Norcal Running Review (Or $5 Ornian, Frank Bozanich, Did 2:45:29 in Third Place As a Warmup Off the Dues of Any WVTC Member)
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Bob Paulin THE TURKEY ASKS: Have you tried the WAFFLE TRAINER yet? Did you know it's NIKE'S most popular running shoe? Did you know it is a well-cushioned training shoe? Did you know it is a light-weight racing shoe? Did you know the sole wears well on asphalt? Did you know the traction is tremendous on grass & dirt? Did you know the flared heel provides great stability? Did you know we sell waffle sole for resoling? Have you tried the WAFFLE TRAINER yet? THE ATHLETIC DEPT. * 2114 Addison S t., Berkeley, CA 94704 (Ph. 415/843-7767) Team Price: $24.95; Five or More Pairs: $22.95 **** Mon-Fri (10-6); Sat (10-5) CALIFORNIA TRACK NEWS A PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO CALIFORNIA TRACK PUBLISHED BIMONTHLY MASTERS GlRLS--WOMEN RESULTS PICTURES RANKINGS PROFILES SCHEDULES MORE 12 WEST 25th AVE. HOURS: M-TH (10-7) SAN MATEO, CA. 94403 FRI (10-8) PH. (415) 349-6904 SAT (10-6) UP FRONT Camden High School's (San Jose) Bob Paulin in the process of winning the Central Coast Section X-Country Cham pionships at the Crystal Springs Course in Belmont. Paulin won the race by a margin of ll seconds and was never pressed during the second half of the race. Bob also has a good three mile postal time (14:27) to his credit this fall. /John Marconi/ ONLY $ 5 .0 0 PER YEAR Staff & Rates CONTENTS EDITOR: Jack Leydig ADVERTISING: B i l l Clark THIS & THAT 3 SPECIAL ARTICLE 15 PUBLISHER: Frank Cunningham RESULTS: Penny DeMoss LONG DISTANCE RATINGS 7 MEDICAL ADVICE COLUMN 16 MEDICAL ADVICE: Harry Hlavac, DPM CIRCULATION: David Shrock CLUB NEWS 8 NUTRITION CORNER 17 ARTIST: Penny DeMoss PHOTO EDITOR: John Marconi CLASSIFIED ADS ll SCHEDULING 18 CARTOONIST: Dave Brown, Lee Holley PROD. MGR.: H arold DeMoss EDITORIAL ll RACE WALKING 19 ADDRESS LABELS: Dave Himmelberger, Peggy Lyman LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 12 CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS 19 "THE HUMAN RACE" 13 TRACK & FIELD RESULTS 23 STAFF WRITERS: B ill Clark, Harry Hlavac, Len Wallach, Jack NOR-CAL PORTRAIT 14 LONG DISTANCE RESULTS 24 Leydig, Chris Kinder, Tom Jordan, DaVe Himmelberger, Conrad WEST VALLEY PORTRAIT 14 W alker. PRODUCTION & MAILING: Judy Gumbs, Jack L eyd ig , Ken P aul, Dave EDITOR'S MESSAGE Shrock, Kevin Blake, Craig Corey, Bob Nelson, Dan Anderson, Wayne Glusker, John Cotte, Jeannette Cotte, Yvette Cotte, Jim • SCHEDULES NEEDED: - With Holl, Dick Shelton, Mrs. Shelton, Santos Reynaga, Suzanne another track season about to Kaufmann. get underway, the NCRR is busily compiling a comprehensive list CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS: Kevin Kirby, Lorraine Rorke, Den ing of area meets for our next nis O’Rorke, Mike Shaughnessy, George Beinhorn, Dave Stock, two issues. But we cannot do a Wayne G lusker, Jay Marlowe, Jim Hume, J e f f S e a r ls , Paul Coop good job on this without the er, Jim Watt, Jeff Zimmerman, Jim Engle, Keith Conning, John help of our readers. So if you Marconi, Robert Main, John Danner. have a schedule of any kind at all, please send it to us by not LDR POINT RATINGS: (NorCal) Art Dudley; (SoCal) Stan Rosen la te r than Feb. 15. For further f i e l d . information on what we are look ing for in terms of scheduling, REGULAR CORRESPONDENTS: (NorCal) Roxy Andersen, Fred Baer, Dr. see our small notice in the cur Harmon Brown, Marshall Clark, Bob DeCelle, Ruth Dettering, rent Scheduling Section. Thanks Roger Duran, Dick G ilchrist, Wayne Glusker, Frank Hagerty, Jim for your help. Remember, this Hume, Roy Kissin, Joe Mangan, B ill Mensing, Dick Meyer, Phyl magazine would be nowhere today lis Olrich, Mark Payne, Robyn Paulson, Mike Shaughnessy, John without the contributions of our Sheehan, Walt Stack, Dave Stock, Joe Taxiera, Bob Vincent, Len readership. Any changes or corrections to our scheduling sec Wallach, Dave Weill, John Wenos. (SoCal) Wes Alderson, John tion should be phoned or mailed in rig h t away, even if another Brennand, B ill Cockerham, Shirley Davisson, Kao Johansen, Dave issue won't come out in time...we