For Immediate Release, June 15, 2001
For more information please contact:
Jay Jacob Wind or Eleanor Cochran at Vanguard Foundation, 703-841-0703 x97

Get in Shape for Vanguard's National RUN FOR RECOVERYŽ September 16

Start getting in shape now for Vanguard Foundation's 6th annual RUN FOR RECOVERYŽ, Sunday, September 16, 2001, 9:00 am, in Pentagon City.

The course is flat and fast, and anyone, regardless of ability or age, is welcome to join us. To attract lots of participants, we offer cash prizes to the top three finishers overall and in each 5-year age category. We also offer dozens of random prizes, a goodie bag with coupons and gift certificates, a nice T-shirt, and a sumptuous post-race picnic courtesy of Fresh Fields and local vendors. If you prefer a more leisurely pace, a 5K walk starts at 9:05, 5 minutes after the run.

Our race is Arlington's biggest 5 kilometer (3.1 mile) race and one of the country's largest National Recovery Month events. This year's National Recovery Month theme is "We Recover Together -- Family, Friends, Community." Please ask YOUR family, friends, and community to join this year's RUN FOR RECOVERYŽ.

Your entry fee and the contributions you collect support an important cause - helping chemically-addicted people return to their families, friends, and communities for another chance at a healthy, productive life. The race celebrates recovery from addiction by involving recovering people, their friends and family members, treatment providers, and the community in a highly visible, fun activity to draw attention to this wonderful phenomenon. In addition, the race helps raise money for drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs nationwide, and for one of the Washington area's largest treatment programs in particular. With your help, Vanguard will complete a new building on North Quincy Street in Arlington, Virginia, to house its Phoenix Program new treatment center and corporate headquarters.

To sign up, please visit our web site (www.vanguardservices.org) and print out the entry form, or contact Vanguard Foundation (see below) for an entry form by mail. Use the back of the entry form to collect contributions. This year, the RUN FOR RECOVERYŽ goes national. Participants from any National Recovery Month partner can register for the race and then collect donations for their own organizations. All we ask is to know the total collected for each organization via our race. Inviting participants from organizations all over the U.S. will make this year's run the best yet.

For Vanguard fund-raisers, we offer rewards: a hat if you collect $100-$249; a golf shirt for $250-499; a sweatshirt for $500-$999; and a warm-up jacket for $1000 or more. We also offer grand prizes for the top fund-raisers and the teams with the most participants.

If you live far away, or you can't be in town September 16th, you can still register for RUN FOR RECOVERYŽ and collect contributions. We'll mail your T-shirt and goodie bag to you. Just let us know on your entry form.

This year, we also offer the FitSense CyberRaceT for our out-of-town participants. You can measure your own 5K course anywhere on Earth with a FitSense FS-1 speedometer watch, run it anytime, and submit your best time to your personal webpage on www.FitSense.com any time before Saturday, September 15, at 5 pm. We will award prizes to our three fastest CyberRacers, too! On your entry form, check the box "FitSense CyberRaceT." RUN FOR RECOVERYŽ entrants can buy the FS-1 speedometer watch for 50% off, with proof of race registration, by calling 800-419-3667. (Limit one per customer, not available for the Trainer model.)

Don't miss the coupons on the entry form for Joe's Pizza and Pasta Restaurant -- two-for-one until August 31, then 10% off with 50% of your bill going to Vanguard in September 2001.

We look forward to our best race yet. We hope to see you on Sunday, September 16. For more information about the National RUN FOR RECOVERYŽ, or to learn how to sponsor this year's race, call 703-841-0703 x 97, e-mail racedirector@vanguardservices.org, or write to Vanguard Foundation, 2924 Columbia Pike, Arlington VA 22204.