26 Days til race day; committee meets tonight

Just a reminder, the Mud Mountain committee will meet briefly tonight at 6:30 pm at Imo's. The meeting shouldn't last very long, but there are a couple of important items we need to discuss. One is a contract received from the Edwardsville Fire Department for the ambulance and paramedics. We also need to distribute posters that have been printed to publicize the race. Other items on the agenda: T-shirt design, revised sponsor list, flyers, and registration update. See you there. Thanks!

27 days til race day; Mud Mountain sponsor list grows

The number of area businesses sponsoring this year's Mud Mountain 5K is getting larger. Those that have donated financially to support the race (and the cross country and track & field programs in the Edwardsville School District) include:

Real Estate Agent Jennifer Faulkner (Coldwell Banker/Brown Realtors)
BiPod
The Cyclery
Hurford Architects
First Cloverleaf Bank
Cassens Transport
Family Physicians of Madison County
Bauer Orthodontics
Bard and Didriksen
TheBank of Edwardsville
Running Start

Thanks to these sponsors who help make Mud Mountain possible.

28 days til race day; join the crowd!

Mud Mountain XII
Photo by Andy Thomas

29 days til race day; Mud Mountain committee meets Monday

Members of the Mud Mountain XIII Committee will meet at 6:30 pm on Monday, June 30 at Imo's. We'll update publicity, sponsors, registrations and mailing flyers to previous runners. Also on the agenda is a contract from the Edwardsville Fire Department to provide an ambulance and paramedics for the race.

30 days til race day; Sara Chapman to the rescue

Thanks to Sara Chapman (pictured above with Tiger Coach George Patrylak) for locating spread sheets with names and email addresses of runners entered in previous Mud Mountain races. Today emails with entry forms for Mud Mountain XIII were sent to those past participants (almost 400). The emails also contained links to Active.com, and to www.mudmountain.org. Sara's spreadsheets also listed mailing addresses for runners who did not provide an email. Entry forms and flyers will be mailed to those runners the old-fashioned way.

31 days til race day; early entries outpace 2007

More than 500 runners are expected to enter this year's Mud Mountain 5K Cross Country Classic. As of today, with the race more than a month away (Saturday, July 26th at 8:30 am), 38 runners have registered. This number may seem small, but is well ahead of last year's pace. So far, 19 entries have been mailed in, and 19 have registered online (through Active.com). Last year at this time, only six online registrations had been received.

It's early, but all indications are that this year's race will surpass last year's in terms of attendance, and may approach the record of just over 500 entries in 2006.

32 days til race day; publicity posters unveiled at planning meeting

Posters to promote Mud Mountain XIII were unveiled last at last night's meeting of the Mud Mountain committee. The posters will feature photos from previous races, and will be posted at high traffic businesses in the area. The committee also decided to mail entry forms to runners who entered the 2007 race, and to email entries to previous online registrants.

Paramedics contacted for race day

A letter requesting an ambulance and paramedics for race day has been faxed to Capt. Tom Dannenberg of the Edwardsville Fire Department. The letter asks for paramedics to be on the course from 8 am to 10:30 am.

33 days til race day; Mud Mountain committee meets tonight

Members of the Mud Mountain committee will meet tonight at 6:30 pm at Imo's. We will update the sponsor list, flyer distribution, t-shirts, medals, course condition, ambulance/paramedics, publicity, and race day volunteers and assignments.