Lou King

Great news! FSRC is now in the 21st century! We’re buying a chip timing system which should arrive by the end of April. We’ll be using this to provide FSRC low key race timing. We wanted to provide members with a more professional and accurate timing experience. We may also offer this in the future …

On January 27th our Club held its Annual Awards Banquet. I encourage you to view the list of award winners and presentations posted on the FSRC Hall of Fame for 2023. If you need motivation to lace up your shoes and get outside, these award winners will inspire you! I was especially honored to …

The 2023 Major Award winners have been posted on the Hall of Fame page. This includes most of the tribute speeches that were presented at the annual awards banquet. The remaining speeches will be updated soon. Also, the final results for both the 2023 Grand Prix and Summer Decathlon have been posted. Hall of Fame…

We noticed a problem with the new website and are currently working on it. The full events are not displaying venue, time, etc., which makes them not very useful. Somehow this slipped through our extensive quality assurance process 🙄. We are working on this, and may need to contact the vendor. Stay tuned.…

As you can see, the website upgrade has been completed. If you have any questions, comments, or problems, please send to webmaster@steeplechasers.org.…

Several months ago, we embarked on a website redesign project for steeplechasers.org. The first phase is to update our website’s look and feel. This is coming soon, but we want to be clear what you’ll see at first, and what we’ll be updating over time. Initially, the look and feel will be cleaner with …

UPDATE (6/19/23 0630): The server website resize is completed. The upgrade went uneventfully. We’ll be monitoring to see if additional tuning is required. (6/18/23) We’ve noticed the web server which hosts steeplechasers.org, scoretility.com, routetility, and several other xtility apps you may not know about has gotten somewhat slow. We plan on adding memory and some…

Due to the National Weather Service issuing a Code Red for Air Quality today (Wed Jun 7, 2023) with the recommendation to avoid strenuous exercise, the Summer Decathlon event for this evening is cancelled. Hopefully we’ll be back at Frederick High School next Wednesday for the 600 meter run. Tim O’Keefe…

If you have any questions about FSRC, we may have a ready answer for you at our new FAQs page. Check it out!…

We were able to investigate the website slowdown without impacting the production system. It turns out there are two plugins which don’t play well together. For now we’ve disabled the less important one (the features are just visible to admins anyway), so the website performance should be much improved. As always, if you see any…