Evening Light is Back!
The great news of the season is that we are now on daylight savings time, and thus our Tuesday and Thursday evening workouts will be in full light! It is still most advisable to wear bright and highly visible apparel, and always be alert for vehicles.
Boston Marathon is soon!
Coming in about two weeks in the 2006 pilgrimage to Beantown for the oldest marathon in the world. Boston could be a fast race this year, as some of the top runners for both men and women previously scheduled for London have withdrawn, and Boston’s elites are pretty much intact. The Chips will field a solid group of entrants led by Mark Lantz and Jenny Hitchings.
American River 50 Miler, Invaded by the North !....
Top finishers this year for the AR50 were from the North and farther north. The first male was Uli Stiedl (5:58) from Seattle and Judy Udchachon (7:37) from Alaska was first woman.
TOP CHIPS were Erik Skaden (6:24) in third overall and Rena Schumann (7:39) in at second woman overall and winner of the master’s women’s division.
Others gleaned from the long results list: Mark Lantz (6:48), John Nichols (7:21), John Blue (club high dunger, 7:48), Amy Grafius (8:13), Carol Parise (debut, 8:32), Ernie Takahashi (60-69 FIRST, 8:44), Bill Finkbeiner, Dana Gard, Grant Carboni, Steven Harrold, Christine Flaherty (50-59 women FIRST, 9:22), Dee Dee Grafius, Jerry Bloom, Linda McFadden, Sharon Lindique, Helen Hull, Bill Odom, James Yee (flew to SoCal the next day for a tri), Jean Suyenaga, Ron Peck, Gloria Takagishi (finished EVERY AR50 to date), Becky Johnson, Luis Alvarez, Barbara Elia, Lucinda Fisher.
NOTE: I probably missed several others, but this was just a visual search for the week’s highlights. CONGRATULATIONS to all finishers, and a big THANKS to all our aid station volunteers.
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