Celebrating Run Waterloo’s 100,000 photos!
You might have noticed that we uploaded a large album to Flickr this week. The 2,700 photos of the Fall 5 KM Classic are, as usual, a fantastic example our commitment to great event photography. That album contains a special milestone – we have now uploaded our 100,000th photo to Flickr! With this, we are […]
Octoberfast day at the 2017 Fall 5 KM Classic!
2017 Fall 5 KM Classic
Congratulations to everyone who raced today, you have officially completed your #Octoberfast race for the year, and now you can relax! As promised, the downhill course was further aided by a friendly south-west wind, and the rain even held off to give us almost perfect racing conditions (minus a bit of humidity, which we could […]
Cross country fun at the first Riverside Roughly Five
Our inaugural Run Pure + Simple series, presented by Adventure Guide, continued this past weekend with the second event: Riverside Roughly Five. It proved to be a challenging trail race at Riverside Park in Cambridge. At the $10 price point – free to Run Waterloo members – all runners were full of smiles up and down […]
The 2017 Fall 5 KM Classic course is “Octoberfast”
Excuse us if you’ve heard this before, but this course is fast. One of the best traditions of the Fall 5 KM Classic is to run on the fastest course possible. This course is downhill, (hopefully) wind-aided, and with a fast field. It’s simply Octoberfast. We don’t actually know of any 5k courses that can compare. Take a […]
New Member Achievement: 5k Standards!
In May, we launched a set of Member Achievements for Run Waterloo members to display proudly on their member profiles. Here is the latest addition to the collection. Just in time for the Fall 5 KM Classic – a new member achievement dedicated to the 5k. Here is a sample of what these achievement […]
2017 Harvest Half
Congratulations to all runners of the 2017 Half Marthon (and Quarter)! It was a hot day to be running the rural roads of Wellesley Township! This is an annual fundraiser for the Kenyan Kids Foundation Canada, a Canadian-based charity that supports development in the Cherengany Region of Kenya. It is founded by Tarah Korir, a […]
2017 Kitchener Kids with Cancer Run & Walk
The fall running season is off to a great start with the fourth Kitchener Kids with Cancer Run & Walk! Thank you for your support! Childhood cancer is terrible, and provides an incredibly powerful opportunity for a community show strength. This race is an annual fundraiser Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (POGO), and once again set a new fundraising […]
Legs of Steel Meet the Korirs
A local running story: Legs of Steel
Today, the Legs of Steel met some legs of titanium. If you have a local running story about a group or fundraiser, let us know! Legs of Steel is a running group with a pun that we all know and love (fischer Canada designs and manufactures stainless steel tubing). On Tuesday, the they welcomed elite runners […]