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Fitness
enthusiasts might want to check out the “Race for 2000,” set for Nov.
28 in Miami’s Brickell Avenue area.
Billed
as a “run, fitness-walk, family-fun run event” with more than $5,000
in cash and prizes, the five-kilometer event will start from the Villa
Salon and Sport Club, 1440 Brickell Ave., and meander through the
surrounding streets of the Roads neighborhood before finishing back at the
Villa. Registration
begins at 6 a.m., with the five-kilometer run starting at 8 a.m. The
fitness walk and family run parts of the event will start five minutes
later. “The
Race for 2000 is really a metaphor for preparing for the millennium,”
said Lisa Dorfman, coordinator of the Race for 2000. “You’re getting
in shape and it’s a race to get there by the turn of the century —
physically, nutritionally and spiritually.” Race
for 2000 is billed as the kick-off event for sports nutritionist
Dorfman’s national tour to promote her new book, The
Vegetarian Sports Nutrition Guide: Peak Performance for Everyone from
Beginners to Gold Medalists. Dorfman will contribute 10 percent of her
book sales to the United States Olympic Committee’s SportsMed 2000 fund
to help U.S. athletes with education, training and medical needs. “My
book features 17 Olympian and world-class athletes who are vegetarians,”
Dorfman said. “In the book, I profiled their typical eating habits and
evaluated them to help the readers understand the benefits of vegetarian
diets, as well as ways that they could improve what they’re doing to
excel at their sport.” Advance
entry for the Race for 2000 is $15, and $20 on race day. A family of four
may participate for a $25 entry fee. Advance registration may be done by
mail, by fax at 305-662-2854, or via the Internet at
<www.racefor2000.com>. Dorfman
said a percentage of the net proceeds from the Race for 2000 will go to
the Miami Inner City Angels program. For
more information, call 305-854-1065.
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