Run in these informal trail races organized by the Wissahickon Wanderers every Thursday evening in September.

The distances range generally from three to five miles through the woods of the Wissahickon and along Forbidden Drive.

PHOTOS ADDED 8/22 - The Wanderers may have sent a smaller contingent to this year's Half-Wit Half, with only one of last year's six award winners returning, but they still managed to pull of an impressive double victory, with Helen Cheung and Chris Verry blowing away the competition and bringing home two of the most prestigious prizes in the Pretzel City universe.

If you are reading this, you have arrived at our new website!

After months of working and tinkering, we are finally live !

The overall objective of the major web site overhaul is to make our website more interactive and useful to our members.

Here are some of the specific improvements:

Seven Wanderers continued to display their fine athletic prowess by competing in two triathlons over the past few weeks. The first was the Anthracite Triathlon on July 20th in Jim Thorpe, PA consisting of a 1.5k swim, 40k bike & 10k run.

With several grueling hills on the bike and run, this tri was not for the faint of heart (or body). Refusing intimidation, Heather Wesner and Scott McCracken both selected this event as their first tri and performed amazingly!

Five Wanderers participated in two Tri's (Rhode Island Half Ironman 70.3 & Diamond in the Rough) recently.

Read the race reports by Polly and Sharon of their respective events.

Report by Polly

On Sunday, June 22nd 2008 seven Wanderers ventured up to Reading, PA for more Ron Horn trail race madness. The Wanderers are by now an intimidating fixture and a force to be reckoned with at these hardcore trail events.

The Wanderers starred in all facets of the Wissahickon Trail Classic held on June 7. First let’s talk about the results. They were impressive.

Most of the old web pages (375 or so) were not moved over to the new site.

But, you can still access them by using these links:

• News stories and race reports prior to April 2008 »

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