Lindsey Run/Walk Draws More Than 1,000 Participants

Organizers had hoped that the annual Lindsey 5k run/walk would draw a thousand people for the first time on Sunday.

They got their wish, as about a hundred walk-in participants pushed pushed the number to a record high in a successful event to benefit the PEACEout Side Campus, the Lindsey M. Bonistall Foundation, which is a non-profit organization working to raise national awareness for safe off-campus student living.

Lindsey Bonistall, who grew up in White Plains, was violently attacked and killed in her off-campus apartment while attending the University of Delaware in 2005. Since then Lindsey's parents Mark and Kathleen Bonistall have founded PEACEout Side Campus.

On Sunday cheerleaders from Harrison and the Good Counsel Academy—Lindsey's high school in White Plains—cheered as participants crossed the finish line. Matt Ducker, 27, was the first person to finish, circling the campus in 17 minutes and 31 seconds.

The first five finishers were as follows:

• Ducker 17:31
• George Craig 17:40
• Max Hendrickson 17:46
• Malcolm Watson 18:16
• Jay Ryan 18:34

Age group winners were:

• Jay Ryan, 41
• Kelly Thompson, 33
• Jose Oliveira, 50
• Rick Thiounn, 31
• Janis Berglas, 49
• Lizzy Trelstad, 16
• Brendon Ortiz, 17
• Christine LaVallee, 29
• Robert Lewis, 12
• Daisy Pearce, 62
• Natalie Cipriano, 11
• Katsuya Kamigaki, 58
• Kevin Molloy, 62
• Alan Palestine, 72

In total, 305 participants completed the course in less than 45 minutes, according to unofficial statistics kept at the race. Winners from each age group won a prize at the finish line. Once the 5k was complete, participants were treated to breakfast under a tent on the campus.

PEACEout Side Campus is still adding up total proceeds from the race, but we will have them when they become available.

Editor's Note: Race results have been added as they became available.

Here is a slideshow of photos from the run: