Jim Roxburgh says to checkout the 2007 Trailfest website on the effort to convert an old railroad track to a bike (and running!) trail that would extend from Sacramento to Lodi. They are VERY close to completing this project, but need the support of the running, walking and biking community. It looks like good stuff!
Run strong!
John
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for 14 April, AR 50 Aid Station at Sunrise ! Contact Parrott ASAP, please!
New Chip Jackets, Free for PA-USATF Incentive Participants !
If you earned an award jacket for participation in the PA-USATF running series this past year, contact Johanne Christmas or Gina Adams; they are now “in stock” and ready for final detailing.
IF you WANT one of the new CHIPS JACKETS, but have not/did not earn a free one, they can be purchased for $45 (estimated, confirm directly) with your name embroidered on the front. The only difference between the “earned” and purchased jackets is that the “earned” ones will have “USATF Racing Team” embroidered on the front instead of our personal name….
Way To Cool 50K –Perfect Racing Day (10 March)
After closing entries in less than 8 minutes back in December, the 2007 edition of this most popular 50k trail race in the country went off on a totally beautiful “winter” day.
Top CHIP Finisher was 4th overall Erik Skaden, followed by Mark Lantz in 19th place. Jamie Frink, 5:39, seems to be first Chip female finisher, followed by Linda McFadden, Therese Iknoian, June Montuori, Cynci Calvin, and Barbara Elia.
Mark Murray was 33rd overall in 4:25, Bill Finkbeiner, Ernie Takahashi, John (“I am going to eat your liver” Nichols, Dennis Zilaff, Ken Crouse, Bob Tabler, and Dennis Scott can be seen in the results table as well.
Congratulations to all finishers, even on a wonderful day this is not a forgiving course !
Shamrock Half-Marathon, Sacramento (11 March)
Top female finishers: Kirsten Schneider, Jenny Hitchings, both at 1:24, Megan Schwartz at 1:34, Cynthia Hayes, Linda Frazier, Barbara Rinker, Nancy Mitchum, Maggie Ward. Top males: Ed Randolph, 1:20, Dennis Early, 1:29; also seen Howard Ferris, Ron Hall, George Billingsley.and Bruce Yonehiro. Congrats to ALL finishers and apologies to all those missed in the visual review.
National News…Gate River Run 15k, Jacksonville, Fla, U.S. National Championship
Deena Kastor cruised solo away from the elite women’s field and stayed in front of the later starting men’s division to claim the U.S. national women’s 15km title, and both the women’s big purse and the BONUS $5,000 for the first runner to cross the finish line.
Chasing after her, unsuccessfully but leaving the men’s field in his wake was Meb Keflezighi with fast rising star Ryan Hall second about 15 seconds behind. Meb and Ryan Hall are prepping for London while Deena is tuning up for Boston.
The next “Phase” in our Club Training….Boston Sharpening and Getting Ready to Race - see workouts for more details.
March 26-April 1 FAST FEET session on Thursday at 5:30 P.M.
| Tues. 5:30 pm | Thurs. 5:30pm | Sat. 8 a.m. | Sun. 8 a.m |
| 251 Commerce Circle off Expo Blvd. | Univ. Park on Univ. Ave. | Univ. Park on Univ. Ave. | Rescue |
| Grps: A-D: 8(1000) E-F..6(1000) G-H..5(1000)
| Track type sharpening session on Kadema with 5(300), 4(200) | Option: Base Building of 5-7 mi. or
Tempo run of 4-6 miles | Any distance from 5-6 miles to 18 miles. Last CRUCIAL rolling hills workout for BOSTON. |
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Vicky Boyd
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Youth Chips LeeAnn Hold is training with the Leukemia and Lymphoma society as a guest for the Vancouver Half Marathon. She is doing all of the training, the race and the fund-raising on her own - only in mom Shellie's name because of her age.
She wanted to get this notice to her fellow Buffalo Chips to see if any of them would maybe like to donate a small amount to the cause. For more information, and to donate, check out her website.
Go Chips!
