Notch Run Club

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📸: Mikey✌🏾

Fiesta 5k is ALWAYS a good time! Congrats to Kevin James on a win and a course record. The Syracuse alum ran nearly a minute faster than he did last year! Well done to Jillian Manfredi on her win as well! Jillian is a recent arrival from the Chicago area and is training for the Indy Marathon in the Fall.

Great job by Brendan Colliton and Emmet Costen on their PRs, along with all the other runners out there! Notch will be back for the 2027 edition. Already looking forward to it. Thank you Blue Collar Lobster Co. for hosting our rehydration activities after the race. 🇮🇹 🍻

📸: Gloucester Times

Congrats to Seb Gilligan on his marathon debut at the Bay of Fundy International Marathon! 2:36:39 for the win and a course record! See you in Hopkinton in April.

Way to go Kieran O’Connor! 👏

Waterford Half Marathon 🇮🇪

They ran for the beach! Congrats all!

One team, two squads. 52 Notch athletes combined to take on the 26x1 Relay hosted by Somerville Road Runners this weekend! Congrats to all of our runners who ran their hearts out and brought the top award back to Notch for the 2nd year in a row. It truly takes a village! And special thanks to everyone who helped with recording times and carrying equipment, including (but not limited to) Michelle Felton, Dan Chruniak, Elisabeth Olson, Alyssa Arre, Drew Zeccola, and Greg Keras. Our teams set a new Notch club record and we looked great doing it!

Extra shout out to the handful of people who competed with us for the very first time at this event. Welcome to the team!

Thursdays are for chasing sunshine (and a cold beverage).

7pm. 525 Western Ave, Brighton.

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The 2026 BEER2K results are in! It was a very successful year that saw fast times and a slew of penalty laps. Once again the Brighton athletes outpaced the Salem athletes but many, many people are talking about the extra challenge of the Salem hills. Could that be a difference maker?

Congrats to John Jantz, Colin Smith, Francesca Boggs, and Anna Spencer who were the overall winners! Jantz ran 6:54 in Brighton which is just shy of the BEER2K World Record set last year by Jeff Seelaus.

Colin Smith was just a few seconds from bettering his Salem Course Record set in 2025 and Francesca Boggs retained her title by repeating as the women’s winner in Salem.

2026 is in the books. Join the fun next year! Results link in the stories.

Friday is the LAST chance to grab a BEER2K shirt! Registration will remain open a while longer but we have to submit the shirt order soon. If you’re running in the event and want a shirt, be sure to sign up by the end of Friday.

4 laps, 4 beers. Metric forever. Link in bio.

As a final update for our 2026 Road to Boston program, we heard from our final invitational bib recipient post race. John Myers writes:

“Crossing that finish line in the Boston Marathon is something you think about long before it ever becomes real—and yesterday, it finally did.

I’m incredibly grateful for the experience and the chance to be part of it this year. A huge thank you to the Notch Run Club for the invitational bib and the opportunity to represent such a strong community on one of the biggest stages in running. That support meant more than I can really put into words.

It’s an experience I’ll carry with me for a long time.”