Last weekend, in what may be the most ambitious thing TRL has ever done, a sizeable fraction of the club descended on Tacoma for USATF’s Club Cross-Country National Championships. Forty-nine Lizards raced on nine teams, under conditions that reflected Pacific Northwest weather at its least cooperative. It was wet, chilly,… Read More »Lizards Rock Tacoma; Masters Women Make History
1. How long have you been running and why did you start running? I started in high school. I was a soccer player and most of the soccer team did track, as well as soccer. I didn’t love running when I started but enjoyed seeing the results of working hard… Read More »Member Spotlight: Christina Overbeck
1. How long have you been running and why did you start running? I started running around 2019 to help my cardio for other sports and interests. But it was very much an obligatory chore that I hated. Now running is something I plan on doing for the rest of my… Read More »Member Spotlight: Yen-Yen WU
Editor’s Note: Jeff Malmquist has been a Lizard for many years, a significant portion of them as run leader for TRL’s Thursday evening Goose Run—named for its starting location in Goose Hollow, but also for its signature feature: the 1,000 foot hills we dub the Summer Goose and the Winter… Read More »TRL Member spotlight: Jeff Malmquist
Editor’s note: For the last several seasons, Kolter (#590 in the photo) has been a mainstay on the Lizard cross-country team and a frequent runner at Duniway Track, where, weather permitting (and sometimes not permitting in the minds of many people), he arrives by bicycle. He doesn’t mention it here,… Read More »TRL Member spotlight: Kolter Grigsby
With six races down, TRL’s Spring Into Summer Series now has 59 contenders. Next up is the Strava Segment (part of the Thursday Goose Hollow Run, though it can be run on any day) and Bowerman 5k. Details can be found here. Numbers in parentheses are the number of races… Read More »2024 Spring Into Summer Series Standings (as of June 15)
With nine races down, here are the current summer series standings (race-by-race details can be found here): WOMEN Megan Taylor 336 Carre Heineck 284 Jessie Rubin 265 Valerie Weilert 258 Crystal Query 194 Kellie Houser 176 Susan Le 144 Andi Camp 139 Anh Nguyen 136 Anne Tiger-Days 123 Wendy Terris … Read More »2023 Summer Series Standings (As of JuLY 21)
We have one more holiday group run before we say goodbye to 2022. Purge and Splurge will take place on Saturday, December 31, at 9 am. The run will start at 9am from the Newberry Road end of the Wildwood Trail. Depending on the distance you plan to run, you will meet ahead of… Read More »Purge & Splurge 2022
By Rick Lovett This year’s USATF Club Cross Country Championships was the type of race people will be telling their grandchildren about. The venue was Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. It’s hosted the race before and is a classic course: challenging, but not outrageous, with a short, steep hill… Read More »Lizards Fight Weather in San Francisco…and Bring back Medals
By Rick Lovett How much can you walk in a pair of running shoes that has outlived their usefulness for running? One hundred miles? Two hundred miles? Five hundred miles? Most of us probably don’t know, but as someone who’s been forced to transition (mostly) from running to walking and… Read More »TRL Shoe Drive Hits 9th Year