Member Profiles and Stories

Racewalking – Whispering Loudly and Proudly!

By Marjorie Houston Despite being one of the original disciplines of modern athletics, racewalking is sometimes derided as a contrived or “artificial” sport. At the1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, Bob...

Transplant Trio

Colleen Kelly and her husband Matt Jankowich have been active members of the RMHP Running Club for nine years. Early on Monday and Wednesday mornings, you’ll find them on the Brown track, and on...

Teddy Marak: My First Mount Washington Road Race

In November 2021 I suffered an ankle injury that left me unable to run for seven months. My return to running was slow and flat to protect my ankle ligaments. Fast forward to February of 2023 and,...

Leslie Battle: Multisport Athlete

Leslie Battle is a proud five-year member of Ronald McDonald House Providence Running Club, who one will (more often than not) catch running the ‘extra mile’ at the end of practices. Her primary...

Peter Sedgwick’s Come Back

by Peter Sedgwick I am writing this open letter to discuss what I have been doing this year to improve my running times and abilities. First off so you all understand until this year I had not...

100 on 100 Relay

by Ellen Foley. I ran the 100 on 100 relay with five friends last Saturday (Aug 13th). Here’s the website: http://www.100on100.org/. We came in 6th of 12 women’s teams (we were something like 89th...