The 10th Annual Rina’s Run 5K/10K/Half Marathon, named in loving memory of Rina Brocchini, benefits Ripon High Stadium. The tech shirts and nice swag are a couple perks to participating. The flat and fast courses run through the charming neighborhoods of downtown Ripon making this event ideal for beginners as well as experienced runners of…
Don’s Miss the Chocolate Festival Run……. Saturday, May 20th, 2017 8:00 a.m. – One Mile Run 8:30 a.m. – 5 K Run COURSE: The 5K Fun Run is a fast out & back, starting and finishing near the Chocolate Festival. The One Mile is a flat walk or run. ENTRY: Entry cost for either…
By Karen Lozano For someone who has never been on the ShadowChase Running Club Board of Directors until this year, Mike Araiza has most likely been to more meetings than any sitting director, with the exception of Heidi Ryan. But it is because he starting dating Ryan that he ended up attending those countless meetings…
By: Karen Lozano To some, when it rains, it pours. But if you’re Penny White, you keep pulling out that umbrella and finding a voice to make Gene Kelly proud. Some may recognize White, 63, from her volunteer service at ShadowChase Running Club aid stations at local races. “I love encouraging people when they’re running…
Saturday, April 1, 2017 East La Loma Park • 2001 Edgebrook Dr., Modesto, CA 95354 Event details and schedule Check in will begin at 7:00 am race day. 1 Mile race will begin at 8:30 am 5K and 10K races will begin at 9:00 am. Register on-line with active.com Run-for-Health-flier-2017
By Karen Lozano While some families might debate the age old question “What came first, the chicken or the egg?, the Lopes household would most likely take a different approach. Thomas Lopes would whip that chicken and egg up into something delicious to eat, and Gina Lopes would turn the feathers and shells into an…
Tickets are limited! We have approximately 100 spots available at $20 each. The dinner is open to everyone. This inspirational dinner is FRIDAY, March 17th…two days before race day! Meet Chris Koch, our Pasta Dinner speaker for the Modesto Marathon pre-race dinner 2017. Chris intends to participate in one of our distances, depending on how well…
By Karen Lozano Jerry Nance is one of those guys who would give you the shirt off his back. Quite literally, he would willingly give it up without a second thought if he thought you needed it. I know firsthand of this generosity. Now I don’t normally write these volunteer stories in the first person,…
By Karen Lozano If ShadowChase Running Club volunteer Melanie Wiegand had a theme song, it might be from a Clint Eastwood movie. As part of the club’s race timing team, she gets a taste of the good, the bad and the ugly. Weigand, along with Susan Cooper, Danielle Myers and a few others who…
They are quite often two of the first two faces you see at a ShadowChase Running Club race. But it may surprise some to hear that Karen Crane and Loretta Ghaner, two of ShadowChase’s most prolific volunteers, are not runners or walkers at all. You can say they “married” the club. Crane, 64, joined ShadowChase…
Written by Karen Lozano in October 2015 As organizers prepare for the next Surgical Artistry Modesto Marathon in March, two ShadowChase Running Club members are hard at work putting together a program for the next round of adults hoping to fulfill dreams and get healthy and fit through running a full or half marathon. Mike…
Flat Arch 2016 December 31st 2016. New Year’s Eve. It was a dark and stormy night! No really, it was a dark and stormy Friday night but still over 250 runners signed in early on Saturday morning in light rain. Almost all these runners knew that much of the route is on dirt roads…