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Race Report by Doug Dubrosky – On Saturday 9/4 three Wanderers competed in the Nolde Forest 10K Trail “Chase”.  This [...]

By Leo Strupczewski It hit me about midway through my first run at Squaw Valley – if you want to [...]

Over the hay bails and through the water in Radnor the Wanderers ran.They went out real hard, through a grassy [...]

Back on My Feet would like to send a special THANK YOU to all of the Wissahickon Wanderers who made [...]

The Half-Wit Half Marathon is no doubt a favorite of the Wanderers. What does that say about us? That we [...]

Various Wanderers are working feverishly to prepare food dishes in time for next week’s 7th Annual Track Meet. Bin Ruiter [...]

On Sat August 7th, please join Wanderers Alex Ochman and Lisa Franciotti to race or volunteer for a 5K in [...]

The date has been set for the 8th annual Chestnut Hill Cross Country Classic…September 11.  The start time is 9 [...]

On June 13, 2010, Chris Verry, Polly Jansen, and Sharon Schmidt-Mongrain set out to tackle Eagleman Ironman 70.3 in Cambridge, [...]

By Leo Strupczewski (and Helen Cheung) Temperatures in the 90s and, in one case, a late start didn’t stop a [...]

Here's a great way to support the organizers of The Wissahickon Trail Classic AND the local Trolley Car Diner. During [...]

Distance Running Program Starting The Wanderers have combined with highly respected running coach Susan Pajer to set up a training [...]

Race report by Sharon Schmidt-Mongrain On 5/2/10, I raced the St. Croix Ironman 70.3.  At the 6:30 AM start, it [...]

A new award will be unveiled with the upcoming May trail series….the Wissahickon Cup!!  The cup will be awarded to [...]

Why is ths man yawning? Try 9 hours of sleep in almost 8 days to complete a 2,530-mile race and [...]

Race report by Polly Jansen On Saturday, March 27th, 2010 a team of 9 Wanderers took on the fan-favorite Tyler [...]

Cole’s field reports Mar 16-22Cole’s field reports Mar 23-29Cole’s field reports Mar 30-Apr 5thCole’s field reports Apr 6-12 Wanderer Cole [...]

OK Wanderers…consider adding the Tough Guy’ contest to your race calendar next year: Eight miles of mud, barbed wire, broken [...]

Photos added 3/2 @ 5pm – There are many great attributes about the Wissahickon Wanderers, one being that we fear [...]

The Wanderers signed up for the 2010 USATF off-road series. The seven race series begins with the Ugly Mudder trail [...]

The misty rain and upper 30’s-low 40’s temps seemed more indicative of a March than a January race. Regardless the [...]

Polly Jansen was named Wanderer Athlete of the Year at the club’s annual meeting on January 21. Polly did it [...]

The Great One’s celebrity star continues to rise. Earlier this month, Susan and Gina were featured in a Channel 6 [...]

Wanderers: please click here to view a discussion on the Wanderers Discussion board regarding social networking sites. We need your [...]

It is hard to believe but the Wissahickon Wanderers are now 10 years old. It all started deep in the [...]

While many of us were cowering (and shivering) inside during the recent cold spell, many Wanderers were out braving the [...]

Sharon Schmidt-Mongrain finishes in 10:28:23: 50th Female (15th amateur), 9th in her age group…IN THE WORLD.   Watch this video [...]

The USATF (USA Track and Field) off-road series is coming up very quickly. For the last two years, the Wanderers [...]

Thursday, Dec. 17th @ Valley Green Inn (back bar area) immediately following the regular 6:30 run (so approx. 7:30). If [...]

Ah, the weekend after Thanksgiving…while many are contemplating creative ways to consume those leftovers (turkey/sweet potato/cranberry sauce smoothies, mashed-potato/gravy bon-bons, [...]

Noah Shusterman led a team of Wanderers to some great performances at the Phildelphia Marathon. Noah broke three hours finishing [...]

Work is to commence shortly to restore a 1.7 mile section of trail on the Chestnut Hill side of the [...]

Catch this video of Sharon's spill during the Danskin Sprint Triathlon held in Philadelphia last August. Lance himself would not [...]

Race report by Wanderers news correspondent Susannah Grosso. Two seasoned marathonesses and one hell of a neophyte ventured north to [...]

By Road Kill With the fall race season upon us, Wanderers have been traveling all over the place to perform [...]

The fall trail running series wraps up in the Wissahickon with the final race on September 24. […]

“If you just try, try, try enough, at last you will succeed!”  This old saying could not have been more [...]

The 7th Annual Chestnut Hill Cross Country Classic put on by the Wanderers is coming up on Saturday, September 19.  [...]

If you missed out on running with Chris McDougall and having the author sign your book, then here is another [...]

Times best-selling author Chris McDougall talked about his book Born to Run and the benefits of running barefoot at the [...]

Back on My Feet would like to send out a huge thank-you to the Wissahickon Wanderers for organizing the All-Comers [...]

Links: Photo Albums (3): 1-Fenn (143), 2-Polly (30), and 3-Jan (10 bbq pics) Results (PDF) » Race Report » Race [...]

The Wanderers track meet is returning to the Roxborough High School track on August 25. (The rain date is the [...]

An impressive number of Wanderers (20 !) took part in the Half Wit Half last weekend in Reading, PA. Read [...]

New York Times bestselling author Christopher McDougall, who is riding a tremendous wave of success (barefoot) with his groundbreaking book [...]

There have been many amazing Wanderer performances this summer.  But certainly tops on the list has to be the arrival [...]

Somewhere in the “course” of trail running history, was there not afforded some adage about the irrational mindset of those [...]

Chris Verry and Polly Jansen recently (7/26) traveled to San Francisco, CA to race the SF Half Marathon. The course [...]

Race report by Chris Verry At 7:00 PM on Wednesday, July 8, 2009, three Wanderers took a break from their [...]

Race Report by Tammy-Leigh DeMent “It was a beatuiful day, the sun beat down, I had the radio on, I [...]