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Fellow PTC Members, Runners, and Volunteers,

As you are all aware, due to the spread of COVID-19 there have been many postponed and cancelled events.

Please monitor all event websites or Facebook pages for updates. Most registered runners will receive an email on the status of events, but volunteers may not.

Locally, today’s Ft. Eustis 10K Run/Ruck was postponed, as was the Virginia Fire Chiefs Foundation 5K (CRR); dates to be determined.

The upcoming Victory at York 10K/5K (4 April) is also postponed; date to be determined. The H.E.A.R.T. 5K (4 April) in Williamsburg is canceled.

This morning, the City of Hampton directed that the Joe & Sue Moore Memorial Scholarship 5K (28 March) be cancelled.

We will attempt to provide updates as we learn them. In the meantime stay safe, healthy, and fit… and check out the guidance/recommendations by the CDC.

Steve Peters
PTC President

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.

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