As if on cue, the Oregon weather turned from summer to fall on a dime right in time for the Oregon Fall Half Marathon/Quarter Marathon/5K at St. Josef’s Winery. The several hundred runners who showed up in Canby on the morning of September 7, 2019, were greeted with cool weather and overcast skies. Having registered for the 5K, which had a start time of 8:45 a.m., I arrived a little before 8:30 a.m., which was…
Fall is right around the corner, and so too is the Oregon Fall Half Marathon/Quarter Marathon/5K. This is the fourth and final installment of Uberthons’ seasonal races throughout the areas surrounding the Portland metro region. The Fall Event takes place at St. Josef’s Winery in Canby on September 7, 2019. All three distance options start in the same location and head out on the same route. The 5K has the earliest turnaround, then the quarter…
Fall has a good argument as the best season: the weather is mostly mild, it has great holidays (Halloween and Thanksgiving), and kids go back to school. What better way to welcome it on September 8, 2018, than with the Oregon Fall Half and Quarter Marathon and 5K? This is the fourth (and last) in Uberthons’ seasonal series of races, and even if you’ve participated in the previous three, this one will offer a different…
The 6th annual Canby 5k run/walk and 10k run will take place this year on Saturday, June 16th at Canby’s Wait Park. This small town race is chip timed by Eclectic Edge, and all proceeds benefit Young Life of Canby and the Canby High School cross country team. Registration for the 5k is an affordable $30 and includes a shirt if you register before June 4th. The 10k is $35. For families of four or…
If you’ve never done an obstacle course race, the Warrior Dash is a good introduction to adventure races. I’ve had the pleasure of doing it twice and, as the website will tell you, it’s a race that “anyone can start and everyone can finish.” In my opinion, The Warrior Dash is as hard as you want to make it, and it’s more about having fun than anything else. The 2018 Warrior Dash will be on…
The event may have been named Oregon Fall, but it still felt more like summer than fall. Still, that the race was able to take place was reason itself to rejoice, considering that the air in the Willamette Valley during the past week looked and smelled like something out of Dante’s Inferno due to the out-of-control wildfires in the Columbia Gorge area. Seriously, who can forget the apocalyptic warnings that our air quality was worse than Beijing’s?…
I don’t know about you, but I’m so ready for fall to get here. Enough with the 90+ (or gasp, 100+) degree days. Enough with the blinding sunshine. And here to welcome the best season of the year is the last of Uberthons’ seasonal events, the Oregon Fall Half Marathon, Quarter Marathon, and 5K, on September 9. (The others were the Winter event at The Reserve, the Spring event at Heirloom Roses, and the Summer event…
After participating in several very big races this spring, I was really looking forward to the Canby 5k, a small town, small group race on a new-to-me route. With 140 participants in the 5k and just 36 in the 10k, the race promised to be less crowded and much fun. Canby is just 15 minutes from my home, and with a 10am start time, we didn’t even have to get up early! I had signed…
Come to Canby for a fun race that helps support an amazing cause this summer! The 5th annual Canby 5k Walk/Run and the 10k Run will be held on June 17th this year. The profits from the race go to support the Canby High School Cross Country team as well as the Canby Young Life/Wyldlife campers. The 5k and 10k will begin and end at Wait Park in Canby and it will be a chip…
Early summer is technically still summer, but I don’t think anyone is going to complain that the Oregon Fall Half Marathon & 10K took place on September 10, rather than a month later. About 300 of us showed up that glorious morning at St. Josef’s Winery in Canby. It was sunny and around 61 degrees at the start of the race. This was the fourth and last race in the Uberthons Half Marathon Series – one for each…
