The Courthouse Classic is an annual road race for everyone, featuring a course that is flat with one hill. Anyone from the novice to the elite is invited and walkers are welcome. The race was started in the year 2000, and it takes place at the county courthouse in LaGrange, …
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The Courthouse Classic is an annual road race for everyone, featuring a course that is flat with one hill. Anyone from the novice to the elite is invited and walkers are welcome. The race was started in the year 2000, and it takes place at the county courthouse in LaGrange, Indiana. There will be three races: a 1 mile fun run (for kids), a competitive 1 mile (open to walkers), and a USATF certified 5K race. There will disposable chip timing for all races.
All proceeds go to benefit the Lakeland Cross Country Teams. Everyone that pre-registers by June 11th will be guaranteed a T-shirt, an excellent goodie bag, and they are eligible for door prizes. After that date, all other registrants will receive these items while supplies last. After the race, there will be drinks, fresh fruit, snacks, and sample subs from the LaGrange Subway. Awards will be handed out when all the races are over.
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This race has a 1 mile option at 8:30 and a 5k at 9am in downtownLagrange at the courthouse. They have a pavilion for runners to get their race packets, … MORE
This race has a 1 mile option at 8:30 and a 5k at 9am in downtownLagrange at the courthouse. They have a pavilion for runners to get their race packets, t-shirts and goody bag.
The goody bag is one thing that the Courthouse Classic is know for. One of the sponsors (Miller Grocery) provides the goodies for each bag and you never know what you are going to get. The bag is a paper grocery sack so it really is a mystery until you open it up.
The great part about this small town race is it has been going on for long enough it draws a pretty nice size group of runners and some with quite a bit of speed.
At 8:30 they had the start of the competitive mile in which a friend of ours was running. He ended up winning with a 4:52 <–speedy!
We started slowly moving toward the start line so we would be ready for the race to start right at 9. Just a few minutes before the hour the officials called the runners over, gave a brief explanation of the course and got us lined up. And we were off!!! It starts on a brick road right next to the courthouse with a low grade incline right off the bat. We made a right turn and then a left onto a road heading out of town. This portion was mostly going to be out and back. There were a couple of easy rolling hills but nothing major at all.
They had a water stop positioned just after the turn around.wouldn’t.
Just after mile 2 we turned into a sub-division and had a hill to run up
After I finished up we cruised through the snacks which was a nice spread of Subway, bananas, grilled chicken sausages, Gatorade and water.
They had some great prizes for overall winners (giant frosted cookies) and trophies. Oh and they had a kids race in which each kids name was announced and they received a medal. <–pretty cool stuff to those little ones.