Are you a student at Pitt, CMU, or another one of Pittsburgh’s 13 institutions for higher learning? Are you looking for a friendly and relaxed group of people to run with? If so, come join a group I like to call “Hump Day at the Track”.

Every Wednesday at 6PM we meet at CMU’s track to train together. There’s a wide variety of ages and levels of participation there. Some folks walk together. Some run repeats together. Others do their own thing at their own pace. It’s a friendly and inclusive group and new faces are always welcome. Contact Ken Krynski for more info.

If you don’t live close enough to CMU to train with us, or you’re just looking for a different kind of group, be sure to check out our list of training groups.

P.S. If there are any active training groups missing from our list, be sure to let the webmaster know. Thanks.

Congratulations go to WPTC member Larry Van Dyke who won the 2007 Run Around the Square 5K with a time of 17:42. Keep up the good work!

West Penn Track Club’s friendly neighborhood webaster, yours truly, is looking to spruce up current pages and future posts on this site. If you have any digital photos of West Penn members and/or events, please send them to me at webmaster AT westpenntrackclub DOT org. If possible, let me know who/what is in each photo and when it was taken. Thanks in advance.

In 1868, author James Parton described Pittsburgh as “hell with the lid off”, in reference to the poor air quality due to the numerous smoke-spewing mills operating at the time. America’s most livable city may not be the Smoky City anymore, but that doesn’t mean that ours is the best air to breathe - let alone run in. That’s why I think the following article at Complete Running Network should be read by Pittsburgh’s runners.

MEDIA ADVISORY

Ultra-Marathoner to Run 63 Marathons in 63 Days
For Children with Incurable Disease

Pittsburgh, PA will be a Stop on the A-T CureTour

We’d love to track all of our members’ results, but it’s just not within our means right now. Until it is, you might want to set up a free account at Athlinks.com.

What is Athlinks and why should I join?

Athlinks is both the largest and most complete results database for endurance races on the planet, and a fully-featured social network built specifically for the endurance athlete community.
We add well over one million results to the database each month from several thousand endurance races including running (road races, track and field, cross country), triathlon (any multi-sport), swimming, cycling (TTs and crits), mountain biking and more.

Athlinks is not just another place to park your blog. The community features are deeply integrated with and built on top of your race results. Track and communicate with training partners, club and team members, favorite vendors and more.

On July 20, WPTC, “the most comprehensive club in Pittsburgh”, was mentioned in the Tribune-Review.

Pittsburgh offers many running club options

Runners often lament the state of the sport in Pittsburgh.

Common complaints are there aren’t as many serious runners as there used to be, that times at local competitions are getting slower and that the number of runners is dropping as the population ages.

But Pittsburgh still has its fair share of running clubs, which range from the social People Who Run Downtown and Hash House Harriers to the more intense, training and race-based Pharaoh Hounds and Western Pennsylvania Track Club.

The next meeting of the board of directors will be held at 3 PM on Sunday, August 19 at Panera’s on Boulevard of the Allies.

Welcome to our club’s new web site! Please be patient as we finish the “construction” around here. Hopefully the dust will settle soon.

A lifeless body is draped over the dirt and rocks on a park trail. Even though it was a tragic running accident, I am still the one responsible.

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