Hacienda Business Park will play host to two major events that are bound to give anyone a healthy outlook on life.

ON YOUR MARK!

Sunday, March 8 marks the day of the fourth annual Soccer City Run. Joggers, plodders and runners have their choice of two distances: 10K (6.2 miles) and 5K (3.1 miles). Both courses wind through Hacienda's wide, absolutely flat roads, making for optimum times for novices and seasoned veterans alike.

Last year's Soccer City Run featured a field in excess of 700 runners, despite the presence of threatening skies and a 30-miles-per-hour northwest wind. Race Director Mike Milton expects more than 1,000 runners to pound the pavement th.is year.

Sponsors of the Soccer City Run include The Prudential Development Group, the Curtiss car dealership network and AT&T. Because of the sponsors' commitment to subsidize nearly all operational and equipment costs associated with the run, virtually all entry money will go directly to its intended purpose: to benefit youth soccer leagues through the Tri-Valley area.

Pre-registration for either the 10K or 5K race is $10. Day-of-race registration is $12, and all entrants will receive handsome, top-quality T-shirts. The starting gun will fire at 10 a.m. from the intersection of Stoneridge and Hacienda Drives

GET SET!

Also at Hacienda on Sunday, March 8, Valley Memorial Hospital will bring its annual Fitness Fair to Pleasanton. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., area residents can have their fitness evaluated through complimentary tests on blood pressure, lung capacity, fat-to-muscle ratio, hearing, vision, basic blood chemistry and many other health checks. Informational booths staffed by physicians and other health care professionals at Valley Memorial Hospital will be on hand to educate, entertain and to lend advice.

The Fitness Fair will be held at Hacienda's new Child Care Center, which is located at 4671 Chabot Drive, near the business park's main entrance off of Hopyard Road. In addition to the Pleasanton fair, Valley Memorial Hospital will still hold a similar fair in Livermore. The date for that event is February 21 and will be held at the hospital's Valley Care Unit at 1015 E. Stanley Blvd.

GO!

For more information on the fourth annual Soccer City Run, contact Mike Milton during evening hours at 846-5512. Race entry forms are now available at stores throughout Pleasanton and at most office buildings within Hacienda, including Pleasanton Pathways, Suite 105 and the Hacienda Business Park Owners Association, Suite 107, of the Chabot Center Building at 4637 Chabot Drive. For more information on Valley Memorial Hospital's free Fitness Fair, call the hospital's Community Relations Department at 455-0339.

To see a reproduction of the original article and edition of Pleasanton Pathways, visit: February 9, 1987 Pathways.