Courtesy: Running USA

Jack Wing, Race Director of the Tulsa Run, announced four major changes for its 24th edition. The October 27th race will donate to a charity and will have a new co-Race Director, a new course and no prize money.

For the first time, the Tulsa Run will have a charity as beneficiary. The executive board has selected Big Brothers and Sister of Oklahoma as this year's recipient. The Tulsa Run will donate a minimum of $25,000 to Big Brothers and Sisters of Oklahoma. Each year a new charity will be selected.

Bill Webb, who has been responsible for the elite runners in recent past Tulsa Runs, has been selected as co-race director. Bill will still handle the elite runners and oversee the Tulsa Run office. Jack will still be in charge of all race day activities.

The Tulsa Run elected to change the course to get more community involvement. The run will still start downtown, but instead of going out Riverside Drive and back to downtown, the run will go through the historic neighborhoods and business districts of Cherry St. and Brookside and then turn on to Riverside Dr. and finish at Veterans Park. Our goal is to return to the reason this race was started 24 years ago, which was to have an event that involved the whole community. We believe that we have accomplished this with these changes.

The executive board has also decided to drop all prize money except masters money (this year). It was a tough decision to make, but the board felt it was in the best interest of the race to do so. The only prize money to be offered this year will be $5000 masters money because the Tulsa Run is the USATF National 15K Championship for 2001.