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Congratulations and Good Luck!

Veteran marathoner, Laurie Lavallee, has gratefully offered to share her marathon checklist. click here and print out this list. Add, cross out or share with other MVS members items you may need for the big day.

2020 Bradford Valentine Road Race recap

Find FIVE running friends. Choose a cool name for your team, you know, something apolitical like "OK, BOOMER". Figure out which leg of the race you will run. Pick the coldest day in December. Pile your team into a car and prepare to run 27 miles thru SIX cities and TWO states. Cross the Merrimack River several times. If you're lucky, you end up sipping a beer at the Claddagh Pub in Lawrence and sharing pasta with friends. If you're good, you take home a BRICK !

Here's a quick and easy breakfast casserole you can make the night before, or at least 12 hours before hand.

There's no better way to start the new year! If you weren't running Lowell's First Run you were probably at the Winner's Circle Hangover Classic Salisbury Beach. Either race will give you your first point toward the Super Iron Series Races. click here for some of the highlights and photos.

Running has been a part of his family his entire life.

Lots of local Merrimack Valley runners kicked off the New Year festivities by running in a 5K/10K race.

Striders had the option of running in the Lowell First Run or the Hangover Classic in Salisbury to earn a point in the Super Iron Runner Series.

Judy takes on the country as she completes a marathon in all 50 states

Free training program brings beginner and veteran runners together.

Use up that summer bounty of zucchini and tomatoes in this quick and easy frittata, courtesy of Skinnytaste.com

A club favorite, courtesy of Run Fast. Eat Slow. by Shalane Flanagan and Elyse Kopecky

May 2019 Strider Spotlight

Recap of the 2019 Boston Marathon

Reprinted from May 2013

Coach Sharon Johnson shares her tips on conquering the Mt. Washington Road Race.