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1 the STREAK REGISTRY, Volume 11, Number 3, Fall 2011 Dawn & John Strumsky Founders Emeritus Millersville, Maryland Windber THE STREAK REGISTRY, Volume 11, Number 3, Fall 2011 Dawn & John Strumsky By: Rev. Dr. Scott Stoner Founders Emeritus USRSA p. 14 Millersville, Maryland Windber, Pennsylvania Mark Washburne President World Marathon Record Holder Robert C. Ray Mendham, New Jersey By: Yolanda Holder p. 16 Chairman Emeritus Baltimore, Maryland Steven R. Morrow The Raven checks in Vice President By: Robert Kraft p. 19 Margaret O. Blackstock Webmaster Vice Chairman Emeritus Eagle Lake, Minnesota Tundra Traversing in Atlanta, Georgia Minnesota John H. Wallace, III By: Steve DeBoer p. 20 ADVISORY BOARD Vice President Seattle, Washington Update from Minnesota George A. Hancock Streaker Honorary Founder By: Jeff Judd p. 24 Windber, Pennsylvania The Streak Registry Fall 2011 Running at almost Seventy Mark Covert Table of Contents By: Barbara Latta p. 27 Honorary Chairperson for the 43nd Issue Lancaster, California Atlanta’s Peachtree 10K Streaking Anniversaries p. 2 By: Barbara Latta p. 28 Julie A Maxwell Honorary Vice Chairperson From The Streak Registry p. 3 Money-Findings by Streakers Kasson, Minnesota By: Craig Snapp p. 29 USRSA Honors Steve DeBoer John I. Watts By: Steve Morrow p. 4 5 Years Later Chaplain By: Jim Bates p. 31 Nampa, Idaho 40th Anniversary Speech By: Steve DeBoer p. 6 Four-Year Anniversary Stephen W. DeBoer By: Nancy West p. 32 Board Member Surviving Polio Rochester, Minnesota By: Jon Simpson p. 7 Member Updates p. 33 Geza Feld Running every day for 43 Active Running Streak List p. Board Member years 48 Farmingdale, New York By: Mark Covert p. 8 USRSA On-Line: Now on Robert R. Kraft Mark Covert’s Streak Mileage Yahoo Groups and Facebook Board Member p. 11 p. 54 Miami Beach, Florida Running with John Watts Retired Running List p. 55 John C. Roemer, IV By: John Morgan p. 13 Board Member The Finish Line Parkton, Maryland John Chandler’s Streak By: Mark Washburne p. 60 1 STREAKING ANNIVERSARIES Happy anniversary to the following streak runners who are celebrating special “mile”stones: From The Grand Masters to The Legends (40th anniversary): Stephen W. DeBoer of Rochester, Minnesota on June 7th Jon A. Simpson of Memphis, Tennessee on August 30th From The Masters to The Grand Masters (35th anniversary): Stephen D. Reed of Wiscasset, Maine on June 16th Robert J. Zarambo of Whitehall, Pennsylvania on June 16th From The Dominators to The Masters (30th anniversary): John R. Chandler of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin on August 9th Ben Dillow of Redlands, California on August 20th From The Highly Skilled to The Dominators (25th anniversary): Ronald N. Dennis of Marshall, Texas on June 29th From The Well Versed to The Highly Skilled (20th anniversary): Matthew J. Ketterman of Greensboro, North Carolina on July 1st Danny Sullivan of San Carlos, California on July 12th William Chatman of Brooksville, Florida on July 23rd From The Neophytes to The Proficient (5th anniversary): James C. Bates of Hampton, Virginia on June 4th ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ __________________ “If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.” Bill Rodger 2 FROM THE STREAK REGISTRY TEN YEARS AGO: The third issue of USRSA newsletter was published. The 32-page booklet contained an active running streak list of 128 runners and a retired streak list of just 26 athletes. Since its first issue six months earlier in April 2001, USRSA had grown by 15 more active streak runners and listed 10 more retired streaks. The Fall 2001 issue also contained an article by Joe Henderson, the former West Coast editor of Runner’s World. In his article called “Speaking of Streaking,” Mr. Henderson listed “10 of the best reasons to streak”: 1. You keep going because you can. No injury or life obstacle has tripped up your streak, which means that you must be [doing] something right. 2. You keep going because you want to. The dailyness doesn’t grow stale when you know that no two days are ever quite the same. You want to explore what’s different about them. 3. You never know what kind of day it will be unless you test it out. Each one holds surprises, some good and others not so good, that you must go to work to uncover. 4. You learn to pace yourself. Working too long or too intensely one day would jeopardize the next day’s effort, so you do only what let’s you recover and repeat within 24 hours. 