Early

Saturday morning, the streets and cart paths of Peachtree

City will be filled with athletes of every race, age and

gender.

The 15th

annual Peachtree City Classic will be run this weekend

with a 15K race on the course voted best course in

Georgia by Georgia Athlete magazine. The 15K race also

will serve as the 1999 National Championship race for the

Road Runners Club of America.

Sponsored

to support the goals of its group as well as to gain new

members, the Peachtree City Classic grows year by year.

This year on top of the usual men's and women's 5K race,

the club will host the 15K Open race.

The courses

are on the cart paths alongside some of Peachtree City's

more beautiful scenery. Runners round curves, go over

bridges and through tunnels as they work their way from

start to finish. In past years, mothers and daughters

have raced each other, and entire families come out for a

good healthy jog.

The

Peachtree City Running Club has always been involved in

strengthening the community, as well as the people in it.

With the money raised by last year's race, the club made

donations to the fire and police departments, as well as

to local scholars with a desire to run. The fire and

police departments provide free service during the race,

giving full medical and security support to the event.

New to this

year's race will be a pre-race expo Friday, Oct. 15 from

5-7 p.m. at the Peachtree City Wyndham Conference Center.

The expo will feature health and fitness products and

equipment, information from sponsors and select vendors,

and it also will provide local runners a chance to come

in and pick up their race packets.

Each runner

will get an assortment of goodies after the race,

including food, promotional products and shirts. More

than 150 awards will be given out in a wide range of age

and gender categories. The awards ceremony will be after

the 15K race is completed.

The running

begins at 8:50 a.m. Saturday with the Men's 5K, then the

Women's 5K at 9 a.m. and the 15K Open race at 9:10 a.m.

Registration is still open for all three races. For

information, call race directors Rich and Sandra Horning

at 770-487-5280.

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