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RUNNING CLUB NEWS VOLUME 21, NO. 137 JULY 2021 The President’s Message Contents Happy July, fellow Boulder top-5 U.S. M50 times in the 800 meters Road Runners: Wow, that (2:12); Mile (4:57); 3,000 (10:13); and was some Olympic Trials, 5,000 (17:52). President’s message Look left and I know lots of you We are looking forward to welcoming to June Track and Field Action 3 are following the Boulder the club the Timm family, comprising Positive Reinforcement 5 County runners, who did Jacob, Lucas, Taylor and Anna, as well as Roger Bannister 6 amazingly well. Locals join- new members Timothy Kearley, Michael ing marathoner Jacob Riley Reagan, and returning member Diana Rime of the Ancient Marathoner 8 on the U.S. team that will Shannon, who will not be racing in Tokyo, compete in the Tokyo Olympic Games but who is a champion in our book. Diana beginning July 23 are Alicia Monson and is back in Boulder and the club after vari- Joe Klecker of the On Athletic Club; New ous adventures. Here’s the update on “why Balance’s Emma Coburn and Cory McGee it is so great to be back in Boulder and a Your 2021 Board Members of Team Boss; and unsponsored former member of the Road Runners again,” as CU cross country and track runner Val she put it in a recent email: Mike Sandrock, President Constien. “I think it was about 1986, when I joined Don Janicki, Vice President my first BRR club run after fracturing a Don Tubbs, Treasurer wrist in pick-up soccer. The club members, Todd Straka, Secretary seeing me running with a cast, welcomed John Bridges, Membership Chair me and agreed that it was time for me to Lorraine Green, At-Large give up the dangerous contact sport of soccer and join the Boulder Road Run- ners. After lots of running, a couple of sub-21 minute 5ks, a 7:30-pace Chicago JOIN YOUR CLUBMATES FOR THE JULY marathon, two marriages, two divorces, 5 BRR FIRST MONDAY. AT THE RUN- and no kids but several dogs, I departed Joe Klecker NERS ROOST 629 S. BROADWAY, 5:30- We can discuss the Olympics and all else Boulder in 2006 to serve as a Peace Corps Monday at the monthly First Monday volunteer in Mexico (my second volunteer 7:30 P.M. social, set for a new location at Runners stint as a volunteer). Then beginning in Roost, 629 South Broadway starting 2009, I started work with the US Agency at 5:30. The club is trying this out, and for International Development (USAID) as thanks to co-owners Tricia and RL for an environmental specialist and engineer, providing the space, and Lee Troop for serving overseas and in Washington DC.” coming up with the idea. M50 team cap- Welcome back Diana. tain Chris McDonald will give an update With the road racing season back, send on club uniform options, so come by and along any race results (at least the ones give your opinion. Congrats to Chris for you are proud of). The BRR M50 team has some good races at the club All Comers been posting some “great results on the meets at Potts Field. Before heading off for continued on next page a family vacation in Hawaii, Chris posted FORTY-ONE YEARS AND STILL RUNNING STRONG! President’s Message, continued back, to pay it forward,” said Minen, who worked with USATF treating athletes at Boulder Road Runners, Inc. the Olympic Trials. Officers and Contact Information 2021 Another local chiropractor at the Olym- ELECTED OFFICERS pic Trials was Roots Running coach Mike Sandrock, President Richey Hansen, who said: “The Boulder [email protected] athletes ran incredible and are clearly Don Janicki, Vice President representative of the level of collective [email protected] talent in the area now. It was fun to Don Tubbs, Treasurer watch and very inspiring seeing athletes [email protected] Todd Straka, Secretary have incredible days. Overall the meet [email protected] organization did a great job screening John Bridges, Membership Chair and monitoring the athletes and coaches [email protected] for covid. The heat was obviously an Lorraine Green, At-Large issue.” Roots Running’s Frank Lara tried [email protected] John Minen working the Olympic Trials to push the pace in the 10,000 meters, but like many of the distance runners APPOINTED POSITIONS was slowed by the high temperatures. Mike Wien, Advisor to the Board track, road races, and triathlons,” as team Lara received one of the BRR funding [email protected] captain Chris put it. Some of those high- scholarships. Todd Straka, Meet Director, lights included nine BRR masters runners Summer Track & Field Series placing first or second in their age groups [email protected] at the Memorial Day weekend Bolder on Elliott Henry, Newsletter