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Florida Track Club August Newsletter 2018!

CLUB WITH THE ORANGE ON THE SINGLET CELEBRATING 50+ YEARS AS A CLUB!

Race Photo Recap: 40th Annual FTC Melon Run Westside Park July 4, 2018 Thank you to all volunteers and participants! Photos by Tanya Consaul Graphic Design & Photography and Donna Burch -Thank you!

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Next Events: August FTC Social Wednesday, August 1st First Magnitude Brewing, Co.

6:15 meet for run 7PM Social –first drink is on the club!

Melon Run official results:

https://results.rmraces.live/Start-2- Finish-Race- Management/events/2018/2018l-Melon- Run-3-Miler-/results

Race coverage in Gainesville Sun

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$250 cash prize to Male and Female FTC Junior overall winner, $100 cash prize to 2nd place Male and Female, $50 cash Champs prize for 3rd place Male and Female. All half finishers will receive a custom finisher's medal.

Due to popular demand we are continuing the 5k race that debuted in 2016 as well! This year, we will inaugurate the race as the Keith Brantly 5k in honor of our previous FTC president and US 10k Olympian. Awards (trophy or medal, TBD) to first place male, female, and masters Tom Walker male and female. Memorial Half- Early race number and shirt pickup Marathon & Keith dates and location are still TBD. Day Brantly 5k of race pick up begins at 7 am at Boulware Springs. Race shirts will be Sunday, November 11th available until they run out, so we 8AM Bouleware Springs encourage you to register early. Entrance Contact Race Director Mark Ou with Hawthorne Trail further questions: https://runsignup.com/Race/FL/G [email protected] ainesville/TomWalkerMemorial HalfMarathon?remMeAttempt=

The Florida Track Club hosts our annual Tom Walker Memorial Run and Keith Brantly 5k on the beautiful Gainesville-

Hawthorne Trail. This chip-timed USATF-certified course and is on a wide paved path with plenty of shade.

Florida Track Club members receive a discount ($5 off half marathon, $3 off 5k) at checkout. Kids 13 and under receive reduced pricing as well.

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“Endure” teaches you anything, it is that deep down inside each one of us is an elite-level performer waiting to be uncovered.

In the foreword, Malcolm Gladwell sums it up perfectly. “There are many things Garmin cannot tell you. And luckily, for those many things, we have Alex Hutchinson”

“Running is a mental sport” Thanks for the book review, Brady!

Do you have a running book you A phrase you’ve no doubt heard or would like to see reviewed or have even repeated to yourself multiple read a book you would like to times during a training run or a race. recommend to the FTC? Email us at While clearly not entirely true, [email protected] anyone who participates in endurance sports of any kind understands the profound effect that your own thoughts can have on Congratulations to our performance. A bad attitude, or conversely, super confidence, can most recent Steven make or break the day. Detweiler FTC Racing Book Review Scholarship Recipients! The power of the mind to influence performance comes alive in “Endure” by Alex Hutchinson. Using data from historic and recent experiments and field studies, Hutchinson explore how the mind- body connection influences how far we can run, how fast we can cycle, and how long we can simply last. You might be convinced that your next marathon PR might come not from long runs, but from brain training.

Hutchinson also explores the various factors that can profoundly affect your endurance performance – from heat, hydration, fuel, and oxygen, just to name a few. Reading “Endure”, you begin to realize that what once seemed to simple – Endure: Mind, Body, and the running, swimming, cycling – are no curiously elastic limits of human longer such purely physical acts. performance Cailin Lewis: Space Coast Half Marathon, 11/25/18 Alex Hutchinson And “brain zapping” – yes, there is a chapter on that too. “Doping” your Review by Brady Holmer, FTC and brain is just one area of research that TeamFTC member, Graduate Research Assistant, Integrative Cardiovascular Hutchinson explores to finish out his Physiology Laboratory, University of tome on the limits of human Florida performance (if they exist…). If FLORIDA TRACK CLUB AUGUST NEWSLETTER 2018! | Issue # 10

Cedric Torres: Dietz & Watson Philadelphia Half Marathon, 11/17/18

Zac Radke: Chicago Triathlon, 8/26/18

June FTC Social Photo Recap 6/6/18 Global Running Day!

