This popular annual Thanksgiving Day event, founded in 2005 by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, had its most successful year to date, attracting 6,160 participants and more than 475 volunteers to downtown San Jose's Confluence Meadow Park.
Thanks to the record turnout, race organizers hope to donate more than $225,000 to the three local charity beneficiaries: Second Harvest Food Bank, the Housing Trust of Santa Clara County, and the Santa Clara Family Health Foundation's Children's Health Initiative.
In the first year of the new VMware "Can Do" Community Challenge, race participants donated 6,446 pounds of canned goods and other non-perishable food to the Second Harvest Food Bank at the event. Each ten pounds of food feeds one person for a week. Our thanks to VMware and everyone who helped make this possible!
In the Seagate 5K Pro Challenge elite athlete events, the 5K men's champion was Ridouane Harroufi of Morocco, with a time of 13:37; second place went to Juan Luis Barrios of Mexico, with a time of 13:39, and third place went to Haron Legat of Kenya, with a time of 13:40.
The women's 5K winner was Rose Kosgei of Kenya at 15:53, with second place going to Shannon Rowbury of the U.S. at 15:54 and third place going to Catherine "Cack" Ferrell, also of the U.S., at 16:19.
The General Participant 5K overall men's winner as Jose Morales; women's winner was Taylor Groseclose. In the General Participant 10K, the men's winner was Jesus Campos of Fresno, CA; the women's winner was Jasmine Sessions, of Farmington, UT. The men's champion in the KB Home "Quickest Cop/Fastest Firefighter" competition was Brian Winco of the San Jose Police Department; the women's champion was Barbara Fuji of the SJPD.
Race participants can check their times at www.buzzwordproductions.com.
Participants may also check for their race day photos by bib number or last name here: http://www.brightroom.com/go.asp?27145976
In the EMC "Fittest Firm" competition, which awarded prizes based on the number of entrants representing Valley employers, the large company winner was Turkey Trot presenting sponsor Applied Materials, with 207 entrants.
Mid-size firm winner was Align Tech; small firm winner was Kovio, and the very small firm winner was event founder and host, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. The men's winner of the SAP "CEO/Elected Official Challenge" was Jorg Heinemann of Accenture; women's winner was Pearl Cheng of the Cupertino School Board.
Thanks to all the volunteers and others who helped make this year's Turkey Trot a huge success! See you next year on November 27!
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Crown Plaza Hotel
Comerica
Guadalupe River Park Trail
Empire Broadcasting
ETM
Fry's Electronics
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GreenTeam
KLIV
KNTV-NBC11
Los Gatos Orthopedic Sports Therapy
Media News
Net Logic
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PG&E
Robert Half International
Runner's Factory
San Francisco 49ers
San Jose Fairmont Hotel
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San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Sharks
San Jose Visitors & Convention Bureau
SVB Financial
Symantec
Xilinx
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