Crescent Case Manager Part Of Another Winning Team

Crescent PPO Case Manager Amber Moran has had a wonderfully successful summer, competing in (and winning) races around the region.

Blue Ridge Relay - September 9th 2006
The 208 Mile Blue Ridge Relay, which is one of the longest running relay races in the United States, takes place in the picturesque Blue Ridge and Black Mountains of Virginia and North Carolina. The field consists of maximum 12 person (6 person minimum) teams that rotate through 36 transition areas as they cover the 208-mile distance of the race. Each relay team member runs 3 legs of varying lengths and difficulty and covers an average total distance of 16.6 miles. The runners rotate in a set order once the race begins and are required to follow this rotation until the final runner finishes in Asheville, North Carolina!

Amber completed three legs of 8.2, 5.7 and 4.4 miles. The race lasted a total of 22 hours with Amber's team not only taking first place, but also setting a new course record!.

The Blue Ridge Relay Team (Amber is front row, second from right)

The winning team returns to Asheville.

Ache Around The Lake - September 23rd 2006
Hundreds of feet filled the curvy, hilly roads that surround Lake Lanier, NC on Saturday. Runners descended on Lake Lanier to raise money for the American Cancer Society at the first annual “Ache Around the Lake.

” People came from all over the area and as far away as Arizona to enjoy the serenity of walking or running around Lake Lanier. “Our community came out in force,” event organizer Katie Malone said. “They donated, worked, volunteered, and walked. “It was much larger than I expected.”

In all, 218 people registered for the race, and the event raised between $3,000 and $4,000, which will be donated for cancer research. The runners, who were from all age groups, gathered on Butter Street. They stretched, jogged and did whatever else they needed to do to get ready for the race. Some were serious runners. Some were curious runners. Some were inexperienced runners. Some just wanted to come out and walk to get some exercise. At 8 a.m., they took off around Lake Lanier. Less than half an hour later, the first runners crossed the finish line at the Lake Lanier dam. Stuart Moran, 30, won the race with a time of 25:01. Amber Moran posted the best time for a female in the race. In the 12 and under group, Miller Hogan won for the boys and Gabrielle Clark won for the girls. The success of this event, which was the brainchild of Scarlette Tapp, showed that the community would respond to a race of this magnitude, Malone said. “It has been a long time since Tryon has had a running and walking event and the turn out just goes to show that people will participate,” Malone said. Malone and Tapp said they have big plans for future races. The success this year is something to build on, Malone said. “(The race) was bigger and better that I could have imagined,” Malone said. “This is just the beginning.”
- Reproduced from the Tryon Daily Bulletin-

Amber crosses the finish line at the Ache Around the Lake

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