Among the events coming up this weekend will be the two-mile, one-mile, and half-mile ocean challenge swims benefiting the Montauk Playhouse’s aquatic and community arts centers, at Kirk Park Beach Saturday morning, and Jordan’s Run, a 5K road race in Sag Harbor Sunday morning that commemorates Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter, a posthumous Navy Cross recipient.
The two-mile ocean swim is to start at 6:30 in Montauk, the one-miler at 7:30, and the half-miler at 8.
Matthew Raske, the runner-up in Sunday’s Montauk Lighthouse sprint triathlon, and Lori King were the long-distance swim’s winners last year. The one-miler’s male and female winners were Tyler DiMarco and Carolyn Casey, and the half-miler’s winners were Lars Merseburg and Molly Grande.
A ceremony at 8 is to precede Jordan’s Run, which is based at Sag Harbor’s Pierson High School. Haerter and a fellow posthumous Navy Cross recipient, Cpl. Jonathan Yale, were killed in stopping an explosive-filled suicide truck in Ramadi, Iraq, on April 22, 2008, before it could reach the barracks in which some 50 Marines and Iraqi police were sleeping.
More than 400 runners and walkers, led by Sergey Avramenko, who was to win the 5K in 16 minutes and 24.73 seconds, participated in last year’s race, passing twice over the bridge to North Haven that is named for the late Marine and past his gravesite in Oakland Cemetery on their way back to the start-finish line.