March 19-25 FAST FEET session on Thursday at 5:30 P.M.
| Tues. 5:30 pm | Thurs. 5:30pm | Sat. 8 a.m. | Sun. 8 a.m |
| 251 Commerce Circle off Expo Blvd. | Univ. Park on Univ. Ave. | Univ. Park on Univ. Ave. | Panera |
| Group Sex Night: Open: Men/Women 40+: Men/Women | Track type sharpening session on Kadema with 8(200), 6(100) | Option: Base Building of 5-7 mi. or Tempo run of 4-6 miles | Any distance from 5-6 miles to 18 miles. |
The March issue of ULTRARUNNING magazine includes the the 2006 North American Ultra Lists, showing top racers and races of the year. It turns out that Mary Coordt's 3:35:24 time for the 2006 Jed Smith 50K was the fastest time of the year for all of North America! There's even a nice picture of Mary (in a Buffalo Chips singlet, naturally). Way to go Mary!
The top-30 women (in the 50K) also included Rena Schumann (15th) and "Kristen" Schneider (28th). Rena also picked up the 10th fastest 50 mile time for her 7:39 at AR50.
Top 50K men included Erik Skaden (11th) for his 3:30 Jed Smith time and Mark Lantz (28th) for 3:39 at the same race. At the 50 mile distance, Erik Skaden ran the 14th fastest North America time with 6:24 at AR50.
Great job Chips!
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for 14 April, AR 50 Aid Station at Sunrise ! Contact Parrott ASAP, please!
New Chip Jackets, Free for PA-USATF Incentive Participants !
If you earned an award jacket for participation in the PA-USATF running series this past year, contact Johanne Christmas or Gina Adams; they are now “in stock” and ready for final detailing.
IF you WANT one of the new CHIPS JACKETS, but have not/did not earn a free one, they can be purchased for $45 (estimated, confirm directly) with your name embroidered on the front. The only difference between the “earned” and purchased jackets is that the “earned” ones will have “USATF Racing Team” embroidered on the front instead of our personal name….
Way To Cool 50K –Perfect Racing Day (10 March)
After closing entries in less than 8 minutes back in December, the 2007 edition of this most popular 50k trail race in the country went off on a totally beautiful “winter” day.
Top CHIP Finisher was 4th overall Erik Skaden, followed by Mark Lantz in 19th place. Jamie Frink, 5:39, seems to be first Chip female finisher, followed by Linda McFadden, Therese Iknoian, June Montuori, Cynci Calvin, and Barbara Elia.
Mark Murray was 33rd overall in 4:25, Bill Finkbeiner, Ernie Takahashi, John (“I am going to eat your liver” Nichols, Dennis Zilaff, Ken Crouse, Bob Tabler, and Dennis Scott can be seen in the results table as well.
Congratulations to all finishers, even on a wonderful day this is not a forgiving course !
Shamrock Half-Marathon, Sacramento (11 March)
Top female finishers: Kirsten Schneider, Jenny Hitchings, both at 1:24, Megan Schwartz at 1:34, Cynthia Hayes, Linda Frazier, Barbara Rinker, Nancy Mitchum, Maggie Ward. Top males: Ed Randolph, 1:20, Dennis Early, 1:29; also seen Howard Ferris, Ron Hall, George Billingsley.and Bruce Yonehiro. Congrats to ALL finishers and apologies to all those missed in the visual review.
National News…Gate River Run 15k, Jacksonville, Fla, U.S. National Championship
Deena Kastor cruised solo away from the elite women’s field and stayed in front of the later starting men’s division to claim the U.S. national women’s 15km title, and both the women’s big purse and the BONUS $5,000 for the first runner to cross the finish line.
Chasing after her, unsuccessfully but leaving the men’s field in his wake was Meb Keflezighi with fast rising star Ryan Hall second about 15 seconds behind. Meb and Ryan Hall are prepping for London while Deena is tuning up for Boston.
The next “Phase” in our Club Training….Boston Sharpening and Getting Ready to Race - see workouts for more details.
