32 JULY 11, 2019 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
SPORTS
Family Adventure Race this weekend
BY JACOB KAYE
JKAYE@QNS.COM
@RIDGEWOODTIMES
We’re still a year out from next
summer’s Olympics in Japan,
but families in Queens can
get in the Olympic spirit early – and
participate themselves – in the Family
Adventure Race in Flushing Meadows
Corona Park on July 13.
Hosted by the City Parks
Foundation, the Family Adventure
Race is a parent-child competition
that includes a smattering of
different challenges all intended to
incorporate basic exercise, sports
skills and an opportunity for family
bonding.
The timed race includes 12 activity
stations. In order to move from one to
the next, participants must perform
the exercise or task designated for
the station together.
Activities include a javelin throw,
jumprope, hurdles, a mini-climbing
wall and an all-out sprint to the
finish line.
Adventure race Inwood Park manhattan. Photo by Alan Roche
The first race will kick off at 9 a.m.
on Saturday, July 13, in Flushing
Meadows Corona Park, by the
Fountain of the Planets near the
Unisphere. A second race will begin
at 10 a.m. and will conclude an hour
later.
Awards will be given to the top
three finishers in each race but all
participants who finish the race will
be awarded with a medal.
Each team must have at least one
parent or guardian and up to two
children between the ages of 8 and
12.
Registering in advance is strongly
encouraged – and can be done so
here – but walk-up participants are
also welcome.
Additional races will be held in
Inwood Hill Park in Manhattan
on July 27, and Crotona Park in the
Bronx on Aug. 1o.
Miller hands award to Little League president
Mike Rizzo, vice president of the Ridgewood-Glendale-Middle Village-Maspeth (RGMVM) Little League, recently stopped by Assemblyman Mike
Miller’s Woodhaven offi ce to present him with an award for his outstanding sponsorship to the youth baseball organization. Miller has been a
sponsor of the RGMVM Little League for the last 10 years.
Photo courtesy of Assemblyman Mike Miller
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