Author: Thea Ganoe

The 3 major club presidents in Hampton Roads from the Tidewater Striders, Peninsula Track Club, and Colonial Road Runners are introducing the new 3 Club Challenge this year! Run all three of each clubs’ major races, Victory at Yorktown 10K (CRR), Elizabeth River Run 10K (TS), and Yorktown Battlefield 10-Miler (PTC) and get an awesome challenge medal at the end! We will also be doing awards for the fastest runners in all 3 races combined! Top 3 overall male & female and top master’s male & female! The 1st race of the challenge is on April 2nd the Victory at Yorktown 10K! There will be an age-graded competition with the other clubs for this race so when you register, please register on the Peninsula Track Club team! Register today

By Rick Platt, Virginia Gazette

William & Mary men’s cross country coach Forest Braden was the only runner to break an age group record last Saturday at the 28th annual Yorktown Battlefield 10-mile run, and the connection with the current and former men’s 35-39 record holders went clear across the country to UCLA, on the opposite side of the country.

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From my Gazette article about the Swamp Run, a summary of all going on with area road races: 

By Rick Platt

            In the final weekend before the entire sports world was turned upside down, the 19^th annual Jamestown High School Swamp Run 5K had two exciting and competitive three-way battles for the top overall awards in the third Colonial Road Runners Grand Prix event of 2020.  However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, that race will be the last CRR race for an indefinite period.

            After the NBA, NHL, MLB and MLS suspended or delayed their seasons, and the NCAA cancelled the March Madness basketball tournament for both men and women, all divisions, as well as all other collegiate championship sporting events for the winter and spring seasons, it was inevitable that running events would be affected too.

            In rapid fire, many local running events were cancelled or postponed (to a date to be determined later) on Thursday afternoon or Friday morning of this week, including the CRR Grand Prix’s Virginia Fire Chiefs 5K Run, set for Saturday morning from the Bruton Parish Church on Duke of Gloucester Street, the CRR-affiliated Singletrack Maniac 50K and Cray Cray 10K, set for Freedom Park and the Hornsby Middle School on March 28^th , and the CRR Grand Prix and Hampton Roads Super Grand Prix’s Victory at Yorktown 10K on April 4^th. After that, for other CRR Grand Prix spring races, no decisions have yet been made. Potential postponement dates are in June, August or September.

            Beyond the CRR, Saturday’s Fort Eustis 10K, a Peninsula Track Club event, was postponed to the fall. The PTC’s H-E-A-R-T 5K, originally scheduled for April 4 from the Warhill Sports Complex in Williamsburg, has been postponed. And the biggest of them all, the Shamrock Sportsfest Marathon, half marathon and 8K, set for March 21-22 in Virginia Beach, was cancelled.