The RUNDOWNRUNDOWN Monthly Newsletter of the TIDEWATER STRIDERS Running Club
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August 2009 Edition TheThe RUNDOWNRUNDOWN Monthly newsletter of the TIDEWATER STRIDERS Running Club. One of the nation’s largest running organizations. Summer Series at Norfolk Botanical Garden Upcoming Events Great Times on Hot Summer Nights in Norfolk Saturday, August 8 ASYMCA Mud Run Saturday, August 15 Strider Mile and Picnic Saturday, August 15 Rundown Deadline Saturday, August 22 Blasters Cove 8K & 1 Mile Saturday, August 29 ECSC 5k Sunday, September 6 Rock N Roll Half Marathon Saturday, September 12 Wounded Marines 5K Sunday, September 20 All Access 5k Saturday, September 26 Neptune Festival 8K Member of The RUNDOWN - August 2009 The RUNDOWN - August 2009 - Issue Number 401 Tidewater Striders, P.O. Box 2121, Chesapeake, VA 23327-2121 or newsletter@Tidewater Striders.com Deadline is the 15th of every month, may be earlier during the holiday seasons. Letters and Comments are appreciated, please send to [email protected] Contents Striders Service Directory Striders Service Directory. .2 Board Of Directors Offi cers: Walking: Lori Sherwood * Rich Hildreth, President (481-9027) Youth: Angelo Celesia [email protected] President’s Corner . .3 [email protected] Marketplace: OPEN Notes from the Editor . .3 Goody Tyler, VP(423-0256) Membership: Treasurer’s Report . .3 [email protected] Cathi Reade (Updates and Inquiries) ADOPT-A-TRAIL . .4 Sharon Rodier, Secretary (377-1269) (717-8774) [email protected] [email protected] Steve Patterson [email protected] Discount - RW . .4 Dan Edwards, Treasurer (717-0259) Nominations: TBA BOD Minutes . .6 [email protected] Photography: TriDuo.com (623-0892) Offi cers are elected by BOD from BOD and serve 1 [email protected] J& A present Blue Moon Wicked 10k 6 year terms from January thru December. Programs: Nick May (426-6167) New Energy . .7 Board Members thru Dec 2009 [email protected] Summer Series Week 1. .7 Gene Bachman (467-0898) [email protected] Publications: OPEN Dan Edwards [email protected] Publicity & PR: Jean Phelan* Recipe Corner . .8 Buddy Levitin (583-2456) Race Committee Co-Chairs: SUMMER SERIES II . .9 [email protected] Rick Brown (499-5506) [email protected] For Fellow Geezers and Geezer Wan- Jean Phelan (681-0248) Dan Edwards* nabes . .11 [email protected] Scholarship: Dan Edwards* WELCOME ABOARD! . .12 Lori Sherwood (406-1247) Social: Cathi Reade* [email protected] Teams: Tidewater Striders Training Sites .13 Goody Tyler [email protected] Chairperson - Bob Brunner* 2009 Running Grand Prix Standings 14 Senior Men’s- Mel Williams Board Members thru Dec 2010 (531-9220) [email protected] The Athlete’s Kitchen - Sports Nutrtion Bob Brunner (340-2068) [email protected] Master / Senior Women - Sheri Segal News from the ACSM . .16 Rich Hildreth (481-9027) Women Open-Colleen Pak 481-4608 Newsletter Stuffi ng . .17 Mike Mitchell (214-5582) Men Open-John Adams 289-5676 Lower-crossed syndrome… . .17 [email protected] [email protected] Steve Patterson(406-0077) Allen Stone Memorial Events . .18 Men Masters-Tommy Nesson* [email protected] Triathlon -Gene Bachman* Not Your Typical Trail Run . .21 Cathi Reade (717-8774) Walk -Steven Shapiro Run for the Homefront . .22 [email protected] [email protected] Striders on the Road. .23 Sharon Rodier (377-1269) Youth - Angelo Celesia (288-7715) [email protected] [email protected] Striders Tweet. .26 Committees: Triathlon: Mike Mitchell* RUNDOWN Ad Rates. .26 Adopt-A-Highway: Rich Hildreth* Volunteer: Goody Tyler* Annual Strider Picnic . .28 Advisory: Mel Williams Walking: 2009 Running Grand Prix Events .28 (531-9220) [email protected] Cindy Williams [email protected] Audit: Bethany Sanchez (471-8233) Youth Programs: The RUNDOWN is published Awards: Mary Beth Marshall (482-2304) Chair -Dan Edwards* monthly by the Tidewater Striders, Banquet: Dwight Kane (547-4014) Coach -Angelo Celesia [email protected] a non-profi t educational and [email protected] Race Hotline Updates recreational organization for Budget: Dan Edwards* Mike Robinson (627-1500) running, walking and triathlon [email protected] Community Service: Chris Catoe enthusiasts in the Tidewater Virginia Web Site CommitteeChair: (425-6556) [email protected] area. Opinions expressed in the Tommy Neeson* Constitution & Bylaws: Mel Williams RUNDOWN are not necessarily Web Site Manager: (531-9220) [email protected] those of the Editor or the Tidewater Steve Speirs (478-6403) Striders Board of Directors. Elections: Curt Aasen [email protected] (622-1911) [email protected] AD rate info is on page 26 Grand Prix: *Board members contact information is not repeat- ed next to their committee assignments. Please Running: Bob Brunner * see their BOD listing for contact information. Deadline: 15th of every month Triathlon: Mike Mitchell* 2 The RUNDOWN - August 2009 President’s Corner Treasurer’s