Place
Ridgefield Park, NJ US 07660
Description
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5K (3.1 mi.) through the new section of Overpeck Park
Chip scoring by Tristate Timing
Course map
Fast and flat USATF certified course #NJ09528JHP
Event Details
$5 discount to first 50 registrants! Use code RUNTOCURE during checkout.
$2 registration fee discount for USATF members!
DJ, complimentary continental breakfast, post-race awards ceremony, raffle and more!
This event will be held rain or shine. Packet pick-up and late registration ($30 each) is 8:45-9:45 am on race day at the Overpeck Park comfort station, 199 Challenger Rd, Ridgfield Park, NJ.
Please send us an email should you have any other questions about the Run to Cure Scleroderma.
Awards
Overall Male and Female Winners
Top three Male and Female (excluding overall winners) in the following age groups:
- 19 and under
- 20-29
- 30-39
- 40-49
- 50-59
- 60-69
- 70+
Directions
The new section of Overpeck Park is easy to find! Click on the section header for directions.
Welcome to the new Overpeck County Park. The vision to turn what was once a landfill into a beautiful park to be enjoyed by thousands of people is now a reality. More than 50 years ago, five Bergen County municipalities - Englewood, Leonia, Palisades Park, Ridgefield Park and Teaneck - donated hundreds of acres of land to the County of Bergen with the intention of creating a central commons for art, sports and other leisure activities. The 154-acre site in Ridgefield Park is the last portion of the park to be completed.
In redeveloping the land, not only did the County of Bergen create open space, it also cleaned up an environmental hazard. Now that the landfill has been capped, residents in the surrounding communities can breathe a sigh of relief knowing the land is finally safe and that the Overpeck Creek and the Hackensack River are protected from further pollution. The park is sure to become a recreational destination and those who visit will reap the benefits of the land's dramatic transformation from brownfields to greenfields.
Entrance to park is located on Challenger Road just north of the Hilton Garden Inn and the AMC, Loews
Ridgefield Park 12.
Beneficiary
The reason for the 5K is to help raise funds to combat scleroderma (a chronic autoimmune disease causing a hardening of the body’s connective tissue with no known cause or cure which can be a painful, life altering disease that is fatal in its most severe form and can come and go unpredictably.) The 5K will also expand the awareness of both the disease and the Scleroderma Foundation to hundreds of additional people.
The funds raised will help the Tri-State Chapter (1) better assist patients and caregivers understand the disease and cope with its affects; (2) provide free education forums for people to come and discuss new research, medications and treatments; (3) continue to funds 15 active support groups where people can share their personal experiences to better understand the disease on the patient and caregiver level and; (4) allow additional funds to be contributed for research.
For more information on scleroderma and what we do, please click the section header to visit the website.
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