Resolve to run more in the new year? The St. Luke’s Half Marathon is the race for you
Is running more included among your New Year’s Resolutions? Or losing weight? The St. Luke’s Half Marathon is perfectly timed for such resolutions. The April 24 race is about 16 weeks away, providing the perfect amount of time needed to train for a half marathon. Our official training plan doesn’t start until Jan. 17, so that even gives you some time to ease into your resolutions if needed. The St. Luke’s Half Marathon also is a great race if one of resolutions is to run your first-ever half marathon. The course is mostly flat, is diversified (both city running and beautiful parks) and is large enough to provide great crowd support but not too large that it’s crowded or overwhelming. Can you run a 5k now? If so, you can run a half marathon in 16 weeks! Our beginner training plan starts with a 6-mile long run, while other well…
LVRR Announces New Partnership with Runner’s World
October 1, 2015 – Lehigh Valley Road Runners is pleased to announce a new partnership with Runner’s World Half Marathon. Together, we present the Half & Half 26.2. Participants will run the St. Luke’s Half Marathon on April 24, 2016 in Allentown, PA and the Runner’s World Half Marathon on October 16, 2016 in Bethlehem in order to complete the marathon distance. Finishers will receive a unique, quality hoodie. Results will be announced at the Runner’s World Half award ceremony next October. Registration for the event is now open. This inaugural event will be open to the first 250 runners to register. Runners can sign up here: https://runsignup.com/Race/PA/LehighValley/HalfandHalfMarathon More information can be found here.
Half & Half 26.2
Lehigh Valley Road Runners is pleased to announce a new partnership with Runner’s World Half Marathon. Together, we present the Half & Half 26.2. Participants will run the St. Luke’s Half Marathon on April 24, 2016 in Allentown, PA and the Runner’s World Half Marathon on October 16, 2016 in Bethlehem in order to complete the marathon distance. Finishers will receive a unique, quality hoodie. Results will be announced at the Runner’s World Half award ceremony next October. Registration for the event is now open. This inaugural event will be open to the first 250 runners to register. Runners can sign up here: https://runsignup.com/Race/PA/LehighValley/HalfandHalfMarathon More information can be found here.
Referral Contest Continues in 2016
Last year, event organizers of the St. Luke’s Half Marathon and 5K introduced a unique contest in which runners could win cash for referring their friends and family to run the half marathon or 5K. The Referral Contest will take place, again, in 2016 where race participants can seek to earn a top spot and win cash prizes for referring the most runners to the St. Luke’s Half Marathon and 5K races. When you sign up to run one of our races (either the 5K or half marathon) you will receive a unique referral link in your confirmation email. Simply provide this link to your family and friends and ask them to register for the race. When they sign up to run you will receive a referral credit. The three participants with the most referral credits will receive the following cash prizes: 1st place – $150 2nd place – $75 3rd…
2015 Scholarship Recipients
With twenty applicants our job was very tough this year. How do you whittle down the list from the highly intelligent and talented pool of teens who will undoubtedly go on to do great things in the years to come? It wasn’t easy and we take the decision-making very seriously. We wish all of our applicants the very best as they enter their college careers. Here are the recipients of our seven scholarships for 2015: Lehigh Valley Road Runner Scholarship ($4,000 annual scholarship awarded to eligible students with Lehigh and Northampton counties who run track or cross country) Angelina Biondo (Penn Argyl) – She will be attending DeSales University majoring in nursing. Shaina Palmer (Freedom) – She will be attending Johns Hopkins University majoring in biomaterials engineering. Alex Fitch (Liberty) – He will be attending Misericordia University to become a physician assistant. Andrew Shaffer (Bethlehem Catholic) – He will be attending Embry…
2015 Referral Contest Winners
For our 2015 event we hosted a referral contest that ran from October 1, 2014 to March 15, 2015. Contestants received credit for each runner who registered to run our 5K or half marathon via a unique referral code. An internal system tallied the results. Thank you to all of the runners who participated in the contest. Congratulations to our top winners: 1st place – Nahla Hanna 2nd place – Angela Stanski 3rd place – Greg Duff
Lehigh Valley Mile Race Series Announced
Lehigh Valley Road Runners is pleased to announce their newest race series and support to bring back the mile. The Lehigh Valley Mile Series will take place on June 5, July 4 and August 8 in three separate locations throughout the Lehigh Valley. Each mile race will consist of Youth, Open and Elite divisions. An elite purse is available to the top three overall men and women as tallied by a point system at the conclusion of the series. Entrants must run a minimum of two races in their division in order to qualify for an award. The June 5th event will take place in Bethlehem at the Moravian College track for a true track mile. July’s event is a 1-mile trail race in Allentown’s beautiful Lehigh Parkway. The final event is a road mile which will take place in downtown Easton, finishing at Riverside Park. Age groups include 14…
LVRR Featured as Case Study
A year ago we made the switch to a new registration service, Runsignup.com, and could not have been happier. Let’s just say that our race directors and treasurer have had an easier time managing registration and volunteers through our new system. Runsignup has been a real pleasure to work with, always willing to listen to our feedback to make tweaks to their system, and even making changes that we have needed. Recently, two club members were interviewed by Johanna Goode from Runsignup.com, the interview was featured as a case study on their website. You can read the case study here.