Report When you read this, hopefully Jun-09 there will be a new water fountain Income installed at the parking lot just inside First Landing State Park Club Race: ERR 9,122.40 at the 64th St. entrance. Frank ERC 3,138.75 Rodriguez, a strider member who Interest 31.15 also is a leader in a group calling themselves a Meet up Group and/ Marketplace 20.00 or Virginia Beach Runners had Membership 1,035.00 called the park to complain about Newsletter 212.23 the water fountain there (that I Total Rev 13,559.53 understand had been originally paid for by the Striders). He spoke with a Park Ranger who explained Expenses that they didn’t have suffi cient Club Races 4,517.20 monies budgeted to cover the expected $5,000 cost to replace ERR 2,722.12 that water fountain. He was told All Access 5K 1,500.00 that if runners could raise half the Strider Mile + Postal RW 295.08 money, the Park could afford to Comm. Svc 38.90 replace the fountain. ERC 35.41 I’ve written about my affection for First Landing State Park before, as Gen’l Ops 227.25 you probably recall. I run there three times a week and also walk my dog there. Further, Newsletter 1,503.80 if you don’t know or remember, the Striders also paid for a bridge over a very low lying Scholarship / T-Trot 939.00 area on the Long Creek Trail as well as a Broad Bay overlook in the mid 1990s. We also Social 55.00 volunteer to maintain Long Creek and Osprey Trails. Teams 54.00 Given that, we told the Park Ranger, Bruce Widener that we’d pay for the fountain right away. The Park went out for prices, and ordered a new concrete fountain that is frost free Youth Dev. 95.00 and will be accessible 365 days a year. It should be installed within a week of you reading Total Exp 7,465.56 this note. Net Income 6,093.97 However, we need and hope to receive from you help in paying for the fountain. It should benefi t a huge number of you, but it wasn’t in our budget and we really need to replenish Account Balances 30-Jun-09 as much of the funds as we can. Thus please consider contributing some money towards this cause, particularly if you use the main trail in the park. We used to take August off. It’s too hot to run. However, this year the weather’s been BankofAmer Checking 9,799.84 beautiful so far and we’ve got a full schedule with some big races. The Mud Run is on Bank of Amer MonMkt 42,453.98 August 8, the Strider Mile is on the 15th, followed by the annual picnic, a new race the Restricted: Blaster’s Cove 8K is on the 22nd and the ECSC 5K, one of the most popular 5Ks of the year is on the 29th. General Operations 18,212.24 See you at the races, Scholarship-General 48,564.81 Rich Hildreth Scholarship-Bashara 33,641.24 Scholarship-PSEdw 14,668.16 Notes from the Editor Youth 6,068.57 There are just a few months left until the presses stop for the snail mail Rundown. We do Schwab Donation Acc’t 8,575.55 need membership input on what they would like to see in the e-Rundown. Currently the Total - Restricted 129,730.57 e-Rundown is identical to the printed version of the Rundown. Total - All Accounts 181,984.39 Enjoy the many fun races in August from the Mud Run (yes lots of sand too) to the ECSC 5k, one of the most popular events at the beach. See ya at the races, Ada Lester [email protected] 3 The RUNDOWN - August 2009 TIDEWATER STRIDERS 2009 RACE SCHEDULE 15-Aug Striders Mile Mile/Strider Picnic Tallwood HS Steve Durrant [email protected] 22-Aug Blasters Cove 8K & 1 Mile Ft Story Anthony Bozarth [email protected] 29-Aug ECSC 5K WT VB Boardwalk Chris Bell 373-0693 [email protected] 6-Sep Rock N Roll Half Marathon ** Half Marathon Virginia Beach Elite Racing www.rnrhalf.com 12-Sep Wounded Marines 5K 5K Regent Univ. Virginia Beach Tim Crowley 392-1434 [email protected] 19-Sep ODU Acc’tg Dept. 5K Norfolk ODU Randy Spurrier [email protected] 20-Sep ALL ACCESS 5k 5k VB Amphitheatre Ryan Conrad and Dan Edwards [email protected]/[email protected] 26-Sep Neptune 8K 8K WT VB Boardwalk Brian Sagedy 498-0215 [email protected] 3-Oct St Mary’s 5K 5K - 1-Mile Ft Story Sonja Basisic 622-2208 X331 [email protected] 10-Oct All American Beach Ford 5K & 1-Mile Kingston Elem SchoolKara K. Minson 438-1864 [email protected] 11-Oct Thaila Elem 1-Mile Thalia, VB Beth Matthews [email protected] 17-Oct Susan Komen 5K & 1-Mile WT Atl & Bdwalk VB Karen Zablocki 490-7794 [email protected];[email protected] 18-Oct ODU Acctg 5K 5K Norfolk ODU Randy Spurrier [email protected] 24-Oct I Need a Lighthouse 5K Fort Story Jennifer Reich 615-1285 [email protected] 7-Nov Race for Breath 5K WT VB Boardwalk Cathi Reade [email protected] 8-Nov OBX Marathon** Marathon WT / Lin-Mark OBX, NC 14-Nov 1-Hr Postal Racewalk 1-Hr on Track Tallwood HS Steve Durrant [email protected] 26-Nov Turkey Trot 10K & 1M WT Mt Trashmore Dan Edwards 495-3551 [email protected] 5-Dec Jingle Bell Run 5K WT Old Dominion Univ Angela Courtney 456-1119 [email protected] 5-Dec Army-Navy 10K Ft.