Local Celebs Have Strong Ties to Thanksgiving Event
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FINAL-1 Mon, Nov 17, 2014 8:28:45 PM LOCAL CELEBS H AV E FEASTER FEVER WEEI sports GERRYradio CALLAHAN host is one of the local celebrities running in this year’s Feaster Five road race. RYAN HUTTON/ Staff photo Buying? Selling? Deb Forte RunOnOvertoYour Neighborhood Managing Partner 978-475-1009 Realtors Coco Early &Associates Coco, Early &Associates Come in and meet our fabulous team! The Andovers Take atour and enter to win in our 63 Park Street Ste 8 monthly drawings! Andover,MA01810 It’sashort distance to aplace you can call home FINAL-1 Mon, Nov 17, 2014 8:28:49 PM S2 27 reasons to be there on Thanksgiving BY BILL BURT Merrimack Valley is without times. Trust, me they only SPORTS EDITOR one. Here’s a tip: This year’s run the best. And both are version is the best they’ve available for pictures and It was ever had. conversation after. Two conceived truly special people. on a porch 5. You can eat more about 5 turkey after the race 12. You won’t • Saturday, November 22, 2014 22, 2014 November • Saturday, miles away miss football in North Maybe this should be Rea- Andover. son No. 1. This is important. The And now, race begins at 8:30 a.m., and nearly 26 6. Your entire family can most runners are done by years and participate 9:30 a.m. The 5K distance 27 races can allow you to get out FEASTER FIVE FEASTER later, the annual event Even the mom who’s cook- earlier if need be and see that takes over downtown ing the turkey. What other your traditional high school Andover has become a sporting event can you say football game. force in the New England that about? road racing world. 13. The Merrimack Valley There isn’t a better local 7. The Kids K Striders club leads the event celebrating life, Another Feaster Five spe- way health, family and passion cial here. This aspect of the than the Thanksgiving festivities is the funniest, The best running club morning Feaster Five Road usually the first “official” in New England hosts the The Eagle-Tribune • Eagle-Tribune The Gift Race. form of competition for the event and has at least 100 of Another enormous field children. its members throughout the Certificates of more than 10,000 — yes, course. 10,000 — is expected to 8. The energy before make the trek to Andover the race 14. The start Available! Thursday for the run or It is worth the price of reg- walk (5K or 5-mile) or the If they could bottle it, they istration to be in the middle Kids K for ages 3 to 12. could send 200 rockets to of all those people once the Here are 27 reasons, one the moon. You can sense gun goes off. for every race since its something important is inception, why a trip to the going to happen about 45 15. The finish junction of Routes 133 and minutes before the race It is worth the price to see 28 in Andover on Thanks- begins. Everybody’s heart is so many happy (and a few giving morning is worth it: beating faster. achy) faces at the finish line. 1. A free apple pie 9. Weather or not 16. No cheaters TOKYO It is a sweet payoff for the We are New Englanders, Infamous marathoner run or walk. (See cover!) which means we are not Rosie Ruiz is not welcome wimps. Cold, rain, snow, here. Every official runner &Sushi Bar 2. Dave McGillivray is sleet and even heat — we’ve will have a magnetic field STEAKHOUSE race director experienced it all. The race attached to their number never has been canceled. ensuring his or her own per- Fresh Steak &Seafood Participate in this event Never! sonal time and participation. once, just once, and you’ll Lying, especially on Thanks- Expertly Prepared at Your Own Table understand. McGillivray is 10. Ben Affleck giving Day, is no-no. also the Boston Marathon might run By Our Talented Chefs! race director and the best 17. Refreshments race event organizer in the Hey ladies, his best pal, If you walk or run you will country, and he lives right Matt Damon, ran it a decade get enough goodies on race tokyosteakhouse.com here in North Andover. ago. He is good friends with day to feed a family of four. Andover workout guru Wal- Bananas? Check. Yogurt? 