There is a beautiful innocence when it comes to ladybugs. I remember gently removing them from inside spaces onto the tastiest looking flower I could find. Even now, if one shows up in my home, I ensure its safe return to its home outside. This same protection is what the leaders behind Ladybug Run for CDH Awareness want for the little ones born with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH), a potentially fatal congenital birth defect that…
Santa Claus is known for greeting naughty and nice children alike with three hearty “Ho”s, so why is one of the Portland area’s best Christmas themed races called the “Ho Ho Run”, with only two “Ho”s? Because Kevin Foreman, the quirky genius behind X-Dog Events built this 5k event around the classic Hostess chocolate covered and spiraled creme filled HoHos sponge cakes! A bounty of HoHos (and Sno-Balls, another seasonally appropriate Hostess staple) will fill…
Do you like running? (I would expect so, since you are at a site called Run Oregon….) Do you like chocolate? (Don’t most people…?) Hey, they’re both good for you. Science says so. What could be better than combining them into one event? Do that, and you get the Chocolatathon – a 5K and 10K race with a post-race chocolate bar! Race day is Saturday, February 10, at Cook Park in Tigard. This is the third…
There are some running events where you know you’ll have an excellent time, but the weather is the big wild card. This year was my third time running X-dog Events’ Ho Ho 5k in Tigard’s beautiful Cook Park, and the conditions were as perfect as you can wish for in early December. It wasn’t raining and the temperature hovered around 43* for the nearly 300 participants in this year’s event. When I got to the…
The Cook Park Marathon, Half Marathon and 5k keeps it simple: there’s chip timing, and homemade medals, and cap of 100 runners. The half and full marathon route is a 4.37 mi loop through the paved and dirt trails in Cook Park, run repeatedly (three times for the half, six for the full). There’s an aid station at the start/finish, and an optional tech t-shirt available for sale. The small scale and low registration cost bring out some…
X-Dog Events’ annual Ho Ho Run has become a welcome holiday season fixture on the race calendar. Often chilly and wet, this year’s edition of the festive 5K was blessed with pleasantly mild and dry weather, with only the occasional cloud to remind participants of the early December date. Registration and check-in was quick and efficient at several tables under cover at a picnic area in Tigard’s Cook Park. Entry forms, pens, and clipboards were…
If you’ve read our blog for a few years, you know that the Firecracker Triple is a three-race series made up of the Foot Traffic Flat and two lower-cost events put on by Beaverton runner Steve Walters. If you’ve ever thought about doing three events in one weekend, all three races offer a marathon, half marathon and this year, a 5k. This is just a reminder, in case you are jonesin’ for some more 5k action.…
