Getting ready for a relay used to mean packing, planning, and … a whole of preparation. Don’t get me wrong, I still had a blast at the 2019 Wild Rogue Relay, but Gorgeous Relays’ one-day relays have really spoiled me. With a job and two kids, plus ORRC and Run Oregon work, I prefer free-range relays. So I’m pretty amped for the 2019 Gorgeous Wine Relay coming up this Sunday and sending us on a…
Let’s face it, one-day relays are fun. You get a team of 3-6 runners together, spend half the day running, drinking beer, and laughing, then go out afterwards to keep the fun going! The Bend Beer Chase is one such one-day relay that keeps it short (55 miles) and keeps it real. The neat thing about the Beer Chase series is that at each exchange, there is a local brewery that sponsors that leg. So they…
Less than a month remains until the 2019 Gorgeous Portland Pub Relay, hosted by our friends at the Gorgeous Run Series. Their one-day relays are fun and known for offering amazing views, sometimes on less-traveled trails. They have a dedicated following, in part because the more of their relays you run each year, the bigger discounts you get on registration. This year’s Pub Relay is on Saturday, May 18, with the first teams starting at…
As I sit typing this (and lets be honest, probably as you are reading this), it’s raining outside. I don’t know about you, but I am about ready for some summertime running – or at least something dry. Summer also means the crossover into relay season, and do we have a fun one to relay. Cascade Relays (directors of the extremely popular CLR), are no strangers to the relay world and have expanded their one-day…
They sure got the name right, this was definitely a gorgeous relay. We were lucky to have great cool weather in the morning and a clear and sunny afternoon. I had the unique experience of starting off our team as Runner 1. Our team was made up of a veteran Run Oregon relay team from the Sunstone Running Club. Found Kelly Barten regularly runs with Sunstone and has convinced them to write for the blog…
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 opportunity only up a couple of weeks ago and partly because we were busy doing other running events in the weeks prior. But we’ll go with the explanation that we are an “experienced…
Over the past few years, team relay race that take a small team of four to six people, one van and no overnight runs have become relatively commonplace. Terrapin Events’ Rose City Relay takes place on Saturday, June 30th, with its start and finish at Level Beer on the Columbia River and NE 148th St. The running relay course is 66 miles long, and teams can consist of two, four or six runners maintaining an…
This is the 2nd part in the recap of Run Oregon’s 2018 Hood to Coast Pacific Relay team, run by our friends from the Sunstone Running Club. The baton returned to the team’s first runner again for leg 7. This was leg was reported to be 8.24 miles long. After the handoff, the leg started on a paved road along the beautiful Nestucca River. After about 2 miles, the road turned onto a section of graveled…
As Run Oregon bloggers were all otherwise engaged on the weekend of the inaugural Hood to Coast Pacific Relay (well, the restart, and not technically the first-first), we recruited our friends at the Sunstone Running Club to check it out for us. This one-day, 12-leg relay was designed for teams of 6, but many teams ran with fewer participants. The relay was run on Saturday, May 5, starting from Bald Peak near Hillsboro and finishing…
Once in a while, the Run Oregon bloggers have too many races (or elementary school fund raisers) on our schedules to run EVERY race, even though we might like to. So we’ve asked our friends from the Sunstone Running Club to share their experiences preparing for and running the Hood to Coast Pacific Relay on May 5. Sunstone is an exceptionally supportive and welcoming run club based out of South Beaverton, and a number of…
