Mile High Heaven or Keep Your Breakfast Off the Track

By David Yon Over 100 runners who didn’t know any better showed up at Maclay’s Track Saturday morning and all of them survived without leaving Breakfast on the Track. For the most part, they were road racers and they were facing a scary beast. This was The...

Under the Oaks took different turn this year

Paul Hiers has been directing so many races lately he can no longer remember which way is up. As a result, everyone took off in the wrong direction in the Under the Oaks 8K… Fortunately he had anticipated this might happen and marked the course accordingly. The...

GWTC Appointment to Unit Management Plan Advisory Committee

By David Yon As President of Gulf Winds Track Club, I have been appointed to serve on the Unit Management Plan Advisory Committee for the Tallahassee-St. Marks Historic Railroad State Trail. The purpose of this committee as I understand it, is to provide input and...

Tallahassee Achilles Chapter recently chartered

The Tallahassee chapter of the Achilles Track Club (Achilles) was recently chartered. Achilles’ purpose is to encourage the disabled to participate in distance running with the general public for the sheer enjoyment regardless of time, speed or ability....

Area runnners compete in Chicago Marathon

On a day that was a little warmer than marathoners dream about, but just right for spectators, Ondoro Osoro ran the fastest debut marathon in history, the fastest Chicago Marathon ever, and the third fastest marathon ever to win in 2:06:54 edging out prerace favorite...