432Boone Event Branding

04/25/2026

2026 theme art below!

Trails are better when they’re shared.

D&L Trails Day is on Saturday, April 25. To celebrate we are offering $10 off your entry to D&L RaceFest presented by St. Luke's University Health Network Use code CELEBRATETRAILS26 at checkout to join us Sunday, November 15th.

Register here: https://runsignup.com/Race/PA/Easton/DLRaceFestpresentedbyStLukes

03/16/2026

Let Me Tell You About The Time #3

The Running Kind is a trail running company created by my friend Aimee Kohler to promote environmentally sustainable, zero-carbon, and inclusive trail running events. On a cold rainy day in March of 2023, she put on a fun little 5k at the Lehigh Gap Nature Center in Slatington PA. It was the only 5k I can recall running with 1000+ ft vert gain, and somehow cramed 3.8mi into a 5k. Good times! By Spring of '23 I had been fighting through long-term Lyme disease for 3.5 years, and that particular winter had been rough. I had lost months of training, and a round of meds had made me sick off and on for weeks and weeks. I was finally off of them and able to stumble through a short training run or two just before joining the rest of the masochists on the starting line with Boone at my side, naturally. He needed to rejoin the living too. I worried as much or more about his fitness through my time off. He did not seem worried. He seemed hungry. Once he stopped barking after the first 30 yards of the race, he settled into climbing straight up the mountain with me. We slipped and clawed our way up the muddy rocks, passing a good amount of the field all the way to the top. When it finally flattened out we were both toast, but held it together for the longer, slower descending loop back down to the finish. At this point we had run so many miles together, raced so many times in all kinds of conditions, that I'm sure we both often forgot the other was there next to us. Not this time. We made eye contact throughout all the exertion we had been missing together, the grit and elements of the world failing to slow us down. It was fully appreciated to finish and realize our partnership was far from over and we could still do very hard, gritty things very well. Thanks Aims!

03/11/2026

Let Me Tell You About The Time #2

It was paid for, so we were going, rain and wind be damned. The Ugly Sweater 5k Run somewhere in the burbs of Philly on a cold wet Saturday in December was hard for the crowd to get pumped for, excluding the nutty guy in shorts and fake mustache and his raging psycho dog. It was 2016 & the weatherman said it might be an ice storm but we were on the road and costumed before the wife could even think twice. I had my new favorite Xmas jersey and Boone squeezed into a bargain elf harness we found somewhere...he didn't even care. He could tell it was RACE DAY. I think there was music at the starting line meant to get us moving, as most of the field shivered under cover wherever they could find it. Not us. We had all toes on the line, and by line I mean the imaginary plane that rises vertically from the ground to infinity. I could feel the vibrations of excitement through the leash as we bounced in unison with anticipation. We got the GO and there was no way anything was passing Boone that day. It was a slushy paved path with slick hills, but that made no difference. By mile 2 I had to bring him back down to earth and slow up a bit. Checking behind us, there was noone in sight. It was a brutal display of canine dominance over the competition and Mother Nature. I had a grin from ear to ear crossing the finish and for the remainder of the day. What a dog!

03/08/2026

New series - more to follow. Honest!

Let Me Tell You About The Time #1:

We had picked up this puppy just 5 days ago, and decided that given his apparent breed, (some kind of high-alert herder), he should join us and roughly 3,000 other people at the Runner's World Running Festival at Steelstacks in Bethlehem. No credible idea of his age, but he was tiny. He couldn't be much more than 3 months. I had a 5k, followed by a 10k, and then around noon was the one mile dog race. My wife, daughter and father were all along for the day's activities. I jumped out the moment we parked to get to the 5k starting line and briefly witnessed the rest of my family struggling to remove Boone out from under our truck where he was hiding (Boone was the name he was given 24hrs before). He must have been so overwhelmed, but by the time my first two races wrapped up, he was settling into the situation. We took a little walk alone before his race to give him a taste of motion through the crowd. He was still pretty timid, but perkier around the other dogs at the start. We took off to all the cheers and barking down the road lined with an enthusiastic audience, who may have given him the incentive to get his little legs running out of terror just as much as anything else. We trailed the pack for a quarter mile to the turn around, and when the frontrunners came streaking straight at us, Boone had seen enough of his first race. I picked him up and cradled him back to the finish, completing a half mile of the one mile dog race, but felt plenty accomplished! Im pretty sure he did too, as i put him down to get a drink out of the official water dish just passed the finish. A photographer was at bowl-level to get a shot of him lapping it up, and low and behold, it made it into the next issue of Runner's World magazine. This may not mean squat to the non-running reader, but to me, he had been christened a running dog for life.

02/07/2026

11/06/2025

WRFB25!

10/22/2025

Run Lehigh Valley

10/21/2025

Age group awards are in!!

Not only that but **BIG NEWS**

We have switched to 5 year age groups for the 5K and 10K!!!

Can’t wait to see you this weekend!!