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|  Franklin Park 5K Added to Mayor's Cup Events From B.A.A. press release October 25, 2002
Unique race offers unique racing experience
Proceeds to benefit course's signature feature: Bear Cage
Hill.
FRANKLIN PARK, BOSTON, MASS. - As the Mayor's Cup
Cross Country races now
enter their 13th year, the FRANKLIN PARK 5k has
been added to Sunday's
schedule of events.
The new race seeks to give local runners, especially road
racers, perhaps their single cross country racing opportunity
of the year. The FRANKLIN PARK 5k offers the same race
course and cross country experience as the Women's
Championship 5k and the Men's Championship 8k but
without the championship flair. Also, the FRANKLIN PARK
5k has been slotted within the schedule of events to allow
its participants to watch the championship competitions.
Team scoring - as in the other races - will be
featured in the FRANKLIN PARK 5k.
RACE SCHEDULE
The top entrants in the Championship races include U.S.
Olympian Mark Coogan, of Exeter, NH; 2000
Mayor's Cup Champion and Canadian Sarah
Dupre, of Boston; and former US champion at 15
kilometers Kristin Chisum, of Wayland, Mass. Irish
Olympian Sinead Delahunty, of West Newton,
Mass. also is expected to race the women's championship
5k. Each has been a member of his or her country's world
cross country team.
Beginning with this year's event, Boston Parks and
Recreation will undertake the renovation of the BEAR
CAGE HILL section of the cross country course. Since
the early 1990s, Bear Cage Hill has become a signature
feature of the cross country courses at Franklin Park. In a
multiple-year plan, funds raised by the Mayor's Cup will be
dedicated towards the improvement, preservation and
maintenance of this significant course landmark.
The B.A.A. and adidas are in strong
support of the project, and in its sixth year sponsoring the
meet, the B.A.A. also has increased the amount of the
individual and team prizes for this year's races.
The partnership between the Boston Athletic Association
and adidas has helped develop the event into a premier
competition for the City of Boston. Regarded as one of the
most competitive cross country events in the eastern United
States, many top level clubs use the Mayor's Cup on an
annual basis to prepare for the U.S.A. Fall National Cross
Country
Championship. Colleges also have found the Mayor's Cup
offers an ideal preparatory race prior to beginning the
championship portion of their season.
Besides lending its support to the Mayor's Cup, an
important event for its running club, among the events and
activities organized by the B.A.A. are its Half
Marathon and the B.A.A. Boston Marathon, the
world's oldest and most prestigious annual marathon.
Interested runners may sign-up on race day at Franklin
Park.
MAYOR' S CUP CHAMPIONS (1990-2001)
For a complete history of the event click
here
MEN
2001 Sandu Rebencuic, U.S. Army
WOMEN
MEDIA: for further information, contact Jack
Fleming of the Boston
Athletic Association (617-212-6009).
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