Count us among those who aren’t in favor of changing the clocks twice yearly, as the switch to Daylight Saving Time cut into attendance. But we still had 4 teams and 122 runners who completed 314 events. Full results are on the FLRC website. For those taking photos at the meet, please share your images… Read more »
Category: Results
FLRC’s February Meet Offers Lots of Running and Jumping Opportunities
We’re getting back into the swing of indoor track meets again with our second meet of the year. Attendance was up, with 145 runners, including 7 teams, who completed a total of 338 efforts. Full results are on the FLRC website. Although we didn’t have a professional photographer at this meet, several people have uploaded… Read more »
FLRC’s January Meet Brings Community Indoor Track Back to Barton Hall
Thanks to excellent work by old and new volunteers alike, our first indoor meet since 2020 went off well. We hosted 134 runners, including 7 teams, who completed a total of 280 individual efforts. Full results are on the FLRC website, along with fabulous professional photos from Jamie Love. (The pictures below are representative of… Read more »
Hartshorne Masters Mile returns to host a new W55 American record
After a two-year pandemic hiatus, FLRC brought the Hartshorne Memorial Masters Mile back to Barton Hall on January 21st, 2023, putting on mile races for 65 local and elite masters runners from the Ithaca area, upstate New York, and throughout the US and Canada. The event went well, with fast times, exciting races, and a… Read more »
390 runners at 50th Turkey Trot raise record amount for Loaves & Fishes
The 50th running of the Finger Lakes Runners Club’s Turkey Trot was a huge success. A record $5,895 (and growing) was raised for Loaves & Fishes, and about 390 people participated on a sunny, 40-degree morning. We have some runner-taken photos from the race, and if you took any, please upload them! Donation History 2010–13:… Read more »
35 runners brave Monster’s rocky trails; Dan Timmerman flirts with the course record
On August 27th, 35 hardy runners took to the trails in Robert H. Treman State Park in the Monster Marathon and Half Marathon. The conditions were perfect for trail running, though they also attracted the 150-person Cornell crew team, which plugged up the trails for a few runners. Unique among FLRC’s races, Monster features age-… Read more »
Ithaca 5&10 returns with fun run, 5K, and 10K races
After a long, dry summer, it was surprising when September 11th dawned wet and drizzly, but that didn’t stop runners and volunteers from around the area from converging on Ithaca High School to participate in the Ithaca 5&10. At 8:30, 18 kids and parents kicked off the day’s events with a 1-mile untimed fun run…. Read more »
Fillmore Glen’s gorge forged by 97 intrepid trail runners
Trail runners flocked to Moravia’s gorgeous gorge on August 11th to tackle Fillmore Glen State Park’s trails, stairs, and footbridges at FLRC’s only Thursday evening race. A reroute on the North Rim Trail made for two new race distances, with the short course half a mile shorter than before at 3 miles and the long… Read more »
Experience triumphs over youth at this year’s Forest Frolic
104 runners flocked to Virgil to frolic along the singletrack trails in Kennedy State Forest, with 46 running the 7K and 56 completing the 15K. This summer’s drought left the trails bone dry, and the heat and humidity were noticeably more runner-friendly than normal for the late-July race day. This led to the Frolic’s best… Read more »
Fast and fun times at the Finger Lakes 50s
The Finger Lakes 50s sold out across all three distances and featured the best race day weather we’ve seen in years, so it’s no surprise that this year saw two course records fall and had a higher than average finishing rate in the longer distances. Photographer Jamie Love did a fantastic job capturing runners on… Read more »