July/August 2017 — Volume 34, Number 4 INNEWSLETTER OF THEPASSING SECOND WIND RUNNING CLUB IN THIS ISSUE Many Illinois Marathon Stories! Hear about a First 10k and a First Half Countryside Recap Carl is Running for a Purpose Gavin and Kaitlyn are Back! How to Train in the Heat of Summer 20 Questions with Eric Berlin 20 Questions with Heidi Carmichael Keep those stories coming! Your contributions to the newsletter are vital. Please e-mail your race results, articles, photos, etc. by August 15th for the September/October issue. Articles and accompanying photos to [email protected] Results and race photos to [email protected] Officers Want to get the Word Out? President Magdalena Casper-Shipp Advertise with Us! 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Second Wind Running Club is proud to annouce that In Passing newsletters are available online and will no longer be printed and mailed - instead, the newsletter will be available in full-color online and notifica- tion of this will be sent via email if you have supplied your email address to the SWRC membership coordinator. Cover Photo: Letitia Moffitt shows enthusiasm as she is awarded a Cowbell at the Countryside 10k in Sidney, IL. Marc Mills was the race director and M.C. of Second Wind’s first year putting on the Countryside 10k. Photo credit: Nic Carter. 2 IN PASSING ● Newsletter of the Second Wind Running Club ● secondwindrunningclub.org IN THIS ISSUE President’s Corner with President Magdalena .........................................................................4 RRCA News - Running the Nation .............................................................................................5 Ruairi Running.............................................................................................................................6 New Members ...............................................................................................................................6 Tom’s New I-Challenge ................................................................................................................7 My First 10k Journey ................................................................................................................10 Chasing the “Runner’s High” in the Half ................................................................................12 My First Half Marathon ............................................................................................................14 Countryside Recap .....................................................................................................................16 Kirby Derby Recap ....................................................................................................................17 Indianapolis Monumental Mile Race Report ..........................................................................18 Running for a Purpose as Life Evolves ....................................................................................20 Completing Your Training in the Heat of Summer .................................................................23 Twenty (or so...) Questions with Heidi Carmichael ................................................................25 Book Review - Know Your Heart .............................................................................................27 Twenty (or so...) Questions with Eric Berlin ............................................................................28 Race Results ................................................................................................................................30 Join the club and receive six great issues each year! For membership information, visit http://www.secondwindrunningclub.org/membership. Want to know about new running events, changes, or last-minute updates? All members are part of the club’s email list on Google Groups. Make sure your Google preferences are set to receive these emails. July/August 2017 — Volume 34, Number 4 3 President’s Corner Second Winders, much guarantee), made me start to think about food more conscientiously. One of the joys of being President of Second Wind So I encourage you to go for a run, and think about is that I get to share with you every other month what you eat and how that is helping your running. the things I think about while I’m running. I like to Not to cut out junk food entirely, because I have believe that everyone reads it and that sometimes it definitely “accidentally” eaten a whole bag of potato makes them think. Or smile. Or want to go for a run chips in one sitting after a long run. But being mindful to try to erase what I said from your mind. Along one about the choices you make every day, and to inten- of those lines (probably the latter), I want to talk about tionally choose what makes your running, and your food! body (and maybe our environment, if you really start ‘You are what you eat.’ This is something I think thinking about food as a catalyst for change) better is about at every ultra I run as I’m sticking mini snickers something we should all try to do more. and potato chips (until I’m too tired to bite them) and chunks of watermelon in my mouth and washing it all See you on the trails, down with electrolyte pills and ginger ale. Obviously, this does not even remotely resemble what I eat the Magdalena vast majority of the time when I’m not running. When [email protected] not running, I know I can’t eat chocolate for break- fast and chips and soda for dinner, opting instead for yogurt with dried fruit and nuts, and roasted potatoes, chicken and raw cucumbers. Sure, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie, and it doesn’t always matter what they are made of as long as you are getting the right amount of them. But a friend I run with every week was raving about a cook- book called Run Fast, Eat Slow. I ended up getting it - the kicker was the fantastic muffins he made from it that were gluten free, had two cups of shredded carrots and zucchini, and just ½ cup of maple syrup to sweet- en them. Somehow, they managed to be really, really good and not seem like they were trying too hard to be healthy, despite their ingredient list sounding like they might be too earnest to be truly enjoyable. And so I got the cookbook, and started making some different things for dinner – like sweet potato-salmon cakes, and a millet based pizza crust with pesto on it. Cooking, for me, tends to mean I make the same thing, over and over again, for no real reason, and stop thinking so much about what I’m eating beyond mak- ing sure that I ate close to enough for the running I did that day, or to fuel my body for the next day’s run (or so that I don’t wake up starving at 3am). But get- ting a cookbook that talked about food in the context of running, rather than in the more traditional ways cookbooks talk about the importance of getting to Patty Schaefer surverys her options at an ultra marathon. know your farmer or finding the exact variety of kale Plenty of yummy things to use as fuel! Photo credit: Scott (a recipe will work with any kind of kale, I can pretty Hendren. 4 IN PASSING ● Newsletter of the Second Wind Running Club ● secondwindrunningclub.org RRCA News Compiled by Nicholas Heller RRCA Board Members Run the Nation thon in Wyoming on a Thursday then another one in Washington When past RRCA board members Mark Grando- on Sunday. K2 took a detour nico (2008-2016) and Kelly “K2” Richards (2009 when driving from Minnesota to -2017) say they’ve run the nation, they mean it. Each Texas and stopped in Missouri has run a marathon or farther in every U.S. state and to run the Heart of America Marathon. In the fall of Washington, D.C. Nearly all of the marathons they 2015, she ran three marathons in three states in nine completed hold the distinction of also being RRCA days (New Hampshire on Saturday, Maine on Sunday member events. and Rhode Island the following Sunday). In 2016,