RACE CALENDAR

Race Calendar for JANUARY – december 2022

This calendar shows many of the local races in northern New Jersey, other races that are popular with club members and all of the USATF-NJ championship races. Information on races in New York City can be found at nyrr.org and nycruns.com.

We have a USATF team (Fleet Feet / Essex Racing) that competes in the USATF-NJ championship races as shown in bold print. Click on the links below for more information about our USATF team and joining USATF.

JANUARY 2022

1/1 One Mile Fox Run (Maplewood) 10:00am

1/1 Fairlawn First Day 5K 11:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

1/1 Westfield Hangover 5K Noon (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

1/2 PCTI Winter Series Race #1 (Wayne) 5K 11:00am

1/8 Freezing Cold Hash Run / Secret Mystery Winter Trail Run (North Brunswick) 5M, 2M 10:17am

1/9 PCTI Winter Series Race #2 (Wayne) 5K 11:00am

1/16 PCTI Winter Series Race #3 (Wayne) 5K 11:00am

1/22 Frosty Fat Sass Trail Race (South Mountain Reservation) 5K, 6 Hour 9:00am, 3 Hour 12:00pm

1/22 NJ Trail Winter Series #3 (Lewis Morris Park) 13.1M 9:00am, 10K 9:30am, 5K 10:00am

1/30 PCTI Winter Series Race #4 (Wayne) 5K 11:00am

FEBRUARY 2022

2/5 Penguin Pace 5K (Packanack Lake, Wayne) 9:00am - Rescheduled to 3/19

2/6 PCTI Winter Series Race #5 (Wayne) 5K 11:00am

2/12 Cupid's Chase 5K (West Orange) 10:00am

2/12 Squatchy Onesie Fest (Ramapo Valley Reservation) 5K 10:00am

2/19 Valentines in the Pines 4 Mile Trail Run (Beachwood) 9:00am (USATF-NJ MUT Race Series Event)

2/26 Febapple Frozen Fifty (South Mountain Reservation) 50M 7:00am, 50K 8:00am, 20M 9:00am, 10M 10:00am

MARCH 2022

3/6 March Fourth 5K (Millburn) 9:00am

3/12 Run O' The Mill 5K (Clinton) 8:00am

3/12 St Paddy's Day 5K (Morris Township) 10:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

3/12 Michael Cassidy Shamrock 'N' Run 5K (Rutherford) 10:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

3/12 Single Squatch Trail Race (Ramapo Valley Reservation) 5.5M, 11M 10:00am

3/13 Crossroads Half Marathon (Middlesex Greenway Park, Metuchen) 8:00am - Rescheduled to 4/10

3/13 E. Murray Todd Half Marathon (Lincroft) 8:30am

3/13 Celebrate Life Half Marathon (Rock Hill, NY) 10:00am

3/19 Penguin Pace 5K (Packanack Lake, Wayne) 9:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

3/19 Shamrock Shuffle 5K (Bernardsville) 10:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

3/20 New York City Half 7:00am

3/20 Spring Distance Classic (Basking Ridge) 5K 9:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts), 15K 10:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Championship Event 700 pts - All Divisions 15K Championship)

3/27 Garden State 10 Miler (Colonial Park, Franklin Township) 5K 8:45am, 10M 9:30am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Championship Event 500/700 pts - Coed 10 Mile Championship)

APRIL 2022

4/2 RunAPalooza (Asbury Park) 5K, Half Marathon, Relay 8:30am

4/3 AAPI Montclair Color Run (Brookdale Park) 5K 8:30am, 1 Mile 9:30am

4/3 Cherry Blossom 10K (Branch Brook Park) 10:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Championship Event 700 pts - Open Men/Women 10K Championship)

4/9 St. Cassian Cougar Challenge 5K (Brookdale Park) 9:00am

4/9 Building Tomorrow's 5K (West Orange) 9:00am

4/10 Crossroads Half Marathon (Middlesex Greenway Park, Metuchen) 8:00am

4/18 Boston Marathon 9:00am

4/23 One Hour Fox Run (West Orange Reservoir) 8:30am

4/24 Bloomin' 5K (Clifton) 8:30am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

4/24 Leatherman's Loop 10K Trail Race (Cross River, NY) 9:00am

4/30 Running 4 Answers (Roseland / Essex Fells) 5K 8:30am

4/30 Susan Zabransky Hughes Memorial Run (Saddle River) 5K 8:30am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

