The next Horsetooth Half training run is Sunday, March 11, at 8:00 A.M. Please note the different time than last time. We’ll leave from the Maxwell Natural Area parking lot. Distances and paces will vary. Remember to set your clocks ahead an hour Saturday night! See you out there!
There will be a new location for the Thursday night training runs (formerly at Campus West), summarized as follows: Thursdays (March 15-April 19): 6:00 P.M. Maxwell Natural Area. Runs are 4-7 miles. Thursdays (April 26 until mid-autumn): 6:30 P.M. Cottonwood Glen Park. Runs are 4-7 miles. Thursday night runs tend to be low key with […]
Hands down, this was the best weather for a Tortoise & Hare race all season: starting temperatures in the high 40s with lots of sun, and little of the ferocious wind that has blown through the Front Range the last few weeks. As evidence that the air was balmy, there were a lot more people […]
Have you ever wondered what your predicted time will be for your next Tortoise & Hare race? Have you tried to make sense of our T&H algorithm only to be reminded of how much you detested high school algebra? Well don’t worry; thanks to computer programming, you don’t have to do any math yourself to […]
Next Tortoise and Hare run is this coming Sunday, March 4th, 8AM at Cottonwood Glen Park. This time it’s a 12K (7.5 miles). You can check out the course description/map. Hope to see lots of you out there!
Remember that if you managed to score one of the 51% off Living Social vouchers for the Sharin’ O’ the Green 5k, you still have to sign up on active.com for the race (using your voucher number so it doesn’t cost you anything additional)! http://www.active.com/register/index.cfm?EVENT_ID=1997124&CHECKSSO=0 Select the Individual Registration w/ T-shirt option if you want […]
Living Social has a 51% off special going on for the Sharin’ O’ the Green. ($17 instead of the normal $35 price.) This is relevant for all of you who’d like to run the 5k race right before our club walks in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade just a couple blocks away in Old Town! […]
Tomorrow—Sunday, February 12—some FCRC’ers will be meeting at the Maxwell Open Space parking lot and start heading up the first hill of the Horsetooth Half Marathon at 7:30 A.M. While this run is open to anyone, note that this is an informal, “unorganized” training run and that representing it as otherwise could get us in […]
After Fort Collins received about eight inches of snow, FCRC President Connie warned everyone that “yes, it will be cold.” But it turned out not to be that bad: the sun was shining, the air was still, and the humidity was virtually zero. Thirty-one runners showed up today, earning the right to much on lots […]
Longtime Fort Collins Running Club member Alene Nitzky would like to extend a personal challenge regarding the extra day (Leap Day) we have this year. Basically, it amounts to using the extra 24 hours for the following: Volunteering your time Donating your extra day of pay Using it for fitness Sounds like a good idea […]
There are a few things to look forward to every four years: the Summer Olympics, the U.S. Presidential Election, and the Leap Day 5k! This event benefits Project Self-Sufficiency, which Connie—our FCRC president—works at. Details are below, as cut-and-pasted from the original flyer. Second Qudrennial Leap Day 5k benefitting Project Self-Sufficiency Wednesday, February 29, 2012 […]
Some of you may be interested to know how your predicted times for the Tortoise & Hare Races have been calculated this season. In a nutshell: the same as in previous years except for a little tweak, as summarized in the last paragraph of the following: Predicted time based on a season’s races: If there […]