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The last running event this year for Madras Runners Club was the Jefferson Country Running Festival. This year we decided to do things a little differently, and run one race with two distance options as a celebration of our community, coaches, and athletes. The coaches had the idea of making this costume themed and untimed

In the Summer of 2023, together with Madras Runners Club and help from the Bean Foundation, we were able to put together Jefferson County’s first running camp. We renting out a camp called the Wilderness Lakes Retreat and spent 3 nights, and 4 days exploring the wilderness and building life long friendships. This year our

First week of August we launched our first Central Oregon Youth Running camp. Our main goal was pretty simple: bring in some young leaders from all of the diverse communities in Central Oregon (Bend, Madras, Warm Springs, Redmond, Sisters) and see if by sharing some miles and meals together we could build unity. Relationships are

Two weeks after the Treadmill 50k record the Madras Track & Field Team and YFC were awarded a Booster Club grant from Brooks Running. The grant included 12,400 worth of gear, and 2,000 cash. This grant came on top of the fundraising that was done at the event and it was awarded for two years.

3-Hours of Joy After taking on the role of Executive Director for YFC, based out of Madras, Or, Mario and Jade kept brainstorming on what they could do as an event to tie all of the work being sowed into this community together. Madras being a place of incredible diversity, the big question was what

One of the big questions that kept coming up during the first project was whether we would be running on the border next. We kind of laughed and joked that maybe someday, but realistically the logistics of making that happen ourselves was impossible. However, about 6 weeks after the film 100 miles to Build a

After years of working on building community, we officially organized our first big project by running 100 miles in Cambria, CA. This place being so meaningful to us, because it was where this passion to run and build community developed, made it easy to commit to run 100 miles for no reason. Two things really

Even though i’m a trail runner, I often picture life as a track race where each lap that we take we move forward, yet we cross similar points on each lap. I can think of plenty of these “laps” i’ve taken in life that have brought me back to the same points. I think there

The 2016 & 17 IAU Trail World Championships were only 8 months apart. I had the privilege to experience both World Championships and wanted to take the opportunity to share what I learned from the two completely different results. In 2016 I placed 123rd place and in 2017 I placed 9th. Most importantly, both our