2009 Gate River Run

2009 Gate River Run

Event Info
2009 Gate River Run is the USATF 15K Championship held in Jacksonville, Fla on Saturday March, 14th. Gate River is battle of the sexes, where the women get a 5 min head start over the men and whoever finishes first gets a $5,000 bonus. Each individual champion, mean and women, wins $12,000. On top of the individual race there is a team championship with a $6,000 purse. A team consists of the top three individuals. This year's field is highlighted by surprise 2008 champion Andrew Carlson, who comes back to defend his title. The men that will be gunning for Carlson are Fam, Jorge Torres, Edwardo Torress, James Carny, Ian Dobson, the Hansons-Brooks team, Fernando Cabada,Ed Moran, Fasil Bizuneh, Sean Quigley, Dan Browne, Bret Gotcher, Time Nelson, Jason lemkuhle, Matt Gabrielson and a group of other runners.  On the Women's side toeing the line there will be Amy Rudoulph, Katie McGregor, Samia Akbar, Colleen DeReuck, the storage twins, Emily Brown, Rebecca Donaghue, Amy Begley, Allison Grace, Desire Davila, Kaite O'Neill, Elva Dryer, and Milissa White.