The Cascade Lakes Relay group is ready for 2021…are you?!?! The CLR is Oregon’s most challenging running relay course. It starts in the Cascade Mountains at Diamond Lake Resort, travels through the Oregon Outback and rural agricultural country, and winds back to the Cascade Lakes Highway, around Mt. Bachelor and into the resort community of Bend. You’ll see more cows than semi-trucks and enjoy the smell of pine trees instead of exhaust. If you are seeking…
Why Bacon? I have to say this wonderful costume has been my tried and true standard. It’s lightweight, breathable and everyone LOVES BACON! I was given the dubious honor to run the well-known leg 29 which is also known as the costume leg. There were amazing costumes out there that I have to bow down to. The man in the very hot panda costume is either a costume running God or insane or both as…
Beautiful Bend, bountiful beer and relay running combined to make the inaugural Bend Beer Chase Relay a memorable event put on by the Cascade Lakes Race Group. Run Oregon put together a five-person team and had our readers vote on our team name. Under Beer Pressure to Run Oregon was the winning name that we ran under. Three of our team members left earlier on Friday at noon from Portland to get to Bend. On our way,…
Back on September 8, Matt Rasmussen wrote a preview for the Beer Bend Chase that is being held on Saturday, October 11. Run Oregon has decided to field a team for this event and will blog about our experience running this new one-day relay in Central Oregon. Why are we running this race? I have done a number of relay races over the years including Hood to Coast and Cascade Lakes Relay which were great experiences. Back in May I got a…
