Anchorage Front Runners is hosting the 2nd Annual Tuesday Night Pride Fun Run/Walk and BBQ on Tuesday, June 5. The run/walk will start at Westchester Lagoon (6:00–7:00 PM) and will follow up with a BBQ (7:00–9:00 PM) at Timmie’s (walking distance from the running location).

Anchorage Front Runners is a group that promotes health and wellness within the LGBTQA community, meeting weekly on Tuesday nights at 6:00 PM for fun runs/walks for GLBTs and friendlies along the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail. The Tuesday Night Pride Fun Run/Walk encourages folks of this circle to come together. The group develops bonding ties that often last a life time while providing support to each other. It offers a positive and welcoming atmosphere while advocating growth and enrichment. The Fun Run will continue to foster this development while expanding its presence within the community.

The Tuesday Night Pride Fun Run/Walk brings a large group together in a positive setting. Front Runners represents this year’s theme in the following way:
• BE SEEN, Outdoors, United, Respectful, and Being Healthy.
• BE HEARD: Laughing, Encouraging, Promoting, and In Public.
• BE PRIDE: Lifestyle, Mentality, Self, and Choices Made.

Happy Trails

Anchorage Front Runners is the Anchorage chapter of International Front Runners (IFR), an affiliation of GLBT running/walking clubs that have organized in many of larger cities around the world. Inspired by Patricia Nell Warren’s novel The Front Runner, the first FrontRunner club began in San Francisco in 1974, and other FR clubs quickly began forming in the United States then in Canada and abroad.

• Date/time: Tuesday, June 5, 6:00 PM–7:00 PM for walk/run; 7:00–9:00 for barbecue
• Location: Westchester Lagoon — far west parking lot (closest to the ocean) where the small coffee/snack shack and the outhouses are located (W. 15th and U St.).(see map)
• Cost of admission: None
• Further info: See the Facebook event page. To keep up with Front Runners through the year, see the Anchorage Front Runners page at the IFR website; the Anchorage Front Runners Facebook group, or email them at anchoragefrontrunners@gmail.com.

See Bent Alaska’s complete Anchorage Pride Week 2012 calendar.