September 2017 Issue No. 257 Running After A Rocky Mountain Pie By Amy Stephens When our family decided to chase after a Rocky Mountain high this summer -- a mountain vacation to escape the Oklahoma heat and humidity -- I immediately set out to find a Colorado race in which we could participate. Our family was ecstatic to return to Breckenridge, where we’d vacationed two years earlier and had a lovely time. For weeks afterward, our then three year-old son joyfully sang, “Rocky Mountain Pie, Colorado” -- his own version of the John Denver tune. Now, if you’ve visited Colorado in recent years, you know there are ample, perhaps less strenuous, opportunities to pursue a Rocky Mountain high. But the idea of achieving a runner’s high in a majestic setting, even if the high was partly due to oxygen deprivation, Amy & Chris Stephens sounded groovy enough to me. After my husband and I registered for the I referenced a Runners World article I’d read Breckenridge Hunky Dory Half Marathon and 10K, many months earlier, which espoused the merits of I began to doubt how well we were equipped to run heat training to foster “heat adaptation.” The article in the mountains. Breckenridge’s elevation is about discussed a study that measured athletes’ performance 9,728 feet above sea level, well above the 8,000 on a cycling session in simulated high-altitude feet threshold typically associated with increased conditions before and after ten days of training in (1) likelihood for altitude illness. Also of concern, we are simulated altitude training (14% oxygen), (2) heat relative running newbies, at least in the ranks of the training (104 degrees), or a (3) control group. The Landrunners. We’ve been running with the group since results demonstrated that the heat training was fairly the spring 2016 season, and we just completed our first effective, though slightly less effective than simulated marathon, the 2017 OKC Memorial Marathon. I began altitude training for improving the athletes’ cycling to wonder, just how well does running in the Oklahoma performance. There may be a growing appreciation for heat prepare one for running in higher altitudes? Will the value of “heat adaptation” in the running world, and there be bears? Was this all a really bad idea? Is it according to some recent articles, those of us who live possible to pass out from oxygen deprivation while at lower elevations may be able to reap benefits similar running in the mountains? What if I pass out and fall to that of altitude training by training in the heat. down the side of the mountain to my certain death? So many questions. See Running, on page 6 www.okcrunning.org September 2017 President’s Message By Matthew Wilcoxen, President Winter is coming. If you’re a Game of Thrones fan day before with a bunch of other kindred souls. Spend like me, you probably read that with a dramatic flair of the night in a nice hotel and wake up refreshed and ready dread. So maybe I’m a little overdramatic but reaching to run. The bus will get you to the start and be there September and seeing the kids go back to school always waiting when you finish; all you have to do is run and makes me think summer is gone and winter is just around have a great time then let the bus get you back to OKC. the corner. These are always great trips and Lindie does a great job It also means that our club’s fall training is in full coordinating. swing and hundreds of runners are invading the streets Your club will also put on a great water stop for the and trails of OKC every Saturday morning. We’ve had Redman triathlon on September 16. So great that we’ve some large groups and many new runners have come out won the best water stop award for as many years as we’ve to join us. It’s great to see this kind of evidence that OKC done it! We’ve been lucky to have many creative people is moving! Runners have their sights set on fall marathons coordinate this event and they’ve all stepped it up each and half marathons and are logging the miles now that year so that we’ve always had something new and different will pay off when they toe the line sometime in October going on to keep those athletes hydrated, nourished, and through December. motivated to get to the finish. Plus it’s always a lot of In addition to the fall training session, your club also fun for us! This year’s theme is Rock and Roll and we’re has some other events planned this fall. Lindie Slater, our having a live band headed by one of our own runners. I VP, has planned a bus trip to the Mother Road marathon told you this thing gets bigger and better every year! Sign in Joplin, Missouri September 30 to October 1. Forget up for a shift on the website and I promise you won’t be about the driving and let us transport you to the race the disappointed. 2018 Board of Directors Nominations The OKC Running Club Board of Directors shall be and majority vote by the club membership present, in comprised of no more than twenty-five (25) members. At person or by proxy, at a monthly meeting. the August meeting of each calendar year, the President 2018 Nominating committee: Chuck Mikkelson shall appoint a five (5) member nominating committee (Chairperson), Gena Barnhill, Dana Campbell-Sternlof, who shall develop a slate of Board candidates for the Bill Goodier and Kevin Lynes. following year. All candidates must be members in good If you or someone you know would like to serve on standing of the club. Notice of the elections shall be the board, please submit name, email, phone and a brief provided to members in good standing prior to the October bio either to a nominating committee member, by email to meeting. Board members shall be elected by a majority [email protected] or use the online nominating vote of the club members present, in person or by proxy, link on the website before September 15, 2017. at the October monthly meeting of the OKC Running A list of candidates will appear in the October Club. Board members shall serve for the calendar year newsletter and the election will be held at the club’s following the election. If a Board member fails to attend monthly meeting on October 16, 2017. three Board of Director meetings in succession, the said The 2018 newly elected Board of Directors will Board member shall be considered as having resigned. 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Friends. 5K, 10K*$ Mitch Park, Edmond @ 9:00am 9/16 Swazi 5K* SNU @ 7:30am 9/16 Recall Run 5K Pauls Valley @ 8:30am 9/17 Santa Fe Thunder Santa Fe, NM @ 8:00am 9/17 Heels for Hope 5K$ Wiley Post Park @ 2:00pm 9/23 Down Syndrome Festival & 5K Bricktown Ballpark @ 8:00am 9/23 St Jude Walk/Run – OKC Lake Hefner S&S Park @ 8:30am 9/24 Uptown 5K – Mesta Festa NW 22nd & Shartel @ 10:00am 9/30 Falcon 5K*$ Yukon @ 8:00am 10/1 Mother Road 66 Marathon*$ & Bus Trip Joplin, MO @ 7:00am 10/7 OKC River Run 5K / 10K*$ Wiley Post Park @ 9:00am 10/28 Tulsa Credit Union Tulsa Run$ Downtown Tulsa @ 7:50am 11/11 Choctaw Challenge*$ Choctaw @ 9:00am * Denotes Series Races $ Club members discount codes are listed on the Members only section @ okcrunning.org Landrunners In Action Ride and Run with the OKC Landrunners 7/16 WILDFIRE HALF MARATHON, TX BEN WHITEHEAD 2:05:32 TORI DUPHORNE 3:01:02 All runners, walkers, and friends AN RANCISCO ARATHON 7/23 S F M , CA are invited to travel with us to the BOB LEMON 3:57:28 JENNIFER MORGAN 2:52:29 – HALF 8/5 HUNKY DORY 10K, CO CHRIS STEPHENS 1:17:16 AMY STEPHENS 1:35:43 Click the link on www.okcrunning.org/newsletter page to submit out of state results.