Fitness Focus: Running the Long Blue Line

A look at the Crim Past, Present and Future

  • The Vision
    • From the Start
      • Crim's Reflections
      • First Director: Lois Craig
      • Crim's Political Career
      • Crim-Craig Connection
      • Crim Through the Years
    • Growing the Vision
      • Uniting the Community
      • Fitness New Focus
    • At the Top
      • 1977: Lois Craig
      • 1994: Laurie McCann
      • 1996: Anne Gault
      • 1999: Sherlynn Everly
      • 2005: Deb Kiertzner
      • 2005: Gerry Myers
  • The Races
    • Map routes
      • 10-Mile map
      • 8K map
      • 5K map
      • 1-Mile Run map
      • Teddy Bear map
    • 10-Mile Run
    • 10-Mile Wheelers
    • 8K Run
    • 8K Walk
    • 5K Racewalk
    • 5K Run
    • 5K Walk
    • 1-Mile Run & Walk
    • Teddy Bear Trot
    • Craig Invitational for Special Olympics
    • Results
  • Schedule 2006
    • Entertainers
      • Mitch Ryder Bio
      • Mitch Ryder Discography
  • People
    • Volunteers
      • Mark Bauman
      • Peggy and Ed Deyo
      • John Gault
      • Ric Hogerheide
      • Jan Nieuwenhuis
      • Dr. Jon Schriner
  • Past Crims
    • First Decade
    • Second Decade
    • Third Decade
    • Movie
  • Community
    • Sense of Community
      • SOC Barkey
      • SOC Bowen
      • SOC Fizell
      • SOC Walling
      • SOC Hands
      • About Steve Jessmore
    • Your Tales
  • Contact

"You have to be in shape, but it's a different kind of shape."

- Charlie Bell of Flint, Michigan State University basketball player, 2000



Fitness new focus of Crim organization

A new name for the organization associated with the Crim Festival of Races signals the changing focus to health and fitness.

The Crim Fitness Foundation published a report in May 2006. it is available online.
Early Vision
• Inspiring Special Olympians lead to year-round fitness goal
• From the start: Do good
• Read what Bobby Crim has to say about the early days. and the changing organization
• Crim has look at the race that bears his name
• A key reason the Crim event was successful is Lois Craig, his administrative assistant.
• The Lois Craig and Bobby Crim connection

Growing the Vision
• Dreamers see more than a race
• Uniting the community from "The Long Blue LIne"

More on Bobby Crim
• A Journal staff writer caught up with him in 1998 to look at his political career
• Through the years slideshow

At The Top
1977: Lois Craig
1994: Laurie McCann
1996: Anne Gault
1999: Sherlynn Everly
2005: Deb Kiertzner
2005: Gerry Myers
  • The Vision | 
  • Growing the Vision | 
  • Fitness New Focus | 


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