JTCRunning was founded in October 1975 as the Jacksonville Track Club, JTCRunning is Northeast Florida's preeminent promoter of healthy lifestyles through running, fitness, and fellowship. JTCRunning is the creator and operator of the Gate River Run, which since 1978 has been one of the leading road races in the country. Its four different events encompass over 10,000 national and world class athletes, fitness runners, wheelchair athletes, walkers, and children.
JTCRunning also conducts:
-- the 5-mile Tijuana Flats' Summer Beach Run, Florida's oldest race, usually in August;
-- the often-grueling 5-mile & 10-mile Winter Beach Run;
-- the Last Gasp cross-country race in December;
-- the Guana River 50 km Trail Run;
-- and a series of four or five free or nominally priced track meets for competitors of all ages and abilities in the spring and summer.
As a long time member of USA Track & Field (USATF) and the Road Runners Club of America (RRCA), JTCRunning keeps involved in the national running scene and has hosted national championship events for both organizations. We hosted the 1982 RRCA Annual Convention and assisted at the 2005 USATF Annual Meeting at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
But JTC Running is more than races and conventions. It is a social club, with several annual gala events in addition to parties after most of its races: The annual Awards Banquet in late spring, honoring leading JTCR members, volunteers, and noteworthy high school/college athletes and coaches, is very reasonably priced for JTCR members and guests. Every summer, JTCR members gather at Wolfson Park for a picnic before a Jacksonville Suns baseball game. Tickets to the picnic and ballgame are discounted 30 to 50 percent for club members and guests. Social functions and running are combined in the chartered JTCR bus trip to the Paul deBruyn race in Ormond Beach in November.
As a promoter of the next generations of runners, JTCRunning supports high school track and cross-country programs and awards scholarships that enable many high school athletes to attend running camp each summer. The adidas Junior River Run training program encourages youngsters to run 8 miles in the weeks leading up to the day of the Gate River Run and culminates with a 1.3-mile loop around Everbank Stadium.
In another community service effort, JTCRunning frequently collects used running shoes which are donated to local homeless shelters.
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