Announcements

CRR Volunteer Recognition Announcement

Order of the Golden Show Award

As you may remember from the last year AGM, Ken Park kindly offered to donate a new trophy to the Club – the Order of the Golden Shoe Award. The trophy is aimed at CRR’s most experienced runners, who would have their names engraved on the trophy should they complete at least six of the…

Calgary Orienteering Club offers free Tri-It Events

Foothills Wanderers Orienteering Club (FWOC, or Calgary Orienteering Club) offers a few Tri It orienteering events, for free!  The three remaining events are on  Saturday Sep 26 at Sandy Beach, Wednesday Sep 30 at Nose Hill, and Wednesday Oct 7 at North Glenmore park. Orienteering is a fun sport, if you never experienced it, we…

14th Annual Roger and Helly’s Fun Track Tri Success

A beautiful early autumn evening to run three track distances at the Foothills Athletic Park last Thursday, although we could definitely feel the smoke in the air, and at least one racer could not complete the series due to breathing problems. The others persevered though and the 14th annual event was a lot of fun….

Long Time CRR Member Chris Curry Passes

  We are sad to advise that  our dear friend, a long-time Club member Chris Curry crossed the ultimate finish line on Friday July 24th. Due to the Covid situation the funeral will be limited to 50 people, so mostly family will be able to attend, but they would also like to accommodate some of…

David Strand (72) completes Canmore Quad!

Congratulations to David Strand who has just completed the much coveted Canmore Quad feat. Along with his son Jared, David had a remarkable day in the mountains, something that he jokingly describes as the “Slowest Known Time”. The team covered 57+ km and gained more than 5,000 meters of elevation in this noteworthy adventure. Canmore…