Club News

UVRC Banquet – November 15th!  5:30-7:30p at the Enfield Community Center.  Kids and family are all welcome!  Dinner from Tacos y Tequila. Desserts for the banquet will be a potluck. Share your favorite sweet treat with your fellow runners! Feel free to BYOB as well. UVRC Runners in the News Our UVRC teammate Sean was featured in an iRunFar article recently! Check it out HERE. Volunteer Challenge Update The 2025 Volunteer Challenge is on! Every hour that you as a UVRC member spend volunteering at a race/running event or doing trail work will get you one ticket into a drawing…

There are a lot of things that need to happen to keep UVRC running (pun intended) smoothly. By things, I mean people volunteering to take on various tasks behind the scenes. And November seems like an appropriate month to thank a few of those unsung heroes of UVRC. While I am tasked with gathering and organizing content for the newsletter, there are other, far more tech-savvy folks, who publish it to the website. I want to send a huge thank you to Anne Farrell and Nicole Lasavio who have done this task for years. Recently, we’ve had two new folks…

My left knee crunched and buckled, a sharp pain seared up my leg and I stumbled. I’m okay, just keep running. Then another buckle and more pain, limping. What was happening? I guess this means I can’t do that half marathon on October 19th, six weeks away.  Relieved. That surprised me, I thought I wanted to do that half-marathon, maybe not. I kept moving, don’t give up yet, you could still do that race. I passed a house with a well-manicured lawn; the trees were just starting to turn burnt orange.  A pickup zoomed by me. I loved the homes…