Club News

The 2025 Upper Valley Running Series (UVRS) is underway! The first race in the series was the RedZone 5K in Wilder VT. Congratulations to all of the UVRC participants; race results are here and photos can be found below. We’re working on UVRS standings, but not urgently since we’re so early in the season. Stay tuned. The next race in the series is the Upper Valley classic, the Lebanon Shamrock Shuffle 5K! The race takes place at Lebanon Town Hall, on March 15th. So, what is this Upper Valley Race Series (UVRS) that you’re hearing so much about? It’s our…

The Chicago Hustle is a stair climb up what used to be called the John Hancock Center in Chicago. This building was renamed a few years ago, and technically it is no longer called the Hancock. The annual stair climb was also renamed when the Hancock building lost its real name, going from Hustle up the Hancock to the Chicago Hustle. The Hustle is 94 floors. Each climber is assigned a wave, and my wave had a 2:00pm start time. I arrived at the Hancock around 1:15pm, dropped oO a backpack at a Hilton hotel across the street where there…

Chapter drafts continued and subject to change. 3. The Chimes It’s dark. The Old Meeting House bell is chiming – one…two…three…four…five…six…  Time to get up. Stoney pulls back the covers, plants his bare feet on the chilly pine floor, steadies himself, takes three cautious steps toward the bathroom door thinking,   Did I hear the chimes at two and three?  Slides the glass door shut. Raindrops splatter on the back deck. Faint moonlight illuminates the tenuous snow cover on the lake. Louise rolls over and pulls up the covers. Awake, expectant but still a little groggy, Mookie waits patiently curled up…