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Ultimate Fitness announces winners of the 2019 Turkey Trot in Deming, NM – The Deming Headlight

Bill Armendariz, Deming Headlight Published 9:01 a.m. MT Dec. 3, 2019 | Updated 3:17 p.m. MT Dec. 3, 2019

Mark Schultze makes his appearance - complete in turkey suit - during the 2019 Ultimate Fitness Turkey Trot.(Photo: Bill Armendariz - Headlight Photo)

DEMING The Ultimate Fitness Turkey Trot has become such a popular Thanksgiving Day event that rain nor cold can keep the annual participants away.

With a 40-degree temperatureand a thick steady rain, 160 people began their holiday morning with a either a 3-mile run, 2-mile walk or a one-mile kid's run before feasting on holiday cooking.

The 17th annual Ultimate Fitness Turkey began at 8:30 a.m. on a soggy Voiers' "Pit" Park parking lot at finished an hour later when all contestants had cross the finish line in their respective events.

Maria Conklan won the women's race.(Photo: Bill Armendariz - Headlight Photo)

Shawn Rogers won the men's race.(Photo: Bill Armendariz - Headlight Photo)

Sam Hofacket, 11, of Deming, won the kid's one-mile run.

Maria Conklan, 19, of Hurley, NM, won the women's two-mile run.

Shawn Rogers, 34, of Silver City, NM. won the men's 3-mile race.

"What a difference a year makes," Rogers said in reference to the weather and last year's competition. "Last year; shorts and tank top this year I'm bundled up."

"It was a lot of fun really cold," Conklan said of her run.She is studyingZoology as a freshman at Western New Mexico University in Silver City.

Ultimate Fitness reported that over $100,000 has been collected and donatedover the past 17 years for organizations and individuals in need.This year's Trot collected $6,452 and will be donated tothe Big Brother-Big Sisters Mountain Region.

Major sponsors for the event were D.H. Lescombes, Peppers Supermarket and Mango Maddies.

Bill Armendariz can be reached at 575-546-2611 (ext. 2606) or biarmendariz@demingheadlight.com.

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