With rain in the forecast this week, especially for Wednesday, August 15, 2018, we’re going to hold off on releasing a new course for our scheduled Thursday, Aug. 16 race, at this time. If the trails hold up in good condition, we will be running an approximately 4.25 mile course with two different climbs for … Read more
BALLWIN, MO – Alpine Shop’s Trail Run Series kicked off it’s ninth year of races on Thursday, August 9, 2018 at Castlewood State Park with a record 237 finishers on the course. The approximately 4 mile race featured one main climb up Castlewood’s Grotpeter Trail and a crossing of Kieffer Creek as the racers headed … Read more
BALLWIN, MO. – Our opening course for the 2018 Trail Run Series will be a classic tackling of the Grotpeter Trail at Castlewood State Park. Featuring one main climb and (at least) one creek crossing, this approximately 4 mile trail should provide a great opportunity for some fast times as we kick off this year’s … Read more
[KIRKWOOD, MO.] Alpine Shop’s first long-distance paddle race made a quick ascent into popularity on Sunday, July 15 as more than 70 boats participated in either the full marathon distance or half-marathon competition on the water of the Meramec River. The 2018 Meramec Marathon Paddle Race featured nine different divisions: Marathon-solo-men, marathon-solo-women, marathon-tandem-coed, marathon-tandem-men, marathon-tandem-women … Read more
Getting in shape in 2018? Give yourself a goal by joining us for the 2018 The North Face Shaw Bloom Trail 10k/20k at the stunning Shaw Nature Reserve in Gray Summit, Mo. The course is a 10k loop that will require racers to tackle a mixture of surfaces – from grass meadows to gravel pathways, … Read more