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Crossing the finish line
Relay raises
$700,000 for
Providence
hospitals
By Brenna Visser
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Cannon Beach Gazette
After two years of cloud
cover and windy woes, Sea-
side welcomed 19,000 runners
and walkers from the 36th an-
nual Hood to Coast Relay with
a clear and sunny day.
Runners came from all 50
states and 43 countries Satur-
day, Aug. 26, to compete in the
race that spans from Timber-
line Lodge to Seaside’s Prom-
enade, covering 199 miles and
raising $700,000 for Provi-
dence hospitals, Chief Operat-
ing Officer Dan Floyd said.
After the race, thousands
celebrated on the beach with
beer, pop-up food stands and
musical performances from
Radical Revolution and the
Brian O’Dell Band until the
sun set over the horizon.
While Hood to Coast is
known for featuring world-
class athletes capable of Olym-
pic-style race times, a chunk of
the money raised for cancer re-
search comes from groups like
“You walkin’ to me?” — one
of the 400 race walking teams
who participate in the Portland
To Coast Walk Relay portion
of the event.
“There aren’t a lot of race
walkers out there, so it’s a pret-
ty tight-knit community,” team
captain Marek Ziegien said.
The Portland-based team,
donning bright yellow shirts
with an illustration of the
movie “Taxi Driver,” are all
co-workers who have been
competing in this event for the
past five years.
The team likes to keep it
light, rotating team names
with other walking puns like
“Walks on Walks Off” and
“Sasqu-walks.”
But the walking itself is
anything but casual.
“We’re a part of a race
The interior of Lannie Hurst’s Cannon Beach home, fea-
tured on the Cottage & Garden Tour. Hurst died in 2010.
‘To me, this
house is a person’
For one home on the Cannon Beach
Cottage & Garden Tour, the person
who lived there makes it special
By Brenna Visser
Coast Weekend
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Runners cross the line at the 2017 Hood to Coast.
walking network. There’s a
real technique to it,” team
member David Howitz said.
The team competes in other
events where there are strict
guidelines for race walking
form. And thinking of race
walking as a slow sport is a
misconception, they said. Cur-
rently, the record for fastest
walking time for a mile is 5
minutes and 31 seconds.
The technique comes down
to how the arm swings, how
the hip drops and making sure
to roll the foot forward. But
that challenge of balancing
physical and the mental com-
ponents is what makes race
walking more fun than run-
ning to some, team member
Michelle Chuaprasert said.
“If you think you’re just
going to walk faster, it’s not
going to work. It’s not intui-
tive,” she said.
But for some race walking
teams, like the “Christopher
Walkins” from Sherwood,
competing in Portland to Coast
is a way to connect as friends
JEFF TER HAR/FOR EO MEDIA GROUP
Crossing the finish line at Hood to Coast.
out of the routine of their ev-
eryday lives.
“Why do we race walk?
Because we don’t run,” team
member Jenni Kelley laughed.
“Because someone on your
friend’s team cancels, and you
do it for the first time and then
you get hooked.”
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For this team, race walking
isn’t about form and just do-
ing something physical, team
member Michelle Coxcy said.
“It’s about doing something
for ourselves,” Coxcy said.
“It’s not easy, but it’s some-
thing we can do together that’s
fun.”
When Kelly Giampa
bought her house in Can-
non Beach 15 years ago, she
didn’t expect the previous
homeowner to come with it.
Giampa wasn’t keen on
Cannon Beach at first be-
cause of its “tourist feel,” but
after seeing “charming pho-
tos” of the inside, she decided
to give it a chance.
And when she and her
husband came for the show-
ing, there was an unexpected
bonus: meeting the seller of
the home, Lannie Hurst, a
Portland theater icon and ac-
tivist.
On the outside, the house
looked terrible, Giampa re-
called. “We almost didn’t
want to go in,” she said. “But
when we walked in, Lannie
greeted us in the kitchen,
which was unusual because
usually the seller isn’t there.”
They immediately con-
nected and soon bonded over
their shared love of Broad-
way, music and shared roots
in Portland.
In the transition, Hurst
quickly became family to
the Giampas. “We told her
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Built in the 1950s, Giam-
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the many years she has spent
gradually renovating the out-
side of the beachfront home.
But to Giampa, what
makes her home special is the
friendship that formed there
before Hurst’s death in 2010.
“To me, this house is a
person. That’s how it’s al-
ways been. Every time I’ve
walked in here the past 15
years, it feels like I’m getting
a hug,” she said. “It feels like
Lannie.”
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