This week’s SSOTW is one where I especially look like the little girl on the bottom. It’s a hill climb, which may not always be pretty but will always make you a stronger runner. It’s the Rocky Butte West Climb, and it’s a 1.32-mile segment with a 5% average grade, gaining almost 350 feet and some amazing views in the process. It’s also pretty popular, with 261 people recording a total of 832 attempts so far. The…
For this week’s Strava Segment of the Week, we are running east over the Tilikum Bridge. This is one of my new favorites, as it can extend the waterfront loop by just a half mile or can be used to cross the Willamette as an option with no cars. The segment is 0.37 miles and runs on the southern sidewalk (the one further from downtown. It starts near the start of the bridge – just…
This week’s Strava Segment of the Week is the Cedar Hills Trail Dash. I love running in this area, and there’s a great Saturday group run with the Bethany Runners Unite group (BRU) that starts from the Bethany Starbucks at 8a. Join them – they’re a fun, friendly group of people and paces range from about 8:00/mile to 10:30/mile. They’ll make sure you don’t get lost, and there are usually variations on the route to…
A few weeks ago, the Strava Segment of the Week was the FC North of Bridge to Pond. We looked at everyone from the Run Oregon Strava Club that ran the segment as part of the 2018 ORRC Greenway Trail Trial and picked one person at random to get an entry to the 2019 ORRC Greenway Trail Trial and that person was Aurora Roth! The Run Oregon admins (fancy name for people who don’t have…
A negative split is achieved in any race when the time for the 2nd half of the race is faster than the time for the 1st half of the race. Most of the talk about negative splits is related to marathons, where the feat is very difficult for runners both with and without experience. Marathons are hard – there’s no way around it – whether someone’s just trying to finish or they’re pushing every step…
