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GCS WEB SITE @WWW.GATECITY.ORG A Publication of the Gate City Striders Issue#105 FEB/MAR2004 In This Issue President’s column ...............................................p. 4 Membership ..............................................................p.11 Holiday Party .............................................................p.5 Youth Corner .............................................................p.12-13 Coaches Corner ......................................................p.6-7 Strider wear and other goodies ....................p. 14 NH Grand Prix ..........................................................p.8 Race Results ............................................................p.15-17 Randum Thoughts ................................................p.9 February-March Calendar ................................p.18-19 Meetings and awards ..........................................p.10 February 2004 Striding Along – a publication of the Gate City Striders 1 Night Phone Day Phone Email GCS Executive Board President Bob Pelletier 889-3632 pelletier.r@attbi.com Secretary Dave Delay 673-0028 673-0028 ddelay@attglobal.net Treasurer Bill Farina 978-433-2335 william.farnia@snhmc.org At Large Sandy Geisler 421-1815 nhgeisler_sandy@adelphia.net At Large Bill Gray 424-3829 978-946-2593 WmGray@aol.com At Large Chet Rogers 465-2295 Crogers@microc-inc.com At Large Dave Ferris 889-5588 dpferris32@aol.com Competition Walter Swanbon 895-3466 490-1306 healthnutz@ttlc.net Team Captains Men Open Men Masters Men Seniors Mike Levesque 882-6623 MikeStride@aol.com Brian Sanborn 673-6363 Dave Salvas 673-0069 david.g.salvas@baesystems.com Men Veterans Shu Minami sxminami@aol.com Men Grand Veterans Women Open Women Masters Pam Hall 424-5096 hrogrunx26@aol.com Robin Rocha 598-8852 j27rocha@aol.com Priscilla Flynn 880-8802 dflynn2468@apl.com Women Seniors Pat Kiesselbach 881-5532 mayener@netscape.net Coach Mike Sarro msarro@athletesden.com Newsletter & Web Site contacts Newsletter Editor Dave Delay 673-0028 673-0028 ddelay@attglobal.net Web Master Steve Moland 882-2067 624-5630 seniorrunner@aol.com Mailing Coordinators Mike&Linda Thatcher 626-8000 michael@dreamteamnh.com Race App. Inserts Emily Strong 595-7149 emily.strong@baesystems.com Other contacts StriderWear Kathy Kirby 465-3868 Kathy_Kirby@hartehanks.com Equipment Manager Kevin Reynolds 891-1916 ReynoldsKS@aol.com Event Calendar Dave Delay 673-0028 ddelay@attglobal.net Result Compiling Michael Amarello 429-8879 Michael.Amarello@imagauto.com Club Web Site http://www.gatecity.org Email Addresses If you have an Email address All Area Codes are 603 unless noted otherwise and do not already receive an oc- casional Email about various ad hoc announcements pertaining to GCS, and you would like to re- Cover Photo: ceive these announcements, send Gate City Strider Junior Olympic Cross Country All Americans. your Email address to Sandy at Ashley Morgenstern, Kelsey Hunt, Nicole Slane, Jared Garfield, nhgeisler_sandy@adelphia.net Lauren Brady 2 Striding Along – a publication of the Gate City Striders March 2003 Editor’s Column By Bill Spencer This will be my last Column as News- letter Editor. When I replaced Steve Moland as editor it was with the under- standing that he would run for the ex- ecutive board, which he did with much Striding Along is published 6 times a success. Dave Delay is retiring from year by members of the Gate City the E board after a very active term. He Striders, Inc. of Nashua, NH. For cor- respondence or a membership applica- will be assuming the responsibility of tion, please write to: Editor with the next issue. Putting the Gate City Striders letter together is sort of like a puzzle, trying to fill between 20 PO Box 3692 Nashua NH 03061. to 24 pages with information that is meaningful to the mem- bers. The Newsletter cannot exist without contributions by Visit our Web Site WWW.GateCity.Org members of articles and pictures, so I would urge you to keep sending them to Dave. I expect to continue writing a youth USA Track & Field Club # 157 column. AARC Club # RC12 I would like to particularly thank Michael Amarello for the tremendous job he has done in compiling results for the News- Our Mission Statement letter. It has always amazed me how he could find races all The Gate City Striders is an athletic over the country that members have run in. Due to job con- and social organization dedicated to straints, Tom Conley has been temporally covering for him. the promotion of running and fitness at all levels. Members vary in ability Special thanks are also due to Bob Thompson for his regular from beginning joggers to competitive Randum Thoughts column. How he is able to do it issue after marathoners. issue is also quite amazing. Membership meetings Putting the Newsletter together is only one part of the story. Merrimack YMCA