25th Anniversary of Tuesday Night Planned Club Workouts!
Tonight is our celebration of the first and continuing organized and planned Tuesday night club workouts. Originally these sessions were ONLY for club women, and there was a participation entry standard of....being able to run 10 miles under 70 minutes. Within a couple of years that "entry standard" had disappeared, and over the last 10 years the Tuesday night sessions have evolved to include regular "steady state" and base building subgroups as well as a variety of speed levels and all are COED. These sessions, in an organized and programmed format, are FREE to all club members. Many clubs with training programs of this nature charge up to $30/month/member to participate. NOT THE CHIPS !While the original goal of the Tuesday workout was to support a group of fast club women to become even faster, the current program offers support to all levels of fitness participant and to both genders.Parrott started this format, and the related Thursday (sometimes track format session), the Saturday base and tempo runs and the Sunday endurance developing road course out at Rescue in 1980. The purpose was to provide a range of training options and elements to support club participation in all distances from the 5k to the marathon...and beyond. Twenty-five years later, we seem to still be going strong and serving now a solid ultra community and perhaps more importantly a YOUTH CHIPS subcomponent.The YOUTH CHIPS formal program evolved from the participation of three young girls who ran with the adult workouts back in the middle 1980's. Sara Pope, Shannon Reed, Jennifer Siragusa, and Dawn Cabitec were the "original youth Chips" at ages 9, 10, and 11 when they began. The club's formal youth program was evolved from Parrott and Iwahashi's experience with the British Stockport Harriers in 1992-93, and Steve Picanco was our first formal "youth coach."To all who have run with us, to those who have been with the club since those early years in the 1970's, we have seen many changes, and the breadth of participation observed today speaks well that we are here to "support fitness at all levels and toward all possible personal goals." Rena Schumann PR's at Rio Del Lago (report from Mark Lantz)Rio Del Lago 100 mile Endurance runDid anyone know that John Nichols can not only win his age group in the same day in back to back 5k-10k races, but John can also speak to animals! Yes, I witnessed it, John is a Skunk Whisperer! He proved it to me at about mile 94 during RDL as John suddenly stopped and said, "I am from Kansas and I know that waddle anywhere!" I thought he was referring to the way I was running, but it was actually a cute little skunk in the middle of the trail with his tail up! Fortunately, John began talking to the skunk and then after chasing it wildly with flashlights and headlamps waving, the skunk finally left the trail. As far as the race, the weather was warmer than last year, but that did not stop the course record from being broken by both men and women. The chips had good results with Rena at 20:02 (PR'ed by over two hours! and 2nd woman), Mark Lantz in third overall and Barbara Elia and Linda Mcfadden also completed the challenging course.
Heritage Oaks 10k, Paso Robles, PA-USATF and NATIONAL MASTER"S Championship
The best overall performance of the day at the regional and national 10k Master's Championship was Colleen De Reuck producing a 10th OVERALL 33:33 time. Way to go. Top CHIP performance was an age group win and age graded BONUS $500 for Barbara Miller! Doug Braasch turned a 43 and change, and the women's team scoring should include Linda Hall and Johanne Christmas with Carolyn Leung there in support. Top OVERALL FEMALE CHIP performance was Gina Mandy at 40:46 in the master's, but Bob Fredenburg was in just a few seconds ahead of Gina in the men's 50-54 division.
Berlin Marathon Produces New Asian Women's Record: 2:19:12
In a seriously warming day, unusual for the Berlin setting, runners faced temperatures of 70+ degrees by the half-way point on the course. Serious racing for new WR's was compromised, but Mizuki Noguchi was not intimidated by the conditions and was out to run in the 2:18 range. She slowed a bit in the heat of the second half, but still turned the FASTEST ever time by a Japanese woman...or any Asian woman. Only Radcliff and Ndereba have run faster. The men's race was won in 2:07, but Noguchi got both the first prize $$$ and BONUS $$$ for a new CR. Japanese women have won this race the last 6 years !!!
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