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By Felicia Lee

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Florida Track Club

The Florida Track Club (FTC) is the oldest continuously operating track club in the U.S.[6] It is known not only as the home and training base for prominent runners such as Olympic gold medalist , Jack Bacheler, and Jeff Galloway,[6] but also for setting important precedents for modern track clubs: FTC was the first track club in the U.S. to be granted tax-exempt status, and the first in which competitive athletes had the majority vote on who would go to meets and where they would go.2] FTC was also largely responsible for establishing its hometown, Gainesville, Florida, as a mecca for serious competitive runners.[6] The Beginning FTC was founded in 1965 by and Olympic track coach Jimmy Carnes and Jack Gamble in Gainesville, Florida. Upon moving to Gainesville in 1965 for his career in environmental engineering, History of Gamble, a former college athlete who wanted to stay involved in the sport, reached out to Carnes and volunteered the Florida to officiate and otherwise help out at events. The two started an informal group in which Gamble would recruit prominent runners to Track Club give talks.[1] One day, Carnes asked Gamble if he could help raise money to send a team to a relay race at Madison Square Garden in New York—he’d been expecting a check, but it hadn‘t yet arrived. Gamble immediately started fundraising among other runners at the University of Florida and brought the money he’d acquired back to Carnes.[1] However, by that time, the check Carnes had been expecting had arrived. Since most of the donations Gamble had solicited were in cash, and he hadn’t kept track of who had donated what, he couldn’t return the money. Carnes and Gamble felt obligated to put the funds to good use for the running community.[1]

Gamble consulted with Ed Singley, a colleague from work who had experience setting up organizations and handling finances. By the end of the day, the Florida Track Club had come into being, with Carnes as its executive director, Gamble as its president, and a bank balance of around $800.[2] Soon after, Carnes and Gamble met with a number of other local runners at Gamble’s house to develop a plan and a vision for the club. Besides being accomplished runners, FLORIDA TRACK CLUB AUGUST NEWSLETTER 2018! | Issue # 12

