More than 1,250 runners and walkers of all ages will put their best foot forward Sunday morning for the Leading Edge Physiotherapy RunWild.
Start times in front of St. Albert Place on St. Anne Street are 8 a.m. for the 21.1-kilometre half-marathon, 8:20 a.m. for the 10-km walk/run and 8:30 a.m. for the five-km walk/run.
Visit www.runwild.ca for the RunWild routes.
The Victory Lane finish line is the Lions Park parking lot.
The post-race awards ceremony will be staged in the event village at Lions Park.
Also on site is the beer garden and four food trucks.
Entertainment will be provided by the Visionary Centre for the Performing Arts and during the afternoon a band will pump out the tunes.
The WildOnes MaraFun for four- to 12-year-olds begins at 11 a.m. with a warm-up for all youths in Lions Park, followed by the 1.3-km races at 11:30 a.m. with varying start times for grades K-2, 3-4 and 5-6.
More than 400 volunteers are in place to make sure RunWild is good to go.
RunWild has also raised more than $365,000 for the Zebra Child Protection Centre and St. Albert Seniors Association since 2011.
The inaugural RunWild featured the first marathon in St. Albert history and in 2015 it was dropped from the lineup of run/walk events.
Last year’s RunWild was restricted to the MaraFun because of the loss of the race headquarters at the St. Albert 50 + Club and construction at the start/finish staging areas affected the logistics of the routes.
The following players from the St. Albert Gregg Distributors Sabres were selected in the Western Hockey League bantam draft Thursday.
Mike Benning, defenceman: round seven, Victoria Royals.
Ryley Morgan, forward: round seven, Everett Silvertips.
Ethan Edwards, defenceman: round eight, Portland Winterhawks.
Robert Kincaid, defenceman: round nine, Kelowna Rockets.
Carter Savoie, forward: round nine, Regina Pats.
Ethan Leyer, forward: round 10, Portland.
Austin Spiridakis, forward: round 12, Everett.
In total, 230 players were drafted over 14 rounds, including 126 forwards, 83 defencemen and 21 goaltenders.
Alberta led all provinces with 73 players selected, followed by B.C. with 62, Saskatchewan with 41 and Manitoba with 25.
Also, 29 American-born players were selected.
A record 13 players were selected from Canadian Sports School Hockey League teams in the first round.
Players eligible for the 2017 draft were 2002-born athletes residing in Alberta, B.C., Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
Players from the Bellerose Bulldogs and Paul Kane Blues were picked by Team Alberta U17 to participate in an elite training camp in Maui.
The Bulldogs are offensive linemen Nicholas Dechamplain and James Suranyi and linebacker Brett Yost and the Paul Kane player is receiver Jake Strackowicz.
The Team Alberta roster was formed after a fourth-month evaluation project involving the top 100 U18/U17 athletes the province.
The August trip to Maui will include competitions against local high school teams.
