California International Marathon 2021 By Janne Heinonen and Rohit Grover In early December, over 30 runners — Lizards and their human friends — from the Portland area ran the California International Marathon. The marathon, of course, involves much more than 26.2 miles of racing. This community was part of every… Read More »Portland Lizards Migrate to Sacramento
By Janne Heinonen Four years ago, I was walking to my car, elated from the last Stumptown cross country race, contemplating the season and how much it meant to race with the Lizards. A teammate approached, suggesting that I consider running for the TRL Board. Over the past year, I… Read More »Why I ran for the TRL Board – and why you should, too!
By Rick Lovett We called it the Twilight Zone Run. Not because it was run in the evening, but because it felt like an episode of the classic fantasy/science fiction TV show. Officially, it was the 1984 Rutabaga Run. It began beneath the steeple of a postcard-perfect church in small-town… Read More »The Race that Wouldn’t End
By Angela Lindbo Running means different things to different people. For me, I love my body’s ability to simply cover ground, getting out in nature and the sense of accomplishment this brings. Running really is a celebration of life, as well as an extension of health. This celebration is often… Read More »Presidents Corner
As we start approaching a full year of being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Team Red Lizard board felt it was important to provide an annual report to our members with an update on how the club is doing. We decided to present this in a newsletter format, but… Read More »TRL 2020 Annual Report
A big thank you to everyone who already contributed running shoes and apparel for us to donate to local high school athletes. With their compressed cross country season set to kick off at the end of February, we are going to make one last push to collect items before getting… Read More »“Giving Back” Donations for High School Runners
A New Year is about to begin, and while you may not be the type to make resolutions, you probably do enjoy running and could always use a fresh pair of shoes to log some miles in. Or perhaps a free pair of shoes is the motivation you need to… Read More »January Running Resolution Challenge
When a pandemic threatens to cancel all of the enjoyable things in life, sometimes you just have to adapt to provide an opportunity for people to have some semblance of normalcy. That is exactly what we had to do with Stumptown Cross this past fall. Like all things that get… Read More »Stumptown Cross Season Wraps Up
A big thank you to all of the members who joined us on Wednesday, November 18, for our on-line event focused on celebrating TRL members and their accomplishments over the past couple years. In case you missed the event, had issues joining, are suffering from Zoom fatigue, needed to wash… Read More »TRL Celebrates Members Virtually
TRL will be hosting an online event to recognize some of our members on Wednesday, November 18 at 7:30 PM. Between our Summer Series winners and the 2019 annual awards for outstanding performances and volunteerism, join us to recognize the outstanding achievements from the past year. Joining is easy. Just… Read More »TRL Member Celebration Event – Nov 18