AMHERST, Mass. (March 3, 2010) — Manchester Running Company’s Elaina Mertens was the first “local” female and Drew Best was the eighth overall as four MRC Running Club members had a strong showing at the Jones Realty Group 10-Mile Road Race in Amherst over the weekend.

Mertens took home a $125 prize for being the first female finisher from the three neighboring counties around Amherst.  The Springfield resident was 233rd in the field of 691 runners.  Mertens ..read more

MANCHESTER, Conn. (Feb. 9, 2010) – Manchester Running Company has announced its plans to team with Soles4Souls to host a Shoe Drive in conjunction with the Second Annual Finally Spring 5k! on March 20, 2o1o at Highland Park School and Howard/Porter Reservoir in Manchester.  MRC has also pledged that it will donate 25 pairs of new shoes to the cause.

With the recent earthquake in Haiti, Manchester Running Company would like to encourage all participants and others ..read more

Feb. 3, 2010 — Manchester Running Company has announced the remainder of the MRC Snowshoe Series races (Feb. 7 and 14) have been canceled.  We do not anticipate enough snow for the race on Feb. 7th and have determined that the best action is to discontinue the series for the year at this point.  We greatly appreciate the support for the races this year and hopefully 2011 will give us more snow!

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Despite nature’s best effort to provide enough snow for our snowshoe series, Manchester Running Company will not be hosting the MRC Snowshoe Series this Sunday (Jan. 31), due to lack of snow.  We will try again next week (Feb. 7)!  Please continue to check back weekly for details.

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Week 1 (Jan. 10, 2010) saw ten official finishers in the open 5k, approximately 15 brave men and women toed the line and after some course confusion a few requested their results not be posted out of fairness.  We promise for the next week the course will be marked more clearly with volunteers out on the course for guidance.

Results:

1.  Ken Clark  - 23:11

2. John Hankins – 23:17

3. Michael Tassinari – 23:35

4. Amy Stewart – 23:59 ** ..read more