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Falmouth in Afghanistan Race

Published on Thursday, August 07, 2008

The CIGNA Falmouth Road Race mirror race was held this past week at Camp Mike Spann, Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan. PO3 Megan E. Kennedy, USN (front row, second from left) was the founder and organizer of the event. Megan, from East Falmouth, Mass., had never run in the home town Falmouth Road Race, but wanted to add a run to a base-wide event.

Megan contacted the race early in the summer about doing an event at her base. The Falmouth race officials were very pleased to partner in this event. The Afghanistan event had to take place so that it fit into operations schedule at Camp Mike Spann. The Falmouth race sent her shirts and special bib numbers for the event.

Megan figured perhaps 25-30 people would take part. But as the event got closer and more and more people came back to camp those who said they would run increased. Eventually, last week some 57 participants, for more than several countries and branches of service, ran in the event which had to be delayed for two days due to an unplanned sand storm. The race was also run in the usual hot steamy weather that is normal for the region.

More information will be posted as it becomes available.

Congratulations to all who participated. Thank you Megan Kennedy!!! Megan is scheduled to leave Afghanistan shortly to return to her home base in Virginia, and then to see her family in East Falmouth.

The list of Afghanistan runners

FALMOUTH ROAD RACE -2008 at Camp Mike Spann Afghanistan

1- Megan Kennedy ~ US Navy

2- Kenneth Dapson ~ US Army

3- Robert Bazan ~ US Navy

4- Francis Montojo ~ US Navy

5- Jonathon Sanchez ~ US Navy

6- Albert Mose ~ US Navy

7- Jesse Espinoza ~ US Army

8- Rea Ordono ~ US Navy

9- Robert Garcia ~ US Navy

10- Zeljko Bura ~ Croatia

11- Shelly Edder ~ US Air Force

12- Michael Brown ~ US Navy

13- Tobias Mueller ~ Germany

14- Ulrich Simon ~ Great Britian

15- Larry Zimmerman ~ US Army

16- Kenneth Gipson ~ US Army

17- Sarah Alarcon ~ US Air Force

18- Sabrina Archer ~ US Air Force

19- Kyle Adkins ~ US Navy

20- David Rivera ~ US Navy

21- Tamara Dempsey ~ US Navy

22- Andrea Keifer ~ US Air Force

23- Jayme Cline ~ US Air Force

24- Benjamin Smith ~ US Navy

25- Joseph Stackhouse ~ US Navy

26- Eugene Gerdes ~ US Air Force

27- Kevin Perrin ~ US Army

28- Mark Falsario ~ US Navy

29- Lee Gilby ~ MPRI

30- Sandra Mason ~ US Navy

31- Sammy Alley ~ Corps of Engineers

32- Ryan Bell ~ US Air Force

33- Laura Lyons ~ US Army

34- Chantel Davis ~ US Air Force

35- Jouq Spariq ~ Germany

36- Lars Teschke ~ Germany

37- Hans Buomann ~ Germany

38- Jurgen Schuster ~ Germany

39- Kim Lebel ~ US Navy

40- Florence Choe ~ US Navy

41- Resa Warner ~ US Navy

42- Stefan Theobalt ~ Norway

43- Tamara Thomas ~ US Air Force

44- So’n Paul Nguyen ~ US Army

45- Kierra Kaaoush ~ US Air Force

46- Nathan Hardy ~ US Navy

47- Lawrence Jiron ~ US Army

48- Randy Good

50-Polligheit Carsten - Germany

51-Martin Wolff ~ Germany

52- Ingo Lentz – Germany

53- Markus Goz – Germany

54- Wes Farr – US Navy

55- Robert Soriano- US Navy

56- Roman Patocx – Germany

72-Frank Brosowski ~ Germany