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Show SPORTS The Park Record. Editor: Ben Ramsey sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.104 Twitter: @ParkRecSports OLYMPIC DAY UPCOMING On Saturday, June 23, the Utah Olympic Park will host its eighth annual Olympics Day. The event will feature family-friendly activities, including face painting, bounce castles, and autograph signings by former Olympians Shannon Bahrke and Valerie Fleming. It will also showcase the Flying Aces ski aerials team in its first performance of the season. “It’s one of those things where we want to keep the community engaged and involved in anything Olympics,” said Kole Nordmann, a spokesman for the venue. “We want everyone to have a chance to come see all of the good things that we do here.” The event will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is $12 for adults, $7 for youth. The café will be open for dining. FOURTH OF JULY RUN Park City Ski and Snowboard Club is hosting its annual 5K Fun Run on July 4. Runners can pre-register at Cole Sport on Park Ave. by July 3 or online at Runnercard.com. Prizes include t-shirts, age group awards and overall awards, plus a raffle. Runners, joggers and baby strollers are welcome, but dogs are not allowed. The out-andback race starts near the base of Park City Mountain Resort at 8 a.m. For more details, call Cole Sport at 435649-4806 or visit Colesport.com. SUMMER SWIM LESSONS The PC MARC is offering swimming lessons on weekday evenings and Saturdays for children ages 6 months to 12 years old. Visit parkcityrecreation. org or call 435-615-5401 for details. Please see Sports briefs, B-4 COALVILLE HELPS BRAVE WITH CANCER BILLS, B-2 B-1 MOUNTAIN TRAILS HOSTS RAMBLER, B-3 www.parkrecord.com WED/THURS/FRI, JUNE 20-22, 2018 Racers embrace an adventure close to home Kids Adventure Games draws roughly 1,000 participants to event BEN RAMSEY The Park Record It’s not easy to hold the Kids Adventure Games, an adventure race for kids between the ages of 6 and 14. On Saturday morning, Hélène Mattison, co-founder and race director, sat in front of the event’s equipment trailer near the finish line at Park City Mountain Resort. “The first hour of every race, especially the very first race of the season, you’re running a little ragged,” she said. “We have a lot of people that should be doing what they are doing but they are still standing around.” She said little bit of independent problem solving goes a long way when running a three-day event for more than 1,000 kids. At around 10 a.m., the first wave of kids were coming into the finish line looking soaked, dirty and tired. Jax and Aiden Jameson were among them. Aiden, 14, said he first tried the Kids Adventure Games after he received a pamphlet for the event at school three years ago. He liked the race, and he and his brother Jax, 11, have been doing it ever since. “It was hard on the biking, but doing the obstacles, they were all pretty easy,” Jax said. Aiden wasn’t on the same page. “They were easy for you, but they are hard for me,” he said to his brother. “I’m getting older, man.” By reaching the finish line they had completed a 3.5-mile course over 15 obstacles, including a climb up Jenny’s Trail on a mountain bike, plus climbing a rock wall and going down a giant slipand-slide that ran along one of the few remaining snow piles above First Time TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Molly-Rae Sims, center, and Charlie Sims, right, pedal up Jenny’s Trail at Park City Mountain Resort during the Kids Adventure Games, a 3.5-mile race involving multiple obstacles. This was the third year the race was held in Park City. lift. “We knew they were here,” Mattison said of the snow piles. “We scout.” Over summer, the 14 people that help run the event travel nearly nonstop, only occasionally returning to the race’s hometown of Vail, Colorado, to restock supplies before driving to another ski town – and they are all ski towns, because of the available infrastructure — for the next race. Mattison said with the popularity of the races, existing infrastructure is looking like less of a restriction. “We are ready to expand to maybe a little bit more urban, maybe beaches,” Mattison said. “But (ski resorts) have everything here for us – they have ski patrol, and the terrain is always perfect for an adventure race.” Now in its fifth year, the Kids Adventure Games started as a birthday party for Mattison’s kids. She and her husband, Bobby, were both involved with the Eco-Challenge, the first large-scale adventure race in America, which became a reality TV show, and miniaturized a couple of obstacles for the twins’ first birthday party. “We set up a rope between two aspen trees in our front yard and we just pushed kids down the line, then they crawled over some tree stumps and stuff – (we had) Bloody Marys, a campfire,” Mattison said. 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