March 13-18 FAST FEET session on Thursday at 5:30 P.M.
| Tues. 5:30 pm | Thurs. 5:30pm | Sat. 8 a.m. | Sun. 8 a.m |
| 251 Commerce Circle off Expo Blvd. | Univ. Park on Univ. Ave. | Univ. Park on Univ. Ave. | Rescue |
| Groups: A-D..5(1) E-F…4(1) G-H..3(1) SS & FW | Track type sharpening session on Kadema, 5(200), 10(100) | Option: Base Building of 5-7 mi. or
| Any distance from 5-6 miles to 20miles. This is CRUCIAL for Boston. |
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03/18 Emerald Across the Bay 12K, San Francisco
A small but dedicated contingent of Chips found the starting line of this wonderful event this past Saturday. Under sunny skies and temperatures warming to the singlet level, about 265 runners headed out on this rolling and scenic course along the upper Sacramento River.
The winning times were slow this year with some overall weakness in the front of both the men’s (53 + minutes) and women’s (61+ minutes) fields. Top Chip was Carol Parise at just over 70 minutes followed in the 80 minute range by Chris Iwahashi and Cary Craig. Winning her division was Nova Poff and Linda Hall picked up a 2nd place division medal. Larry White, Joel Contreras, and Jimmy Yee represented the adult men and Nathan Paddeck cruised the 10 miles just behind Carol after a hard workout on Thursday for the youth division.
Also Saturday: Gary Lotspeich took this one as a returning fitness half-marathon challenge and came home with a nice 1:38 territory finish and second place in his age division.
Second overall in the women’s field was Mary Coordt; Mary was there doing a nutrition seminar for the event and decided to get her day’s run in with company. At 2:55 she was only 3 minutes back of the overall women’s win and gaining all the time after a fun run over the first 20 miles or so. Lloyd Levine notched a new PR in 3:08, and ex-Chip Herb Tanzer returned to the area from his base now in Colorado to turn a nice 3:11 in the 55-59 division. Second generation Chipette Michelle LaSala, now in NYC cruised a solid 3:24 Boston ticket. Rena Schumann, coming back from injury finished in 3:42.
Thursday Shorter Fast Turnover Sessions Starting on 15 March !
Almost all of us need to work on getting our feet off the ground faster. Faster turnover produces faster overall forward motion, and our Tuesday night sessions are only ONE element toward that goal.
In order to really focus on “fast turnover,” we must actually run fast…but the “Tuesday” program is designed for more like “strength and form speed” as opposed to truly “fast pushoff” speed.
In order to focus more on the fast pushoff speed, we must not tax our overall endurance or form, but concentrate on that fast forward velocity only for a SHORT TIME/Distance. Hence the THURSDAY EVENING SESSIONS on Kadema will present speed segments that never exceed 300 meters. Most of the effort segments will be 100 or 200 meter assignments where each of you can focus highly on getting from A to B as fast as possible. After each of these segments, you will be given fully adequate “recovery time” so that the next speed segment again allows you to go…really fast. These sessions are GUARANTEED to improve your speed elements on Tuesday night workouts and to provide another leg in the speed development many of you are seeking in order to improve all racing times from the 5k to the marathon.
See you at University Park staging area at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday 15 March !
March 5-12
| Tues. 5:30 pm | Thurs. 5:30pm | Sat. 8 a.m. | Sun. 8 a.m |
| 251 Commerce Circle off Expo Blvd. | Univ. Park on Univ. Ave. | Univ. Park on Univ. Ave. | Fish Hatchery |
| All speed groups: 2 full loops after warmup at 10 mile “race pace.” Then Grps A-E. 6(600) F-H..3(600) | Track type sharpening session on Kadema with 8(300), 4(200) | Option: Base Building of 5-7 mi. or Tempo run of 4-6 miles | Any distance from 5-6 miles to 18 miles. |
Just a reminder--the deadline to submit pictures and/or articles to the spring Buffalo Enquirer is March 15. Please e-mail them to vlboyd@att.net. Thanks--Vicky Boyd
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