Editor the Run 10K; the group included Nancy [email protected] Antos, Jack Pottle, Flavio De Simon; Chris Ken Thurow, Volunteer Coordinator McDonald; Tim Geldean; Todd Straka; [email protected] Mark Tatum; Adam Feerst; and Roger Tom Lemire, Historian Sayre, who also clocked a 3:03 marathon [email protected] Alastair Norcross, Club Photographer at Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth, Minn., [email protected] and who ranks second in the nation for Lee Troop, T.E.A.M. Liaison the M60 3000 meters (11:09); former Big 8 [email protected] champ Charles Trujillo has the sixth-fast- Ewen North, Revolution Running Liaison est M55 time (11:06). [email protected] I just finished local journalist Matt Hart’s book on the Nike Oregon Project, “Win at All Cost.” We’ve invited Matt to come Club members Diana Shannon and Don speak at a future First Monday. Former Hayes out and about on the Pearl Street Boulder Team USA runner Abdi Abdirah- Mall Boulder Road Runners man has a new book coming out www. PO Box 1866 soulsticepublishing.com. Abdi will join Boulder, CO 80306 Boulder’s Riley in the Tokyo Olympic mar- www.boulderroadrunners.org athon. And thanks to all who contributed to the Boulder Road Runners Olympic Running Club News is owned by the Boulder Road Trials Scholarship Fund, including chiro- Runners, Inc., a 501(c)3 non profit organization with offices in Boulder County, the State of Colorado. The practor John Minen of Colorado Sports contents of the Running Club News is the property Chiropractic. John said he wants to help of the Boulder Road Runners and is copyrighted © as out young runners, because of what run- such. Content may be reprinted freely by crediting the source of the material. ning has done for his life. “I want to give BOULDER ROAD RUNNERS 2 JULY 2021 Track and Field Action at Potts Field, June 10 and 17, 2021 Photos from Johnny Chapin and Dave Albo BOULDER ROAD RUNNERS 3 JULY 2021 Track and Field Action at Potts Field, June 10 and 17, 2021 Photos from Johnny Chapin and Dave Albo BOULDER ROAD RUNNERS 4 JULY 2021 Are you benefiting from the power of positive reinforcement? from Terry Chiplin and activacuity on runs focusing on one factor that a depending on the situation. However the slow-motion video reply had highlighted key factor here is to remember to always as being an area that could yield benefits. be objectively positive with yourself, and A common issue for many runners is to not slip back into negative self criti- to have a cadence that is too slow, that cism and undo your positive journey with then leads to over striding. So planning yourself. to focus on that key component, when One of the services we can provide is to the terrain and conditions allow, can be help coach you to become a positive ally an effective method of achieving change to yourself, and to develop your ability to through awareness. Further video analy- provide positive reinforce,net for your own I was recently reminded of how important sis then providing positive reinforcement purposes. Contact us to find out more. positive reinforcement is to us as human of the efficacy of the change in movement beings. A recent large MIT study on the pattern. use of positive reinforcement and it’s 2. Contingency - the example impact on Covid-19 vaccine take up, found given in 1 above could also highlight that that there was a significant drop in reluc- the expected change wasn’t realized on a tance to become vaccinated when people follow up video analysis. In that case, it were presented with positive information could be worth considering how the drill on how many people were getting vacci- or skill change could be changed up. This nated. It was further interesting to note gives you an opportunity to play with that the sample included 300,000 people different modifications and see which one across 23 countries, and found a consistent is the most effective for you. pattern of behavior. 3. Frugality - you don’t need to use How can this help us as runners? Using a lot of words in order to provide effective the power of positive reinforcement can positive reinforcement. Keep your self help us turn a situation that you perceive praise, objective, simple, and short, just as as something from the dark side, or that you would for a training partner or col- is pulling you to not get out for a training league. Non verbal mechanisms can also run because there is a large list of reasons be highly effective, so a hand clap can be why you don’t want to do it, into a situa- a great way to reinforce you did a great tion where you feel motivated, inspired, job! energized, and ready to get the most from 4.