Buffalo Chips Weekly News Update

A Memorable Birthday Has Passed….
Carol Parise is now 40 years OLD !

An almost unbelievable stage of human development has now been met and passed. Our own Carol Parise has reached…middle age! Carol has been running with the Chips since she was 20 years of age, and now….Amazing!

And Congratulations on aging so imperceptibly and most gracefully; it is not fair!

Saturday 11 March…Way To Cool….

Brought to you by Cheri Alvarez...

Under threatening skies, 31 degree start time temperature (but NO snow), over 400 participants have braved the very muddy trails and fast running and cold/high running creeks to meet this annual trail challenge. Considering the conditions, the results were just amazing...

2005's AR50 winner, Phil Kochik of Seattle WA, continues to love the trails here in California by winning the Way to Cool 50K with a time of 3:37:56.

Top Chip performances of the day clearly were earned by Erik Skaden with a fantastic time of 3:54:21, Mark Murray at 4:21:46, John Nichols eeeking out Tim Twietmeyer with a time of 4:43:17, our own High Dunger John Blue came in blazing with a time of 4:48:07, Bruce Aldrich looking great coming in at 4:51:52. Other notable Chips seen coming in all covered in mud (and in quite cold weather) are Ernie Takahashi (placing 2nd in his age division), Therese Iknoian, Bill Finkbeiner, Denis Zilaff, Dennis Scott, James Yee, Luis Alvarez, Becky Johnson, Barbara Elia, and apologies for others that I missed.

Watching everyone come in to the finish, is just an awesome feat...anyone ever wanting to see this should come up next year. This year's weather was an anomaly...2004 and 2005 had temperatures in the 80's (yes, that is 80 degrees in March) and 2006 drastically changed that!!

Sunday 12 March, Shamrock'n Half-Marathon, West Sacramento…

Not only did the threatening skies break loose, the half-marathoners had to run in rain/wind/COLD weather!! The weather held out for Cool, but not for the Shamrock'n Half-Marathon & 5K. With a total of 1648 Half-marathon finishers, and 697 5K finishers...these brave soles braved all for a good time!!

More in next weeks news on the results.

Sunday 12 March, USATF Paul Spangler 8K

Brought to you by Linda Hall...

Although we had some very heavy rain on the drive down to Palo Alto, by the time that the USATF Paul Spangler 8 k began, we had beautiful, sunny cool weather.....perfect for racing through this slightly hilly but beautiful campus/town setting.

We had an enthusiastic group of chips including:
Doug Braasch
Gary Lotspeich
Joel Contreras

Barbara Miller (first in age group)
Nova Poff (age group second)
Linda Hall
Lindsay Pears Dickson (who had an 8k PR)

So we were able to score a women's super senior team, but were short on the men's side. We found a wonderful breakfast place just off campus for yummy pancakes, crepes, granola, or French toast with fresh fruit and then loaded up with Jelly Belly Sports Beans at the Factory in Fairfield on the way home......

We are all hoping to have more teams for the upcoming Emerald Across the Bay 12 k in San Francisco next Sunday (another PAUSATF grand prix series race). A group of us will be carpooling to the race so let Linda know if you want to join us and she will try to hook you up with a carpool group.

Shopping Discovery of the Month….
Tuesday Morning Outlet Stores BELL HEARTRATE MONITOR!

The Tuesday Morning stores have a small supply of Bell branded basic heartrate monitors with chest strap pickup and replaceable batteries in both the watch and chest unit. The “clearance price” is ONLY $9.99, yes LESS THAN TEN BUCKS for a basic function HR monitor ! By the way, this unit even comes with a bike mount ! Wow!