Here’s your chance to run a classic ultra in nearby Winston-Salem. This year’s incarnation of the Twin City Track Club’s Frosty 50K also includes options for a 25K and a 50K relay (four runners per team, each runs a 12.5K leg). As usual the course takes runners on the wide dirt trail around Salem...
Huzzah! Here’s your chance to run a rare weekend double in the Piedmont! Begin with the Mistletoe Half Marathon & 5K in Winston-Salem on December 3, and follow it up with the inaugural Frosty 5K in Kernersville on December 4 at 2 p.m. If you’ve participated in the annual July Fourth 5K in Kernersville, then...
One of our favorite inaugural events of 2011 was the Martinsville Half Marathon. The cool March morning was perfect running weather—seemed like half the field PRed that day. Plentiful and enthusiastic volunteers and cheering sections along the route made the challenging course a little bit easier. Two different out-and-backs let us high-five our speedier...
Cap off your 2011 running season with a 24-hour run in nearby Rocky Mount, Virginia (about 30 miles north of Martinsville). Organized by the Crooked Road Running Club, the Crooked Road 24-Hour Ultra will begin at 8 a.m. on December 3. The course is a .94-mile loop at Waid Park, mostly flat except for...
Congratulations to everyone who participated in the inaugural Rockingham County GoFar 5K! Huge thanks go out to Joy Venable and her team at the Rockingham County Partnership for Children for bringing GoFar to our community and helping nearly 200 kids learn the joy of running and making healthy choices. Let’s make it 300...