Xander wins at Holcomb Valley Trail Run



Leon, Sue, Xander and his wife and children ventured up to Big Bear for the Holcomb Valley Trail run. Xander ran the 15 mile race and finished 7th overall and 1st in his age group. He also broke the 2.00 hour barrier with a 1.58.42!

Two Cool Elvii




Congratulations to Fe and Porchdog for running the San Diego RocknRoll Marathon. Porchdog ran a 3:59 and Fe ran a 3:44 (BQ) in hot Elvii costumes.

Glendora 5K Group Photo

Mike Runs Garcia

Kudos to Mike for completing the Saturday long run up Garcia and down GMR for the first time. He also added 2 extra miles past Colby for a 15 mile run. That puts him well within the range of a 1/2 marathon and within reach of training for a marathon.

Congratulations to Leon!

Leon came back with a 2nd place finish in his age group at the US National Championships Long Course Duathlon in Auburn, CA. Read about his 5 1/2 hour adventure and triumph in the Glendora Ridge Runner News.

Pride of the Foothills 5K

Glendora Ridge Runner Results, Pride of the Foothills, Glendora, May 10, 2008

Xander 1st 35-40. Xander was 18.16. The new guy takes the crown for the fastest member!
Linda 1st 50-54 22:55 (PR). Linda blazed a sub 23 on her first ever 5K!
Dana 1st 25-30. Mr. Cruella De Hill was cheering!
Bert 1st 55-60. Another sub 21 and age group win for Bert.
Sarah 2nd 30-34. Wow! Just months after child birth!
Leon 3rd 50-55 19:05. I was 9 seconds faster than the age group winning time last year, and only got 3rd! The two guys that beat me bumped Ken and I down a couple of notches.
Sue 3rd 50-54 27:07 (PR) . Sue's beat her brother Ron by a few seconds. He pushed her to a PR.
Beverly 3rd 55-59 30:40 (PR).Tuesday Track helped a lot!
Ken was fast and probably a PR. Low 20 something. 4th in the age group.
Paul placed I think, but I'm not sure of his time.

It was nice to see Haia, Candace, Debbie, Leslie, Thomas, Mike (first 5K) and Steve out.

New member Wendy may have placed.

Group Photo



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Thomas does Boston!

Congratulations to Thomas for running an excellent time at the Boston Marathon. The AT&T emails were cool. He went out fast and managed to hang on at the end.

Event Information:
Event: 112th Boston Marathon 2008
Runner: Thomas Lopez
Latest Results:
Location Time Pace/mile
10 Kilometers 0:47:26 7:38
Half-Marathon 1:41:55 7:46
30 Kilometers 2:32:42 8:11
Finish 3:49:17 8:44

Nice Running Derby Day Runners

Congratulations to the Santa Anita 5K runners!
Leon, Bert, Sue, Beverly and Debbie

Leon got 2nd in his age group with a time of 19:39 and
Bert got 3rd in his age group with a time of 20:59

Monday night "Bike GMR"

Monday night 'Bike GMR' is underway! We are going to try a 5:30 start from Joan's house, OR 5:45 from the turnout across from Big Dalton on GMR. See calendar for more detatils, or email the ridgerunners.

LA Marathon Finishers

Congratulations to Paul and Thomas for running the LA Marathon.
Paul came in at 4:09 and Thomas at 3:46.
Good going on a tough course.

Pride of the Foothills 5K

Our local 5K run will be on Saturday, May 10th this year. We will have a booth at the Health Expo and our sponsor, Classic Coffee, will be serving complimentary coffee.

Come and and run this fun event. Last year almost everyone in the club placed. If you are not race ready, come out and help us at the booth.

We will go out to breakfast after.

More details to follow.

Glendora Village to Mt Baldy Village

On March 22, Eric will conquer the never accomplished Glendora Village to Mt Baldy Village run course.

Eric will leave Classic Coffee and head to out on this 24 mile course up GMR.

Please join him at the start, running or on bike. Also, some people will drive to baldy, then back track until the come to Eric. Or run or bike the whole thing with him.

Note: GMR is not open all the way to Baldy by car. The road is closed at the saddle, one mile from the village.

Watch for more details, including start time and expected finish time (Beer and Burgers at the Lodge!)

Chantry Flats to West Fork Run

Eric and Ken completed their exploratory run to see if Chantry Flats to West Fork would make a good Saturday long run or training run for marathons. This course is fantastic with water running and visible for most of the course. It is around 20-21 miles long. 7 miles up hill and 13 miles down hill.

We started the run at 6 am and it was cloudy with light fog. Ken's GPS watch was acting up so we could not map the course. This created a little anxiety, since we are sensitive to how many miles we run into the canyon in case we get lost and want to turn back.

The first 5 miles up the canyon was fairly easy. The uphills are mild with easy stretches and a wonderful stream with waterfalls all the way up. After 5 miles, we started our ascent up to Newcombs Pass at around mile 6. This mile is more difficult and reminded of Garcia in some spots.

When we reached Newcombs, the cloud cover was below us like a thick white blanket with deep blue skys overhead. The most beautiful picture of the year and I didn't bring my camera.

At mile 7 we got lost for about 10 minutes. The trail down to Cogswell has the marker 2N25. The down hill is fast and long down to Cogswell.

Special thanks to Fe and Porchdog for meeting us at Cogswell and giving us rides back from West Fork.