Paynes Prairie Running/Walking Festival

Celebrate Earth Day 2000 (April 22) by running or walking in one of the events of the Paynes Prairie Running & Walking Festival on the Gainesville-Hawthorne State Trail, a paved, winding recreational greenway, with a parallel grass horse trail, that extends from...

GWTC members celebrate post-Boston

 Post Boston Marathon celebration!Gary Cato(3:36), Mike Jaynes(3:29), and Ronnie Godwin(2:59) relax after seeing the sites from Hopkinton to Boston Monday. For complete (local) results, click...

My first 10K by Nadine Dexter

My first 10K By Nadine Dexter Well, here I am, waiting to run the first 10K in my life. I’m surrounded by 800 other runners at the starting line and wondering if I would achieve my goal of running 6.2 miles in under an hour. I listen to the voices in the crowd...

Spangler wins Palace 5K

David Yon Conflicting events such as TOSRV and a walk for MS combined to keep the numbers down for this year’s Palace Saloon 5K. Still, 218 runners found nearly ideal conditions when they toed the line in front of Messer Field. The race was the fifth GWTC Grand Prix...

Blue Angel Marathon

Blue Angel Marathon By Jack McDermott In 490 B.C., Pheidippedes ran from the Plains of Marathon to Athens to report that the brave Athenians had defeated the Persian hordes of Darius the Great. Upon arrival he announced, “Rejoice! We Conquer!” an abruptly...