5. You do something natural, not abnormal. Streaking is no more weird than eating every day. Taking frequent days off is the greater oddity in human history. 6. You do something that’s easier to do than not do. It’s a habit, and breaking it is more stressful than continuing it. 7. You never have to think, Is this my day to work or not? The plan is utterly simple: This is what you do at a certain time for a certain amount of time each Sunday through Saturday. 8. You work as if you’re getting paid for it. You work like a pro, even without collecting wages. To miss a day would be to shortchange yourself. 9. You give yourself at least this one accomplishment every day. No matter what other slights and setbacks that day might hold, you’ve once more earned the prize. 10. You stay honest with yourself. No one else knows whether you went to work today or not. Bu[t] YOU know and care, so you stay accountable to yourself and keep taking care of business. 3 USRSA HONORS STEVE DEBOER ON 40th ANNIVERSARY RUN By: Steve Morrow, Vice President, USRSA It was my honor and pleasure to represent the USRSA on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at the 40th Anniversary Run of Steve DeBoer’s running streak. Steve now joins 4 others in the US who have reached this prestigious milestone. Steve and I have been conversing through email for the past 10 years and have talked occasionally about meeting and running together, but this is the first time we have met. I traveled to Rochester, Minnesota, to present Steve with this plaque from the USRSA honoring him as the “2011 USRSA Runner of the Year.” Steve was joined by about 10 fellow runners including some with active and/or retired streaks on a lap of the track followed by a run of about 5K along the trails in Rochester on a night when the temperature was still in the mid-nineties. After the run we enjoyed sharing running stories, snacking on watermelon and rehydrating with Gatorade. Congratulations again to Steve DeBoer and best of luck in continuing your streak long into the future. Best Wishes, Steve Morrow, Vice President USRSA P.S. I am including a copy of the speech that Steve DeBoer gave at the event. Thanks also to all the runners for joining Steve and making it a special night for him and thanks to KAAL-TV for doing a story on Steve too. 4 5 40th ANNIVERSARY SPEECH By: Steve DeBoer Thanks everyone for braving this inferno. I‘ve been told it would have to be a hot day in Hades before I would reach 40 years of daily runs. Make that the hottest day in Rochester this year! The high of 101 degrees is the warmest here since July 31, 1988 – at least it has dropped into the 90s for the run. It was June 7, 1971, I ran home 2 miles from the Hamline University Fieldhouse about noon. I can’t say it was a special run, as I had been running daily for over 10 months, but sometimes I ran less than 1 mile that first year. I admit I ran this morning but this will be my first run since I passed the 40-year mark, now being after noon. That makes me the 5th person in the US and probably the world who has run daily this long. The longest we know of in Canada is 32 ½ years. Ron Hill in England reached 46 years last December but ran less than 1 mile a few times. The 4 ahead of me, Mark Covert, Jon Sutherland, Jim Pearson and Ken Young all live on the West Coast and are all over age 60. So, if I can exercise regularly, maintain a healthy weight, not smoke and make healthy dietary choices, I might have a chance of outlasting 1 or 2 of them. Rochester is the home of streak running in Minnesota. Bruce Mortenson is coaching a track team this evening up in the Cities and sent his regrets, but he began his first running streak January 1970, while living here. He had 4 streaks longer than one year, 2 in Rochester. I lived in St. Paul when I began streaking, as did my brother, Dave, who ran daily from 1972 to 1978. The 4th streak runner in MN was Steve Gathje, also of Rochester. He has kept running daily and is now #10 on the US Running Streak Association active registered streak list, and will reach 39 years in September. He also sent his regrets, as he just started a new job in the Cities yesterday. Currently there are 12 Minnesotans who have an active streak. Julie Maxwell is with us today from Kasson. This is the first we have met. Julie will reach 33 years of daily runs on July 5th. She is #29 on the list and has the longest running streak for a woman. Paul Christian of Rochester will reach 27 years in September and is #68. He just returned from a trip in Tanzania and sends his regrets.
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