many of those attending this first meeting By the 1970s, the FTC had become the interested in running as well as conventional brought useful professional skills to the training home to such prominent runners as standards of femininity.[6] club’s founding.[2] Jeff Galloway, Frank Shorter, and Barry Brown. In 1970, the year Shorter joined the The FTC runners, however, were welcoming One of them, John L. Parker, Jr., had a law FTC, the club won its first national and supportive of her efforts, and she made a degree and used his legal skills to draft an championship at the Track and Field point of keeping up with them in their official charter for the club. (Parker’s novel Federation meet. In 1971, FTC won its first workouts.[6] This was initially a challenge, Once a Runner, a cult favorite among AAU cross-country championship and since she started running with them in her runners, is a lightly fictionalized account of retook the title twice, in 1972 and 1973.[5] teens and most of the other runners were the early years of the club.)[4] Another, men in their mid-20s. In addition, she Olympic distance runner Jack Bacheler, After Shorter took the gold medal in the participated in an informal group of noon designed the club’s logo, an image of a marathon in the 1972 Summer Olympics in runners that included FTC members and Florida orange, making a point of ensuring Munich, the club’s popularity exploded—as non-members and both men and women.[6] the image in the logo was botanically did serious interest in long-distance running. This experience offered her access to accurate.[2] It was during this era that Gainesville cutting-edge training as well as the financial became known as a mecca for elite support to compete in prominent races. An innovative feature of the club was that it competitive runners.[1] Because of her rigorous training and was organized so that a majority of the board mentoring from other FTC members, she would be competitive runners, and these At this time, competitive running adhered to won most races she entered, including runners would decide who got club support a code of strict amateurism—runners could several national titles. Among her victories to attend meets and which races they’d not receive any compensation for their were the SEC 880 and mile, a women’s half- attend. This strategy was designed to ensure running apart from payment of their marathon, and the Stone Mountain Road the best athletes for each event would get expenses. The mere suggestion of an Race two years in a row. She also was the support and avoid the political favoritism improper gift or excessive reimbursement of first woman to serve on the board of the that occurred in other clubs. This policy was expenses was sometimes enough to get a FTC. [6] unique among track clubs of the time.[2] runner banned from competition. To help FTC runners support themselves while The FTC, Robert Cade, and the Gamble stayed president for about 3 years, adhering to this standard, Gamble arranged Development of Gatorade after which time the club instituted regular part-time landscaping maintenance jobs for elections.[1] them with UF’s Plant and Grounds Another early contributor the club was UF Department. He also arranged for local medical researcher Robert Cade, who led the The Early Years hotels to let runners stay in unoccupied team that invented Gatorade. While rooms. Carnes, who owned some investment developing the still-unnamed sports drink, During Carnes’ years coaching the club, he properties in Gainesville, opened some of which was intended to promote better noticed his runners tended to be in better them to runners as well. In addition, Gamble endurance and prevent dehydration in condition during indoors winter meets than even had some runners stay with him in his athletes, he tested it on UF and FTC runners from northeastern schools. He own home when first arriving in runners.[7] At one relay marathon, he set up attributed this to Florida’s weather, which Gainesville.[1] tents at set points along the course, where his allowed for long outdoors workouts during researchers took blood samples from [3] the winter. On top of his running achievements, Shorter runners, comparing those from runners who also changed track and field history by had consumed his formula to those from a But Florida’s punishingly hot and humid forcing a change in the longstanding policy control group. These findings contributed to summers also proved a useful training tool. of strict amateurism for runners. After the refinement of his formula.[7] In the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico becoming a household name, he began City, Jack Bacheler, an early club member manufacturing and selling running gear and Cade was active in the FTC and in and top-ranked two-miler, was the only U.S. pushed back when told he couldn’t wear one Gainesville’s running community in general. runner able to run strongly enough at of his own branded shirts.[1] Realizing the A former competitive runner,[7] he believed Mexico City’s high altitude to qualify for the strongly in the health benefits of running, [3] absurdity of this constraint, officials finals in the 10,000 meters. Unfortunately, relented, and the policy of strict amateurism and was often seen running with his six he was selected for random drug testing after soon ended, paving the way for today’s children, with whom he formed an informal the qualifying race and when unable to professional running circuit.[1] “track club”, complete with matching t- produce a urine sample, was coaxed to drink shirts, he dubbed “Plumbous Pedis” (“lead some local water offered by race officials. Women in the Early FTC foot” in Latin).[6] Cade was instrumental in The unpurified water gave him such severe the development of several local running digestive distress he was unable to compete While the initial group of runners in the club programs, including the Great Gainesville [3] in the finals. were men, a few serious female runners were Road Race, a prominent 5K in the 1980s and also active members of the club in its early 1990s, as well as FTC’s Junior Champ Nevertheless, serious runners took note of years. The most prominent of these was program, an age-grouped youth program that Bacheler’s success in the preliminary races, Margaret Tolbert, who, along with her sister, introduces boys and girls to track and field which Carnes attributed to Bacheler’s Jane, had been tennis players UF, but also events.[6] Cade has been called “the quiet, training regime of two or three daily runs in had an interest in running. Opportunities for unassuming guardian angel of the Florida Gainesville’s summer heat—this apparently women to run competitively at the college Track Club…He has also been the silent gave him the conditioning he needed to run level were limited at the time, and the benefactor to more than several developing efficiently at high altitude. Other serious longest race available to them was 1 mile, runners who needed a little extra assistance competitive runners, wanting to replicate his which put Tolbert, whose aptitude was for to go from good to great.”[9] In 1990, the success, soon began moving to Gainesville distance running, at a disadvantage.[1] [1] FTC inaugurated an annual Cade Prize, to be and training with the FTC. Moreover, track training for women was awarded to a club member who had rendered constrained by the small number of women FLORIDA TRACK CLUB AUGUST NEWSLETTER 2018! | Issue # 13

