The RUNDOWNRUNDOWN Monthly Newsletter of the TIDEWATER STRIDERS Running Club
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December 2009 Edition TheThe RUNDOWNRUNDOWN Monthly newsletter of the TIDEWATER STRIDERS Running Club. One of the nation’s largest running organizations. Everyone is home for Thanksgiving Well over 2000 runners competed at the 32nd Annual Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving Upcoming Events morning. There were 1726 Finishers in the 10k Run, 33 in the 10k Walk and 419 in the Turkey Mile. Below many runners home for the holidays skip the chance to sleep in and Saturday, December 19 compete against former rivals during the annual Turkey Trot Mile. Seashore Nature Trail 50k Thursday, December 31 Award Nominations are Due Saturday, January 9 Distance Series 10K & 20K Saturday, January 30 Distance Series 15K & 25K Saturday, February 13 Virginia is for Lovers 14 miler and 1.4 Mile Run Saturday, February 20 Distance Series 15K & 25K Saturday, February 27 Annual Banquet Member of and just behind the lead pack are the future high school and college runners lead by New Energy runner Madison Keough. e-Rundown If you did not receive the e-Rundown link that means that the Striders do not have an e-mail address in the system for you or it is not correct. If this is the case, please e-mail Cathi Reade, Co-Membership Chair/ Database Administrator at cathireade@ cox.net with your information. Thanks in advance for your assistance. The RUNDOWN - December 2009 - January 2010 The RUNDOWN - December 2009 - January 2010 - Issue Number 405 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 * President’s Corner . .3 Rich Hildreth, President (481-9027) Youth: Angelo Celesia [email protected] Notes from the Editor . .3 [email protected] Marketplace: OPEN Goody Tyler, VP(423-0256) Membership: Treasurer’s Report . .3 [email protected] Cathi Reade (Updates and Inquiries) Happy Birthday! . .5 Sharon Rodier, Secretary (377-1269) (717-8774) [email protected] BOD Minutes . .6 [email protected] Steve Patterson [email protected] WELCOME ABOARD! . .7 Dan Edwards, Treasurer (717-0259) Nominations: Joan Gustaffson (621-6473) Election Results!. .7 [email protected] [email protected] Still Available Offi cers are elected by BOD from BOD and serve 1 Photography: TriDuo.com (623-0892) year terms from January thru December. Runner’s World Discount . .7 [email protected] Board Members thru Dec 2009 Programs: Nick May (426-6167) Newsletter Stuffi ng . .7 Gene Bachman (467-0898) [email protected] New Energy . .8 [email protected] Publications: OPEN Save the Date. .9 Dan Edwards [email protected] Publicity & PR: Jean Phelan* 2009 Award Nominations . .9 Buddy Levitin (583-2456) Greetings everyone from Farah, Af- [email protected] Race Committee Co-Chairs: ghanistan.. .10 Jean Phelan (681-0248) Rick Brown (499-5506) [email protected] Dan Edwards* Calling all Clydesdales: . .10 [email protected] Scholarship: Dan Edwards* Running Grand Prix . .11 Lori Sherwood (406-1247) [email protected] Social: Cathi Reade* Goody Tyler [email protected] Teams: Recipe Corner . 11 Chairperson - Bob Brunner* Board Members thru Dec 2010 Senior Men’s- Mel Williams Tidewater Striders Training Sites .13 Bob Brunner (340-2068) [email protected] (531-9220) [email protected] Are We Running? . .15 Rich Hildreth (481-9027) Master / Senior Women - Sheri Segal Shamrock Teams . .16 Mike Mitchell (214-5582) Women Open-Colleen Pak 481-4608 The Athlete’s Kitchen . 17 [email protected] Men Open-John Adams 289-5676 Adopt A Highway Volunteers . .19 Steve Patterson(406-0077) [email protected] Race for Breath 5k . .20 [email protected] Men Masters-Tommy Nesson* Cathi Reade (717-8774) 1 Hour Postal Walk. .23 Triathlon -Gene Bachman* [email protected] Walk -Steven Shapiro Alanton Elementary 1 Mile Run . .24 Sharon Rodier (377-1269) [email protected] Tidewater Striders Turkey Trot . .25 [email protected] Youth - Angelo Celesia (288-7715) Jingle Bell Run . .35 Committees: [email protected] Striders on the Road. .37 Adopt-A-Highway: Rich Hildreth* Triathlon: Mike Mitchell* Striders Tweet. .42 Advisory: Mel Williams Volunteer: Goody Tyler* RUNDOWN Ad Rates. .42 (531-9220) [email protected] Walking: Audit: Bethany Sanchez (471-8233) Cindy Williams [email protected] Awards: Mary Beth Marshall (482-2304) Youth Programs: The RUNDOWN is published Banquet: Dwight Kane (547-4014) Chair -Dan Edwards* monthly by the Tidewater Striders, [email protected] Coach -Angelo Celesia [email protected] a non-profi t educational and Budget: Dan Edwards* Race Hotline Updates Mike Robinson (627-1500) recreational organization for Community Service: Chris Catoe [email protected] running, walking and triathlon (425-6556) [email protected] enthusiasts in the Tidewater Virginia Web Site Committee Chair: Constitution & Bylaws: Mel Williams area. Opinions expressed in the Tommy Neeson* (531-9220) [email protected] RUNDOWN are not necessarily Web Site Manager: those of the Editor or the Tidewater Elections: Curt Aasen Steve Speirs (478-6403) Striders Board of Directors. (622-1911) [email protected] [email protected] Grand Prix: *Board members contact information is not repeat- AD rate info is on page 42 Running: Bob Brunner * ed next to their committee assignments. Please Triathlon: Mike Mitchell* see their BOD listing for contact information. 