Gorgeous Relay Series

My Gorgeous Memories: Why you should sign up for the 2020 Virtual Gorgeous Relay

August 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

In 2017, I was introduced to the Gorgeous Relay Series. Having done several relays in the past, some good and some simply memorable, I was eager to try one of the Gorgeous races to see how they measured up. I’d heard that they lived up to their [read more...]

Race Recap: 2019 Gorgeous Wine Country Relay

August 9, 2019 // 0 Comments

Anyone who’s ever done a Gorgeous Race Series event knows they are in for a memorable event. These races, especially the relays, are fun, well organized, and as the series title would suggest, gorgeous!! The 2019 Gorgeous Wine Country Relay did [read more...]

Shenanigans and a Lack of Planning: A Recap of the 2019 Gorgeous Portland Pub Relay

May 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

“How about we don’t assign legs, instead, we draw names before each leg to see who will run; and how about we buddy up on each of them so no one runs alone (as in, we’d each run 2 legs)?” That’s how we started our [read more...]

Race Preview: 2019 Gorgeous Hood to Hood Relay

May 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

Huzzah, it’s another Gorgeous Relay! The Hood to Hood Relay is on Sunday, June 9th, and runs from Timberline Lodge to one of my favorite places in Oregon: Hood River. Let’s start this preview by taking a look at the elevation profile, [read more...]

A ‘Gorgeous Week’ preview of the Gorgeous Coast Relay (10.6.19)

February 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

Welcome to Gorgeous Week! We have partnered with Run Oregon to reach out to all you Gorgeous Runners during the most appropriate week of all…that’s right Valentine’s Day is coming! We will be featuring one of our 2019 Gorgeous Series events [read more...]

A ‘Gorgeous Week’ preview of the Gorgeous Relay (9.15.19)

February 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

Welcome to Gorgeous Week! We have partnered with Run Oregon to reach out to all you Gorgeous Runners during the most appropriate week of all…that’s right Valentine’s Day is coming! We will be featuring one of our 2019 Gorgeous Series events [read more...]

A ‘Gorgeous Week’ preview of the Gorgeous Wine Country Relay (7.14.19)

February 13, 2019 // 0 Comments

Welcome to Gorgeous Week! We have partnered with Run Oregon to reach out to all you Gorgeous Runners during the most appropriate week of all…that’s right Valentine’s Day is coming! We will be featuring one of our 2019 Gorgeous Series events [read more...]

2018 Gorgeous Coast Relay Recap – Part 2

October 31, 2018 // 0 Comments

The 2018 Gorgeous Coast Relay was run on October 6 starting in Astoria. The Run Oregon team was made up of a group of friends who has done a number of relays together, but never a one-day relay. Read about their thoughts on Legs 1-6 here, and below [read more...]

2018 Gorgeous Coast Relay Preview: Get Your Team Together by Sept. 30 for Captain Meeting

September 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Guest Community Bloggers Michael Schrift and Marc Larson The training and preparation for the Gorgeous Coast Relay (our third relay of the year for this team) has been a little more haphazard than the other two we’ve run. Partly because the [read more...]

Race Preview: 2018 Gorgeous Hood To Hood Relay

May 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

If you’ve never run one of the Gorgeous Relay races, you really should. I discovered the series last year and they have been some of my favorite races ever. They are thoughtfully planned, well executed, and truly as gorgeous as the name implies. [read more...]

Recap: Inaugural Gorgeous Oregon Coast Relay – Part 3 of 3

October 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

This year’s Gorgeous Oregon Coast Relay was run on Sunday, October 8 with a small field of teams made up of previous Gorgeous Relay teams. Because this is a brand-new relay, teams were “test running” the course, which meant that [read more...]

Recap: Inaugural Gorgeous Oregon Coast Relay – Part 2 of 3

October 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

This post covers legs 5-8 of the inaugural Oregon Gorgeous Coast Relay, run on Sunday, October 8 from Astoria to Cannon Beach. Run Oregon fielded an all-women’s team of four (you could run with up to 6 to a team), made up of Nikki Mueller [read more...]

Recap: Inaugural Gorgeous Oregon Coast Relay – Part 1 of 3

October 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

When the lovely team at Gorgeous Relays announced that they were running a new event this fall, we were pretty excited; when it was announced it would be the “Gorgeous Oregon Coast Relay,” we were ecstatic. This relay was run on a very [read more...]