extraordinary service to the club in the road races of its own. By 1980, both groups to other ventures, and ceded control of the previous year. [9] were regularly hosting weekend races and race to the FTC.[10] even found themselves hosting overlapping The 1970s Running Boom and the races.[8] Over time, however, prize purses for Transformation of the FTC professional runners grew, along with the David Mathia, one of the leaders of the FRR, number of high-profile opportunities for After Shorter’s victory in the 1972 realized the groups had come to share the them to compete. The GGRR was eventually Olympics, distance running captured the same mission and constituencies and thus unable to offer either enough prize money or public imagination and running became a were duplicating many of their efforts. For prestige to attract top runners, and moreover, popular mainstream activity. During this this reason, he reached out to Len Ryan, the the now-crowded professional race schedule time, recreational runners, most new to president of the FTC at the time, and meant it often conflicted with more popular running, began joining the FTC. This proposed a merger of the clubs.[8] Ryan events.[10] The growth of recreational racing changed the profile of the club from one agreed, and by 1981, the clubs had merged opportunities also meant the GGRR populated purely by elite competitors to one memberships and the FRR had been competed against other local races.[10] Thus, serving both serious competitors and reabsorbed into the FTC. Following the the GGRR was discontinued in the early novices.[8] merger, Mathia became FTC’s race 2000s. coordinator.[8] This led to some tension between the two However, the FTC continued to sponsor a groups. While FTC continued its original The Rise of Road Racing series of popular regular races, including the mission of training and supporting elite Newnans Lake 15K (which many runners runners, some of the recreational runners felt Throughout the 1980s, the FTC grew used as a warm-up race for the 5 Points of their interests weren’t being properly increasingly active in organizing road races. Life Marathon and Half-Marathon typically addressed by the club—they wanted to club As both a community service and a held a few weeks later), a half-marathon, and to organize more road races and other fundraising effort, the club started the July 4 Melon Run, one of FTC’s oldest activities for the community at large rather organizing races for local charities and traditions.[1] While the FTC had a regular than focus the club’s resources on community groups. The club would be paid marathon training group and members competitive training and track meets. a stipend by these groups, and in return, regularly participated in out-of-town Moreover, as the club’s superstar runners of would take charge of both planning the races . The Five Points of Life the early 1970s started to retire, some and recruiting race sponsors.[8.10] Marathon was first organized in 2006[12] questioned the club’s heavy investment in the less-storied competitors who followed.[8] By the late 1980s, running had become a While the majority of FTC members in this high-profile sport, and most major cities era were recreational runners, elite To support the elite runners, sports sponsored high-profile road races. Wanting competitors as well as serious amateurs broadcaster, Gainesville entrepreneur, and to draw more attention to Gainesville’s continued to compete in FTC races. Thus, former Olympic runner Marty Liquori began running community, in 1990, Marty Liquori race organizers took care to measure the sponsoring a team affiliated with the FTC and University of Florida track coach Hal courses accurately to ensure that participants through Athletic Attic, a chain of running Rothman organized the Great Gainesville could use their times to qualify for elite races shoe shops that he had co-founded in 1973. Road Race (GGRR), which they envisioned such as the .[13] (While Liquori lived in Gainesville and as an annual 5K for both elite competitors trained with FTC runners, he remained and recreational runners.[1,10] Liquori asked The FTC Today sponsored by—and under contract to—the Gatorade inventor Robert Cade, who was New York Athletic Club, so was never an active in the running community, to provide Today, the FTC continues to serve both official member of the FTC).[1,10] The seed money. To build buzz around the event, recreational and elite runners, and currently Athletic Attic/FTC team, as it was first Liquori also asked the FTC not to schedule boasts over 300 members.[14] It has also known, was the first athletic team to be any races in the month before and two weeks expanded its mission to educating the named after a corporate sponsor.[10] Athletic following the GGRR.[1,10] community at large about running, and thus Attic provided its runners part-time jobs at has expanded its activities to accommodate its local branch, as well as financial support In its inaugural year, the GGRR included runners of all ages and abilities.[14] Among for travel to races.[1,10] two races—an earlier race through its popular current activities are the annual downtown Gainesville for professional 4th of July Melon Run (3 miler), the Tom Some FTC members, however, were runners, and a later race through a nearby Walker Memorial Half-Marathon and 5k uncomfortable with what they perceived as residential neighborhood for recreational (typically held around Veteran’s Day, the the commercialization of the club. The runners.[1,10] Race organizers recruited June Twilight Track Meet held at the Athletic Attic team then disassociated itself prominent runners to the race. Among these University of Florida, which includes track from FTC and became an independent were members of the Norwegian national and field events for competitors of all ages, team.[10] track team, who had been encouraged to and the Frank Shorter Road Mile, a New participate by Norwegian marathoner Grete Year’s Day road race on a USATF certified In 1978, a group of recreational runners Waitz, a five-time world champion who course. In addition, FTC members regularly decided to form a separate organization, the trained part-time in Gainesville and volunteer as pacers for the annual Five Florida Road Runners, which would focus participated regularly in FTC activities.[10] Points of Life Marathon in Gainesville.[14] on road races and other activities for (Waitz herself was unable to run with the FTC also has a series of regularly scheduled recreational runners. True to its name, the elite competitors because of an injury, but group runs open to the public as well as FRR organized numerous road races, which along with Keith Brantly, another injured monthly talks by prominent members of the attracted large numbers of local runners.[8] top-ranked runner, ran in the later race with running community.[5] the recreational runners.)[11] Within a few years, however, the FTC had In 2015, FTC began offering scholarships to independently chosen to shift more of its After the first few years of the GGRR, help cover the travel expenses of members focus onto the growing population of Rothman and Liquori were ready to move on participating in out-of-town races.[14] Unlike recreational runners and started organizing FLORIDA TRACK CLUB AUGUST NEWSLETTER 2018! | Issue # 14

