Mile races are fun. Fun as a participant (faster than a 5k, yet wholly manageable), and fun as a spectator (you can see things unfolding over the 4 laps but it’s long enough for a surprise ending). The Rose City Mile is scheduled for Saturday, June 29 at Duniway Track. Registration is $25 if you sign up by the 27th, or $30 day of race. The first heat will step off at 10a, starting with…
The 3rd Annual Teddy Twilight track meet is scheduled for Saturday, March 2nd, 2019 at Roosevelt High School in North Portland. No, the meet is not named after a Sinatra-like crooner or a boxer from the 1930s; the name “Teddy Twilight” refers to the school’s namesake Theodore Roosevelt and the fact that the events begin at 5:00p. The meet is open to all comers, and is a fundraiser for track athletes in North Portland. “All…
The 11th Annual Millicoma Marsh Trail and Track Runs are coming up on Saturday, October 8th in Coos Bay. The event includes a flat and scenic 5k on the marsh trails, a 400 meter kids’ run, and a 1-mile race. Both the kids’ run and the mile take place on the Millicoma Middle School track. With cross-country, track, and kids’ races, and a chance to run a track mile, this sounds like a perfect family…
On Friday evening, August 5th, Portland Track is hosting a 10,000 meter track race. Note, that I didn’t call it a “10K”. One of my running quirks is referring to track races in thousands of meters, and leaving the “K”s to the roads. Portland Track describes their motivation to host this event very nicely: “The 10,000m is a race that’s losing respect. 25 laps around the track is a race of beauty, of strength and…
When a race has been run every year since 2012, it usually wouldn’t be cause to cheer its last year, but that’s the situation here – this will be the 5th, and last, year of the Run for the White Oak Savanna. That’s because the sponsoring group, Neighbors for a Livable West Linn, expects to reach its fundraising goal this year, which will enable it to purchase the remaining acres of the White Oak Savanna for…
