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Oct. 30, 2011. Heartland Racewalkers returned again to the Little Blue Trace Trail in Independence with a new starting point this year. The team captains were Alan Poisner (Perpetual Pedestrians-PP) and Fred Adams (Walking Wonders-WW), who picked up the packets, bibs and shirts on Saturday evening in Independence and also explored the new starting point behind the shopping center. Again this year, Alan and Eileen McManus walked the first two legs (in the dark) and then Fred Adams joined Alan for the next two legs. At that point, the two teams were half-way and reached the exchange point together, just a minute short of the pre-race prediction. The other walkers were Floyd Delon, Raj and Lakshmi Dandi (PP) and Mitch Kranitz, Phil Jacobs and Lee Debault (WW).

After almost six hours, PP came in 9 minutes before WW and took the first prize of a bottle of champagne. The second prize was the same and we will share this at our annual holiday party in December. We congratulate all of the walkers, especially our rookies: Lakshmi, Lee and Mitch. We thank BJ Thornburg and Lee for doing some of the critical driving that allowed walkers to get to the proper locations.

Pictures and Results can be found at the respective links.