4/30 Clinton Township Country Run 5K, 15K 8:30am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts - 15K)

4/30 River Edge Run 5K 10:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

4/30 Woods and Lakes Run (Mountain Lakes) 5K, 10K 10:00am

MAY 2022

5/1 Lincoln Tunnel Challenge 5K 8:00am

5/1 NYRR Newport 5K (Jersey City) 9:00am

5/1 Nutley 5K 9:15am

5/7 Meghan Doyle '05K Run (Caldwell) 5K 8:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

5/7 Shepherd Lake 5K (Ringwood) 8:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

5/8 Rubin Run (Tenafly) Half Marathon 7:30am, 10K 8:30am, 5K 10:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

5/14 Our House Our Run 4 Miler (New Providence) 10:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

5/15 Rock 'n' Roll Atlantic City Half Marathon 7:30am

5/15 Running Is Back 10K (Liberty State Park) 8:00am

5/15 Superhero Half Marathon & Relay (Morris Township) 8:30am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Championship Event 700 pts - All Divisions Half Marathon Championship)

5/15 Waldwick 5K 9:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

5/15 Cranford Pizza Run 5K 9:15am

5/21 Mayapple Trail Runs (South Mountain Reservation) 50K 50M 8:30am, 10M 20M 9:30am

5/21 Caldwell / West Caldwell 5K Run for Education 9:00am

5/26 Legal Runaround5K (Somerville) 7:00pm (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

5/28 Spring Lake 5 Mile Run 8:30am

5/30 Ridgewood Run 10K 8:20am, 5K 10:15am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Championship Event 500/700 pts - Coed 10K Championship, USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts - 5K)

JUNE 2022

6/4 Rockaway Rotary Club 5K Race 9:00am

6/4 Florham Park Jaycees 5K Run 9:30am

6/4 Wayne Rotary 5K Run (Packanack Lake) 9:30am

6/4 Miles for Matheny 5K (Far Hills) 9:30am

6/5 George Washington Bridge Challenge (Fort Lee) 5K 7:45am, 10K 8:15am

6/5 Montclair YMCA Run 10K 8:00am, 2 Mile 10:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts - 10K)

6/5 North Jersey Pride Run (South Orange) 9:00am

6/5 Tenafly 5K 9:00am

6/5 Good Grief 5K (Giralda Farms, Madison) 10:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

6/11 Beautiful Beast of Hunterdon 5M 8:30am

6/11 Head for the Cure 5K (Brookdale Park) 9:00am

6/12 Pequannock Valley Rotary 5K 8:00am

6/12 Fitzgerald's Lager Run 5K (Glen Ridge) 5:30pm (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Championship Event 700 pts - Open Men 5K Championship)

6/13 Roxbury Community Benefit 5K 7:00pm (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

6/18 Red Bank Classic 5K 8:30am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Championship Event 700 pts - Masters Women 5K Championship)

6/27 President's Cup (Millburn) 5K 8:00pm (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

6/30 Tom Fleming Sunset Classic (Bloomfield) 5M 7:30pm (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

JULY 2022

7/4 Firecracker 4 Mile Run (Cranford) 8:00am

7/9 Fat Sass Switchback Challenge (South Mountain Reservation) 8:30am

7/16 Packanack Day Lake Run 5K (Wayne) 5K 8:00am, 6hr 9:00am, 3hr Noon

7/16 Big Bang Mile (Bell Works, Holmdel) 5:00pm (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Championship Event 700 pts - All Division Championship)

7/18 Downtown Westfield 5K & Pizza Extravaganza 7:00pm (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

7/31 Running with the Balloons 5K (Whitehouse Station) 8:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

7/31 Miles for Minds 5K (Edison) 9:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

AUGUST 2022

8/3 Woodbridge 4 Mile & Pizza Extravaganza 7:00pm

8/13 Asbury Park Sheehan Classic 5K 8:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Championship Event 500/700 pts - Coed 5K Championship)

8/13 Three Bridges 5 Mile Run 9:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

8/21 Midland Mile - Canceled for 2022

8/27 Lamp for Haiti 5K (Brookdale Park) 8:00am

8/28 USATF-NJ 5K Cross Country Championship (Natirar Park) 9:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Championship Event 700 pts - All Division Championship)

