Greasy-Gooney 10K

Tomorrow (Sat. 11/1): 2nd annual Bob Gurtler Memorial 5K, 8 AM @ Grace Episcopal Church in The Plains, VA! Honors 17-time Greasy-Gooney finisher Bob & partner Nancy, great friends of our race. Proceeds benefit Peas & Grace Food Pantry. More info: runsignup.com/Race/VA/TheP...

5K split times from Saturday's 27th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K have now been posted at:
www.gg10k.com/results/2025...
We may be the only road race in the country recording 5K splits without the aid of electronic timing! 🤣

The women's podium at the 27th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K on Saturday 25 October 2025: Betsy Lyons (3rd), Maria Rice (2nd), and Candace DeLong (1st). Photo by Karsten Brown.

Angie Layman and Crystal Hull celebrate having only half a mile to go at the 27th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K on Saturday 25 October 2025. Photo by Denise Hyde.

Start of the 27th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K on Saturday 25 October 2025. Photo by Denise Hyde.

Top three guys at the 27th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K on Saturday 25 October 2025: Alex Cirino (2nd), Johnny Lyons (1st), and Sean Devolites (3rd). Photo by Karsten Brown.

High-res photos from Saturday's 27th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K are now up and available for download! Check 'em out at:
karstenbrown.smugmug.com/GG10K2025
(Free for personal use only.) Many thanks to photographer Denise Hyde for her camera work!

Thanks to all involved in Saturday's 27th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K! A fine crowd of 106 runners/walkers enjoyed a chilly jaunt around the loop, led by Johnny Lyons (38:31) & Candace DeLong (44:33). Results are up at GG10K.com; 5K splits/photos to come! HUGE thanks to our outstanding volunteer crew.

The Browntown Community Center's Fall Yard Sale got underway today & continues Saturday! Good excuse to head down & preview the Greasy-Gooney 10K course ahead of our race on Sat. 10/25. Yard sale hours are 8 AM-2 PM on Sat. 10/18, Fri. 10/24, & Sat. 10/25. Plus food for sale in the kitchen!

Greasy-Gooney month is here, and our 2025 running caps have arrived! The forest green ones are for the runners, while the white ones are a special freebie for volunteers. E-mail us at karsten@gg10k.com if you'd like to help out on October 25th and get a free cap!

We used RunSignup yesterday to send out our first race promo e-mail of the year... and it appears that it was blocked by a number of major e-mail services, incl. AOL, ATT, Cox, Frontiernet, Verizon, & Yahoo. If your address is at one of these domains, let us know if it wound up in your spam folder!

Surprise-- Registration is now open for the Shenandoah Valley's most scenic road race! The 27th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K is set for Sat. 10/25 in Browntown, VA. Challenging but scenic course, cheap awards, low-key small-race vibe. And running caps are back as the race premium! Full info: GG10K.com

Greetings, Goonies! We'd like to invite you to run the Front Royal Kiwanis 5K this Sat. AM, 5/10! 9 AM start @ Warren Co. HHS Complex on 15th. Small & low-key race; some of us G-G folks are helping; proceeds to Warren Co. Special Olympics. Visit runsignup.com/Race/VA/Fron... for info & to register!

Mr. Cuddles, an orange buff tabby cat, rubs his right cheek against two checks for $508.56 each, to be given to the Humane Society of Warren County and the Browntown Community Center Association on behalf of the Greasy-Gooney 10K race

Mr. Cuddles, the official spokescat of the Greasy-Gooney 10K, is happy to announce our Oct. 26th race made $1017.11, enabling us to donate $508.56 each to the Browntown Community Center Association and the Humane Society of Warren County! We're so grateful for everyone's support.

This Sat., 11/9, we'd love to see you in The Plains, VA for the Bob Gurtler Memorial 5K, honoring a legendary local runner & dear friend who passed away in 2022. Head to runsignup.com/Race/VA/TheP... to sign up for this sure-to-be fun event benefitting Grace Episcopal's Peas & Grace Food Pantry! ❤️

Participants in the 26th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K wave at the camera as they impatiently wait the start command on Saturday 26 October 2024. Photo by Karsten Brown.

Jim Daniels, Henry Knapek, Jason Wisecarver, Gretchen Gass, Mathew James, and Sophia Logan at the 1.2 mile mark of the 26th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K on Saturday 26 October 2024. Photo via a motion-sensing game camera.

