Author: Adam Engst

July Track Meet: Blazing Times and Tons of Kid Heats

FLRC’s July track meet is in the books, once again showcasing some of the area’s fastest runners and introducing lots of youngsters to running, thanks to the Ithaca Youth Bureau, Lansing Lightning, Auburn Pulsars, and Team PREFO clubs. We had 133 finishers total, nearly 40 percent of whom were under age 10. The meet led… Read more »

FLRC’s June Track Meet Hosts Fast Times and Lots of Kids

FLRC’s first summer meet of 2018 at Lansing High School was a rousing success, with 142 runners participating, thanks to large groups from the Ithaca Youth Bureau and the new Lansing Lightning club. They brought a ton of young children, joining our usual clubs: the Auburn Pulsars, Southern Tier SOAR, and Team PREFO. That’s at… Read more »

Recap of FLRC’s massive March indoor track meet

FLRC’s final indoor track meet of 2018 went off without a hitch on Sunday, and full results are now available. The meet was one of our largest ever, thanks in part to being cosponsored by the Cornell Running Club as a National Intercollegiate Running Club Association (NIRCA) meet that drew teams from as far away… Read more »

Smooth Running and Fast Times in FLRC’s February Indoor Track Meet

FLRC’s February 2018 indoor track meet is in the books! On Sunday, 230 runners piled into Cornell’s Barton Hall to compete in the 2 mile, 800m, 200m, 1 mile, and 4x400m relay. We had runners as young as 5 and as old as 70 (sometimes in the same heat). Everything went swimmingly (runningly?) and good… Read more »

FLRC Annual Meeting Celebrates 50 Years of Running on March 18th

Join us for the 50th anniversary of the Finger Lakes Runners Club! On March 18th from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM at Joe’s Restaurant, we’ll be providing light appetizers and brief remarks about past, present, and future of the club. We’ll also have exhibits of memorabilia from the good old days of running in Ithaca…. Read more »

FLRC Group Runs Begin February 4th

Running with other FLRC members just got easier, thanks to several group runs being organized for 2018! With Shelly Marino as our volunteer Group Run director and a few FLRC members who’ve volunteered to lead these runs, we’ve been able to schedule a regular run for the first and third Sundays of every month, starting on… Read more »

Stellar performances at FLRC’s January indoor track meet on Sunday

FLRC’s first indoor track meet of 2018 is in the books, and there were some stunning performances! With 188 runners, attendance was down a bit from previous years, even though the previous day’s high school meet was canceled due to bad weather — the roads were still a bit treacherous and the SAS ATOMS team… Read more »

2017 MITHACAL MILE SERIES Winners

Congratulations to the stalwart milers who posted the fastest times across at least four of FLRC’s seven 2017 track meets and thus won awards in our first ever MITHACAL MILE SERIES! You can see the full final results online. We had an award ceremony at the Finger Lakes Running & Triathlon Store (thanks, Ian and… Read more »

High Noon and FLRC Winners and Results from the PGXC 2017 #1 Race

Congrats to the High Noon men and FLRC women who competed in the first PGXC cross country race of the season at Clay Central Park in Liverpool on Sunday. The weather was fabulous, the course was soft but flat, and the competition was stiff, but everyone had a great time. Full results are available but… Read more »

August Track Meet Results

Last week’s track meet at Lansing High School’s track was the final FLRC track meet of 2017, and 91 runners managed to escape getting seriously wet as the torrential downpour let up in time for the events. Full results are available. Adam Pacheck led off the meet with a masterful 5000m, which he won in… Read more »