HAPPY Valentine’s Day!
Upcoming 2026 Race schedule
We are meeting at Shoreline Cafe tomorrow at 6:30am!
See ya then,
Mike & Rusty
Hi!
Upcoming 2026 Race schedule
Tokyo Marathoners have a Ling one tomorrow!
We’ll be meeting at Dos Pueblos Hs tomorrow at 6:30am.
See you then,
Rusty & Mike
Upcoming 2026 Race schedule
We are meeting tomorrow at the Vieja Valley Elementary School. 6:30am.
Below is for the San Marcos Track and XC teams as well as to donate to the custodial staff who are so kind as to open the gate Tuesday morning for us as well as let us use their bathrooms. Dawn has facilitated this for us so lets show SMHS we are grateful with a donation below:)
For those attending our 20th Anniversary Celebration tomorrow, reminders to BYOB unless you love beer and water;). Also, park on the street and hopefully everyone can stay until the end as we have lots planned and a group photo and we want all included!
Thanks and see you tomorrow!
Rusty/Mike
Upcoming 2026 Race schedule
Thank you for everyone who has RSVP’d to our SBR 20th Anniversary Celebration! We’re looking forward to it! If anyone has any team pics or member pics from 2005 to 2012 please email them to us at sbrunrace1@gmail.com.
We will be meeting at Shoreline Cafe tomorrow 6:30am.
See you there!
Mike and Rusty
Upcoming 2026 Race schedule
Hi,
we will be meeting at the Vieja valley Elementary School tomorrow 6:30am
Rusty and Mike
Upcoming 2026 Race schedule
Hi, don’t forget to put Saturday Jan 31st on your Calendars for our 20th Anniversary SBRR party 1pm to 5pm!
See you all tomorrow at Goleta Beach 6:30am!
Mike and Rusty
We hope you all had a great holiday season and are motivated and excited for a great 2026!
we mentioned at our last Saturday practice that the SBRR 20th anniversary party may have changed dates, but it hasn’t and will be Saturday January 31st 1pm to 5pm. More Details to come.
Our next team Event will be the Ventura Marathon and Half, https://www.venturamarathon.com/ Use Discount code: SBRR2026 for 10% off. The next price increase is Sunday (Jan 4th).Make sure you join the Santa Barbara Running and Racing team at registration!
Mountains2Beach Half and Marathon, April 19, 2026 discount code for SBRR members is sbrr4m2b202620
Team Race Calendar will be up shortly as well.
We will be meeting at the Kellog Elementary School, 475 N Cambridge Dr, Goleta Saturday at 6:30am
Please take a look at the following loop as we will be using this for our workout:
Looking forward to seeing everyone!
Rusty and Mike
Last weekend was a great one for SBRR runners in the CIM Marathon, USATF XC Nationals, The Indian Wells 70.3 Triathlon and the Island View 25K trail race. Martin Tanner raced to his best Marathon performance in the Cal International Marathon at 83.4% National Class Age Graded with a 5th place in his 55-59AG 2:51:42! (His outright PR was 2:50:36 5 years ago!) Congrats Martin… and in the USATF XC National Champs and Masters National XC Champs, our Masters Women came in 3rd place by 1pt!
Becky Glusac (10th AG) Lynn Fitzgibbons (5thAG) and Kerry Small (13th AG) were the scoring members on the team with Lisa Dosch (14th AG)Chelsea Frei (15th AG)and Cari Voth (16th) close behind (our top 5 women were within 1min 4sec of each other!) Other great performances by Nakisa Herrick (8th AG), Mary Paterson (9th AG)and Reyna Talanian (6th AG)
Our SBRR women’s Open team of Rosina Garcia, Helen Payne, Christine Tyler, Mallory Price and Heidi Myers have a lot to be proud of as well as they raced with some of the best runners in the world and never gave up pushing and racing to the finish in what was an absolutely grueling 10K in sloppy, muddy conditions!
Results from the Indian Wells 70.3
Results from the Island View 25K trail Race:
The Annual SBRR Holiday Get Together is this Sunday Dec 14th 5pm to 7pm, Hilton Santa Barbara, Lobby Bar Patio. Come dressed for the holidays and enjoy some “non running” time with your teammates!
SBRR Holiday Break….last practice of the year will be tomorrow Saturday Dec 13th then we will break from Dec 14th through the end of the month….First official practice of 2026 will be Saturday January 3rd. Keep up to date as we will be posting an ideal suggested “reset and recovery” before we begin a productive, healthy and exciting year of running, racing and training and race calendar in 2026!
Save the Dates:
Saturday Dec 27th at Villa Wine Bar 6pm to 8pm Lynette Snow and Laura Mihalka “Sunkissed” will be playing hits from the 70s, 80s and 90s along with some originals!
Saturday Jan 31st, 2026 SBRR 20th Anniversary Party! Location and time TBD
See you all tomorrow at 6:30am Shoreline Cafe for our last practice of 2025! We will be posting a team Race Calendar for 2026 stay tuned.
Rusty and Mike
Hi, I’m out of town Tuesday so here is your workout…see you all Saturday…have a great workout!
Easy 3miles warmup, strides x 6, 3sets of 5x1min@85-90% (remember this is a play between low and high end threshold effort) with 1min easy jog between with 3min easy jog between sets (30min total), cooldown remaining
Rusty
From our very own Jim Sloan:
Get ready for the SBRR Holiday Get Together. Dec 14th 5pm to 7pm, Hilton Santa Barbara, Lobby Bar Patio. Come dressed for the holidays and enjoy some “non running” time with your teammates!
Saturday Jan 31st, 2026 SBRR 20th Anniversary Party! Location and time TBD
Lastly, SBRR Holiday Break….last practice of the year will be Saturday Dec 13th then we will break from Dec 14th through the end of the month….First official practice of 2026 will be Saturday January 3rd. Keep up to date as we will be posting an ideal suggested “reset and recovery” before we begin a productive, healthy and exciting year of running, racing and training and race calendar in 2026!
Good luck to everyone racing XC open and Masters National Champs in Portland, Or tomorrow and/or Sunday. Check open the joint results here:
https://live.athletictiming.net/meets/59364/events/xc/2172154
Coach Mike is away racing a half Ironman Triathlon tomorrow and Coach Rusty is in Portland, Or with the XC teams. So we will be coaching from afar…..
Workout tomorrow:
Meet Goleta Beach parking lot 6:30am, warm up, 30min, strides x 6, begin in the parking lot across from restrooms and do the 3miles on the bike path at low end threshold effort (80-85%) to just past the Turnpike/bike path intersection, take 5min jog, 2miles back toward Goleta beach 10sec/mi faster than your 3mile pace, cooldown 20min or your remaining miles on schedule.
See you Tuesday!
Mike/Rusty
