"Striders Running" is now an official USA Track & Field Running Club.  If you become a member of member of USATF at www.utah.usatf.org you can affiliate yourself with Striders.  The club number is 149.  If you have any questions you can contact us at Striders. 

The hills get a little longer and a bit steeper for the WRC 10K coming up this Saturday, February 21^st at 8:00am.  If you're registered for the Winter Racing Circuit, packet pick-up will be Friday, February 20^th at Striders from 10am -- 7pm.  If you can't make it to the shop on Friday, you can pick-up your packet the morning of the race from 6:15am -- 7:30am in the east entrance of the Dee Events Center.  The race starts on the east side of the Dee Center on the Weber State University campus. 

If you are registered for the WRC 10K but do not plan on running, please let us know by contacting us at Striders. 

We can always use volunteers at the 10K and other WRC races if you're willing to donate your time and efforts.  Please contact us at Striders if interested.

If you want to join in all the fun and run the WRC 10K, registration is available at Striders for $30 or $40 if you wait to register the morning of the race.  The registration fee includes a tech T-shirt.  If you register for 3 of the 4 remaining WRC races, we'll give you a hoodie. 

Registration is also available at Active.com via www.stridersrunning.com 

The WRC 10K course features a 500 foot climb at about mile 4.5, other than that little hill, the course is really fast.  Here's the 10K course link: http://www.usatf.org/routes/view.asp?rID=188627

There will be aid stations with water and Gatorade at mile 3 and mile 4.5 (right before you start to climb up 36^th street).  There will also be water, Gatorade and Tasty's treats at the finish line. 

Without our generous sponsors there's no way we could pull-off the Winter Racing Circuit.  With their help we are able to keep the race prices low for you and still pay to have police support, venues, aid stations, etc...  So, if you're reading this in your home office or at work, let's stand up and give them a hand:

 Calton-Harrison Clinic

Intermountain Health Care Sports Medicine Clinic

Roosters Restaurant & Brewery

The Red Moose Lodge

Intermountain T-Shirt

Tasty's 

The Buffalo Run is just a few short weeks away on March 28^th.  If you waited too long to register, I would e-mail Jim at ultrajim@charter.net and beg and plead to let you register.  If Jim has a couple beers in him that day he might hook you up. 

The last organized training run before the Buffalo Run will be on March 7^th at 8:00am.  We'll all meet at the Antelope Island Causeway gate at 8am and carpool onto the Island, splitting the $9 park entrance fee amongst all of us.  We'll start at the race start/finish, run the White Rock and Split Rock trails, maybe Elephant Head, then for those who want to, we'll run over to run the trail to Bridger Bay campground and around the Lakeside trail.  Good preview for the 50 mile runners.  If you run everything, I'm guessing it's around 23-24 miles.  Just the White Rock/Split Rock combo is 13.5 miles.

The Ogden Marathon and Half-Marathon has reached its capacity and is completely sold out.  Striders is a sponsor of the Ogden Marathon, but we have absolutely no clout with the organizers and CANNOT get you into the race if you waited too long to register.  I believe the only way left to run is as a relay team with 2-5 runners or as a VIP runner with a $300 registration fee.  There are still spots for the 5K if that's any consolation. For inquiries regarding the Ogden Marathon, please contact the GOAL Foundation at 801-399-1773 or visit www.ogdenmarathon.com