Despite unprecedented tidal flooding on the course, the Colonial Road Runners team won the most important competition of the year at the Sept. 21 Elizabeth River Run 10K, a Virginia RRCA state championship, a Hampton Roads Super Grand Prix race, and the culminating race in the 3-Club Challenge.

It was close between the CRR and the host Tidewater Striders, with the CRR winning 80.03% to 79.47% for the average age-graded score of their top 10 runners, with 80% considered national class.

Since its inception in 2019, the Striders won the ERR Challenge Cup in 2019, ’21, and ’22 (no race in 2020, due to COVID) and ’24, with the CRR winning in 2023 and this year. The 3-Club Challenge included the best races of the CRR (Run the DOG Street 5K in April), the Peninsula Track Club (the Yorktown Memo

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