President’s Message ()

Heidi Novak

As 2022 comes to a close, let’s take a moment to look back on the amazing year that the club has had. It was also my second year as president, and one that was filled with many changes. There were changes with committees and changes to the club’s Constitution. An upcoming change will take effect …

Market Street Mile Raises $7,300 to Benefit Local Families and Youth Runners ()

Chris Dutton, Steeplechasers Vice President; Chad Ahalt, Lincoln Panther Run Club Head Coach; Aaron Vetter, City Youth Matrix Executive Director; and Jake Sisler, Market Street Mile Race Director.

40th Annual Race Kicked off Frederick’s In the Streets, Hosted 505 Participants

FREDERICK, Md. —  On September 10, the Frederick Steeplechasers Running Club hosted the 40th running of its Market Street Mile race, kicking off Celebrate Frederick’s In The Streets festival. This year’s race welcomed 505 participants across four competitive heats. With support from local …

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 …