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* 5/1/21 RUN REPORT
* Saturday Group Run at 7:30 a.m.
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** WHOZ DOIN WHAT IN 2021
5/16 -- COVENTRY WOODS 10K (PA) (Mid Atlantic USATF Off-Road series)
JustGene
5/29 -- CAYUGA TRAIL 50 (NY)
JustGene
5/31 -- MEMORIAL MAIN STREET MILE (PA) (Mid Atlantic USATF Grand Prix)
JustGene
6/5 ---- SCOTT COFFEE 8K (NJ) (Mid Atlantic USATF Grand Prix)
JustGene
6/13 -- IRONMAN 70.3 EAGLEMAN TRIATHLON (DE)
Lady Jennifer
6/13 -- CAUMSETT 50K (L.I.) (USATF 50K Road Championship)
JustGene
6/13 -- DELAWARE MARATHON (* DE) – VIRTUAL?
CtCloser
6/19 -- MOHICAN 100 (OH)
JustGene
6/27 -- RUN FOR THE AGES 10K (PA)
JustGene
7/3 ---- AFTON 50K (MN)
JustErica, JustGene
7/6-10- YOSEMITE BACKCOUNTRY RUN 100 STAGE RACE (Yosemite Nat. Park)
Julie D, JustGene, JustHilary
7/22 -- USATF MASTERS OUTDOOR TRACK 5K (IA)
JustGene
7/23 -- USATF MASTERS OUTDOOR TRACK 10K (IA)
JustGene
7/24 -- USATF MASTERS OUTDOOR TRACK TRIPLE JUMP (IA)
JustGene
7/25 -- USATF MASTERS OUTDOOR TRACK 2K STEEPLECHASE (IA)
JustGene
8/13 -- BIGFOOT 200 (WA)
JustGene
8/27-8 - HOOD TO COAST RELAY (OR, team of 12 70+ geezers and geezerettes)
JustGene
9/19 -- HOOK OR BY CROOK 12K (NJ) (USATF Championship)
JustGene
9/19 -- PHILADELPHIA DISTANCE RUN (PDR re-born) (Philly)
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?/? ---- COLORADO HALF MARATHON (CO) – SOMETIME IN THE FALL ?
Katrina
10/3 -- LONDON MARATHON (* England)
JustGene
10/11 - BOSTON MARATHON (* MA) – DATE LOOKS DEFINITE
JustGene, Pat M
10/17 - DELAWARE DISTANCE CLASSIC 15K (DE) (Mid Atlantic USATF Grand Prix)
JustGene
?/? ----- BROAD STREET RUN 10-MILER (Philly) – DATE NOT SET YET
?
10/30 - TYLER ARBORETUM 10K (PA) (Mid Atlantic USATF Off-Road series)
JustGene
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11/6 --- RIO DEL LAGO 100 (CA)
JustGene
Or
11/7 --- COOPER RUN THE BRIDGE 10K (NJ,PA) (Mid Atlantic USATF Grand Prix)
JustGene
Or
11/7 --- SYRACUSE HALF MARATHON (NY) (USATF Championship)
JustGene
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11/15 -- MYSTIC HALF MARATHON (CT) … date?
Katrina
12/4 -- REHOBOTH BEACH HALF MARATHON (DE) – date?
Lady Jennifer, TommyO
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** RUMINATIONS
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Compulsive. That’s a Problem How?
The DE (Running Festival) Marathon was supposed to be 2 Sundays ago, 4/18. Smaller races can do this; let you know the race is getting postponed 3 weeks beforehand. Now it’s 6/13, 7 more weeks out.
So I think the training’s been going well, but the memory just isn’t great. Where’s the evidence? It’s all in the running record, faithfully recorded every week since I started running in 2011. My last PR was during the virtual DE effort last spring, 9 minutes off my age-group Boston Qualifying time of 3:35. The spreadsheet says my highest mileage week before that 2020 effort was 43. This year I have 8 weeks higher than that with 6 above 50. If I stick to the plan, I’ll have 9 over 50-mile weeks by the time of the race; waaay above last year.
Last year, before that PR effort I had 2 20-plus-mile long runs. This year I have 6. By the time of the race, I’ll have 8.
Pacing? Slightly slower for medium-length and long runs, but that should catch up in the next weeks and during the taper.
So where could the spoilers lie for chipping away at a BQ? Weather and injury.
Oh, please…oh, please…oh please…
-CtCloser (Calvinthe) “Negative Split or Positive Splat” #dothedue
Fine Print
Text by Calvin Wang (Wäng), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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** NEWS ITEMS **
No news items this week.
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** MAY THE WIND BE AT YOUR BACK
5/3-8 - COCODONA 250 (AZ)
JustGene
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** CONGRATS-A-MUNDO TO ALL!
5/1 ---- PHILLIES CHARITY 5K (Philly) – VIRTUAL, date?
TalksALot Bob ------ no result posted yet
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** RUNNIN' OFF AT THE MOUTH
** Source: The Gigantic Book of Running Quotations, Higdon, 2008 (Skyhorse Publishing)
(052811)
Run too far and the body doesn’t want to stop.
--- Richard Christian Matheson, “Third Wind”
I don’t know when I made the transformation from running as a sport to running as part of my life. I can’t separate the two.
--- Gail W. Kislevitz, author of First Marathons, First Encounters with the 26.2 Mile Monster
I try to think of myself as an apple tree. Time is not linear, it moves in circles. Come spring, I will bloom again.
--- Amby Burfoot, The Runner’s Guide to the Meaning of Life
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** THEMZ WHO WUZ THERE(except those forgotten or missed)
* Stats * - We track attendance and Shawmonts.
* Loggin’ the miles is just for fun.
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* RECORDS:
* Attendance --– 39 on 6/23/18, 6/8/19
* Shawmonts -– 26 on 2/10/18
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** NEWBIES **
1 No newbies this week
** VETERANS **
1 AlanBravo ---------------- a to-the-Inn-and-back 5
2 Andrew M ---------------- a to-the-Inn-and-back 5. Welcome Back!
3 BB Betsy ----------------- a Shawmont 14
4 CtCloser ----------------- a Shawmont + 7 more for 21 Big Ones!
5 Colleen -------------------- a Germantown-ChestnutHill-Manayunk-home 20. Yikes!
6 Greg ---------------------- a Shawmont 14
7 HalfCaff ------------------ a Shawmont 14
8 Happ --------------------- a Shawmont 14
9 JC ------------------------- a to-the-Inn-and-back 5
10 KennyBaby -------------- an on-the-trail 4
11 Marjo --------------------- on the SRT* & PT** for 11
12 OKhen -------------------- on the SRT* & PT** for 13.13
13 Prof. Sandy ------------- an on-the-trail 10
14 Quietman Tom --------- a Shawmont-Manor plus a bit for 18
15 $teve --------------------- a Shawmont 14
16 Tall Dave ---------------- a Shawmont-Manor for 17+
17 Teddio -------------------- a Shawmont 14
18 TommyO ---------------- an on-and-on-and-on-the-trail 18
19 Ying1 -------------------- a Shawmont 14
--- * SRT Schuylkill River Trail
** PT Perkiomen Trail
** ALSO SEEN & MENTIONABLES **
Terminator Tony
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