MM#3 Double Decker Spring Run

Clint Tucker

4/28/12                    

Journalism 102                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                MM#10

Double Decker Spring Run

                The Double Decker Spring Run was held Saturday. The event was a part of Oxford’s 17^th annual Double Decker Arts Festival that started Friday April 27^th and ended Saturday April 28^th. It included a 10k run, 5k walk/run, and a Kid’s Fun Run.

                The races began at North Lamar across from Handy Andy’s and went up sorority row, around the grove, through the Square downtown, and ended back at North Lamar. 10k (6.2 miles) participants started at 10:30, followed by the 5k racers at 7:45 a.m. (3.1 miles), and wrapped up with the Kid’s Fun Run at 9:00.    

                Matt Reynolds, a 10k contestant, “ This is my third time running this and every year there is more and more people and it keeps improving. I love how the community of Oxford comes together for Double Decker, and this race is a great way for people who have never been to Oxford, MS, to come and experience what this small college town has to offer.

                All contestants received a race shirt, race number with a timing tag, and race goody bag. 

The racers had to wear the timing tag becauseit allowed the judges keep track of them and gave the

an exact time from start to finish.

                Participants that finished in the

 top 3 of the 10k and 5k were given a prize.

$200 was awarded to the of the winner of

 the in both men and womens division. There

were no awards for the Kid’s Fun Run.

                The official time of the winners were, in the male division was Barnabas Kiru, 26, Oxford, MS with a time of 30:43. In the 10k womens division Sheryl Chatfield, 50, of Oxford, MS ran it in 40:51. The 5k overall winners were; in the male division Charlie Dawson,36, of Pontotoc, MS, finished in 16:35 and the female winner was Melissa Robinson, 29, of Austin, TX, and she finished in 20:10.