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
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)
Fall is the season when the days get shorter, the leaves turn colors, and when runners leave the roads behind in exchange for some cross country racing. Since 2010, Team Red Lizard has put together the premier racing series for runners who love the experience of racing over grass, dirt and mud… Read More »Stumptown Cross – The 2023 Edition
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)
CIM 2021 was a fun race with lots of participants from the Portland area. A number of us decided to give it another go. Unlike 2021, the weather was mostly cooperative in November, so running on roads wasn’t as hazardous as the previous year. CIM is billed as a net-downhill… Read More »Race Recap: 2022 California International Marathon
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
Every 2 years, Team Red Lizard has an election for the 4 officer positions on the board – President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer. For the March 2022 elections, we have candidates willing to run for each of those positions. The following are the statements they submitted for members to… Read More »Board Candidate Statements
First posted in 2021. Being on a “board” – if you have ever thought that sounded important, well, it is. But being on the TRL board doesn’t require you to have special training or credentials; it simply requires that you enjoy running and being a part of the Lizard community.… Read More »The TRL Board Needs You!