Rose City Runners Club

Climbing up the 5.5 mile hill toward Mt. Rushmore was the beginning of State No. 40 for my quest to run a half marathon in every state. This time Vivian decided to join me. John was gracious enough to be our driver, sherpa and photographer for our journey which began 3 days before the race. We took a horribly early 5 am flight from Newark to Denver to Rapid City, Idaho. The weather for the first two days was rainy and cool, but Vivian insisted that as soon as we got ourselv

USATF-NJ hosts several individual competitions in addition to the team competition. Runners can compete in Mini-1, Mini-2, Mini-3 and the Overall competition. When you look at the Long Distance Running calendar on the USATF-NJ site http://newjersey.usatf.org/Sports/Long-Distance-Running/Calendar.aspx, look for a designation such as "NBGP-500pts" in the race listing. Compuscore also usually indicates the points for a race in their calendar. This means it is a certified cours

RC2 was represented by small groups at the last two team championships: September 9 - Thanks to Kathy Ballance for checking out the newest race on the team championship schedule - By Hook or By Crook 12K. Kathy placed 2nd in her age group - congratulations! September 16 - Thanks to Lou, Michael, Robb and Himanshu for representing RC2 at the Liberty Half Marathon in Jersey City. There are a couple more races on the schedule: The XC 8K championship on October 21 at Deer Path P