2000 Pond Cove Race Results

One might ask how long one should save a record. Well as it relates to insurance claims it might be seven years. Historians have to find the facts so seven years might not be long enough of us so we have to run ahead of the track trucks to get the data to support our stories. The following letter might make one feel that our running sports history might be slipping away because he think all that "stuff" is on the web. Also we historians & writers need to work a little faster. Well a great deal of that information is just a click away which we can all tap into the great all knowing data base. This is not the case of the 1999 & 2000 race results of the Pond Cove 5K which just may be lost forever.

Hi David,

Amazingly, I just threw out all my files from the race, just last week. I figured 10 years and no one had needed them, I tossed everything. Sorry about that.

I was at the race this year and noticed that they had hired Jim McCorkle, who was our first race director. I don't know if maybe he has results? He might have done the first two years.

The race started as an effort to raise funds for the new playground at the elementary school. We then went on and raised enough to fund the middle school playground and the playground at Fort Williams. The race has changed over the years and is now much more of a family/community event instead of a destination 5k on the racing circuit, which is more of what it was the first few years. Martha and I were on Run To Win so we had a lot of support from that group. We had some great fast runners in the beginning. We even had Lynn Jennings come one year and I'm pretty sure she beat Pete that year.

I'll check with Martha to see if she has anything, but I highly doubt it, I generally kept all the files. If I do find any, I'll send them along.

Jayne