Thank you to all the Turkey Trotters and volunteers who came out to run in the barely double-digit temperature! Together we raised $2,549 for Loaves & Fishes of Tompkins County. Matt Bishop won a Purity Ice Cream pie for having the closest predicted time, finishing five seconds off his prediction and edging out Jay Hubisz’s six-second differential. (Full results as… Read more »
Race Surface: Road
Ithaca 5 & 10 2018
Fillmore 5K 2018
Thank you to the 90 runners who came out for the 5K and Family Fun Run to support the community and the Four Town First Aid Squad. We had some great weather for the race and some fast finishes. Leon Atkins — remember him from his string of dominating performances at the track meets? — took… Read more »
Women’s Distance Festival 2018
Twilight 5K 2018
So another Twilight 5K is in the books. This year we had both rain and the train, 413 runners, several regional Girls on the Run teams, and Joel running barefoot in a banana suit. Approximately 140 runners were under the age of 18, the youngest being 7. The men’s winner was Ethan Seltzer in 17:23…. Read more »
Skunk Cabbage Classic 2018
Winter Chill 5K #4 2018
Winter Chill 5K #3 2018
Winter Chill 5K #2 2018
What’d we say last week about the weather? This time it was even more wintry. Chill #2 was plenty cold with significant snow over the entire 3.1 miles, thereby ensuring slower finishing times across the board. RDs Bob and Sarah kept things groovy, far out, and radical with this week’s 1960s theme. A handful of… Read more »
Winter Chill 5K #1 2018
The FLRC started off the calendar year at the tail end of a “cyclone bomb,” which handed us much more frigid conditions than usual for the first Winter Chill of 2018. The theme for this week’s race was 1950s, but costumes were in short supply thanks to the arctic blast. Nevertheless, 61 runners and one… Read more »