As a group of us volunteers stumbled into the Holiday Inn on Folly Beach at 6:30 AM to help with the registration for the runners, we all were greeted by a truly remarkable sight. Just as the sun was peeking over the horizon, Jupiter and Mars were so bright in the sky and the Moon was just setting over the water. It was truly a “Postcard Moment”. We all felt like our early morning effort had been rewarded.

We registered over 300 runners for the 5K and just over 210 runners for the half marathon. While the morning was cool, the sun was bright and the breeze was slight so it was a perfect day for our event. Piggly Wiggly was there to cheer everyone on. They donated all of the fruit, cookies and other food items for the runners. Bagel Nation (in the Publix Shopping Center on Folly Road) baked fresh bagels for us and they were wonderful. The Holiday Inn on Folly Beach supplied us with great space inside to register the runners and present the awards.

Carl Beckman, the mayor of Folly Beach was on hand to help with the awards. A great time was had by all and our thanks go out to Mike Desrosiers from Action Carolina for bringing this event together. He is truly a remarkable person and we are fortunate to have him organize and produce this event.

Over the past five years, Action Carolina has contributed the profits from this event to Save the Light and we at Save the Light have received in excess of $10,000.00 from this event. We at Save the Light thank all of the runners, volunteers and great sponsors who helped put on this years run. Plans are already underway for next years run, and we have it from “inside sources” that next year the course will change and the runners will be able to run down to see the Morris Island Lighthouse on their turn.