Main Street Challenge 5K in China Grove celebrates weather and turnout

Main Street Challenge 5K in China Grove celebrates weather and turnout

For 29 years, there has been a Friday evening 5K race in China Grove. Ricky and Edie Smith from Sidekick Karate, then located nearby, founded the race in 1998. Edie Smith said, “Our first one was on a July Friday night before Farmer’s Day, what were we thinking? Ricky and I were dating and then were married in August.” Three years later, the J. Fred Corriher South Rowan YMCA new race directors Aaron Crowe and Richard Reinholz took over this stro…