Author: Pete Kresock

FLRC Challenge Registration and Two Courses Are Now Open

Registration for the FLRC Challenge  is now open—read all the details, check out the medals and swag, learn how self-timing works, see the full course list, ponder the prizes, and pore over the rules. We’ve also created a special FLRC Challenge forum  for asking questions, chatting about courses, dissecting the standings, and friendly needling of other teams… Read more »

2021 FLRC Scholarship Program

The Finger Lakes Runners Club is proud to announce our annual scholarship program is open for 2021: Program/Eligibility A minimum of two unrestricted $1,000 scholarships to be awarded to two deserving high school seniors who participated on their school’s cross country and/or track and field teams. Eligible students must reside in Tompkins or a surrounding… Read more »

Virtual COVID-19 Run Results and Gift Card Winners

A huge thank you to each and every one of you for helping out Ian and Finger Lakes Running Company! Together we raised $15,335.00 to help Ian and his shop stay above water while closed under the New York governor’s mandate. When I put this run together I expected maybe 200 people max. Instead, we… Read more »

The FLRC Book Lending Library

The next best thing to running is reading about running, right? The FLRC Lending Library is a collection of books covering our sport, from the mile to ultramarathons and everything in between. Genres include everything from training guides to memoirs and biographies, fiction, philosophy, and many more. Best of all, our library is open to… Read more »

High Noon and FLRC Close Out a Successful 2019 PGXC Cross-Country Season

Sunday’s race at Finger Lakes Community College in Canandaigua was the fifth and final race in the 2019 Pete Glavin Upstate New York Cross Country Series. Although High Noon missed winning the Masters race by a single point, and thus the season, we still had a highly successful meet. Individual Results | Team Results |… Read more »

FLRC Family Running Program For Kids and Tots

As part of the FLRC Family Running Program, our Kids & Tots running group will continue through the winter all the way through our final Indoor Track Meet on March 29. Led by Nichole Cappadora, this running group is for children age seven and under. It’s a great way to introduce kids to the sport… Read more »

High Noon Wins Open and Masters in PGXC #4 at Taughannock

For the first time in many years, the High Noon men’s Open team captured the overall team title in Sunday’s fourth Pete Glavin Upstate New York Cross Country race at our home course at  Taughannock Falls State Park. Not to be outdone, the High Noon Masters team also held off a strong GVH team to… Read more »

Results and Photos From Pete Glavin X-C Race #3

Results and photos are in from the Pete Glavin Cross Country Series Race #3 The 6k race was held Sunday in Akron Falls, New York (just east of Buffalo). Apart from a second place from the High Noon Open team, our teams suffered from a number of our best runners sitting this one out due… Read more »

Danby Down & Dirty Results

The course was drier than usual this year, while a frigid, low-30-degree start gave way to a sunny and warmer finish line. Word from the Thatcher Pinnacles is that the fog dissipated enough for a clear view of the western valley as runners crested the course’s high point at mile 4. The forest was abound… Read more »

FLRC and High Noon Teams Notch 2nd Place at PGXC Race

Sunday’s Pete Glavin Cross Country Series race once again featured lovely—if hot—fall weather, and while our FLRC and High Noon teams weren’t able to win any of the races, we did manage three second-place team  finishes and two individual second-place finishes. Results are available here, but in new formats that make parsing them difficult. This… Read more »