Infinity Running Company is teaming with the Kwik Trip Tour of America’s Dairyland (ToAD) on a pair of runs that will serve as the inaugural installment of what is called the Dairyland Mile race series.
Two one-mile races will take place: in Shorewood in conjunction with the Shorewood Criterium Cycling Classic on Friday, June 23 and on Downer Avenue as part of the Cafe Hollander Otto Wenz Downer Classic event on Saturday, June 24.
The runs begin at 6 p.m.
Runners of all ages and abilities are invited to take part in the runs that, organizers says, “will harness the energy from the thousands of spectators that line each course.”
Find a full schedule of Kwik Trip Tour of America’s Dairyland cycling races here.
https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/tour-of-americas-dairyland-schedule-2023
Entry fee is $35 for each race plus a $3.10 sign-up fee. Or you can participate in both for $55 and a $4.30 fee.
Milwaukee’s Infinity Running Company is a training business for runners founded in 2012 and with a focus on injury prevention and proper mechanics.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