SEPTEMBER 2022

9/5 Verona Labor Day Classic 1 Mile Fun Run / Health Walk 9:00am, 5K 9:30am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

9/10 Run for North Caldwell 5K & Color Mile 5K 8:00am, 1 Mile Color Run 9:30am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

9/10 Tahir Whitehead Foundation Back To School 5K (Weequahic Park) 8:30am

9/11 Racefaster Half Marathon & 5K (Paramus) 8:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

9/11 Dignity Dash 5K & 10K (Duke Island Park, Bridgewater) 8:30am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

9/11 Whippany Fire Company 5K 9:11am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

9/17 Newark Boys & Girls Club 5K To Wellness (Branch Brook Park) 8:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

9/17 Valerie Fund 5K (Verona Park) 8:30am

9/17 Newstead 5K (South Orange) 9:00am

9/18 Tomorrows Children's Fund Join Hands 5K (Saddle Brook) 8:30am

9/18 Cranford Cure Diabetes 5K 9:00am

9/18 Berkeley Heights 5K 9:30am

9/18 By Hook Or By Crook 12K (Sandy Hook) 9:30am (USATF Masters USATF Masters 12K Championship / USATF-NJ Grand Prix Championship Event 700 pts - All Division Championship)

9/24 Most Good 5K (Brookdale Park) 8:00am

9/24 Newport Liberty Half Marathon (Jersey City) 8:30am

9/25 Franklin Lakes Scenic Half Marathon & 5K 8:00am

9/25 Steeplechase Distance Run 10K (Hillsborough) 8:45am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Championship Event 700 pts - Masters Men & Women 10K Championship)

9/25 Mayor's Day 5K (Union Township) 9:00am

OCTOBER 2022

10/1 4 Miler at Garret Mountain 9:30am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

10/2 Little Silver 5K 8:45am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Championship Event 700 pts - Open Women 5K Championship)

10/2 Run Little Falls 5K 9:00am

10/2 Jersey Shore Half Marathon (Sandy Hook) 9:00am

10/8 Sea Turtle 5K Race (West Orange) 9:00am

10/9 Main Street Half Marathon of Hunterdon (Clinton) 8:00am

10/9 Mayor's 5K Run (West Orange) 10:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

10/9 Long Beach Island 18 Mile Run 10:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

10/16 Harding Halloween Half Marathon 9:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

10/16 Paramus Run 10K 9:00am, 5K 11:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

10/16 Race 4 the Children (Linden) 9:00am

10/16 East Brunswick Road Race 12K 10:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Championship Event 500/700 pts - Coed 12K Championship)

10/22 Heroes For Children 5K (West Orange) 9:00am

10/29 Spirit Run 5K (Bloomfield) 8:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

10/30 Running with the Devils 5K Run (West Orange) 9:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

NOVEMBER 2022

11/6 New York City Marathon 8:00am

11/6 USATF-NJ 8K/6K XC Championship (Buccleuch Park, New Brunswick) 6K / Women 10:45am, 8K / Men 11:30am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Championship Event 700 pts - All Division Championship)

11/12 Harrington Park 5K Fall Spectacular 10:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Championship Event 700 pts - Masters Men 5K Championship)

11/12 Salute to our Veterans 5K (Liberty State Park) 10:00am

11/13 Princeton Half Marathon 7:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

11/13 Belleville Veterans Day 5K 9:00am

11/13 Giralda Farms Run (Madison) 10K 9:00am, 5K 11:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

11/19 Philadelphia Half Marathon 7:00am

11/19 Two Towns Turkey Trot 5K (South Mountain Reservation) 10:00am

11/20 Philadelphia Marathon 7:00am

11/20 5K Stampede through Clifton 9:00am

11/20 Totowa Turkey Trot 5K Challenge 10:00am

11/24 Ashenfelter 8K Classic (Glen Ridge) 2K 8:15am, 8K 9:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Championship Event 700 pts - All Division Championship)

11/26 Squatchy Leftovers Trail Race (South Mountain Reservation) 25K / 50K 8:00am, 5K / 10K 9:00am

11/26 Westfield 5 Mile Turkey Trot 11:15am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)

11/27 Tom O'Reilly Turkey Trot 5K (Colonial Park, Franklin Township) 10:00am (USATF-NJ Grand Prix Event 500 pts)