Shawmont Running Club

For 12/23/23

By

RUMINATIONS

Your Wish is My Command
My-Oh Maya and I[ya] were running together when she commented about wanting for the club to bring people back. For a lot of businesses and industry sectors, the pandemic made people rethink their work who never returned. Shawmont Running Club had its version of that when members started running differently, too. I haven’t heard people say they gave it up, but they did start running solo and in smaller groups away from Forbidden Drive and the 7:30a Saturday usual.

Crazily, the next week’s outing actually saw a boatload of them return. I can actually claim no responsibility because I did nothing special to facilitate that phenomenon. But I was not complaining. Hey, everyone; Keep coming!

Let there be no crickets but only the sound of more padding feet as we launch into 2024.
-CtCloser (Calvinthe) “Negative Split or Positive Splat” #dothedue

FINE PRINT
Text by Calvin Wang (Wäng), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. ¶Cross-published: Facebook Shawmont Running Club (ZY Weekly Newsletter 12/23/23), Shawmont Running Club website, Ruminations by CtCloser.

 

WHOZ DOIN WHAT IN 2024

  • 1/12-14 BERMUDA TRIANGLE CHALLENGE 1 MILE/10K/HALF MARATHON
    • Kenny Baby

 

CONGRATS-A-MUNDO TO ALL!

SEND YOUR RACE RESULTS TO: TEDMILLER01@GMAIL.COM

 

RUNNIN’ OFF AT THE MOUTH (with commentary from Teddio)

“A lot of people think they can “sweat out” a fever by running. They think that running will help their immune system fight it off. That’s wrong.” –David Nieman, PhD (I still run with a cold though…)

“Say no to “no pain, no gain” and instead “train, don’t strain.” –Bob Glover

“Long slow distance makes long slow runners.” –Jim Bush (oh…so that’s what happened to me!!)

Source: The Gigantic Book of Running Quotations, Higdon, 2008 (Skyhorse Publishing)

 

ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB

To Run or Not to Run a Marathon?

  • 9 Reasons to Run One in 2024
  • 7 Reasons NOT to Run One 2024

(Rundown.RUNTHEDAY.com)

 

THEMZ WHO WUZ THERE (except those forgotten or missed 😊)

Stats – We track attendance and Shawmont. Loggin’ the miles is just for fun.

Records: Attendance – 39 on 6/23/18. Shawmonts – 26 on 2/10/18.

  • Trail Name: Distance (Route)
  • Alan Bravo: 6
  • All That Jaz [Trail name in training. FKA: Jaz, JC]: 8
  • BB Betsy: 14 (SHAWMONT)
  • CtCloser: 14 (SHAWMONT)
  • Diane B: 10. WELCOME BACK!
  • Hap: 7
  • Jamie: 10
  • Just Gene: 8
  • KC: 10
  • Kelee: 8
  • Kellpell: 10
  • My-Oh Maya: 14 (SHAWMONT)
  • Pati: 14 (SHAWMONT)
  • Prof. Sandy: 9
  • Quietman Tom: 14 (SHAWMONT)
  • T Mac (FKA Tom M): 10. WELCOME BACK!
  • Teddio: 10
  • Weezinator: 5
  • Ying1: 14 (SHAWMONT)

Email Newsletter Editor: Teddio
Facebook and Website Newsletter Editor: CtCloser