Surprise! Registration Is Now Open!
Registration for the Special Edition “Run Your Own Race” is open. Please note that registration will be online only via our homepage at mb10k.com. $25 per entry - all ages. We are giving you 10 days of the 10k, spreading out the time you can complete the race in whatever fashion suits you, from October 1 through October 10, 2020. More information on this will be coming in future newsletters. Click the button below to sign up and get ready to lace up and run your own race!
42 Years and Counting!
We are inviting you to celebrate the past, to enjoy the present and look forward to the future! The MB10k is one of the very few volunteer organized and staffed races of its size left in the world. We attribute it to living in such an awesome community! Since our last newsletter revealing our throwback t-shirt, we've had some great reminiscing shared with us. Please check out some of the stories below and share yours by emailing us at info@mb10k.com. We would love to hear what makes the race special to you and yours!
Cyndi
In October 1978, I had only lived in Manhattan Beach for about six months. My first experience with the 10K run was my father insisting on a family activity of running around town together. So, weeks before my seventh birthday, I ran my first (and THE first) Manhattan Beach 10K Run. My family continued to run every year until my senior year of High School. Every year, after waking in the very early morning, (we were a family of late risers), dressing in shorts & t-shirts and standing in a crowd of neighbors in the coastal cold morning, we would ask each other...why are we doing this?? The answer was always the same, (in the style of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof)...Tradition, Tradition!" I have the most amazing memories of joining in the "acknowledge and love your neighbor" activity of running the MB 10K. Encouraged by my Dad and all the spectators that lined the streets to cheer us on, I never failed to finish the race. I'm so grateful for my childhood in Manhattan Beach and to my father who dragged me out of bed in the early morning in October 1978 to add such an important activity to my life. In this picture is my brother, Cliff Schweitzer, my father, John Schweitzer and myself, Cindy (Schweitzer) Gurtner.
Major
The first MB10k was the only time I ever broke 40 minutes. As you can see, I ran with both my daughters, Michele and Brittany) several times. I am a P.I.E.R. Group Member and participate even now.
Through The Years
Click the button below to view this special page on our website that is an evolving homage to our rich history. The race is scattered between local newspaper archives, social media, personal scrapbooks, random boxes in storage, framed on walls or even sewn into quilts. We'd love your help in creating this page so we can celebrate the MB10k this year and into eternity! We may also feature your pictures and stories on our social media pages so we can touch as many people as possible!
Run Your Own Race
We have come up with fun ideas to celebrate the 43rd MB10k and we’ll be sharing more as we get closer to October. We’ll be having an Instagram contest. We’ll have 10 days of the 10k, from October 1-10, where you can Run Your Own Race. How will you run or walk it?! We'd love to hear your ideas and will share some of our own in our next e-newsletter! We have created a Who’s In page on the website to give special recognition to those who love and support this community tradition. And we’d love to see how you are training during this time on social. Please use any of these hashtags that work for you: #mb10k, #10daysof10k, #familyteam, #runyourownrace, #runmanhattan
John Post
We wanted to give a shoutout to MB10k Committee Member and photographer extraordinaire, John Post! He has a new book -Manhattan Beach Pier - A Tribute: Portrait of a Pier Through a Lifetime of Photography. For more information about this beautiful book or to purchase any of his images, please visit his website here.
THE MB10K IS A NON-PROFIT EVENT AND THE PROCEEDS ARE DONATED TO COMMUNITY FITNESS RELATED CAUSES & SCHOLARSHIPS. THE RACE COMMITTEE ORGANIZERS AND RACE STAFF ARE VOLUNTEERS.
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Images: Cindy Gurtner, Major Avignon & John Post Gallery