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
By Janne Heinonen and Chelsea Warren In late April, we ran the Virtual Eugene Marathon on Sauvie Island. In the before-times, this article might describe our training plans, our race strategies, our experience as first time marathoners (or first in a very long time). But these are pandemic times, and… Read More »A TRL pandemic marathon story
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