Formerly known as the Volcano Valley Half, Run With Paula is moving this event to the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend and aptly calling it the Memorial Day Half. The location remains the same, and I look forward to running the trails of Willamette Mission State Park again this year. The park is set on the banks of the Willamette and is surrounded by hops and other fields. Access to the park requires a $5…
The second annual Volcano Valley half marathon, 10k and 5k took place at Willamette Mission State Park on Sunday, May 1st, 2016. The weather was a perfect sunny morning in the 50’s when nearly 600 runners and walkers gathered at group picnic site B inside the state park to run that morning’s race. Full results for all distances can be found here. I arrived at Willamette Mission State Park about 45 minutes before the scheduled start…
