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Bridge Run 5K, May 16 , 10:00am at The Crown Point State Historic Site sponsored by the La Chute Road Runners, 1st, 2nd and 3rd place  prizes for all gender specific age categories...more info and registration can be found at:  lachute.us 

The 3.1-mile race is sponsored by the Ticonderoga-based LaChute Road Runners Club. The course has been changed since the inaugural event. In 2012 the race started on the bridge. This spring the race will again begin at the Samuel deChamplain Lighthouse in the New York State campsite and follow a pedestrian path along the Lake Champlain shore, under the bridge, to the historic site. The race will finish near the historic site museum in front of the bridge. The course is mostly grass and dirt with some asphalt.
“It’s a great course,” Matt Karkoski of the LaChute Road Runners said. “The scenery is absolutely beautiful, there are no traffic issues and the course is a lot of fun. I love this course.”
Karkoski won the race in 2014, covering the 3.1 miles in 20 minutes, 32 seconds. Katie Mack claimed women’s top honors in 20:41.
Sponsors for the 2015 race include the Bridge Restaurant, the Wagon Wheel Restaurant, Hidden Hollow Maple Farm, Norm’s Bait and Tackle, McDonalds, Road ID, Sugar-n-Spice Country Shop, Rebecca’s Hair Salon, Steinberger Woodworks, Lakeside Regional Church and Stoney Lonesome Bed and Breakfast.
The New York/Vermont 5K Champlain Bridge Run was part of a two-day celebration marking the opening of the new bridge in 2012. That celebration featured entertainment, a boat flotilla, a car show, vendors, a dance, fireworks and the race.
That celebration is over, but the New York/Vermont 5K Champlain Bridge Run lives on.