BRRC 2025 Events (Save the date!)

BRRC Picnic & BBQ
July 10, 2025
Comstock Park
Members only

BRRC CC Audubon 5K
September 7, 2025
Audubon Park
https://runsignup.com/Race/WA/Spokane/BRRCCrossCountryRaces 

BRRC Sundae Sunday
September 14, 2025
Flett Middle School
9:00 am
https://runsignup.com/Race/WA/Spokane/BRRCsSundaeSunday10Miler
Sundae Sunday Information
Registration updates for Price Increases
01/17/2025 through 04/29/2025, Early Registration is $35 with shirt
04/30/2025 through 06/27/2025, Registration cost go up to $40 with shirt
06/28/2025 through 08/22/2025, Registration cost go up to $45 with shirt
08/23/2025 through 09/13/2025, Registration goes down to $35 without shirt
09/14/2025 Day of Race registration is $50 without shirt

BRRC Colbert Half Marathon & 4-Miler
September 27, 2025
Colbert Elementary School
https://runsignup.com/Race/WA/Colbert/ColbertAutumnClassicHalfMarathon


BRRC CC Qualchan 12K
October 5, 2025
High Drive & Bernard https://runsignup.com/Race/WA/Spokane/BRRCCrossCountryRaces


BRRC Spokane Marathon/Half & 10K
October 12, 2025
Downtown Spokane

BRRC CC 7 Mile 5K
October 19, 2025
7-Mile Airstrip https://runsignup.com/Race/WA/Spokane/BRRCCrossCountryRaces


BRRC CC Mead 5K
October 25, 2025
Mead HS
https://runsignup.com/Race/WA/Spokane/BRRCCrossCountryRaces 

I Must Run Everywhere
I'm happy to introduce a new/old runner who is a prolific writer with a unique sense
of humor. Jim Johnson offered to republish a few of his articles from his blog, "I must Run Everywhere."
https://imustruneverywhere.com/ 
 

https://imustruneverywhere. com/2013/07/26/a-woman-alone- soon-is-not/

A woman, alone, soon is not

Posted on   July 26, 2013

When there are only two people in a room, a man and a woman, and I’m the man, it’s natural for me to want her attention. This was the situation I was in this morning.

After doing a seven-miler, I walked to a coffee shop near my house. The morning rush was over and the woman in front of me, the only other customer in the shop, elected not to purchase the caramel cinnamon roll because it was too big.

After she took a chair in the seating area, I ordered my usual 12-ounce mocha and for the first time ever, a caramel cinnamon roll.

I sat a couple tables away, noticing she had a top with stylized lettering on her sleeve that read   AFS. I offered an apology for interrupting her reading of   The Inlanderand asked if AFS stood for Awesomely Fast Sprinter.

She said it was natural for me to think of a running-related term after I mentioned I was a runner, but AFS stood for the company she owned, Animal Fulfillment Specialists.

After a few minutes of chat, I told her the caramel cinnamon roll was beyond delicious and offered to share. Her shy smile told me it was okay to move to her table.

She had flown in from the East Coast a couple days earlier. Her company uses unusual animals to provide unique experiences for people. She was arranging a wagon pulled by a zebra, a musk ox, a camel, and an alpaca for a 16-year-old’s birthday party.

When I remarked on the diversity of the wagon-pulling team, she said that was only the start. Riding in the wagon with the birthday celebrants would be capybaras, Peruvian ferrets, ocelot kittens, and long-haired fedoras.

When I questioned her apparent mistake, she said in the southern Brazilian state of San Rio Escalana, natives know that long-haired fedoras are not hat wear.

As I departed, I asked if she’d like to go on a drive in the country sometime and identify animals for me. She broke into a smile and shook my hand. “I have lots of experience with that. I’m a great animal identifier.”