Academy of the Holy Family Annual 3 Mile Road Race-Baltic, Ct.

03/22/2024

WE are just over one week away from our 31st annual St. Joes Road race (March 30)….we are at 98 pre-registered runners-way above last years mark of 52-thank you to everyone. One thing I want to announce……we possibly could have the 3,000 career runner in the 3 mile race to cross the finish line next Saturday-a special award will possibly be waiting for this runner. Obviously, I cant divulge what number place it is when we get the results-but I am hoping it happens.
Online registration…..raceentry.com will be open thru next Wednesday (March 27)…and of course we will have race day registration in the St. Joes Gym beginning around 7am. Remember-lots of raffle prizes and the post-race buffet will be waiting for all who attend.

03/08/2024

St. Joes Race Update......we are at 52 pre-registered for our race on March 30-we had 56 pre-registered last year going into race morning!!! What a huge jump .......and we have three weeks to go!!! Just a final warning.....if you want a tshirt from this race, you must register by March 11-this coming Monday......so hurry up and go to raceentry.com

02/20/2021

St. Joes Race Application!!!

02/20/2021

Hello Everyone………what a wacky winter we are having. One news channel has just said that over the past 8 days, ¾ of the united states received snow!!!
Looking towards spring, our St. Joseph School 28th Annual Road Race in Baltic is a “GO”! We have moved from our usual last Saturday in March to the first Saturday in May (May 1), which will enable us to have as close to a normal road race as possible with warmer weather and not having to congregate inside our gym to stay warm. With CO-VID guidelines, a few things about our race will be different……. here is a quick checklist that we plan on doing:
1. All runners will be required to wear masks when entering the school gymnasium-as will all race volunteers, and masks will be encouraged outdoors when 6 ft. cannot be maintained.
2. Hand sanitizer will be readily available for all runners and volunteers to use within the school gymnasium……but please bring your own as well.
3. Runners will not be required to wear a mask during the race but shall wear masks at all other times including prior to and after the race when social distancing cannot be maintained.
4. We will implement a separate entrance and exit for the school gymnasium to allow for one-way foot traffic.
5. Race-Day registration will be handled with a one-way flow direction with markings for runners to maintain 6ft. distance.
6. We will be considering a staggered start for each race based on # of registered runners to alleviate crowding at the start line. Our timing company will be using chip-timed bib #’s so there will be no need to handle tear-off bibs at the end of the chute and can help facilitate a staggered start.
7. Signage will be made and displayed both indoors and outdoors to help remind runners of all safety guidelines.
8. We will be encouraging pre-registration thru regular mail and online registration-a first for our race.
Raceentry.com is the site we are using for this purpose. We are also putting a deadline for runners who want a tshirt-must pre-register by April 14(Wed.) since there will be NO tshirts available on race moring.
9. Our normal raffle drawing-which is held at the end of the race in the gym-will be done during registration…when runners pick up their bib #, they will be allowed to immediately go to the raffle prize table and pick what they want-which eliminates runners hanging around in the gym after the race.
10. No water-stop at Mile 1 going out or Mile 2 coming back.
11. As for age category trophies for the top 3, we are considering having a table either indoors or out where the results will be posted and then have runners come up and pick up their trophy on their own without an announcement before leaving to go home.
12. As for refreshments, we will not be doing our usual expansive cooked buffet that my wife cooks for our runners-we will provide a simple “Grab & Go” table of individually bagged food, snacks, water, soda, and Gatorade/Powerade; this will eliminate any set-up of tables and chairs within the gym that would normally be there for the sit-down buffet-which will encourage runners not to congregate in the gym.
13. The entire gym will be cleaned thoroughly after the race so it will be ready when school re-opens Monday morning.

I am sooo looking forward to seeing everyone in May-and I am really sure all of you are just ecstatic to get back on the roads and either compete or to just get that all-important exercise to your body.

03/13/2020

Hello Everyone!!! Well-it finally happened!! I got word from my principal-who also got it from school superintendent that St. Joseph School will be closing beginning March 16(Monday) until March 27(Friday)….and will be re-opening on March 30, which in turn cancels the 27th Annual Road Race for this year. I feel empty, discouraged, and totally frustrated about this whole situation; I wanted to be the race director that wasn’t going to cave about this total OVER-reaction on this situation-but it steamrolled me too!

I apologize for causing great trouble to racers who have been training and preparing for this race, volunteers who have participated in the course maintenance thus far, volunteers who were planning to work during the race, to all parents of our St. Joes who were going to donate food items to feed our runners, and to our school students who were going to volunteer and/or run the race course.

I will be working with my principal to figure out how to get tshirts to all who pre-registered and I will get the word out as soon as possible. In the meantime, everyone hunker down, stay healthy, and I will see you all of you down the road at future road races as I get ready for the “Dash to Heaven” race in the fall. Let’s all pray this insanity subsides before we hit the summer months.

04/01/2019

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02/05/2016

February 5(Friday)
Hello Everyone………hope this snow isn’t getting everyone down about keeping up their training routines….it will all melt in a very short time.
I am reaching out to all who may not know about an addition/change that has occurred for this year St. Joes Road Race.
After a one year hiatus, the “Run Amok” Race Series has been re-instated! For the few who haven’t heard of this unique series, here it is: It consists of three one mile races throughout 2016 where people can win prizes at the end. The dates of three races are…….March 26-St. Joes Race, July 30-Greenville Cong. Church Mile, and Sept. 24-Sacred Heart School “Dash to Heaven” One Mile. All runners who run and complete all three races get a special tshirt at the final race stating they “completed” the run amok series. The overall fastest male/female with the lowest accumulated time from all three races receives a voucher for personalized apparel from Mylocker.com.
This is a major change for the St. Joes race-the last major change came around 2000 when we added the Kids ½ mile fun run. The start times for all three races are: 1 Mile-8:30am, Fun Run-9:00, 3 Mile Race-9:30am.
Also, the registration fee is the same for both the 3 and 1 mile races-$23. You can run one or both races with the fee staying at $23.
If you run both races, you will get two separate Bib #’s for each race.
We are hoping this will only add to the great tradition of the St Joes Race here in Baltic……so please contact me for an application-SNERRO will also has the race posted on their site…….50 days to go until March 26!!!!!!!!!!!

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