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Kick off 2025 honoring John E. Daley and supporting Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kalamazoo.
Start 2025 off right!
Sign up today with your family and friends. This 40+ year tradition at Spring Valley Park is a unique and fun community celebration!
About One One Run
The run begins at 1 p.m. on January 1, 2025, with one or two laps around the Spring Valley Park on Mt. Olivet Road, in the shadow of Ascension Borgess Hospital.
Packet pickup times will be:
- Monday, December 30 from 4 to 6 p.m. at Gazelle Sports
- Tuesday, December 31 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Gazelle Sports
- Wednesday, January 1 at noon at Spring Valley Park
For over 70 years, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kalamazoo has been providing youth with life-enhancing, meaningful, and purposeful programming to aid in their professional, personal, and educational development.
The mission at Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kalamazoo is to enhance the quality of life of young people through education, art, health, and recreation, especially for those who need us most. To learn more, go to bgckalamazoo.org.
Consider an extra gift for the Clubs when you sign up!
The John E. Daley Memorial One One Run honors a man who inspired a generation of runners in Kalamazoo County while linking their charitable passions with Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kalamazoo. As the development director of Borgess Hospital, John created the Borgess Run for the Health of It in 1980, linking community health with that era’s “running boom.” The Borgess Run was an instant hit, not only attracting thousands of people to the sport, but also motivating John himself, middle-aged and out of shape at the time, to take up running. John was also a community leader and supporter of Boys & Girls Clubs. A few years after creating the Borgess Run, John was instrumental in the creation of the annual One One Run in the early 1980s, which has become a community tradition, with proceeds going to that organization. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been raised through the event to support the Clubs.
John’s larger-than-life, gregarious presence made him a beloved figure in the running community and the community at large, a presence even more enduring when he became a marathoner.
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If you would like to join us on January 1st as a volunteer please click here to register.