Nearly 800 runners and walkers successfully completed the 7th annual edition of the Lazer, Aptheker, Rosella & Yedid Kings Park 15 Kilometer Run on the morning of March 21, and when the dust had settled at the W.T. Rogers Middle School finish line on Old Dock Road in Kings Park, the overall women's winner was 25-year-old Trisha Fasini of Massapequa, and the second woman across the line was Donna McMahon of Farmingdale. Fasini crossed the finish line in 1 hour, 1 minute, 31 seconds, and McMahon was exactly thirty seconds behind her in 1:02:01.

The first finisher overall was 24-year old Michael Nehr of West Babylon in 50 minutes, 27 seconds.

Other locals winning awards in the Kings Park 15K included Shari Mark of Massapequa Park, 1st place woman in the 25-29 age group in 1:05:48, and Mary Anne Goldman of Farmingdale, who took top honors among the women in the 55-59 age group in 1:18:55.

The Lazer, Aptheker, Rosella & Yedid Kings Park 15 Kilometer Run was deliberately designed to be the toughest of challenges, incorporating as many hills as possible into 9.3 miles, culminating with the final one-mile climb up Old Dock Road to the finish at the W.T. Rogers Middle School. As one competitor put it, "it hurts, it really hurts, but what a sense of accomplishment and pride when you cross the finish line!"

The Lazer, Aptheker, Rosella & Yedid Kings Park 15 Kilometer Run is administered by the Greater Long Island Running Club, with GLIRC's Steven Toto, serving as the race director. The run is part of the Vytra/Long Island Track & Field Grand Prix of Long Island Racing, and serves as Long Island Track & Field's 15 Kilometer Championship Run.The primary sponsor of the run is the Melville law firm of Lazer, Aptheker, Feldman, Rosella & Yedid, LLP, whose generosity since the inception of the event has been a major factor in its phenomenal growth.