As if on cue, the Oregon weather turned from summer to fall on a dime right in time for the Oregon Fall Half Marathon/Quarter Marathon/5K at St. Josef’s Winery. The several hundred runners who showed up in Canby on the morning of September 7, 2019, were greeted with cool weather and overcast skies. Having registered for the 5K, which had a start time of 8:45 a.m., I arrived a little before 8:30 a.m., which was…
Fall is right around the corner, and so too is the Oregon Fall Half Marathon/Quarter Marathon/5K. This is the fourth and final installment of Uberthons’ seasonal races throughout the areas surrounding the Portland metro region. The Fall Event takes place at St. Josef’s Winery in Canby on September 7, 2019. All three distance options start in the same location and head out on the same route. The 5K has the earliest turnaround, then the quarter…
Fall has a good argument as the best season: the weather is mostly mild, it has great holidays (Halloween and Thanksgiving), and kids go back to school. What better way to welcome it on September 8, 2018, than with the Oregon Fall Half and Quarter Marathon and 5K? This is the fourth (and last) in Uberthons’ seasonal series of races, and even if you’ve participated in the previous three, this one will offer a different…
The event may have been named Oregon Fall, but it still felt more like summer than fall. Still, that the race was able to take place was reason itself to rejoice, considering that the air in the Willamette Valley during the past week looked and smelled like something out of Dante’s Inferno due to the out-of-control wildfires in the Columbia Gorge area. Seriously, who can forget the apocalyptic warnings that our air quality was worse than Beijing’s?…
I don’t know about you, but I’m so ready for fall to get here. Enough with the 90+ (or gasp, 100+) degree days. Enough with the blinding sunshine. And here to welcome the best season of the year is the last of Uberthons’ seasonal events, the Oregon Fall Half Marathon, Quarter Marathon, and 5K, on September 9. (The others were the Winter event at The Reserve, the Spring event at Heirloom Roses, and the Summer event…
Early summer is technically still summer, but I don’t think anyone is going to complain that the Oregon Fall Half Marathon & 10K took place on September 10, rather than a month later. About 300 of us showed up that glorious morning at St. Josef’s Winery in Canby. It was sunny and around 61 degrees at the start of the race. This was the fourth and last race in the Uberthons Half Marathon Series – one for each…
Fall is just around the corner (yea, enough with this summer heat!), which means it’ll be time for another in Uberthons’ Half Marathon series. The Oregon Fall Half Marathon will take place on September 10, 2016, starting at St. Josef’s Winery in Canby. For those keeping track, this was the location of last year’s Oregon Spring Half Marathon. In addition to the half marathon, there will also be a 10K option. The course map can be…
The Scrub Run is a new collaboration between race organizer Uberthons and the Medical Society of Metropolitan Portland to benefit Doernbecher Children’s Hospital at OHSU. It’s a combination race and dinner and music concert, with the food provided by Qdoba and the music by the winner of the Battle of the Doctor Bands. Expected to be run annually, the inaugural race took place on a bright, warm late afternoon on August 15 at St. Josef’s Winery…
The summer solstice is behind us, but daylight still stays with us pretty late these days. That means a late afternoon run leaves plenty of time afterward to enjoy some more sunshine and warm weather. The Scrub Run, a new race by Uberthons, takes advantage of the summer conditions to offer a three-for-one: a 5K race, followed by Qdoba dinner, and capped by a concert performed by the winner of the Battle of the Doctor…
Uberthons put on its first half marathon (and full marathon) in fall 2013, and doubled the number of half marathons the next year. Can you spot the pattern? Okay, to be fair, there are a number of patterns that spring from 1 and 2 … powers of 2, ordinal, etc. Let’s just go with the easy 1, 2, 3! That’s right, this year, Uberthons will be staging three (3) half marathons, one for each of…
