Crowd Joins YMCA’s Firecracker Run
A large crowd participated in the Los Alamos Family YMCA’s 2012 Independence Day Firecracker 5K Family Fun Run that began at 8 a.m. Wednesday in front of the “Y” on Iris Street. The event was sponsored by Los Alamos National Bank, Southwest Safety Services and Los Alamos Medical Center. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com
Linda Daily, executive director of the Los Alamos Family YMCA, posts Wednesday’s race winners. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com
Adrian Larsen and her shadow were the top woman finisher. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.comLocal Golf Pro Plays Around the Clock for Charity
PGA Golf Pro Donnie Torres is raising money for golfing programs for youth and the Rotary Club of Los Alamos in his “Longest Day Longest Play” fundraiser. He teed off at 5:30 a.m. Thursday and continued playing until sunset. Torres’ daughter Samantha drove him around the golf course and kept his score throughout the event. Photo by Salvador Zapien/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos Golf Course Pro Donnie Torres prepares to tee off on his 12th 1st Hole of the day. Photo by Salvador Zapien/ladailypost.com
Donnie Torres midway through Hole #7. Photo by Salvador Zapien/ladailypost.com Read More
Torres Attempts Longest Day with Longest Play
He did it 20 years ago and tomorrow will attempt it again – Rotarian Donnie Torres, the PGA golf pro at Los Alamos Golf Course is starting his day by teeing off at 5:30 a.m. Thursday, June 21 and is going to play all day straight through until sunset.
This is a fund-raiser and one half of the pledges made will benefit the PGA’s golfing programs for youth; the other half will be donated to the Rotary Club of Los Alamos.
Torres said he has 100 pledges totaling $4,000 (if he makes it through) and is hoping people will donate even after the day is over.
Although today was the longest day of the year, Torres Read More
Roy Cope Makes Perfect Prediction
ATOMIC CITY ROAD RUNNERS News:
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Roy Cope makes perfect prediction on Tuesday’s pace race on North Mesa on the one mile course.
Runners had the choice to run either one mile or a true 5K, but either way their error was adjusted to a uniform error for a three mile course.
The next best prediction was made by Alexander Romero with a distance adjusted 21 second error.
11-year-old Jacob Thompson was fastest male on the one mile course with a time of 9:56. Fastest female was Ann Nichols with a time of 17:25.
14-year-old John Rees was fastest male on the 5K course with a time of 20:55. Fastest Read More
Pace Race Results for June 12
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