the funding provided to runners in the early  John L. Parker, Jr. (three-time  Luke Watson (NCAA days of the FTC, these scholarships are All-American from available to recreational as well as elite champion, 1 mile; US Track and Notre Dame, multiple runners. (The only requirement is that Field Federation champion, US Olympic Trials recipients wear the FTC singlet when racing [22] and report back on their experience at the steeplechase) Qualifier: 3,000 meters FTC’s monthly meeting.)[5] As of 2017, over steeplechase, 5,000 20 scholarships have been awarded.[14]  Frank Shorter (world champion, meters, and Marathon, marathon, 1971, 1972, 1973; US member of Team USA Prominent Runners Affiliated with the champion, marathon, 1971, 1972, World Cross- FTC 1973, 1974, 1976)[23] Country)[31] Over the years, a number of prominent  Grete Waitz (first place, IAAF  Dr. Robert Cade competitive runners have trained with the World Cup, 3000 meters, 1977; (developer of FTC. While not all were official members of first place, World Cross Country Gatorade)[32] the club, all trained at least part time in Championships, 1978. 1979, 1980,  John L. Parker Jr Gainesville and participated in FTC 1981, 1983; first place, New York (Author of Once a activities. City Marathon, 1978, 1979, 1980, Runner) [33]  Jack Bacheler (National AAU 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986,  Hal Higdon (Runner’s champion, cross country and 1988; first place, London World contributor, 10,000 meters 1969; national AAU Marathon, 1983, 1986)[24] multiple Olympics Trials champion, 6 miles, 1970)[16] Qualifier, World Masters  Barry Brown (first place, Price Guest Speakers Champion, founder of Chopperthon, 1983; first place, The FTC holds monthly meetings in Road Runners Club of [34] Adirondack Distance Run, 1983, February, March, April, September, October, America) 1984, 1987; first place, World and November. During the other months,  Bart Yasso (Runner’s Veterans Championship, 1984; the club holds fun runs finishing at local World Chief Running first place, TAC Masters Road eating establishments, where members are Officer) [35] treated to refreshments. Some of the Championships, 1985)[17]  Nicholas Romanov esteemed speakers the club has hosted  Keith Brantly (first place, World include the following: (developer of Pose University Games, 10,000 meters, Running Method)[36] 1981; first place, US 10,000 meter  Keith Brantly (1996 US  Mike and Debbie Cotton Road Championships, 1985, 1987, Olympian Marathon) [25] (US Champion Pole 1989, 1995; first place, first place,  (1992 & Vaulter) [37] US 20 km Road Championships, 1996 US Olympian  Matt Fitzgerald (Author, 1993; US 25 km Road 10,000 meters, founder Coach)[38] Championships, 1995; first place, of RunSafer)[26]  (1992 & US Marathon Championships,  (2008 US 1996 US Olympian, 100 1995, 1998)[18] Olympian Marathon)[27] meters, 4X100 meter  Byron Dyce (bronze medal, 800  Kim Pawelek (1999 US relay[39] meters, 1971 Pan-American Marathon Champion, Games)[19] multiple US Olympic References  Jeff Galloway (member, US Marathon Trials 1. Jack Gamble, p.c. Olympic team, 1972; US record- Qualifier[28] 2. Florida Track Club newsletter, holder, 10-miles, 1973)[20]  Mike Holloway July 2015 (article by Jack Gamble)  Marty Liquori (NCAA and AAU (University of Florida 3. Florida Track Club newsletter, outdoor mile champion, 1969 and Track and Field and August 2015 (article by Jack 1971; AAU outdoor mile Cross-Country Head Gamble) champion, 1970; gold medalist, Coach)[29] 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John 1500 meters, Pan-American  Jeremy Foley (former _L._Parker_Jr. Games, 1971; world champion, University of Florida 5. FTC membership application 5000 meters, 1977)[21] [30] Athletic Director) brochure 6. Margaret Tolbert, p.c. 7. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/28/business/28cade.html 8. David Mathia, p.c. 9. Florida Track Club newsletter, May 1990 10. Marty Liquori, p.c. 11. Florida Track Club newsletter, March 1990 12. Florida Track Club newsletter, January 2006 13. David Greenberg, p.c. 14. Betsy Suda, p.c. 15. http://teamfloridatrackclub.com/ 16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Bacheler 17. http://more.arrs.net/runner/5675 FLORIDA TRACK CLUB AUGUST NEWSLETTER 2018! | Issue # 15

