Woodland Park will host the Region 13 Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships this Saturday.

Athletes, ages 8-18, qualified for the opportunity to race by placing well in their respective local meets earlier this fall. Teams are travelling from Washington, Oregon and Northern Idaho, in hopes of qualifying for the Junior Olympic Cross Country National Championship to be held December 13th in Myrtle Beach, SC. The top 30 finishers and top 5 teams will qualify. The first race begins at 9:00 am. Races continue throughout the morning and early afternoon, finishing at 2:00 pm.

Several Puget Sound based teams will participate, …

In 2011 Brooks Sports announced that they would be relocating their corporate headquarters to 3400 Stone Way – a trailhead along the Burke-Gilman Trail. The announcement was covered on Wallyhood in this story. This news received a mixed response in Wallingford as many were happy to see a company like Brooks re-locating to the neighborhood and others were skeptical about the re-zoning that allowed the developer Skanska USA to build a taller building than would previously have been allowed.

Who is Brooks Sports? 

Brooks Sports Inc is a 100 year old company with the motto Run Happy. In 2001 …

I found myself in OULA class a few nights ago. If you know me and you know OULA, you should be shocked by this. As a result of my general awkwardness and clumsiness I have been avoiding dance floors since my adolescence.

However when Kendra, Wallingford resident and fitness instructor at Fresh Fitness and Dance (Interlake and 45th), invited me to try out OULA I was intrigued. Kendra wrote, “OULA is more than just a workout, it’s an experience. Or as we like to call it, dancemania for the soul! This is a place where you can forget about perfection, …