3. Your dog can run, too ter Norton. You never know. Check? Doughnuts? Check. Last year, a record 300 560 South Main St. 291 S. Broadway (Rt. 28) walkers and runners 11. Billy and Joanie 18. The pre-race exercise brought their “best friend.” will be there About 30 minutes before Andover,MA01810 Salem, NH the race, the aerobic work- 4. The long-sleeve Really, the two marathon- out can be heard from a mile ‘tech’ shirt ing legends, Bill Rodgers away. 603.894.7088 and Joan Benoit Samuelson, No avid jogger in the have run it a half-dozen Burt, Page S6 FINAL-1 Mon, Nov 17, 2014 8:28:51 PM S3 The Eagle-Tribune • Eagle-Tribune The FEASTER FIVE FEASTER • Saturday, November 22, 2014 22, 2014 November • Saturday, Learn more about MAKOplasty®,arevolutionary technology for partial knee resurfacing and hip replacement, now available at Holy Family Hospital, the only hospital in the region offering this minimally-invasive option. 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The the homeless. below freezing, causing the winner Joan Benoit Samu- race starts and finishes at water at the water stops elson is the first woman to The Park on Bartlet Street 1992 to turn to slush in cups. break the tape, with a time and is an out-and-back Runners appreciate the Despite the cold, more than of 27:39 — 17 seconds ahead course, looping through the light rain and 40-degree 4,000 runners participate. of Kara Molloy of Lowell. Blueberry Hill subdivision temperatures. They also Following the race, a check George Yiannelis of Med- • Saturday, November 22, 2014 22, 2014 November • Saturday, off Holt Road. Ken Pliska is appreciate an appearance for $25,000 is presented to ford wins his second con- the first men’s winner. Amy by Johnny Kelley, the well- Lazarus House, exceeding secutive 5-mile race. Legacki of Boxford takes the loved 87-year-old marathon the goal. Of 7,820 participants, top spot for women. great whose original oil 4,950 do the 5-miler, 2,301 paintings are given as prizes 1994 the 5-kilometer, and 569 the 1989 to the top men’s and wom- Temperatures hover Kids 1-kilometer. The second Feaster Five en’s finishers. Perhaps not around 20 degrees and the FEASTER FIVE FEASTER delivers the infamous coincidentally, three course race draws a record 6,696 AMY SWEENEY/Staff photo 1996 Thanksgiving Nor’easter, records are set. participants, making it Three-time Olympian The Mill City Jazz Band plays for runners two years ago during which dumps 6 inches of For the first time, walk- New England’s fifth larg- Lynn Jennings begins what snow on the course by the 25th annual Feaster Five Race in Andover on Thanksgiving ers are invited to join the est. Organizers settle on a becomes a tradition of her morning race time. Ken morning. Pierre LeMieux , from left, on the tuba, Dan Gabel on Feaster Five, too. Since, course that has not changed own — running, and win- Mahoney, town manager trombone, Tom Ruggles on the banjo and Mel Deveau on the more and more people have since. ning, the women’s 5-mile at the time, nearly stops trumpet. begun walking as part of a Lisa Senatore edges out race. the race, but participants fun Thanksgiving tradition. Olympic gold medalist Joan change his mind by saying the idea that puts the “feast” 1991 Benoit Samuelson by 21 1997 they will run with or with- in Feaster Five. They begin In the Feaster’s fourth 1993 seconds for her win. In the Race founder Bill Pen- The Eagle-Tribune • Eagle-Tribune The out official approval. giving out apple pies. Nearly year, organizers unveil a Dave McGillivray, who has masters race, Andy Palmer nington runs the race for 2,000 runners compete, a new mission: The event been helping out in previous out-kicks four-time Boston the first time. Both Lynn 1990 significant increase over the becomes associated with years, officially takes over Marathon winner Bill Rodg- Jennings and men’s winner Organizers come up with first two races. Lazarus House, with a as race director. The race is ers for a one-second victory. Chris Teague win the race RehabbyTherapistsand Trainers with Olympic, World Cup, PanAmerican Games,and Division I College Experience.