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Come rain or come shine, hundreds of Georgia Tech students, faculty, staff and alumni will be on campus for the 35th Annual Dean Griffin Pi Mile 5K Road Race April 14. Despite cloudy skies and rain showers, a record 702 people participated in last year's race around the Georgia Tech campus.
"Pi Mile is a long-standing Tech tradition and also one of the longest consecutively running road races in Atlanta," said Nadia Siddiqui, an event manager for the Georgia Tech Alumni Association.
Online registration for the race is available at gtalumni.org/site/Page/PiMile. Register by April 4 for the discounted entry fee of $15 for Georgia Tech students and all runners age 14 and under and $20 for alumni, faculty, staff and friends. Five dollars of each entry fee supports Roll Call, Georgia Tech's unrestricted annual fund that provides funding for student scholarships, faculty recruitment and retention and cutting-edge facilities.
Following the 8 a.m. race, a party and awards ceremony will be held on the Tech Tower lawn. Top male and female finishers will be honored with medals and prizes. In addition to receiving a T-shirt, all race participants will have their names entered in a raffle for two AirTran Airways domestic round-trip tickets.
Alumni on the West Coast will have an opportunity to participate in the race without booking a flight to Atlanta. The Orange County Georgia Tech Club will be hosting its own Pi Mile race at 9:30 a.m. on April 15 at Huntington City Beach in California. For more information on the George P. Burdell Ghost Run, contact Orange County Georgia Tech Club President Ari Flechner at ari@flechner.com or (858) 688-8228 or visit the club's Web site at www.gtcluboc.org/events.html.
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