about the KRRA

What is the KRRA?

Kingston Road Runners Association | The Heart of Kingston’s Running Community

The KRRA is the original Running Club

KRRA’s main objective is to “encourage, foster, assist and promote middle and long distance running as a competitive and recreational sport, and as an activity which facilitates fun, fitness, and health”. One of our challenges is that unlike other sports such as soccer or hockey, we don’t have an easily identifiable home base which can facilitate relationships. Running is essentially an individual sport – you have to manage your individual schedule to put in the kilometers. It also has a social side – time a time to be with others to enjoy a run, a race, and catch up on news, maintaining connections through the adventures and changes in life. KRRA works hard to help with those connections, by providing information through our website and various web-based tools, like the messageboard, social media, and online race results. We hope to keep you up to date on upcoming workouts, training groups and long Sunday runs, as well as our races and other races. We believe that through running, both individually and with others, we help create a happier and healthier community.

The Race Series

KRRA co-ordinates a series of road and trail races each calendar year. KRRA members as of July 1 are eligible for series awards, recognized at the KRRA Annual General Meeting, which is held at the conclusion of the series in late November. A full description of the series is available here.

All KRRA events provide awards to the fastest three men and women as well as medals for top three male and female finishers in each age category. The age categories are:
19 and under; 20-29; 30-39; 40-49; 50-59; 60-69 and 70 plus.

The KRRA sponsors the following annual events:

• Resolution Run 8K — first Sunday of the year
• Twosome Run 5K – mid February
• Limestone Race Weekend — 5K, 10K, Half Marathon, Kids Run held last weekend in April
• Limestone Mile – Canada Day, July 1st
• Fort Henry 5KXC (trail run) – mid/late September.
• Anniversary Run 10K – first Sunday in November

Additionally, there are externally-organized events in the Race Series:

• Napanee Heritage Classic 5K – mid June
• Wolfe Island Classic 5K & 10K – first Sunday in July
• Wooly Bully 5K & 10K (Amherst Island) – third Sunday in August
• Glen Tay Race 15.7K (Perth ON) – late August

Sponsoring Causes

The KRRA also helps to sponsor other causes in the Kingston area. For full details, see our Who We Support page.

KRRA Members

KRRA Board of Directors

KRRA’s present Board of Directors

Dalton Cote – Chair (President) – email chair.krra@gmail.com
Joe Du Vall – Vice-Chair (Vice- President), Limestone Race Weekend Race Director
Vacant – Secretary
Christina Cantlay – Membership – email krra.membership@gmail.com
Paul Cehan – Treasurer
Al Cantlay – Member at Large, Coach, Limestone Mile Race Director
Lee Rankin – Member at Large, Twosome Run Race Director
Luis Paico-Avilez – Member at Large, Fort Henry 5KXC Race Director
Robby Breadner – Member at Large – Communications
Tim Gillespie – Member at Large
Miles Brackenbury – Member at Large
Jeff Mountjoy-Stringham – Member at Large
Peter Lubnick – Member at Large, Anniversary Run Race Director
JT Zhang – Member at Large, Timing Services
Wayne Rice – Member at Large
Sabrina Smith – Member at large

KRRA’s present Board of Directors