The Blue Lake Runs are a decades-old traditional event put on by the Oregon Road Runners Club (ORRC) each year, now in its 45th year. While the traditional distances were 5K (in its 35th year) and 15K (its 43rd year in 2016), the 15K was converted to a half marathon in 2017. Some may bemoan the loss of the relatively rare 15K distance event in favor of the half marathon, while others may cheer for…
The first weekend of June hosts the annual Blue Lake Triathlon and Duathlon Weekend Festival in Blue Lake Regional Park in Fairview, OR. Hosted by the Why Racing Events, the festival offers Olympic and Sprint distance triathlons, a Duathlon and an AquaBike race and a Super Sprint Tri. The Festival is the perfect event to test your newly found triathlon abilities, or to try out a distance you have yet to conquer. The Super Sprint…
Why Racing Events will host the 34th Annual PDX TRI at beautiful Blue Lake in Fairview Washington on Sunday, July 29th, 2018. This fun, mid-summer event offers strong competition for all athletes. The beautiful course is flat, fast and scenic, with views of the Columbia River, Portland Airport, Mt. Hood & Blue Lake park. The PDX Tri and Muti-Sport Festival offers 3 distances including the olympic, sprint and My First Tri for the triathlon, duathlon and aqua…
The Blue Lake Triathlon, hosted by Why Racing Events was perfect this year. The weather was warm enough to feel comfortable the entire race without being too warm for the run at the end of the olympic triathlon. The temperature of Blue Lake was a little cooler this year, but still perfectly comfortable in a sleeveless wetsuit or for some, no wet suit at all. With a little cloud cover, it allowed athletes to push…
With summer just around the corner, the 37th annual Blue Lake Triathlon & Multi-Sport Festival is a great way to kick off the season. If you haven’t been training like you wanted through the winter and spring, Why Racing Events has you covered. It has been around forever and has really become a destination “must-do” event for new racers and seasoned veterans. On Saturday the super sprint triathlon/duathlon/aquabike for kids and adults will jump start…
Lace up your shoes and grab your friends and family for the 43rd annual Blue Lake Runs on Saturday, October 14 th. Fall is not the time to let your training slack! Come join runners and walkers of all paces for Oregon Road Runners Club’s fun fall event. Glimpse the Columbia river and beautiful fall foliage while winding on scenic trails before joining up with an out and back portion on paved trails. The course…
The Blue Lake Triathlon was wonderful this year. The weather was perfect for racing. I was worried the swim might be cold, but when I dipped my toes into the lake it felt as warm as the water at the club where I train, and it nearly was, at a balmy 74 degrees. With the cloud cover, it definitely allowed athletes to push hard for personal bests. I competed last year, when temperatures were closing in…
With rains tapering off (sometimes) and sunny days becoming more frequent (sort of..) we know that triathlon season is not far off! Some of the first triathlons of the summer take place on June 3rd and 4th during Why Racing Events’ Blue Lake Triathlon and Duathlon Festival Weekend at Blue Lake Park in Fairview, Oregon. The variety of distances will offer an event for multi-sports athletes of all ability and experience levels. This year, the Saturday…
With Halloween rapidly approaching, it’s time to start getting ready for one of the fastest growing and most popular categories of seasonal running events, the zombie runs, in which participants choose whether to be “Survivors” and get a head start, or “Zombies” and hunt down their victims by trying to ketchup with them. These events have legs (and arms and torsos), and one of the best is the Zombie Fest Run 2 Survive, presented by…
If running is not enough for you, then perhaps you need to check out one of the combination races. But what if you can’t decide if you want to include swimming, or you aren’t sure what distances you want? Why Racing Events’ MidSummer Triathlon & Duathlon – now in its 32d year – is bound to have an event for you on July 31, 2016. Don’t like swimming? Sign up for the duathlon, which is a run-bike-run…
