Triad to celebrate Global Running Day this week

Runners in the Triad will get not one but three chances to observe Global Running Day this ̶w̶e̶e̶k̶ month.

Here's what you need to know:

Wednesday (postponed to June 21)

What: Matt's Run to Fight Hunger/The Big Run 5K fun run.

When: 6:30 p.m. June 21.

Where: Fleet Feet Sports, 3731 Lawndale Dr., Greensboro.

Cost: Free, but a T-shirt is included. But consider a donation, in support of Matt Ketterman, for the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina.

Notable: Events on June 7 are postponed because of rain. ... Ketterman once owned a running streak of 8,699 consecutive days, beginning on July 1, 1991, and ending on April 24, 2015. He stopped the streak, just more than two months short of 24 years, because of impending surgery for a hernia.

Learn more and sign up: Click here.

Wednesday (canceled)

What: Twin City Track Club Global Running Day.

Notable: Updated: The event is canceled because of air quality. The N.C. Department of Environmental and Natural Resources has issued a Code Red Air Quality Action Day for Fine Particulates through midnight.

Friday

What: The Big Run 5K.

When: 6 p.m.

Where: Fleet Feet Sports, 6339 Jessie Lane, Clemmons.

Cost: $10 run fee plus a $1.60 RunSignUp fee online.

Notable: Fleet Feet owners Emily and Keith Davis will host this event, which will serve as a starter for the weekend and as a celebration of another sort. "We wanted to do something a little different and offer an evening event that coincided with the last day of school for many in the community," Emily Davis says, referring to the final day of classes for students in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools system.

Learn more and sign up: Click here.

Notable

Students at Washington Montessori Elementary School in Greensboro, where Buffalo Creek Running Company member Paul Travers is principal, are taking part in a continuous relay today to celebrate Global Running Day.

Travers has moved the event inside.

Few schools will experience as much fun as Washington students are having on this final week of classes for the 2022-23 year. Travers delivered morning announcements earlier this week from an airplane. Click to see the story from WFMY.

Weekend race recap

BK5K

Men's top five

1. Devon Williams, 15:43.78

2. Wil Zahorodny, 15:52.99

3. John Payne, 16:11.74

4. Stevven Anderson, 16:29.08

5. George Dreier, 18:53.43

Women's top five

1. Amy Castle, 19:01.78

2. Cadey Younkman, 20:50.01

3. Wendy Crews, 24:17.84

4. Reba Slivka, 25:06.40

5. Yorleny Mora Ortega, 25:41.15

Click to see full results of the BK5K

Badin Lake Triathlon

Greensboro's Royce Scrivano won Trivium Racing's Badin Lake Triathlon on Saturday.

Distances in the Stanly County race totaled 750 yards in the water, 13 miles on the bike and 5K on foot. Scrivano covered them in 7:30, 31:08 and 19:59, and he finished in 1:00:32.77.

Thomas Stracey of Greensboro finished fourth in 1:09:15.69, Browns Summit's Edward McGinniss was sixth in 1:10:34.10, and Aaron Horton of Clemmons was eighth in 1:11:32.45.

Ginger Watkins of Greensboro took seventh in the women's division in 1:18:15.59, and Summerfield's Beth Warren claimed 10th in 1:21:43.30.

China Grove 5K

Harrison Brown of Greensboro finished in sixth place Friday night at the China Grove 5K Main Street Challenge, annually one of the state's fastest races. Brown averaged 5:30 miles and finished in 17:06.8.

Davidson's Benjamin Kassel, the 2022 winner of the Twin City Track Club's $5 5K series, ran 16:16.5 and was the runner-up. Asheboro's Zach Hazelwood was fourth in 16:32.8. Twenty runners averaged better than six minutes per mile, including Thomasville's Cole Huggins (17:36.9; 5:40), Lexington's Justin Sink (17:44.0; 5:42) and Greensboro's Ben Wilson (18:06.2; 5:49).