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Category: Races
FamilyAid Boston Run for Housing
Since 1916, FamilyAid Boston has provided our city’s most vulnerable residents with homelessness prevention, shelter, housing, and support services. We help homeless families get back on their feet and plan for future stability and success. This year I’m running Boston for FamilyAid Boston. Here is why. FamilyAid Boston Over the past five years, our Boston…
Assault on Mt Hood 2015 ReCap
Assault on Mt Hood 2015 The 11th Annual Assault on Mt Hood attracted 375 runners from greater Boston. Runners enjoyed a beautiful fall day with a clear ski, temperatures in the mid-50’s and barely a breeze. 35 runners from the Melrose Running Club participated, and many more volunteered their time. Hats off to Bryan Slater…
Assault on Mt Hood XI
Assault on Mt Hood Presented by the Melrose Running Club at Mt. Hood Golf Course in conjunction with the Melrose Fish and Game Club, the Assault on Mt Hood begins at Noon on December 12th. Now in its 11th year, this 3.5 mile cross-country race draws runners from all over Eastern Mass and Southern New Hampshire.…
Taras Jingle Jog
6th Annual Taras Jingle Jog 5K took place December 5th in Estero, Fla. All proceeds from Taras Jingle Jog 5K benefit The Passion Foundation, a local non-profit, whose mission is to keep our children shaded and safe from the sun’s harmful rays while at school. They have provided shade at 5 playgrounds and plan to have a sixth…
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…
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…