The Colonial Road Runners and the
Peninsula Track Club will join forces on Saturday, November 1 at the Yorktown
Battlefield 10 Miler, in our twice-yearly age-graded
competition against the Tidewater Striders (the top 10 score by age-graded
percentages for each team). We have compiled our team roster from the
pre-registered entrant list, but if you are planning on entering race morning,
and would like to be placed on the CRR-PTC team, please email or call Rick
Platt (rickplatt1@juno.com
or 757-345-1431). Race details
below.
Also there is a special $5
discount for Colonial Road Runners members to the Christmas Town Dash 8K at Busch
Gardens, a CRR Grand Prix Event on Sunday, December 7, if you mail in your entry form and note on the entry form that you are
a CRR member. Christmas Town Dash entry forms are available on the CRR website,
or can be received by email from Rick Platt (rickplatt1@juno.com) as a .pdf attachment.
If entering by Oct. 31, the fee would be $40 (a $5 discount from the regular
$45 fee), and if entering by Nov. 30, the fee would be $45 (a $5 discount from
the regular $50 fee).
Monday, November 3, 10, 17, 24 - Williamsburg – The DOG Street Pub Running Club 5K fun
runs will continue at 6 p.m., even after the end of Daylight Savings Time, although
the late start options of up to 7 p.m. will cease, DOG Street Pub, Merchants
Square, 401 W. Duke of Gloucester Street. Registration (no fee) starts at 5
p.m., 5K fun run (no official times) starts at 6 p.m. and goes through William
and Mary campus, and through Colonial Williamsburg. Post-race social with drink
specials every week from Williamsburg ’s
Alewerks Brewing Company. Weekly event. Casual, family and dog friendly.
Contact DOG Street
Pub at 757-293-6478.
Tuesday,
November 4, 11, 18, 25 - Williamsburg - Warhill Trail Distance Run/Tempo Run Workout, 3:30 p.m. (start time remains 3:30 p.m. for
fall months), meet at parking lot in front of WISC (Williamsburg Indoor
Sports Complex), nearest the soccer fields of the Warhill Sports Complex
(off Longhill Road, just past Lafayette High School). Course is totally
soft-surface of hard-packed gravel and dirt Warhill Nature Trail, a wooded,
shaded, scenic route. Distance options of 4 to 10 miles, including warm-up.
Rick Platt (757-229-7375, 757-345-1431, rickplatt1@juno.com).
Wednesdays
- Williamsburg – Due to the end of Daylight
Savings Time on Sunday, November 2, the Colonial Road
Runners weekly interval workouts at Walsingham
Academy will take a break
during the holiday months of November and December,
and will resume on Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 5:00 p.m., then move back to
the regular 5:30 p.m. starting time in mid-February. Ed Irish (work 757-221-2425, cell 757-532-1705,
epiris@wm.edu) or Rick Platt (757-229-7375,
cell 757-345-1431, rickplatt1@juno.com)
As a winter
replacement, CRR interval workout coordinator Ed Irish will be doing some
interval workouts at 5:15 p.m. on Wednesdays around the lighted Governor’s Palace Green in Colonial
Williamsburg, about a quarter mile loop, and starting on Wednesday, November 5,
and continuing through Wednesday, January 14.
Saturday,
November 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 - Williamsburg
– “Enterprisers”
distance run, 6:00 a.m., Merchants Square of Colonial Williamsburg. Meet in
parking lot between the Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop and the Trellis
Restaurant. Distance runs of as much as 16 miles, including optional 3
mile add-on, starting at 5:30 a.m. Workouts are announced each week on
Thursday or Friday. Lisa Osterhoudt email: lisaann0714@yahoo.com or Bob Fairbairn
email: refairbairn@gmail.com.
See more
about courses and workouts at http://www.facebook.com/groups/enterprisers/
There are
also smaller “Enterprisers” group runs Mondays
through Fridays, and Sundays at
6:00 a.m. in Williamsburg ,
with further details on the Enterprisers “about” page. To be added to the
“Enterprisers” email list for the specific weekly Saturday workouts, email Lisa
Osterhoudt at lisaann0714@yahoo.com
Sunday, November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 - Williamsburg
– Sunday Morning
Distance Runs at Warhill Trail, 9:00 a.m., same starting location as Tuesday
runs (WISC parking lot). Email Louise and Bill Sharer at las4452@hotmail.com).
Remaining Colonial Road
Runners Grand Prix races for 2014
Sunday, December 7
Williamsburg – Christmas
Town Dash 8K Run, 8:30
a.m.; kids race, 8 a.m.; Busch Gardens .
Flat Out Events (757-880-8843). Email: raceteam@flatoutevents.com.
Website: www.flatoutevents.com or www.ChristmasTownDash.com
Saturday, December 13
Website:
www.colonialsportscustom.com
Peninsula Track Club
races in November
Saturday, November 1
Yorktown – Yorktown
Battlefield Runs: 10
mile, 10 a.m.; 5K, 8:45 a.m.; York
High School . Certified
10-mile course (VA-12072-RT). Brock Robertson (757-898-9049). Email: brobert164@aol.com. Website: www.yorkcountylionsclub.org
Saturday, November 15
Saturday, November 22
Thursday, November 27
Other Peninsula or Hampton Roads or Richmond
area races of note in November
Saturday, November 1
Email: ellen.womeldorf@jamescitycountyva.gov.
Website: http://maniac13hour.wordpress.com/
Sunday, November 9
Chesapeake Bay – Across
the Bay 10K Chesapeake Bay
Bridge Run. Inaugural event expects 20,000
runners. Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Capitol Place , 1108 E. Main St., Suite 1600 , Richmond , VA 23219 . (888-728-3229). Email: Chesapeake@cbf.com. Website: http://www.cbf.org
Saturday, November 15
Richmond – Anthem
Richmond Marathon, 7:50
a.m.; American Family Fitness Half Marathon,
7:30 a.m.; HCAVa8K, 7 a.m.,
Brown’s Island . Richmond Sportsbackers (804-285-9495). Email:
marathon@sportsbackers.org. Website:
www.richmondmarathon.org
Saturday and Sunday,
November 22-23
Sunday, November 23
Thursday, November 27
Entry forms
for many area races are on the CRR website: www.colonialroadrunners.org, or
can be picked up at Colonial Sports, 1303 Jamestown Road #111, Williamsburg
23185 (next to ReStore), or you can enter many races online at www.raceit.com or www.active.com
Rick Platt,
President
Colonial Road
Runners
113 Anthony Wayne Rd.
Williamsburg , VA
23185
Phone 757-229-7375
Cell 757-345-1431
rickplatt1@juno.com
Phone 757-229-7375
Cell 757-345-1431
rickplatt1@juno.com