{"id":83,"date":"2017-08-19T18:44:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T18:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melroserunningclub.com\/RacingSeries\/?p=83"},"modified":"2017-10-05T00:15:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T00:15:58","slug":"mary-odonnell-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melroserunningclub.com\/RacingSeries\/2017\/08\/19\/mary-odonnell-5k\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary O&#8217;Donnell 5K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MRC Racing Series continued on Sunday, August 13th with the Mary O&#8217;Donnell 5K.<\/p>\n<p>Many MRC runners were running the Sunday Long Run and could not make the race. When the race began at 9 AM, it was already getting hot in Melrose.<\/p>\n<h2>Mary O&#8217;Donnel 5K and MRC Runners<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-84\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melroserunningclub.com\/RacingSeries\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MRC-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"Melrose Racing Series\" width=\"195\" height=\"177\" \/>Even with the heat and other races and long runs, The MRC fielded 10 runners for the race.<\/p>\n<p>The Tysall family had a great showing with four family members participating.\u00a0<strong>Charlotte Tysall<\/strong> was the first MRC runner to cross the finish line at 21:26 for a first place age group finish!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicola Tysall<\/strong> finished 48th at 23:57,\u00a0<strong>Lisa Tysall<\/strong> finished in 25:59 for a 3rd place age-group finish.\u00a0<strong>Simon Tysall<\/strong> placed second in his age group at 29:46.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolrunning.com\/results\/17\/ma\/Aug13_MaryOD_set1.shtml\"><strong>Complete Results<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our next race is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northshoretimingonline.com\/reglive2017.aspx?eventyear_id=1440\">The Lone Gull 10K<\/a><\/strong> on September 24th in Gloucester. \u00a0This is a large 10K with about 1,000 runners. Age group awards are 5 deep! This has been a popular race with MRC runners for many years. Make sure to car pool!<\/p>\n<p>Also in September we have the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northshoretimingonline.com\/reglive2017.aspx?eventyear_id=1389\">Hallmark Health Stride for Healthy Communities 5K<\/a><\/strong> in Wakefield. The Melrose Running Club is a partner sponsor for this race. So not only do we hope that you register for this race, but that you volunteer some time to help out.<\/p>\n<p>It is a Saturday race so all of the Sunday Long Run runners can also participate. \u00a0All children 12 and under will receive a finisher&#8217;s medal!<\/p>\n<p>Just like our club races, there are many opportunities to volunteer that only require an hour or two of your time. With some assignments you can even volunteer and run.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds from this race go right back into our communities to teach high school students CPR, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Run well my Friends!<\/p>\n<p>Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MRC Racing Series continued on Sunday, August 13th with the Mary O&#8217;Donnell 5K. Many MRC runners were running the Sunday Long Run and could not make the race. When the race began at 9 AM, it was already getting hot in Melrose. Mary O&#8217;Donnel 5K and MRC Runners Even with the heat and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-races","tag-melrose-race-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melroserunningclub.com\/RacingSeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melroserunningclub.com\/RacingSeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melroserunningclub.com\/RacingSeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melroserunningclub.com\/RacingSeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melroserunningclub.com\/RacingSeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/melroserunningclub.com\/RacingSeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"http:\/\/melroserunningclub.com\/RacingSeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melroserunningclub.com\/RacingSeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melroserunningclub.com\/RacingSeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melroserunningclub.com\/RacingSeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}