The fall racing season is heating up with two back-to-back weekends packed with performances by Rose City Track Club. Stumptown XC – Lents Park Nothing says fall like cross country! On Saturday, September 29th, 12 teammates took on the first of the Stumptown Cross Country Race Series in Lents Park. “The first race is always […]
On Saturday, September 22nd, teammates Emma Notario, Marla Smith, and Kathy Tomlinson lined up for the start of the Reed 5K in Portland and the Best Dam Run in Estacada. All three runners sought to get the best out of themselves: “I am committed to figuring out the 5k,” proclaimed Notario, who raced her first […]
Hard work paid off for Rose City Track Club over Labor Day weekend at the Roses on the River 5K, Backcountry Rise 20 Mile, and the Wine Country Half Marathon. Liz Anjos after winning the Inaugural Roses on the River 5K On a brisk Saturday morning in Portland, Liz Anjos tested her legs and picked […]
Fionna Fallon (second from right) with team Goats N’ Roses, the women’s overall winners of Hood To Coast Strong races and PRs were plentiful for Rose City Track Club over the last weekend in August. Seven teammates toed the line with appearances at the popular Hood to Coast relay, the Canby Dahlia Run 10K, the […]
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 […]
