
{"id":4026,"date":"2008-11-21T07:13:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T15:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2008-11-21T07:19:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T15:19:17","slug":"burn-a-few-calories-for-a-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/11\/21\/burn-a-few-calories-for-a-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn a few calories for a cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4027\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4027\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gallupgorge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gallupgorge-150x150.jpg\"  title=\"gallupgorge\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gallupgorge-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gallupgorge-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gallupgorge.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Gallop and Gorge on Thanksgiving Day. (Photo by Robert Dickson)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<strong>By Susan Dickson<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><br \/>\n Carrboro  \u00e2\u20ac\u201dThis Thanksgiving Day, those of us hoping to justify indulging in that extra piece of pie can do so with several hundred runners by our side for the 12th annual Gallop and Gorge 8K.<br \/>\nThe Gallop and Gorge \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the final leg of the Cardinal Track Club\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Le Tour de Carrboro race series \u00e2\u20ac\u201c drew nearly 800 runners last year. The race is also the 2008 Southern Regional Championship 8K for the Road Racing Clubs of America.<br \/>\nThis year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s race is dubbed the Double B Gallop and Gorge in honor of Bobby Biles, one of the founders of the Cardinal Track Club, who left Carrboro for New Mexico earlier this year. Club President Jon van Ark expects a big crowd for the race. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Gallop and Gorge has really become a family kind of race,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said van Ark, president of the Cardinal Track Club, adding that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s noticed an increase in family groups at the race over the past couple of years. <\/p>\n<p>The race isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just a good way to burn a few extra Thanksgiving calories; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also a good way to give back during the holiday season. The Cardinal Track Club, which has more than 200 members, benefits four different community partners: Club Nova, El Centro Latino, Carolina Outreach and the Optimist Club of Chapel Hill. Proceeds from races and club dues \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which totaled about $16,000 last year \u00e2\u20ac\u201c go directly to the club\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s community partners, which are selected every year through an application process. <\/p>\n<p>In exchange for funding, the community partners provide volunteers to help staff the club\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s races, which, van Ark said, helps increase their visibility in the community while providing much-needed help. For each race, the club needs about 40 to 60 volunteers.<br \/>\nThe club organizes three races that make up Le Tour de Carrboro \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 4 on the 4th, the Carrboro 10K and the Gallop and Gorge. <\/p>\n<p>Founded by Biles and Dick Forbis, a longtime runner and track official, the Cardinal Track Club is the only running club in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The impetus for getting the club going was for putting on races in Chapel Hill and Carrboro,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d van Ark said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Gallop and Gorge was the first race that they did.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The Gallop and Gorge is also the club\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest race, having grown from about 200 participants the club\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first year to an expected 1,000 this year. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our charter really is promoting health and fitness in Chapel Hill and Carrboro,<br \/>\n van Ark said.<\/p>\n<p>The club organizes several group runs a week and welcomes any and all participants, especially to the social run on Tuesdays. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The goal of that one is to be inclusive,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d van Ark said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You get to know the people on the social run.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nThe club also supports a running program called No Boundaries, which trains beginning runners. Locally, No Boundaries also has programs for intermediate and advanced runners. <\/p>\n<p>With a diverse group of members, the club is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good fit for runners that like other runners,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d van Ark said. <\/p>\n<p>The Gallop and Gorge is bright and early Thanksgiving morning, with the start scheduled for 8 a.m. on Roberson Street. First prize in the men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s groups is $150, second is $75 and third is $50.<br \/>\nParticipants can register for the race online at cardinaltrack.com, at Fleet Feet on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. or the day of the race. Registration is $30.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the race or the Cardinal Track Club, visit cardinaltrack.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan Dickson Staff Writer Carrboro \u00e2\u20ac\u201dThis Thanksgiving Day, those of us hoping to justify indulging in that extra piece of pie can do so with several hundred runners by our side for the 12th annual Gallop and Gorge 8K. The Gallop and Gorge \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the final leg of the Cardinal Track Club\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Le Tour&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4032,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions\/4032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}