Working behind the scenes are Emily Strong who handles all 3rd Wednesday of month. Track workouts the race inserts, Mike and Linda Thatcher who are responsible Wednesday nights, Nashua High for mailing it, and the many regulars that get together every School South, April thru October. two months to stuff the newsletter and inserts into envelopes Weekly runs at Pennichuck JH starting the end of October and sort them for mailing. A big thank you to all. If you experience problems with the delivery of the newsletter call our membership chairperson. This newsletter is sent third class mail. There is no forwarding by the post office, so make sure we have your correct address. Advertisements are gladly accepted. February 2004 Striding Along – a publication of the Gate City Striders 3 President’s Column By Bob Pelletier Speaking of Nashua HS South track, we have filed The Inverted for Wednesday evening permits and will not receive one right up until snow clears this Spring. The reason is that the track will not be approved for use by the city Pyramid - VI until the entire track is visible and tested. Let's keep our fingers crossed on this situation. Ditto for Nashua North HS track due to Fall construction. The GCS Hot Line era came to an end on December Happy New Year GCS! We had a great New Years 26 as we retired it in favor of providing updates on the Eve (actually on 12/28) NHGP race number one at the web site forum. It cost us $30 a month for the phone Millennium Mile and picked up right where we left off line and we are paying the same for maintenance of the in 2003 with a close first place finish over the Greater forum. Thanks to Chip Geisler for managing the hot Derry and Rochester Runners clubs. Many of our line over the past few years and to Steve Moland and strong youth team runners scored important points in Dave Delay for moderating the Forum. the Open Divisions. If some of you want to focus on a Look for the multi-year membership dues option on winter training goal, try gearing up for the Run to the your next dues renewal cards. Sandy Geisler is fast at Border 10 Miler on March 28 along the NH Seacoast. work with the redesign of the membership application. This is race number two on the NHGP 2004 circuit. This is one of the final items that we are addressing in Look for Coach Mike Sarro's training guide to appear response to the December 2002 club survey. soon on the web site at www.gatecity.org. Please mark your calendars to come out for the Feb- Your E-board will be fine tuning the NHGP scoring ruary Annual Election Meeting which will be held at and participation award structures for this year at the the Merrimack YMCA on Wednesday, February 18 at February meeting to be announced on the web site later 7:30 PM. Two E-board positions are open in the areas in February. Our December general "Town Meet- of Social and Secretary. I am toying with the idea of ing" (Merrimack YMCA - 3rd Wednesday each month adding a Volunteer Director position and will seek in- at 7:30 PM) consensus was that we should try to arrive put and interest at the meeting. Long time GCS good at a more 50/50 split for participation and scoring. guy Bill Kellar will be our guest speaker at the March Your board aims to fulfill that request 17 general meeting on the red hot subject of Eastern It was a great honor and pleasure to present our Medicine practices including Naturopathy and Acu- NHGP MVP and Rookie of the Year Awards at the puncture treatments for various running and non- Holiday Party (separate article appears). Your E- running related ailments. Bill graduated last summer board promises to make this an annual event. from the New England School of Acupuncture so his Remember to mark your calendars for the GCS information promises to be cutting edge. Be sure to hosted Mother's Day NHGP race on May 9 at the stop by for a few slices of free pizza and an informa- SNHMC in downtown Nashua.. We will need lots of tive session. vols and runners to turn out that Sunday Morning. In the meantime, stay warm, practice running Race time is 9:30. We are pleased to confirm the atten- safety, and the best of health to all. dance of Dick and Ricky Hoyt for the race, our primary fundraiser for Fitness University. The Hoyts will re- turn on July 24th at Nashua South High School for Fit- ness University 2004. Shaun McMahon will need some key support and I will be making a few calls to some of you to help out in a larger role this year. 4 Striding Along – a publication of the Gate City Striders March 2003 GCS Holiday Party - Friday Janu- the GCS Rookie of the Year Award winner, Kristen Ewing. This is something that we hope to do on an annual basis. ary 16 - Nashua Marriott About 90 Striders braved the chilly temps of mid-January to come out for a night of fun, games, dining, and dancing at the Nashua Marriott, all for about the cost of a 5K race regis- tration.