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GRTC President’s Letter 1.1.21
Happy New Year! I think we can honestly say 2021 looks like it should be a better year than 2020. When COVID first appeared last March, no one thought it would last this long and shut down large in person races for 9 months now. But it still holds us back and we have...
Renewing Your GRTC Membership!
In any other year, the GRTC’s membership numbers would have been climbing for the last couple of months as members were reminded to renew as they signed up for the Freezeroo Series. Well, we all know it is not an ordinary year, and as we are not going to have a Series...
Don’t wait until the last minute. Get your MILEStone Submissions to Tina by 11:59 pm January 13th!
Yes, GRTC is still doing the MILEstone patch awards for 2020! This has been an unusual year filled with many virtual experiences as opposed to in person races. We will count any verifiable virtual races that you have done towards your miles for the patch along with...
GRTC BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION – Jim Moragne
GRTC BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION The GRTC Board of Directors annual election for seats on the Board is upon us again. This year there are five (5) vacancies. There are five (5) declared candidates. Their short biographical submissions are below. After reading them, go...
GRTC President’s Letter 12.6.20 – Doug Jones
Happy Holidays! The time for Christmas and holiday celebration is here, but COVID continues its grip on our community and socialization. With a continuing nationwide and NY state flare of COVID, the city of Rochester was just moved this week into the “orange zone”...
Election for the Board of Directors
There are three seats open in the GRTC’s Board of Directors election, which will be January 15th by e-ballot. If you’ve wanted to give back to the GRTC, want to support the greater Rochester running community, or simply don’t like the way things are done and want to...
GRTC President’s Letter 11.15.20 – Doug Jones
Welcome to the cold weather running season. We are safely through Halloween, but COVID is still out there scaring us all. And what a difference 2 weeks makes. We were in fact prepared to announce the schedule for this year’s masked and socially distanced COVID...
GRTC President’s Letter 10.1.20 – by Doug Jones
OK. I’m officially tired of COVID (and maybe talking about it). It’s caused a lot of personal casualties across the nation and also “casualties” in the availability of “real” races in our area. Our in-person GRTC track clinic this year DID come off well (check...
September 2020 President’s Letter – Doug Jones
Wow. How CAN it be Labor Day already? Summer has given us great weather for running (if most of it solo) and so far the fall looks like it will follow that pattern too. COVID has of course been a challenge with most in person events cancelled for many months. The...
GRTC Presidents letter August 1, 2020
Wow! WHAT a year 2020 has been! COVID has changed our patterns of life in so many ways for so many people. Running has also been affected but runners, resilient in nature, and the running community as a whole have kept us all going. Virtual races and events, social...