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25th Annual Ocean to Sound Relay to Start at Jones Beach Sunday Morning

1,000 runners will race 50 miles through 15 communities including Wantagh and Seaford.

The 25th Annual Bethpage Ocean to Sound Relay will start this Sunday morning at Jones Beach State Park in Wantagh.

The race will feature 1,000 runners comprised of 120 teams, who will cover 50 miles stretching from Jones Beach to Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park in Oyster Bay. The event benefits the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Relay teams will cover eight legs traveling through 15 Long Island communities starting with Wantagh and then crossing into Seaford. The relay will then proceed through Massapequa, Farmingdale, Old Bethpage, Huntington, Lloyd Harbor and Cold Spring Harbor, before concluding in Oyster Bay.  

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Some of the local runners in this year's Bethpage Ocean to Sound Relay include Seaford residents Kelly Perno-Grosser and Alex Flyntz as well as Angela O'Connor of Wantagh. One of the notable participants in the this race is Peter Hawkins of Malverne, who has been recognized as Long Island's premier wheelchair athletes, and will be doing all 50 miles individually for the second straight year. Last year Hawkins finished the 50-mile relay in 5:47:34.

People interested in viewing the beginning of the 8 a.m. relay should park at Jones Beach Parking Field #2. Parking to see the end of the race will be at the Oyster Bay Long Island Railroad parking lot on Shore Avenue. The anticipated time that the first teams of runners will be crossing the finish line is at 12:45 p.m.

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