If you love the camaraderie of running a relay, but aren’t a fan of the lack of sleep an overnight relay inevitably brings, you’ve got to try a one-day relay! Or perhaps you’ve already discovered the joys of the one-day relay. Either way, Barrel to Keg Relay is guaranteed to make you fall in love with relays again or remind you of why you can’t get enough of them. Barrel to Keg starts at the…
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…
Wine. Beer. Fundraiser to help people in poverty. Costumes. Lots of running, with friends or all by yourself. What else could you need in a day? The 7th Annual Barrel to Keg Relay to End Poverty is a great and scenic one day relay through the back country of the beautiful Oregon Coast that starts at the Harris Bridge Vineyard in Philomath, Oregon, winds through back roads, some trails and the usual paved roads, crosses…
Earlier this week, KGW ran a story that the locally-owned Epic Oregon Relay (which Run Oregon has run and reported on a number of times) was cancelling their 2017 event, scheduled to take place in just three weeks. KGW reported that the Epic team had merged with Ragnar Relays, but that captains were frustrated because they didn’t think they could get a refund. Well, Ragnar Relays has been extremely proactive since learning of this situation…