18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Brantly 19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Dyce 20. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Galloway 21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Liquori 22. Author bio, Again to Carthage, John L. Parker, Jr. 2007 23. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Shorter 24. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grete_Waitz 25. FTC newsletter, December 1999 26. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Williams_(athlete) 27. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Sell 28. http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/sports/long-run-marathon-article-1.933994 29. http://floridagators.com/coaches.aspx?rc=133 30. FTC newsletter, May 1995 31. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Watson 32. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cade 33. FTC newsletter, April 1999 34. FTC newsletter, February 1996 35. http://www.bartyasso.com/ 36. FTC newsletter, January 1995 37. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Cotton_(pole_vaulter) 38. https://mattfitzgerald.org/ 39. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Mitchell

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Steve Detweiler FTC Maximum allotment per Expectations If individual per term: $100-250 receiving a sponsorship, the Scholarship (Recipients per term: 2-5) participant is required to: Maximum allotment per 1) Give an oral race report at a Applications – next individual per year: $250 FTC meeting within 6 months of round due Timeline Each applicant the event st may submit one (1) application 2) Deliver a written race report November 1 ! per bi-annual term. The submitted to the Executive application must be submitted by Director, Betsy Suda 11:59 pm on November 1st, for ([email protected]) for races in January through June the FTC newsletter within 1 and by 11:59 pm on April 1st for month of the event races in July through December. 3) Represent the Florida Track The application includes Club! Submit a photo wearing a Questionnaire Form and the Florida Track Club singlet at a Budget Form. The applicant will the race. be notified approximately two Review weeks after each deadline. The application will be reviewed Reimbursement The travel based on the following grant will be used to cover racing characteristics: fees, transportation, and lodging. 1) Active membership in FTC Other expenses, such as meals, 2) The applicant’s prior service souvenirs, etc. will not be and involvement within the FTC reimbursed. The recipient of the and the Gainesville running award must keep all itemized community receipts. After the event, they 3) The significance of this race to

