beer, best post race party with band, 732-542-6090  11am
11/__Saturday SOMERSET TURKEY TROT   Run for the Turkeys!    5K-road race @9:30am
Sunday, November __, 2,4, or 6 miles, Gobbler Express Train Run, Asbury Park, New Jersey not a race rain Run -  Johnny Mac’s Located at 208 Main Street in Asbury Park – Across from Train Station
11/__ Manasquan Turkey Run  5-mile 11am party at taverns after race discount beer
11/__  Thanksgiving Day       Princeton Trinity Church 5k   8am
11/__ CEA/Johanna Foods Turkey Trot 
Thanksgiving   
11/__   Born to Run 5 mile Freehold 11am
11/__  Crazy Eddie Memorial Hash run- not a race, trail hash with beverage stops
11/__  Navesink Challenge 15k & 5k  10am  Post race at Red Bank Elks
12/__ Big Chill 5k Rutgers New Bruns      9:05 http://recreation.rutgers.edu/big-chill/

12/__  Jingle Bell Run for Arthritis 5k run/walk, 9:45 Metuchen NJ 

12/__ RVRR Elections - Reformed Church after 6pm group run

12/__Toys for Tots 5K  10am Freehold NJ Tighe Park FARC


12/__ Raritan Valley Pub crawl New Brunswick, NJ

Saturday Dec. __at 10:00am The Super Santa 5K in Morris
12/__ RVRR Christmas party private

12/27 Polar Bear 5k Asbury

More Central Jersey charity races at:
Raritan Valley Road Runners www.rvrr.org
Jersey Shore Running Club http://www.jsrc.org/webpages/races.htm
Central Jersey Road Runners www.cjrrc.org
Freehold Area Running Club www.farcnj.com
Metro Race Forum www.raceforum.com

Jan 9 2016 Frozen Winter Trail Run
3 & 5 MILE GROUP RUN
Sat. Jan. 9, 2016  10:17am 
New Start Location: Secret Mystery wooded area North Brunswick

1/16 Hollywood FL 5k


Jan / 17 Sunday   Bay Harbor Islands 5K & 10K Run/Walk 1/17/2016     Bay Harbor Islands Town Hall • 9665 Bay Harbor Terrace Bay Harbor Islands, FL 33154   Race Distance  Start Time 08:00 am - See more at: http://www.multirace.us/events/83#sthash.F5Uzbazy.dpuf  http://www.multirace.us/events/83


1/24  Freehold Winter 5k   10:00am

1/31  Freehold Winter 5k   10:00am

2/7 RVRR Annual dinner New Brunswick Elks

Sunday,   February 7, 2016
ORC Winter Series Week 3
Ocean County Park, Lakewood



February 14, 2016
ORC Winter Series Week 4
Ocean County Park, Lakewood



Manasquan Mid-Winter 2 mile Beach Run/Walk
                     Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 11:00
 Race starts on Ocean Ave, Boardwalk and last 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 FB

February 22 Sunday, run 2, 4, 0r 6 Miles, 10:58 a.m. Train Run Snowball Express, Asbury Park, New Jersey FB

   Great event by JerseyRunner.com & Gio Dr. T-shirt 800-435-0066

3/___    HIPHOP 5k Piscataway 10am
3/___    Lacey Elks Run for the Heroes   5K, 10:30 AM;      Forked River, NJ
3/___    Duke Farms 5k  8:30  [required to park miles away and take a shuttle bus]
3/___    Chimney Rock 5 mile

3/___    D & R Canal 5k Washington Crossing State Park

March 6 join JSRC at Belmar St Patrick’s Day Parade [not a race] starts at 12:30 FB

3/13    St. Paddy’s 8k now [approx 5 miles]    9:30 Freehold   Keg of beer and some food   great FARC event keg is outside. Dress warm FARC is a 501(c) 3 not for profit organization. which typically donate over $25,000 each year to local charities. FB

3/20/16    Miles for Music 20K Race Johnson Park, Piscataway 9am and 5k is at  12:30 FB