It's often that the amazing accomplishments of Somerville Road Runners, as individuals and as a club, are captured by local news or publicized through our own social media. If you have a story of interest that you'd like published on this page, please forward it to our webmaster for consideration.
SRR recognized in Boston magazine
January 31, 2012 – Rory Fagan finished first at the annual 5K Tiger Dash held at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne Florida. (Finish time: 17:43.2 Pace: 5:43). After the race he gave an interviewer some insight on his SRR training regime.
SRR recognized in Boston magazine
December 28, 2011 – In the January issue of Boston Magazine, on page 55, SRR is one of four running clubs named in Boston's "Casual to Hard-Core Running Clubs." They offer a succinct, accurate description of the club... "Shared Goal: Run for fun, beer, competition or all of the above." The other clubs mentioned are: The Most Informal Running Club Ever, L Street Running Club and Cambridge Running Club. The story highlights that SRR has donated more than $140,000 to local charities since 2005! Kudos to our fabulous race directors!
Robert Cipriano Named NER Athlete of the Month
December 24, 2011 – A big congratulations to Robert Cipriano who really made it happen in 2011 and was named New England Runner Athlete of the Month in the Jan/Feb 2012 issue (page 72). He is the first 50+ athlete ever to crack the Top 5 of the Pub Series in its thirteen year history!!
Sara Radkiewicz - 2011 Richmond Marathon
November 10, 2011 – Sara Radkiewicz ran a fantastic race at the Richmond Marathon this past weekend, completing the course with a net time of 3:32:11. Sara finished 9th in her division and beat her previous PR by over six minutes!
Back On My Feet (from Spare Change News)
July 29, 2011 – Nice article about the Back On My Feet program, who entered their first-ever team in SRR's 26x1 Relay in June.
John Wichers Conquers Mt. Kilimanjaro
From John: "Here's a picture of me on the top of Kilimanjaro wearing my SRR singlet. It was about eight degrees (Fahrenheit), so I stripped down only long enough to take a picture or two..."
Ex-football player MacDonald slims down with marathons (from The Salem News)
May 19, 2011 – This is a great article about SRR's own Marc MacDonald on his focus on running and love of marathons.