Sluggish website results ()

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 …

Investigation of website behavior ()

Some of you may have noticed the club website has been running slowly lately.

Kathy Cea and I (Lou King) believe we have tracked down the cause to be a recent update of the calendar “plugin” we use, and are working with the vendor to debug the problem. While we have a staging site to …

Frederick Women’s Distance Festival Raises $26,585 for Women’s Giving Circle ()

Left to Right, Heidi Novak, President, Frederick Steeplechasers Running Club; Bonnie Swanson, Chair, Women's Giving Circle; Harriet Langlois, Race Director, Frederick Steeplechasers Running Club

5K Race Attracts 600 Female Runners

FREDERICK, Md. — In August, the 33rd annual Frederick Women’s Distance Festival, hosted by the Frederick Steeplechasers Running Club, was back at Frederick Community College. 607 runners and walkers participated this year and the busy race-day expo drew area sponsor businesses and non-profit organizations. The run/walk is a favorite …

President’s Message ()

Heidi Novak

Summer is flying by, and we have all been busy with training, racing, and trying to stay cool. It’s been a busy few months, and things will be getting even busier as we return to school in a few weeks. For those of you who don’t know this, in addition to being the president of …