The holidays are coming and that means it’s almost time for the 2023 Ugly Holiday Sweater Run. This free annual race includes options for a 5k run/walk as well as a one mile walk, both starting at the Tualatin Road Runner Sports. After the race, enjoy hot drinks and goodies along with the holiday festive environment and the crazy holiday sweaters that participants will be wearing! This event will benefit the Ladybug CDH Foundation, which is an…
With the onset of fall comes the annual Regatta Run in Tualatin. This 5K coincides with the annual West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta, an event you don’t want to miss. Believe it or not, the Pumpkin Regatta is a competition of rowing giant pumpkins across a lake like they are boats! So you can run a 5K, watch people try to control giant floating pumpkins, and enjoy the many other festivities being held that day…
Saturday, October 19, 2019 marks the 11th Annual Regatta Run 5k in Tualatin benefiting the Corporal Matthew Lembke Scholarship Foundation. The scholarship is available to graduating Tualatin High School seniors. Mr. Lembke was a graduate of the class of 2005 who was on his third tour of duty of the Middle East in Afghanistan in 2009, when he sustained critical injuries from an IED. The result of which was an infection that lead to his death…
Attention Obstacle Course Race enthusiasts – here’s your chance for a little pre-season OCR tune-up! The Dirty Leprechaun 5K is back at Lee Farms with some new obstacles promised for this year. Start our your St. Patrick’s Day weekend with 20+ obstacles and plenty of mud. Expect to run, slide, slip, and slog through the mud on this one. Just don’t lose a shoe! (Yes, I have seen it happen and have come close to…
There’s just something fun and festive about breaking out an ugly holiday sweater and going for a run with a group of equally ugly sweaters. So, I gathered a few of my running friends to join me for the 7th Annual Ugly Holiday Sweater Run. Some of them were running it for the first time and some were returning. This annual event that encourages us to get ugly is a free, low-key, untimed 5K. This…
The 10th annual Regatta Run is held at Tualatin Community Park on Saturday, October 20. The event is a fundraiser for the Matthew Lembke Memorial Scholarship fund, which awards scholarships to graduating seniors at Tualatin High School. The race starts and ends near the big picnic shelter in Tualatin Community Park. The course takes participants on the walking/biking paths through Cook Park. It is mostly flat and fast, aside from one hill towards the middle…
Lately I’ve come to really appreciate low key fun runs that offer exercise and camaraderie without too many bells and whistles. The races in the Oregon Brewery Running Series deliver just that. Last weekend, I participated in my first OBRS event, and was very excited since I had heard all about it at the season opener event last month. The run took place at Stickmen Brewery taphouse in Tualatin, which is tucked away in an…
It was cool and wet on the morning of this year’s Regatta Run 5k. Rain on race morning is not my favorite, but I’ve lived in the Northwest long enough to get over it quickly and add a rainshell to my running outfit. I had talked my teenager into running this race with me, so since I had already picked up our race packets at Roadrunner Tualatin the day before, we aimed to get to…
When I hear “regatta” I think sailboats. Growing up by the lake in southern Germany, summer weekends were often spent sitting by the shore watching sailing or windsurfing regattas. The Pumpkin Regatta in Tualatin is slightly different, since there are no bright white sails dotting the horizon, but rather boats are fashioned out of giant pumpkins, and regatta participants paddle their vessel around the lake at the Tualatin Commons. The Regatta Run 5k starts off…
High school sports teams do their best do raise money through inventive activities. The best way to do that is through sharing the sport they love. The Wilsonville High School cross country team hosts its Night Meet fundraiser on the last Friday of Summer break, which this year falls on Friday, August 25. The evening starts with an open division 3k (1.86M) run, which is open to non-high school runners of any age. Registration for…
