The 2008 Amherst College Reunion will take place May 30 - June 1st, for those classes of 3's and 8's, and for the first time - also including those who graduated in the last 4 years as they are including recent alumni in the reunion weekend. In conjunction with this year's reunion, we will be having a Saturday morning 5k Fun Run that will utilize our XC course that the teams train and compete on. While being open to all members of returning classes, we hope that this brings together as many XC and Track alumni as possible. In addition to working with alumni development in publicizing, I have also been working with Cameron Stracher'83 and Josh Blum'88 to help to enhance the event. We will plan on having the race start at 9:00AM on Saturday, with the start and finish located on the athletic fields just behind the gym. The course will traverse the trails and field loop that we do a lot of our training on. For many of you, this would be an entirely new course as I designed this course a few years ago so that it would incorporate an unused field that paralleled the bike path, and followed a combination of the athletic field and trails to get to and from this loop. The field loop itself is over a mile long, and is windy with some hills on the back portion, and there is a nearly 100% chance that it could even be a little muddy so you may want to have an dry pair of shoes for after! While this will be a fun run, prizes will be given out to the winning male and female, and we will have a light breakfast for post race re-fueling - bagels, fruit, coffee and juice. If you have an old Amherst jersey, we would encourage you to break that out. Camereon and Josh have been working on a tee short for the event at a cost of $15 and to reserve one, please contact them.

Please contact me to let me know of your interest so that we can plan accordingly with registration and entries as well as have an accurate count for the food, shirts, helpers etc... My office number is 413 542 8117 and my email is elnedeau@amherst.edu and please include your name and class year for registration purposes. We will do a registration that morning but the mroe we can do beforehand the smoother it will be that morning!

If there seems to be an interest then we could so a much smaller "course" for any of the kids who might be coming with you for the weekend. This would certainly involve a little bit more planning so please let us know beforehand and we will see what we can do.

Looking forward to seeing you out there on Saturday morning

All the best

Ned

The 5 W's ...

What: XC & Track Reunion Run (though we are all inclusive group and encourage anyone to run!)

When: Saturday May 31st, 9:00AM

Where: Amherst XC Course - Start and Finish will be located on the athletic fields behind the gym and along the base of the Memorial Hill. The course will be on the athletic fields, trails to and form the field loop and then the 1 mile field loop and then returning. Course will be marked.

Who: While trying to have as many XC & Track Alumni participate, any member (and their families) of the Reunion Classes are encouraged to participate.

Why: To rekindle the running bug, to run with some of your former teammates, to clear your heads from the nights activity before, to see the XC course that we currently run on, to get all muddy - the reasons are limitless, but whatever it is, we want you to come out!