My life in race shirts: ORRC 9.5 In ’95
The Oregon Road Runners Club was celebrating their 25th anniversary in 1995, and if you accumulated 25 points by finishing some of their races during the year, you would win a prize. So I made it my goal to run all of the ORRC races that year. At the ORRC awards banquet, I was surprised to not only earn the 25th anniversary award, but an age group championship as well, and I was back into running big time from then on!
The first ORRC race of that year was this one: The 9.5 in ’95 in Forest Grove. 9.5 miles was a long way for me back then (in fact, it still is!) But this race marked the beginning of over a decade of healthy, uninjured racing, and led to some times and results that I wouldn’t have guessed I was capable of back in the early 1990s.