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From the Sierra Vista Herald Archives online:
TMRC runs to remember Pearl Harbor for 23rd year, December 9, 2003
BY BRUCE BOURQUIN
HERALD/REVIEW
SIERRA VISTA -- On the 62nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the
Thunder Mountain Running Club held its 23rd annual Remember Pearl Harbor Day
Run.
On Sunday, 10 runners participated in the 5K event that began on a dirt lot just
west of the Sierra Vista police station.
The competitors ran a cross-country run down the wash, across the railroad bed,
then parallel to Martin Luther King Boulevard. It was handicapped, meaning that
the less speedy runners had a 10-minute head start.
"If we ran this perfectly, they should all cross the finish line at the same
time," said TMRC president Dr. Don Simpson, who coordinated the event. "The
slower runners had a chance."
While the handicaps did not end up perfect, the first eight runners who crossed
the finish line came within two minutes of each other.
Harold Hawes crossed the finish line first, with an elapsed time of 35:55. He
actually finished fourth place with a time of 24:13, since he began running
11:42 after the husband and wife team of Rick and Jean Robidoux.
Hawes nearly lost his way on the course, because the course marks were worn out
and the bright sun was in some runners' eyes. He was among the runners who
received a ribbon anyway.
"It felt good," Hawes said. "I went through a ditch, then came parallel to
Martin Luther King Boulveard. I almost went straight, (because) the marks were
messed up."
While no actual World War II veterans were present, there was plenty of
physically fit runners who commemorated the unfortunate event in American
history on Dec. 7, 1941 in Hawaii.
One of them was Aaron Newsome of Sierra Vista who finished in first place.
On Sunday, Newsome finished 24th out of more than 200 runners from 15 states in
the Foot Locker Western Regional Cross Country Championships at Mount San
Antonio College in Walnut, Calif.
On Saturday, Newsome will run in the USA Track and Field Junior Olympic Cross
Country Championships 4K Run in Albuquerque. Newsome started in an unfamiliar
position of eighth place.
"I'm not used to being in last place," Newsome said. "I'm used to being up in
the pack."
The timer was Korean War veteran Harry Dubinick, who said that the event was a
"run for fun."
Fun was what the Remember Pearl Harbor Day Run was all about.
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