UPDATE: PLEASE SEE THE POST HERE FOR UPDATES ON THIS RUN. BALLWIN, MO. – The fourth and final course for the 2019 Alpine Shop Trail Run Series is FITS Sock Co. Night! We’re pleased to welcome David Olson, from FITS Sock Co., who will be on hand with us. The first 150 people to arrive … Read more
BALLWIN, MO – When you name a course after a hill titled “Cardiac Hill,” you’d expect times to go up. Instead, the 218 runners that tackled the “Cardiac Course” at Castlewood State Park on Thursday, August 15, pushed the pace up a notch compared to the week before. The approximately 4 mile race featured two … Read more
BALLWIN, Mo. – Over the first two weeks, we’ve made you go up the Mountain Ridge (AKA Love) Trail and had you come down the western most edge of the Grotpeter Trail. So for the third race of the 2019 Alpine Shop Trail Run Series, we’re flipping that script. The approximately 4.16 mile course will … Read more
BALLWIN, MO – An evening that began with a forecast for rain earlier in the week turned into a typical St. Louis summer night for more than 210 runners who took to the trails at Castlewood State Park for the second night of four in the 2019 Alpine Shop Trail Run Series. This approximately 4.2 … Read more
BALLWIN, MO. – With everyone getting their “trail legs” back after week one last Thursday, we’re going to bump things up a bit for week two while we still have extra sunlight to work with before the end of the month. This course highlights two of Castlewood State Park’s finest trails for running: Lone Wolf … Read more