Category: Race Recaps and adventures
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Medford Jingle Bell Run
The Medford Jingle Bell Run had another successful year with 663 runners at this year’s race. Double the number from 2014! Congrats to Judy Lonergan and her race committee! Now in their 3rd year the committee and volunteers have really hit their pace. For the first time the PTOs at each school in Medford were…
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Howlin Wolf Half Marathon
On a frigid November ‘morn, 234 local runners turned out for the First Annual Howlin Wolf Half Marathon at the Stone Zoo. The Howlin Wolf Half Marathon was a fundraiser for The Stone Zoo and cancer research. At the starting line the Zoo Director told us that the idea for the half marathon originated about…
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Spooky Sprint 5K
Melrose YMCA hosts Spooky Sprint 5K All the ghouls, goblins, assorted monsters and terrifying runners showed up in Melrose Halloween morning to run the 2015 Spooky Sprint 5K. At 8:30 on a brisk 41° fall morning, 631 hearty souls toed the line to run through the streets of Melrose causing mayhem and terror with every…
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Melrose Spooky Sprint 5K 2015
Can you out-run the ghouls and goblins of Melrose? The Melrose Family YMCA presents the 2015 Melrose Spooky Sprint 5K This Halloween Day race begins at 8:30 on East Foster Street, right around the corner from the Melrose Family YMCA. This popular Melrose Family 5k run continues to grow and attracts runners of all ages…
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Smuttynose Rockfest Half Marathon 2015
Smuttynose Rockfest Half Marathon and 5K 4,368 runners completed the Half Marathon and 506 runners finished the 5K race. The sky was partly cloudy most of the day and temperatures were in the 40s! We were fortunate that Hurricane Joaquin was many miles away and left us alone. Overall, a pretty good day for a…
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Granara Skerry 5K 2015
Granara-Skerry Trust has raised over $840,000 for pancreatic cancer research at Mass General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. Now in its 9th year the race and walk continue to grow. This year 260 runners and close to 1,000 walkers participated in this important fund-raiser and community event. The race and walk attract many runners from Medford…