March 2026 Newsletter

Letter from a Board Member

Greetings, UVRC, and happy March! I recently returned from a week of running, hiking, and playing in warm, sunny Arizona. I went to grad school in Flagstaff more years ago than I care to admit, so we decided to spend a week visiting old friends and old favorite trails. We got to tour though the […]

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March Announcements

Running Buddy Needed Sarah Peters is a 37 year old Special Olympic Track athlete who is looking for a Running Buddy  to train/run with in the / around the downtown Hanover area. Sarah will represent New Hampshire at the National Special Olympic Games in Minneapolis in June 2026.    An ideal schedule would be 2-3 times

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UVRS Series Update

The 2026 Upper Valley Running Series (UVRS), brought to you by BE Fit Physical Therapy, 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: https://d368g9lw5ileu7.cloudfront.net/races/results_ozyw8hjdx558vihpx5f4coq0k0my.pdf You can find UVRS standings (mostly up-to-date) on the UVRS website: The next

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Couch to Core Update

By: Laurie Franklin Looking for something to do on Saturday morning besides sleeping in? Twenty-three people now show up at the Seminary Hill gym at 0800 for an hour-long bootcamp session. They seem to be having fun—and they keep coming back—so I’d call that a win. This group grew out of a need to bridge

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Running in Alaska – February

By Tim Smith It is hard to believe that it has been a whole month since I put pen to parchment and sent a missive off to the upper valley.   I was out recently with Running Club North, for their Wednesday night, “Fahrenheit Be Darned” run and was thinking about how much light we now

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Boston Prep 16 miler Recap

Ryan in Florida, the rest of us in New Hampshire It’s Jan. 25th — 0 degree F. It’s chilly. Quite frigid. Too cold to run, some might say. And yet for one member of our motley UVRC crew, it is actually quite balmy. Ryan has made the calculated—some might say informed—decision to run in Florida.

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