Many would celebrate a significant milestone like serving 50,000 meals to the community with a t-shirt or reception, and something involving food.
The Campus Kitchen at Washington and Lee University took several steps beyond that – 3.1 miles to be exact – when students recognized their 50,000th meal with a 5K race through the Lexington, Va. campus. A variety of participants turned out to show support, and the event served as a good starting point for future Campus Kitchen races.
CKWL dished out its 50,000th meal of spaghetti, homemade meatballs, mixed vegetables, and pineapple upside down cake on Friday, March 12 to the Magnolia Center, a facility for developmentally disabled adults. While volunteers announced the milestone, and the 50,000th participant received a t-shirt, coordinator Jenny Sproul wanted to highlight the achievement to the campus community.
Sproul reached out to the Campus Recreations Department to devise a 5k race/walk through campus that could include the whole community – and quite a range of participants showed up to compete for fork, knife and spoon trophies.
The women’s field hockey team, regular participants in Campus Kitchen activities, showed up to participate, as did the Director of Washington and Lee’s Shepherd Program – an interdisciplinary study of poverty and human capability that served as the initial spark of interest in The Campus Kitchens Project at Washington and Lee. The University Registrar was even on hand to participate. In total, around 40 runners crossed the floured finish line at the end of the race.
Sproul says while the event was not large, it helped get the word out to the community about the 50,000th meal accomplishment. In the future, Sproul says she might host a 1k race, to do something different and get more non-runner participants.
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