Mariah Donovan, Rachel Savering, and Adah MacDonald, the top three female finishers at the 26th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K on Saturday 26 October 2024. Photo by Karsten Brown.

The men's podium finishers at the 26th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K on Saturday 26 October 2024: Scott Davis (1st), Caleb Ludke (2nd), and Mario Zuniga (3rd). Photo by Karsten Brown.

More Greasy-Gooney goodness! Not only have we posted this year's 5K splits...
www.gg10k.com/results/2024...
...but we've also uploaded more photos at:
karstenbrown.smugmug.com/GG10K2024
These include the RD's shots as well as images taken by motion-sensitive game cameras at miles 1.2 and 3.1. Enjoy!

John Winkert (center) and Ruth Tonkyro (right) head out from the start of the 26th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K, held on Saturday 26 October 2024. Photo by Denise Hyde.

Alison Gittelman looks happy to be in the final mile of the 26th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K, held on Saturday 26 October 2024. Photo by Denise Hyde.

Aaron Brittain (center) celebrates conquering the big hill as Amanda Breeden (right) and Brad Hamann look on. Photo from the 26th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K (10/26/2024) by Denise Hyde.

John & Julia Carney pose for photographer Denise Hyde at the 26th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K, held on Saturday 26 October 2024.

Denise Hyde's terrific high-res photos from the 26th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K (10/26/24) are now up:
karstenbrown.smugmug.com/GG10K2024
Free to download for personal, non-commercial use (i.e. printing for yourself, sharing on personal social media accounts, etc.). Thank you, Denise!

Start of the 26th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K on Saturday 26 October 2024. Photo by Denise Hyde.

Scott Davis, overall men's winner of the 26th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K on Saturday 26 October 2024. Photo taken at mile 5.7 by Denise Hyde.

Mariah Donovan, overall women's winner of the 26th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K on Saturday 26 October 2024. Photo taken at mile 5.7 by Denise Hyde.

100 runners & walkers finished this morning's 26th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K, led by repeat winners Scott Davis & Mariah Donovan! Preliminary overall & age group results are now up at GG10K.com; photos coming soon, 5K splits eventually. THANK YOU to all our volunteers! Hope everyone enjoyed the race.

Colorful panorama from the top of the Gooney Manor Loop in Browntown, Virginia, looking north toward Dickey Hill in Shenandoah National Park

The fall color is a-poppin', as seen here in this photo taken this afternoon at mile 3.2 on our course! Hope to see ya bright & early in Browntown for the 26th edition of the Greasy-Gooney 10K. Packet pick-up & late registration is from 7:45-8:45, race starts at 9 AM. Complete race info: gg10k.com

Portable toilets on the south side of the Browntown Community Center!

Colorful fall foliage along Bentonville Road near Wesley Lane in Browntown.

Looking toward O.J. Rudacille Gen. Mdse. and the Blue Ridge along Bentonville Road in Browntown.

The flag was really blowin' in front of the Browntown Community Center today!

Two beautiful sights this afternoon: Colorful fall foliage, and the all-important portable toilets for Saturday's race! 🍂💩 Online registration is now closed, but we'll take race day sign-ups. See www.gg10k.com/raceday.html for our Runner Guide and www.gg10k.com/entrants.html for our entrant list!

Box of blue beanies!

Putting a new engraved plate on one of our ninety trophies for the 2024 Greasy-Gooney 10K.

So many trophies that we can no longer fit them onto one table!

Oh thank heavens the beanies FINALLY arrived for Saturday's race. Phew! And we also finished replacing the engraved plates on all 90, yes, 90 of our trophies. 😩 Yes, we know, it's quite ridiculous & unnecessary. Don't forget, online reg. closes at 11:59 PM tonight (Wed. 10/23): RunSignup.com/gg10k

Exactly 127 bananas seen in a grocery store cart. A frozen pizza can also be seen but can safely be ignored.

It's pretty bananas that today (Wednesday 10/23) is the FINAL DAY of online registration for Saturday's Greasy-Gooney 10K! 🍌 Visit RunSignup.com/gg10k to sign up before things close at 11:59 PM-- and then come eat these on Saturday so that we don't have to take any back home with us!

A selection of cheap prizes that will be given away at the Greasy-Gooney 10K on Saturday 26 October 2024.

