Richmond Road Runners Club
Richmond Road Runners Club, also known as RRRC, is a running club based in Richmond, Virginia. It is one of the largest running clubs in the United States, and its membership is open to everyone. The club sponsors a Grand Prix series of races which are chip-timed club races and also assists with the management and finish lines of other races which are considered "contract races," such as the Richmond Marathon and Monument Avenue 10K.
Club administration and awards[edit]
Miles and Minutes, the club's bi-monthly magazine, was long edited by Ed Kelleher and was named the best running club publication by Runner's World magazine. Miles and Minutes and Kelleher won the Road Running Clubs of America (RRCA) 2013 award for "Outstanding Club Newsletters".[1] In 2015 Michael Muldowney of the Richmond Road Runners Club was named Outstanding Club President by the Road Runners Clubs of America (RRCA).[1] In 2015, RRRC member Doug Fernandez won the MALE MASTERS award from the RRCA.[2] In 2019 long-time member and former president Mike Levins was given a special award and honored with the cover article for the May Miles and Minutes club publication.
Club races[edit]
Some of the traditional RRRC-managed races now chip-timed are the Cul-de-Sac 5k race in Wyndham, Virginia, and the First Day 5K run on New Year's Day, starting at ACAC (athletic club) in Midlothian, Virginia, and running through Briarwood and Rockshire neighborhoods to Salisbury Road in Midlothian. An annual Winter race is the Frostbite 15K.[3] Governor of Virginia Ralph Northam ran in the RRRC First Day 5K before and after taking office and also ran a morning untimed race "Run with the Governor" for anyone wanting to join him starting from the Virginia State Capitol.
The RRRC's Turkey Trot race is a traditional Thanksgiving morning race which begins and ends on the campus of the University of Richmond. The Pony Pasture 5K is a race along the James River from the city of Richmond's Pony Pasture Park. The Pony Pasture 5K is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Peter Still,[4]. The Ask Dad 5K is held near Father's Day in memory of RRRC member Pete Neal and the course includes parts of The Grove neighborhood and Midlothian Mines Park.
The Carytown 10K race starts and ends at Cary Court in Carytown and is run mostly on Cary St. and Grove Ave. Almost 800 runners participated in the Carytown 10K in 2017.[5]
The Richmond Road Runners Club sponsors over 17 races during a year with distances ranging from two[5] to 50 miles. Individual runners set personal goals of speed and distance. Some have goals of running marathons in every state or every country. Some enter triathlons which feature three events, such as swimming, cycling, and running. The Ironman Triathlon race is a popular challenge.
Contract races[edit]
In conjunction with Sports Backers and Sports Backers Stadium RRRC coordinates some of its contract races, training teams, pre-race registration, and vendor's fairs at the Arthur Ashe Athletic Center, especially for the Richmond Marathon.
Grand Prix[edit]
The club's annual Grand Prix banquet is held at Meadowbrook Country Club (Chesterfield County, Virginia), a private golf and social club. The banquet honors the overall winners, age-group winners, and volunteers of the club with an award ceremony of trophies and prizes for participation and race-winning points. Speakers at the Grand Prix banquet have included Zoe Romano, Olympics gold medal winner Frank Shorter, and New York Marathon and Boston Marathon champion Bill Rodgers. Ultrarunner Sally McRae was chosen as the 2019 banquet speaker.[6][7]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "RRCA National Award Winners". www.rrca.org. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- ↑ "National Award Winner Archives". www.rrca.org. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- ↑ "RRRC Frostbite 15K". RRRC Frostbite 15K. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- ↑ "Annual Pony Pasture 5K, honoring late physician and runner, scheduled for July 28". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Runner dies after collapsing near finish line of Carytown 10k". WTVR.com. 1 May 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- ↑ Nunn, Jennie (March 12, 2018). "Ultrarunner Sally McRae Doesn't Make Excuses". Running. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ↑ I.V, Liquid. "Sally McRae". Liquid I.V. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
External links[edit]
- Richmond Road Runners' RVA Race Calendar
- Links to map and video of the Virginia Capital Trail are on the Foundation's website
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