{"id":9721,"date":"2026-07-11T15:38:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T19:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsulatrackclub.com\/?p=9721"},"modified":"2026-07-11T15:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T19:47:29","slug":"ptc-summer-fun-run-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsulatrackclub.com\/?p=9721","title":{"rendered":"PTC  Summer Fun Run Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong><em>PTC Summer Fun Run Series<\/em><\/strong> is a set of unique, low-key races held on Tuesday evenings in August.  <strong>Entry fee <\/strong>for each event is  <strong>can of people food <\/strong>or  <strong>a can of pet food<\/strong>.  The order of the three events is the same as last year.  First up on <strong>Tuesday, August 4<\/strong> is the <strong>Lake Matoaka 4.3-Mile Trail Challenge<\/strong>, the <em><strong>oldest continually held race on the Peninsula,<\/strong><\/em> which starts and finishes at <strong>Zable Stadium <\/strong>on the campus of <strong>William &amp; Mary<\/strong>.  The restrooms of Zable Stadium will be available and there will be tours of the newly renovated locker rooms.,  Post-race social at the nearby <strong>Brickhouse Tavern. <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second Summer Fun Run is the T<strong>om Ray Memorial Predict Your Time 5-Miler<\/strong> on Tuesday, August 11.  <strong>NO WATCHES<\/strong>:  predict your time to run 5 miles of the <strong><em>Newport News  Park Bikeway <\/em><\/strong>on the campground side of <strong>Newport News Park.<\/strong> runner closest to their predicted time wins.  Informal post race social at <strong>3 Amigos at Nelson&#8217;s Grant of Route 17.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The series concludes on <strong>Tuesday, August 18 <\/strong>with the <strong>Swamp Bridge 5K <\/strong>on the <strong><em>White Oak Trail in Newport News Park.<\/em><\/strong>  Start\/finish on Constitution Way near P<strong>icnic Area #3 (Shelters 13-18)<\/strong>. Post-race shocial at 3 <strong>Amigos at Nelson&#8217;s Gran<\/strong>t of Route 17.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Start time for each Summer Fun Run is at 6:30 PM.  <\/strong>No early registration, signup is on the day of the event. And don&#8217;t forget to bring your canned food conations as your entry fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PTC Summer Fun Run Series is a set of unique, low-key races held on Tuesday evenings in August. Entry fee for each event is can of people food or a can of pet food. The order of the three events is the same as last year. First up on Tuesday, August 4 is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulatrackclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulatrackclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulatrackclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulatrackclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulatrackclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulatrackclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9724,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulatrackclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions\/9724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulatrackclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulatrackclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulatrackclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}