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
By Rick Lovett A couple of weeks ago, USADA invited me to take a continuing education session on doping control for masters athletes. Given the success of TRL in masters championships and the fact that USADA has developed a new, inexpensive blood testing protocol expected to vastly expand the number… Read More »Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) Pre-Check for Runners
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!
By Rick Lovett “What I did on vacation” is something you’d think every grade school kid had to write about someday. But if I ever did, I can’t remember it. So how could I resist assigning the topic to myself? What I did (some of it in October and November)… Read More »What I Did on My Christmas Vacation (and what I learned from it)
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!
Cover image: By Sebleouf – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82942182 (not one of the races in this article). As 2020 got underway, I was at 190 Half Marathons tracking to achieve my 200th by April. Running a few in early 2020, I got to 196 by Mid-March. We all… Read More »200 Half Marathons Run! by Gregg LeBlanc
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