ORRC is starting 2023 off with a bang with their Annual 2023 Y2K Half Marathon & 10k on Saturday, January 7th. For years, the race has been playing on the distance theme (i.e. 2014 was 20.14k). It started out as 8.6 miles in 1986 and it was the ORRC First Run, shortly thereafter renamed the “Annual Run”. In 1999 it was 9.9 miles and then it became the “Y2K Run” in 2000 as the course…
Training for a big race can be motivating and a powerful way to reach your goals. For me, it can also be daunting and anxiety inducing. Yet, my running is at it’s best when I have a race goal and a tangible time frame for my training. The best way I have found to combat the “big race” nerves while still reaping all the benefits of having a race on the horizon is to sign…
Can you believe summer is almost over?! Enjoy the last “official” weekend with fellow runners and walkers by participating in the Oregon Road Runners Club’s 4th annual Greenway Trail Trial 10k on Labor Day. Last year, around 300 hundred runners and walkers raced to beat the cloc k in this time-trial style event. The course is a fast and flat out and back (and out and back, and out and back) that has heats of…