2 The RUNDOWN - December 2009 - January 2010 President’s Corner Treasurer’s Report The purpose of the Tidewater Sep-Oct-09 Striders, paraphrased, is to promote Income fi tness by providing a reason to get Club Races 45,845.48 fi t, i.e. training to compete in races. Dist Series 350.00 It works for a variety of people in All Access 16,300.00 a variety of ways, but the logic is Strider Mile 30.00 pretty clear. It also works on a lot of different levels and sometimes Race for Breath 21,875.48 these confl ict in interesting (to me) Seashore Ultra 50K 7,290.00 ways. Donations 352.00 ERC 8,595.49 Prior to the New York Marathon the NY Times ran a series of stories Interest 61.53 about the race. So did the Wall Marketplace 299.19 Street Journal to a lesser extent. Membership 3,230.00 They both had articles about Newsletter 200.00 folks who are in the race for a Turkey Trot 3,352.00 combination of fun and fi tness and Scholarship 150.00 aren’t competing at all. There was Youth Dev. 535.00 discussion back and forth in both Total Rev 62,620.69 articles about whether this was Expenses good or bad. Awards 200.00 One of them noted that the average Banquet 2,381.63 fi nish time has been increasing Club Races 16,053.26 over the years. It’s currently close to 5 hours. There are a lot of competitive runners who Dist Series 150.00 believe this is heresy, that these folks aren’t running the race, and that they should get out All Access 5K 15,359.46 of the way of those legitimately competing. Race for Breath 333.05 The fl ip side is that they are legitimately in the race, paying their way, and are the essence Strider Mile + Postal RW 65.00 of the purpose of the Striders, paraphrased above. Seashore Ultra 50K 145.75 My wife recently changed her hairdresser. I promise there is a purpose behind this. Comm. Svc 74.86 Stay with me. Apparently hairdressers talk a lot while cutting and shaping hair, just like ERC 3,376.36 dentists. In any event her new hairdresser talked a lot about her family. She has been ERC-Van 160.45 overweight her whole life. Most of her family is. Her husband is also overweight. She Gen’l Ops 483.27 decided to do something about it. With no approval or support from anyone, she began walking and partly jogging a couple of times a week. She had never done this before. She Mkt Place 1,092.00 had never been active or athletic nor had she ever been interested in that, but she had read Membership 52.00 in a magazine that being active would help her look better, feel better about herself, and Newsletter 2,624.44 be conducive to better overall health. Teams 612.00 More importantly, when she began, she kind of liked it. It gave her a purpose she hadn’t Volunteer Comm 279.18 had before. It apparently gave her a feeling of control over a part of her life and she hadn’t Total Exp 27,389.45 had much of that, either. She said she had heard about the Striders and was thinking of Net Income 35,231.24 joining to learn more about being fi t, and to possibly enter a race to give her an incentive Account Balances 31-Oct-09 to continue. BankofAmer Checking 8,074.45 I said “Bingo” Bank of Amer MonMkt 73,582.75 Restricted: See you at the races, Rich Hildreth General Operations 20,000.00 Scholarship-General 52,000.00 Scholarship-Bashara 35,000.00 Notes from the Editor Scholarship-PSEdw 32,000.00 This is it the, the last printed version of the Rundown. Please contact Cathi Reade NOW Youth 6,500.00 at [email protected], if you are not receiving an e-Rundown via e-mail. Race for Breath Rest’d 20,828.74 See ya at the races, Total - Restricted 166,328.74 Ada Lester Total - All Accounts 247,985.94 [email protected] 3 The RUNDOWN - December 2009 - January 2010 Tidewater Striders Race Schedule 19-Dec Seashore Nature Trail 50k at First 15-May Dolphin Dash 5K WT TBA All Access 5K Landing State Park Mel Williams 531- Ocean Lakes, VB 5K WT Virgina Beach Amph 9220 [email protected] Meyon Burns [email protected] Dan Edwards [email protected] & 9-Jan TS Distance Series 10K & 20K 22-May Capernaum Stroll Roll 5K [email protected] 10K / 20K WT Ft Story Boardwalk Terri Myers 404-1348 25-Sep Neptune 8K WT Dan Edwards 717-0259 [email protected] VB Boardwalk Brian Sagedy, 498-0215 [email protected] 29-May Elizabeth River Run 10K & 1-Mile [email protected] 30-Jan TS Distance Series 15K & 25K WT Ntelos Pavilion Portsmouth 2-Oct St Mary’s 5K & 1 Mile 10K 15K 25K WT Ft.