News and Announcements
Upcoming Events
- CGTC Winter Series continues with the Couch Mountain Run, Sunday, December 13th
- CGTC Annual Meeting and Pizza Party, Tuesday, December 8th, 7:30 pm, Satisfaction Restaurant, Brightleaf Square, Durham.
Running Start 2009 Photo
This year's Godiva Running Start Program participants began training on March 28th with the goal of completing the Triangle Race for the Cure 5k on June 13th. Click on the thumbnail to enlarge the picture.
RRCA Footnotes
Carolina Godiva Track Club
About Godiva
Do you like to run? Are you interested in meeting other people in the Research Triangle area who share your interest? If so, you're in the right place.
Founded in 1975, Godiva Track Club has over 450 members of all ages and abilities, and welcomes new members.
Godiva offers an annual Running Start program for those who are new or returning to the sport, and its Marathon Training Program was the first of its type in the area. The club presents major running events like the Coach Bubba 20k/4 Mile Race and the Umstead Marathon. Godiva's annual calendar also features weekly summer track meets, and a winter series of cross country runs. There are regularly scheduled group runs most days of the week.
Please check out more reasons to join Godiva, and either sign up on line or mail us a membership form.
Oh yes, one more thing: You may wonder why we're called the Godiva Track Club? Here's the story in a nutshell.
Godiva Track Club's 7th Annual Umstead Trail Marathon will be held Saturday, March 6, 2010 in the beautiful William B. Umstead State Park in Raleigh, North Carolina. Registration opened on Monday, November 2nd and the field of 200 filled on Tuesday, November 10th.
. . . are available in this pdf.
The 26th Annual Godiva Winter Series continues with the Misery Run in Carrboro on Sunday, November 22nd. This event features European style cross country with barriers and plenty of mud and muck. Godiva members can sign up for the series; non-members are welcome to sign up for the race, too. Here's the complete Winter Series schedule for 2009-10:
- Run for the Donuts - Sunday, October 18th, @ 10 am
- Misery Run - Sunday, November 22 @ 10 am
- Couch Mountain Run - Sunday, December 13th @ 10 am
- New Year's Day Run - Friday, January 1st @ 1 pm
- Eno Equalizer - Sunday, January 10 @ 10 am
- Geezer Pleezer - Sunday, February 14th @ 10 am
- Hard Climb Hill - Sunday, March 14 @ 10 am
Get the complete Winter Series schedule in pdf form for details about distances, locations, and who to contact with questions. Here's the series entry form.
Large sections of the Duke Forest popular with runners and other recreational users, including the Durham division (along Highway 751) and the Korstian division (between Mt. Sinai and Whitfield Rds.) are closed Monday through Friday from Sept. 14th to Dec. 18th for a controlled hunt to limit the deer population. The Eno and Dailey sections will remain open, as will the Al Buehler Trail (around Washington Duke golf course) and the East Campus trail. All Forest divisions will be open on Saturdays and Sundays, as well as Thursday and Friday of Thanksgiving weekend. Get further details at the Duke Forest website.
The Godiva Masters set a new masters course record at the 2009 Blue Ridge Relay Sept. 10-11. The twelve person team covered the 208 miles of mountain roads from Grayson's Highlands State 
Park, VA to Asheville, NC in 22:58:54 (6:32 per mile), besting the record they set last year by nearly 27 minutes. Godiva Masters was the third team overall among 103 in the race.
A second team with several Godiva members, the Umstead Twelve, finished 23rd overall, 7th among mixed gender teams, in a time of 27:51:57.
This year's Godiva MTP participants
Presenting Godiva's 10th Annual MTP
Since 2000, Carolina Godiva Track Club has helped hundreds of runners to train for marathons, half-marathons, and other long-distance events. Response to the program has been enthusiastic, and we’re back once again in 2009 to continue this popular tradition. The program focuses on first-timers as well as veterans wanting a supportive training group. Many runners return year after year.
Check out this photo album from Godiva's 2009 Awards Banquet, courtesy of photographer Shannon Johnstone.
Half Marathon - Charlotte RaceFest at SouthPark - April 18th10K - Capital City Classic - Raleigh, May 9th8K - Running of the Bulls 8K - Durham, May 30th-
5K - Beat the Heat 5K - Winston-Salem, July 18th - Marathon - Outer Banks Marathon -Kitty Hawk to Manteo - November 8th
These races offer prize money. To participate in Championship portion of any of these events, a runner must be a USATF member and a 12 month resident of NC. Participation in the host event is open to everyone.