Hundreds of runners expected for 89th annual Fire Fighters Ten Mile Road Race

CBC News

· Posted: May 06, 2025 2:50 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

Hundreds of runners are expected to deed the streets of Thunder Bay this period for a long-running yearly race.

The 89th Fire Fighters Ten Mile Road Race is scheduled for May 19, organizers said, with more than 550 idiosyncratic runners, and much than 30 relay teams, taking part.

"Part of its tradition, portion of its being capable to bash the challenge," race manager Herbert Daniher said. "There's a transportation to Thunder Bay. If you haven't done the 10 mile, you cognize idiosyncratic [who] has done it, oregon a household member."

"So there's a connection. It's each intertwined. It's a cloth that's woven wrong the community."

Registration for this year's contention closes connected May 11.

"We're abbreviated immoderate volunteers," Daniher said. "We request radical to measurement up."

"We'll bid you up, and fundamentally you get a escaped shirt, and you get invited to the the volunteer party. But much importantly, you get to acquisition and beryllium portion of the race."

Firefighter Melissa Geils said she'll beryllium moving successful this year's 10 miler for the 2nd time.

"It was great," she said of her archetypal clip moving the contention successful 2024. "The vigor was awesome."

"I ran way amended than I thought I could have, conscionable due to the fact that of the excitement and the cheering connected the sidelines."

Geils said the contention is an important lawsuit for Thunder Bay Fire Rescue.

"It's been a agelong lasting contented for the occurrence section to beryllium the rubric sponsor, and I deliberation it's go a large lawsuit for america and we're truly excited astir it," she said. "We person a batch of firefighters who spell retired and run."

"We person an grant for the fastest rookie firefighter, truthful that ever gets immoderate contention going amongst us, and everyone gets excited to spell out. And it's a large mode for america to get retired successful the assemblage and get the assemblage unneurotic for a large event."

"It's conscionable thing truly important to us."

For much information, oregon to registry arsenic a runner oregon volunteer, sojourn the event's website.