Race Preview: 2021 ORRC Garlic Festival Half Marathon, 10K, & 5K (North Plains)
ORRC is back you should be too! After a year with virtual options and small group runs, it is so great to be looking ahead to Oregon Road Runners Club’s [...]
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Race recap: 2018 ORRC Garlic Festival 10k
After a week of temps in the 90’s, the morning of the 2018 Garlic Festival dawned cool and cloudy with a chance of rain. The forecast was just right for [...]
Race Preview: 2018 ORRC Garlic Festival 5K, 10K, and Half Marathon (North Plains)
[Race Preview submitted by Charissa Yang] Fun stinks! What’s that, you say? That’s the motto of the Annual North Plains Elephant Garlic Festival, now in its 21st year… the setting [...]
Race Preview: 2017 ORRC Garlic Festival 5K/10K/half marathon (North Plains)
Do you like garlic? I like it a lot, especially when it’s been roasted. When I go to Mod Pizza, I load up on all kinds of vegetables and herbs, [...]
Race Preview: 2017 Havoc at the Hideout 8k Trail Run (North Plains)
“It’s the journey, not the destination” is the familiar quote that ran through my head many times while I was trekking through my first X-Dog race. There are lots of [...]
Race Preview: 2016 ORRC Garlic Festival 10K & 5K (North Plains, Or)
The benefits of consuming garlic are similar to those of the health effects of running; warding of colds and flu by keeping your immune system healthy, lowering blood cholesterol levels [...]
Race Preview: 2016 Mountaindale Sun Bare Buns Fun Run
2016Load your running shoes, socks, and sunscreen in your fanny pack for the 5th annual Bare Buns Fun Run at the Mountaindale Sun Resort in North Plains, on Sunday, August [...]
Race Preview: 2015 Warrior Dash
You think you have what it takes to be a warrior? Are you fearless when it comes to barbed wire? Not afraid of a little mud (or a lot of [...]
Race Preview: ORRC Garlic Festival 10K, 5K Run and Walk
Fun Stinks! Perhaps with a little garlic and a little sweat, it really does. The North Plains Garlic Festival is coming up, and before you partake in some of the [...]
Preview: ORRC Garlic Festival 5k/10k in North Plains
The ORRC Garlic Festival is returning this August 9th – a Saturday – with the usual 10k and new this year a 5k to replace the 2-miler. On the roster [...]