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RUMINATIONS

The Half-Fast Club* – by OKhen and BrODhavid

* Be careful with your pronunciation!

My older, actuarial, and charitable brother David has been an avid runner since high school. Over the years, he’s accomplished some impressive feats, including completing over 150 marathons. In his prime, he was fast enough to qualify for and run the Boston Marathon. However, as time has passed, his pace has naturally slowed. To keep running fun and lighthearted, he founded a unique club, which he describes below:

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THE HALF-FAST CLUB

Requirements for Membership:

To qualify for the Half-Fast Club, you must meet either of the following criteria:

1. Complete a race of any distance where your time is at least twice as long as your personal best for that distance.
2. Complete a race of any distance where your time matches or exceeds your personal best for double that distance.

For example:

• If your marathon personal best is 3:00:00, you qualify if you run a marathon in 6:00:00 or more or a half-marathon in 3:00:00 or more.

Membership Details:

Membership is automatic upon meeting one of the qualifying criteria. However, if you’d like to withdraw from the club—whether you’re embarrassed, tired of being the butt of jokes, or for any other reason—you can “buy” your way out with a charitable contribution. The contribution is calculated at $1.00 per mile of your qualifying race.

For example:

• If your qualifying race was a marathon in 6 hours, you would contribute $26.22.
• If it was a half-marathon in 3 hours, your contribution would be $13.11.

–OKhen
–BrODhavid

FINE PRINT ¶Text by Kenneth Olsho (Ólshó), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, and David Olsho (Ólshó), © All Rights Reserved. ¶Cross-published: Facebook Shawmont Running Club (ZY Weekly Newsletter 1/11), Shawmont Running Club website.

 

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WHOZ DOIN WHAT IN 2025

Through Next Month…

• 1/12: WILD CARD 4-6 MI (BCRR WINTER SERIES, Newtown PA)
  • Alan Bravo
  • Dr. Ned
  • Half Caff
  • Too Hot Tom
• 1/19: POLAR BEAR 8 MI (BCRR WINTER SERIES, Newtown PA)
  • Alan Bravo
  • Dr. Ned
  • Half Caff
  • Too Hot Tom
• 1/26: HONEST ABE 4.6 MI (BCRR WINTER SERIES, Newtown PA)
  • Alan Bravo
  • Dr. Ned
  • Half Caff
  • Too Hot Tom
• 2/2: TERRIBLE TYLER 15K (BCRR WINTER SERIES, Newtown PA)
  • Alan Bravo
  • Dr. Ned
  • Half Caff
  • Too Hot Tom
• 2/8: MESA MARATHON (AZ)
  • JustErica
• 2/9: PICK YOUR WAY [?K] (BCRR WINTER SERIES, Newtown PA)
  • Alan Bravo
  • Dr. Ned
  • Half Caff
  • Too Hot Tom
• 2/16: EENIE-MEANIE-MINIE-MOE HALF-MARATHON (BCRR WINTER SERIES, Newtown PA)
  • Alan Bravo
  • Dr. Ned
  • Half Caff
  • Too Hot Tom
• 2/23: STAGGERED START 4.6 MI (BCRR WINTER SERIES, Newtown PA)
  • Alan Bravo
  • Dr. Ned
  • Half Caff
  • Too Hot Tom

And Just Gene…

What we have all been waiting for…the 2025 running schedule

• 1/19: NAPLES HALF MARATHON (FL)
• 1/25: THE ITCH 50K (Ocala FL)
• 2/8: MESA MARATHON (AZ)
• 3/2: TOKYO MARATHON
• 3/23-29: WMA GAINESVILLE XC, 3000, 1500, 10K (FL)
• 4/4-11: ARIZONA MONSTER 300 (Superior AZ)
• 4/21: BOSTON MARATHON
• 5/7: SEDONA CANYONS 125 (Black Canyon City AZ)
• 5/23-31: ADVENTURE RUNS (AZ & UT)

Followed by a training and racing sabbatical for a year or so…
(a well deserved rest! –Teddio)

 

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CONGRATS-A-MUNDO TO ALL!

• 1/11: DISNEY WORLD HALF MARATHON (Orlando FL)
  • Tom Yunker: 1:48:56. AG 1^st

(Prize winner of a bus ride back to the hotel!! –Teddio)

SEND YOUR RACE RESULTS TO: TEDMILLER01@GMAIL.COM

 

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RUNNIN’ OFF AT THE MOUTH

“Running won’t solve all your problems. But then again, neither will housework.” –Unknown

“Marathoners: Life is too easy. I must find a way to make it much, much harder.” –Glennon Doyle

“Running makes me feel less like I want to kill people.” –From a runner’s T-shirt

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

 

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ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB – by Teddio

Malaysian Man Runs 3:04 Marathon in Flip-Flops

Because carbon-plated shoes are so last year

• 1/12: TWINCITY MARATHON (Cyberjaya, Malaysia)
  • Benjamin Lim, 3:04:11. Overall 9^th

…He maintained an average pace of seven minutes per mile…all while wearing footwear better suited for the beach than a marathon course. Whether he finished blister-free remains unclear… Lim crossed the line just 13 minutes behind race winner Afiq Saniy, who finished in 2:50:43…

(https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/malaysian-man-runs-304-marathon-in-flip-flops)

 

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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.

This Week: Attendance – 4. Shawmont – 2.

• Trail Name: Distance (Route)
• CtCloser: 14 (SHAWMONT)
• Dr. Ned: 7
• Rob Ray: 14 (SHAWMONT)
• Teddio: 7

Thanks for reading. Let’s have a great week!

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

 

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