Geist Half Marathon & 5K “Race Around the Reservoir”

We need volunteers to work the Geist Half Marathon booth at the 500 Festival Mini Expo on May 4th-5th at the Indianapolis Convention Center. Our booth will need to be staffed on Thursday afternoon and all day Friday. If you can work for 2-4 hours on either day, please contact Tom Britt.

A follow-up meeting on March 8th attracted a few new faces to the group as well as the election of the governing board of directors:

+ Michael Turik: Admirals Pointe resident
+ Vince Auten: Beamreach resident
+ Rennie Brissenden: Sandstone resident
+ Marty Day: President of Runners Forum
+ Jeff Graves: Owner of Vision Event Management (former Executive Director of the 500 Festival Mini Marathon)
+ Josh Carter: Feather Cove I resident
+ Tom Britt: Crossing South resident, Publisher of atGeist.com

Organized as a not for profit (501 c3 status), the Geist Mini Marathon Inc. is seeking a title sponsor to announce at a press conference to be held the first week of May, 2007. At this press conference, the official logo, date, and other details will be announced.

If you would like to volunteer for a committee, sponsor, run, walk, or just stay in the loop as details are announced, sign up for the “Geist Mini Group” email list. If you are interested in sponsorship information, call Tom Britt at (317) 823-5060.

We will host our second organizational meeting at Burd Ford on Thursday, March 8th from 7:00-8:00 pm. If you are interested in chairing a committee or serving on the board of directors, please attend.

Welcome to the Geist Mini Marathon blog. This is your place for getting information regarding the first 1/2 marathon in Geist! This post is to update the group on where we stand.

The second organizational meeting will be held later this week. As one can imagine, it takes quite a bit of planning to pull something like this together. Our target is for a spring 2008 run and for a formal announcement to the public at the 500 Mini Marathon expo this spring. Tentative start/finish location is the Hamilton Southeastern school complex on Olio Road and the run will incorporate both the Olio Road and Fall Creek Bridges. All proceeds from race will benefit the Hamilton Southeastern Schools Foundation and the Lawrence Township Schools Foundation to support education in our community. The organizing committee thanks the sponsors that have stepped up so far to help us make this happen. You’ll find links to them on the right side of this page.

If anyone has an interest in helping plan for this event, please let us know by posting on the Google group (link on right side of page - above sponsors). Also, please feel free to post your thoughts and comments in the Google group and check back here for more updates!