often get calls concerning Pain, Stan Rosenfield, Al Sheahen, John Wenos. (Nat'l & In meet information, so help keep us up to date. ternat'l) Runner's World, Starting Line, Track & Field. News, Track Newsletter, Women's Track & Field World. • POSTAL INCREASES: - I'm sure all of you out there are aware that the Postal Service raised their rates across the MAILING: Third-Class Bulk Rate from San Mateo, CA...at i n te r board at the end of the year. Rate increases amounted to any vals of from 5-8 weeks. No issue should require longer than where between 20-30% approximately. We are s t i l l holding our two weeks delivery in the United States. First Class rates subscription price at $5.00/year, but you can see that it is available (see below). NCRR IS NOT FORWARDABLE!! getting more d iffic u lt to do th is. The only way we can keep our rates low is to get more subscriptions and renewals. If RATES: $2.50 per 6 months; $5.00 per year, third-class bulk you don't now subscribe, please consider doing so in the near rate. Multiple year subscriptions are no longer available. future. 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Also, we will no longer renew All news, features, results, photos, and other items should subscriptions for more than a year unless you happen to have be sent to: NCRR, Box 1551, San Mateo, CA 94401. Due to ir an old subscription blank. By mid-year we hope to be on a regularity of mailing dates, all information should be mailed one-year basis only (& 6-months). as soon as possible. Prospective photographers and volunteer correspondents should request details. Readers are encour THIS & THAT aged to submit results § scheduling. Please request permis sion for materials used from NCRR other than scheduling and • PEOPLE NEWS: - Walt Stack, the DSE's 'Grand Dragon', was results. PHOTOGRAPHERS: We now pay $15 for prints used as featured in a lengthy article in the Dec. 15 issue of SPORTS cover shots. Prints will not be returned unless requested ILLUSTRATED, titled "The Old Man & the Bay"...col or photos and (5 x 7 or larger if at all possible; black and white is pre all! — Fran Conley, WVTC runner and Stanford neurosurgeon, ferred, although some color shots are usable). was featured in a TIME MAGAZINE story (Jan. 5) on professional J women.. .although the article didn't mention that she ran too! - 3 - current record (total times in one race) is 5:21:21 by Bob PHOTO QUIZ (2:25:58) Thurston and his dad, Paul (2:55:23). The O'Neils plan on giving the record a go at the upcoming West Valley Ma RULES: (1) Submit your guess and rathon on Feb. 8th and are issuing a challenge to other father- mail i t to: PHOTO QUIZ, Box 1551, son teams (T a rin 's, B etsch art's, e tc .) . There is a trophy for San Mateo, CA 94401 (one guess the father-son winning team. — Ed Collins, former Beale AFB per person).. .All guesses must resident now stationed on Okinawa, reports that an amazing be postmarked by Feb. 20t 1976. 100 starters turned out for his marathon (he calls it his $200 (2) All tie s will be broken by a extravaganza). The winner was Sgt. Ron Chase who runs for Ed's drawing. The prize is a one- US0 Track Club (o ffic ia lly a member of Florida TC). The win year subscription (or renewal) to ning time for Ron was 2:33:04 over many hills. Another Calif the NorCal Running Review (or $5 ornian, Frank Bozanich, did 2:45:29 in third place as a warmup off the dues of any WVTC member). for the Fukuoka Marathon, only a week later. No report on how All of our readers are encouraged Frank faired in that one. — Mike Kirtman, former standout to send in Photos for consider- ^ u this, (No Hints!) hurdler and sp rin ter while a t Wilson High (San Francisco), has ation...photo deadline for next transferred from the Univ. of Washington to San Jose State and issue is Feb. 20. will sit out this term while competing for West Valley TC. — **0ur winner for LAST MONTH was Harvey Rentschler of • JOGGER NEEDS AID: - In June, jogger Janet Scott was out Haverford, PennsylvaniaT! He was one of only three persons for a run in Newburyport, Mass., when she was attacked by some to submit the correct answer. The NCAA champion pictured one using a cement block as a weapon.