Goya Cares is your presenting sponsor for the first annual Britta’s Chase 5K in the Wild – a race run entirely inside San Antonio’s award winning Zoo! This 5K launches the Meant to Soar Foundation, a non profit 501 (c)(3). Serious runners grab serious cash! Walkers and joggers, enjoy animals …
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Goya Cares is your presenting sponsor for the first annual Britta’s Chase 5K in the Wild – a race run entirely inside San Antonio’s award winning Zoo! This 5K launches the Meant to Soar Foundation, a non profit 501 (c)(3).
Serious runners grab serious cash! Walkers and joggers, enjoy animals in their morning routines! We will award unique Texas-shaped finisher medals, along with special medals for different age groups and the top three performers in both male and female categories. Britta’s Chase is a unique event. Our entire 5K will be run in the zoo.
Also, we are introducing a “cash chase challenge!” $100 bills will be handed out during the race at the 1, 2, and 3.1 (finish) mile markers to the male and female runners who are currently in the lead. Additionally, extra $100 bills will be given to each male who runs under 16 minutes and each female who runs under 19 minutes. Come have some fun while you chase down some cash!
Meant To Soar supports children – who through no fault of their own, have experienced trauma from parental drug / alcohol addiction, or scarring from human trafficking.
Fractures of the heart often surface once safe in a child’s new safe environment. Through Meant To Soar, our challenge is to see these children not only survive the critical developmental years, but to be over-comers and to soar in the fullness as they were created. Just as kites are meant to soar, every child has been created by God to soar in life. Every participant in Britta’s Chase will be given a Meant to Soar kite.
There will be three laps all inside the zoo with plenty of signage and course marshals to make sure that you stay on course! This is a really fun course with music, water misters, animals watching you run, lights in the trees, and elite runners passing the recreational ones to collect the cash first!
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Horrible Race.
Three laps around the zoo which means 2nd and 3rd laps are full of people blocking the way. Too many twists and turns. I got told by a zoo official … MORE
Three laps around the zoo which means 2nd and 3rd laps are full of people blocking the way. Too many twists and turns. I got told by a zoo official to go back to the start line when I was running over the course, checking it out. THAT NEVER HAPPENED TO ME IN OTHER RACES FROM THE PAST. Unbelievable. Also, a lot of people cheated in the race including 2 age group winners and 2 age group runner-ups as evidenced by their impossible lap splits because IAAP, the timing company (there had been a lot of cheating in their past races as well), didn’t monitor the critical points where anyone can simply cross over without completing the required loop. Check out these splits of 3 laps (the fastest possible by the race winner were (5:06.5, 5:18.7, 5:20.0):
Robinson, Randy 35 (12:52.0, 3:15.0, 4:37.2); Garcia,Bentley 319 (13:24.5, 16:43.2, 7:09.3); Robinson,William 36 (27:55.3, 23:48.6, 4:31.1); Nash,Robert 344 (23:00.0, 24:39.9, 3:15.6); Aldape, Lyssi 100 (1:01:21.6, 8:48.9, 3:33.0); Huberland, Lauren 14 (42:02.1, 3:04.4, 4:41.5); Fasenmyer, Diane 61 (21:59.1, 22:16.5, 3:41.7); Crowder, Tammy 89 (28:27.4, 23:19.5, 4:12.1); and Tullman, Jodi 33 (14:17.2, 15:09.1, 6:47.5). Therefore, I AM ABSOLUTELY NOT COMING BACK AGAIN.