Club News

Great job to everyone who ran the BarnArts Race Around the Lake 5K/10K, May 18th in Barnard VT. For the 4th race in the Upper Valley Running Series (UVRS), we had a challenging course with a few muddy spots, but spirits were high for the many UVRC finishers. Results: https://runsignup.com/Race/Results/15854#resultSetId-551642;perpage:100 We’ve got a couple of races coming that will likely be before the July newsletter. First is the classic Skip’s Run 4 miler in Lebanon NH, on Father’s Day June 15: https://skipsrun.org Then, on July 4th, it’s the Red, White, and Blue 6.2, 5K/10K also in Lebanon NH: https://lebanonnh.gov/823/Red-White-Blue-62-and-5K What’s…

It was never my intention to participate in the Upper Valley Segment Running Challenge. As the organizer, it felt weird to simultaneously oversee a challenge and compete in it. But I changed my mind when someone – jokingly, in good fun – gave me their thoughts on the whole thing: “The Segment Challenge? Oh yeah, I heard about that! Isn’t that the thing where you have to run along a small small stretch of land like a million times? That’s the exact opposite of what I want to be doing. I want to be running as many segments as I…

The Segment Challenge email sent to the club in late April by William Ren came at just the right time for me. I had not run much over the winter, and the nudge of a challenge is just what I needed. Here are some of the things I experienced and learned. Spoiler alert: the Upper Valley is a great corner of the world. Experiencing its facets with the changes of spring and the weather made it even more interesting. Five of the six segments were “old friends,” but even they changed throughout the challenge. This was most obvious in the…