Off to the Races-the Fleet Feet 15K-Run Into Buffalo 

On September 1st 500 runners toed the line for the second running of the Fleet Feet 15K-Run Into Buffalo. On an almost perfect day Kevin Pool emerged from the pack to take the overall title in a very fast time of 49:12. He was very closely followed by Chris Muldoon in 49:28 and Marco Dozzi in 49:39.       

On the women's side Buffalo's own Aileen Hoak led the way in 57:06 followed by  Kelly Dworek in 58:41, rounding out  the top 3 was Angela Kudla in 1:02:25.  The close finishes really kept the crowd in Niagara Square up and cheering as the runners hit the finish line in front of City Hall.

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Thanks To All Of You

Once again we are donating over 300 pairs of Brooks running shoes to local high school athletes.  While the majority of the shoes will be going to athletes in the Buffalo Public Schools, this year we are very pleased to be helping out young runners from Albion, Lewiston Porter, North Tonawanda and Barker.  Pictured above are the runners from Albion with their new Brooks Axioms.

Special thanks to Brooks for not only supporting the race, but for providing us with an opportunity to purchase all of the shoes we need to help these kids reach their running goals.

Pictured on the right are about half of the shoes we are donating.  Running the 15K helps us to help out all of these local high school runners.  When we started the event last year our goal was to use the event to not only promote the City of Buffalo, but also to use the proceeds from the event to have an immediate, positive impact on our local community.  With this years donation we will have helped out over 700 area runners in just 2 years.  Our goal is to grow the race to the point where we can donate at least 1000 pairs of shoes every year.

Thanks again to everyone who ran in, help with or sponsored our event, you are the ones who make this donation reality.