After a stressful and somewhat disappointing end to my fall marathon season, I decided it was time to take a year off from long distance running and focus instead on regaining my love of the sport and working on improving my times in the shorter distances. Unfortunately, this training season hasn’t been as smooth as […]
What a weekend for RCTC! Jaime Musgrave, Marla Smith, and RCTC coach Greg Mitchell took on the challenging Lilac Bloomsday Run 12K. This was Marla’s 31st year running Bloomsday and her first race post-partum after her second child, and she placed among the top 50 women in a very deep field. She said she’s feeling […]
The marathon is by far my favorite distance. Even after the first three marathons I ran, where the last six to eight miles were an utter mess, I loved the marathon. So in February, when I ran smart and strong at the Phoenix Marathon for a big PR, I became even more obsessed with the […]
On Patriot’s Day, Boston was quite literally taken by storm and Alejandro Fallas and Eric Laurel were there for all of it. On a day that could only be described as absolutely brutal with a strong headwind, endless sheets of rain, and a wind chill of 20 degrees, Alejandro and Eric put their winter training […]
One of the most celebrated weekends in running is upon us as the 122nd Boston Marathon approaches on Monday, April 16, 2018. Two Rose City Track Club members, Alejandro Fallas, and Fionna Fallon, will brave the notorious Northeast weather for the Boston Marathon and B.A.A. 5K. “I’ve always wanted to do the B.A.A. 5K,” Fallon […]
On Saturday, April 7th, Shasta Zielke, Fionna Fallon, and Liz Anjos trekked out to McMinnville, Oregon for the Linfield Jenn Boyman Invitational. Zielke recapped her first-time experience racing the 5K on the track. My goal for this spring has been to improve my 5K, with an A goal of running sub-18:00. With that goal in […]
The Peterson Ridge Rumble is a local race put on as a fundraiser for the Sisters High School Cross Country Team. They have a 20 miler and a 40 miler (although due to the fires this year it was a 35 miler). It is a Bend favorite and known for the low key vibes, beautiful views and […]
On the last weekend of February, four RCTC teammates flew from cold and dreary Portland down to sunny Arizona for the Mesa-Phoenix Marathon and Half Marathon. Juliana DePietro and Jaime Musgrave both ran the full marathon in stunning fashion, DiPietro smashing her personal best and goal of sub-4 hours with a finish of 3:55:01, and […]
A little bit of snow and wind wasn’t enough to stop Chloe Hallyburton and Greg Mitchell from taking part in the 50th annual Zena Road Runs, the oldest road race in Oregon put on by Willamette Valley Road Runners. Both Hallyburton and Mitchell opted for the 9.5 mile race, covering the 15K loop that has […]
On the weekend of February 3rd, Alejandro Fallas bravely took on back-to-back half marathons in Scio and Portland, Oregon. First up was the Roaring Half Marathon on Saturday, February 3rd. Fallas mentioned that he intended to run the race as a training run for the upcoming Boston Marathon, but decided to make a move late […]
This past weekend Dani Reese ventured up to the San Juan Islands in Washington to run the Orcas Island 25K for the second year in a row. She said she felt better and stronger than last year, took eight minutes off her previous time, and placed 5th overall woman. Here’s her recap of the experience: […]
Before this fall, Jaime Musgrave had never run a cross country race. By December, she had two Stumptown XC races under her belt and signed up to fly to Lexington, Kentucky with Rose City Track Club teammates Shauna Dool, Liz Anjos, and Krysta Gunvalson for the USATF Club Cross Country National Championship. Here is her […]
Stumptown XC / USATF Regional Champs Rose City Track Club had a record team showing at the final meet of the Stumptown Cross Country Series, which also served as the USATF Pacific Northwest Regional Championship at Fernhill Park in Portland on November 17th. Toeing the line (from left to right below) were Liz Anjos, Ashley […]