More prizes to be given away at the Greasy-Gooney 10K on Saturday 26 October 2024, including cereal, snacks, and a Browntown calendar.

Many bags of Halloween candy, all of which will be given away at the Greasy-Gooney 10K on Saturday 26 October 2024.

Even more bags of Halloween candy and a DVD of "The Goonies"/"Gremlins" to be given away at the Greasy-Gooney 10K on Saturday 26 October 2024.

Time to start planning your strategy for Saturday's post-race random prize drawing! 🏆 Here's a preview of the amazing selections that will be appearing on this year's prize table. Don't be caught unprepared when your name is called!

A badly-engraved trophy for the women's winner of the 2024 Greasy-Gooney 10K, with a replacement engraved trophy plate sitting on top of the trophy column

Two $25 Target gift cards, which will be given to the first male and first female finishers of the 2024 Greasy-Gooney 10K

Very excited to spend a few hours replacing the poorly-engraved plates on every single one of our trophies with nicer-looking replacements. 🙄 As an aside for you fast folk out there: 1st gal & guy o'all get Target gift cards again! 🎯 Don't forget, online reg at RunSignup.com/gg10k closes Wed. night.

Detailed & difficult-to-read list of runners who have finished the Greasy-Gooney 10K five times or more

Yes, our famed Event Records poster will be back on Sat. AM, updated for 2024! Here's a sneak preview of the "Most Finishes" portion. 82 people have finished G-G at least five times! Colleen Snyder is going for finish #20 this year, which will pull her within one year of record holder Denny Myers.

Sweeping view of Hogback Mountain and the Blue Ridge at mile 2.45 of the Greasy-Gooney 10K course.

Somehow the 2024 Greasy-Gooney 10K is just one week away! Come see this sweeping autumn view yourself on Saturday 26 October. Visit GG10K.com for full race details or runsignup.com/gg10k to preregister online through Wednesday night! (Volunteers wanted too; e-mail karsten@gg10k.com if you can help!)

Bob Gurtler Memorial 5K Run/Walk The Bob Gurtler Memorial 5K Run/Walk is on Saturday November 9, 2024.

Two weeks after our Greasy-Gooney 10K on 10/26, we hope you'll head out to Fauquier County to celebrate the life of a 17-time G-G finisher & a local running legend at the Bob Gurtler Memorial 5K Run/Walk! Sat. 11/9 in The Plains. Visit runsignup.com/Race/VA/TheP... for info & to sign up!

If you've run Greasy-Gooney before, you should be receiving our annual promo e-mail within the next day! If you haven't run G-G before but want to get our e-mails, message us at karsten@gg10k.com & we'll add you. (All contact info is kept private & does not get shared/sold.)

Greasy-Gooney 10K The Greasy-Gooney 10K is on Saturday October 26, 2024.

SURPRISE! Registration for the 26th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K, set for Sat. 10/26, is now OPEN! Visit gg10k.com for complete race info, or head straight to RunSignup.com/gg10k to register right away. Premium this year is a royal blue beanie (a.k.a. knit cap)!

Mr. Cuddles, official cat of the Greasy-Gooney 10K, tastes our two beneficiary checks before we pass them along to the Humane Society of Warren County and the Browntown Community Center Association.

Thanks to our awesome participants & contributors, the 25th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K wound up with $1,441.60 to donate to our two beneficiaries: The Humane Society of Warren County & the Browntown Community Center Association! Big thank-you to the Shenandoah Valley Runners for their support as well.

5K splits from our 2023 race are up: www.gg10k.com/results/2023...

We had an adorable little bandit participant hop in at the 3 mile mark this year! Rest assured it was returned to its home by the afternoon.

Photos by Jane Anderson - Start & Mile 5.3 - Karsten Brown Photos taken by Jane Anderson at the start and at mile 5.3 of the 25th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K, held on Saturday 28 October 2023 in Browntown, Virginia. These photos are made available for non-commer...

Awesome race photos by Jane Anderson from the 25th @greasygooney10k are now up: karstenbrown.smugmug.com/GG10K2023/JA/
A few more shots from the RD are coming eventually... #gg10k #greasygooney10k #svrunners #browntownva

Thanks to all of this morning's runners & volunteers at the 25th annual Greasy-Gooney 10K! Preliminary results are now up at gg10k.com/results/2023/ with 5K split times & race photos to come within the next week.