While he was busy in town, staff began notifying all the appropriate authorities, volunteers, vendors and participants of the changes. All in all, we made over 250 phone calls and sent out 5000+ emails in a massive effort to keep the event going. This was all in addition to the regular last minute details, which kept everyone up for most of 2 nights. Everyone was extremely understanding and accommodating of the changes, including all the delivery drivers who were certainly very inconvenienced. Unfortunately, no police officers were available to man the new course, so John had to once again re-route the course Friday evening.

We arrived at the CSU Jack Christiansen Memorial Track at 5:30 am on Saturday, in bitter cold and complete darkness with no clue where to set up. Wolf volunteers rocked though, and designed and set up the entire event in record time. Thankfully the weather could not have been better once the participants began arriving at 8 am. The rest of the event went off without a hitch, everyone had a great time, and a few celebratory beers after the event. Who knew it was possible to redesign an event in less than 2 days?

Participation was way up, and there were more canines present than ever before. Over 200 people ran this brand new course through campus. Wolf would like to thank and congratulate everyone who participated! Awards were given to the top 3 runners in each race category, as well as the 3 fastest dogs.

And the winners were:

After runners, the judges had a very hard time determining the winners of the costume contest. All the costumes were fantastic. We would have given a prize to everyone had we been able to. After some tough deliberations, the following canines and humans were awarded best:

Finally, our top pledge raisers were announced, and allowed to pick from an array of ‘sweet’ prizes. Pledges were outstanding this year! Thank you to all who collected pledges and donated in these tough times. The top raisers were:

THANK YOU...