must fill out the reimbursement the individual The FTC has scholarship money spreadsheet and submit all 4) Competitive potential available to all club members to receipts through email 5) Financial needs of participant use for travel/race to: thefloridatrackclub@gmai registration/lodging, etc. If you l.com. The awarded amount Questionnaire for have an upcoming race this indicated prior to travel is the Applicants: spring for which you could use maximum amount the recipient Are you an active member of some financial support, please will be reimbursed. If the FTC? If so, how long have you submit an application! The form individual doesn’t submit receipts been a member? for the Steven Detweiler Florida they will receive $0. What other activities (especially Track Club Racing Scholarship is Transportation Plane fare fitness, running, and community below. Please email completed can be reimbursed as long as the service related) you are involved forms to: total funds for the trip do not in, within the community and the [email protected]. exceed the allotment per state? Deadline for submission is April individual per term ($100-250). What are your running goals for 1st at 11:59PM. Gas receipts from en route travel this race, this season, and long days and MapQuest/GoogleMap term? Florida Track Club Race (etc.) directions to and from race Please share why you would like Scholarship will suffice for reimbursement. to run this race and how the Goal: To financially support funds from FTC are important. athletes within the Florida Track Lodging Lodging expenses Are you able to do an oral Club when representing the Club can be reimbursed as long as the (within 6 months of event) and at races. total funds for the trip do not written race report (1 month exceed the allotment per following event) and wear the Moneys individual per term ($100-250). FTC singlet for a photo at the Total Funds: $500 allotted race? (requirement to receive biannually ($1000 per year) funds) FLORIDA TRACK CLUB AUGUST NEWSLETTER 2018! | Issue # 17

Sharon Beckwith, Ravi Kumar, experiences to the club through Budget Spreadsheet Stephanie McGrail, Lara this newsletter and by speaking at (Application) Drondoski, Enoch Nadler, our meetings. If you would like Applicant Name 1 (name) Courtney Rouse to make a donation to the Race Name 2 (Race name) scholarship, checks can be made Date(s) of Race 3 (MM/DD/YY) out to: The Florida Track Club, Dates(s) of Travel 4 (MM/DD/YY) with Scholarship fund in the Location of Race 5 (Anywhere,USA) memo line, and sent to Betsy Race Entry Fee 6 $ Suda, Executive Director at 4190 Mode of Transportation 7 (Car/plane/running) NW 50th Drive, #7305, Approximated Distance 8 (x miles) Gainesville, FL, 32606. Approximated Travel Cost 9 $ Expected Accommodations 10 (Friends/family/Hotel We encourage all Approximated Lodging Cost 11 $ Notes 12 members to apply! #VALUE! Details and the scholarship Total race cost 13 application can be found at: https://floridatrackclub.wildapric ot.org/Blog/3526596 Recent Scholarship Recipients Deadline for scholarship Georganne Watson and Kelly application submission is April st Griffin, St. Pete Half-Marathon 1 . Donations are welcomed at any time.

History of the Scholarship The FTC Board of Directors voted unanimously to rename our FTC Running Scholarship the Steven Detweiler Racing Scholarship. This program commenced this fall and is open to any Florida Track Club member in support of their racing goals. We have thus far awarded over $3k to members to travel to compete in the following races: Club Magnets! Chicago Marathon, Kiawah Marathon (of which Steve was a $5 Available at FTC Monthly Meetings recipient and placed first in his age group with a 1:43 Half (for more info: Marathon!), and the Disney [email protected]) California International Princess 10k. Scholarship Marathon recipients reported back on their FLORIDA TRACK CLUB AUGUST NEWSLETTER 2018! | Issue # 18

Vice President: Gretchen Loyd, [email protected]

Past President: Elizabeth Hanselman [email protected]

Treasurer: Marie Dennis, [email protected]

Directors: Patrick Gallagher [email protected] Nick Armfield [email protected] Dan Stoner [email protected] Matt Carrillo [email protected] Enoch Nadler [email protected] Konstantin Matchev [email protected] Mark Ou, [email protected]

Executive Director: Betsy Suda [email protected]

2018 FTC Board Members President: Richard Garand, [email protected]

Thank you to our generous club sponsors:

http://www.ortho.ufl.edu/