July 4th Volunteers Needed!

We're still looking for volunteers to commit to helping with the July 4th Five Miler, in River Park. Please let Ed Randolph know if you can be there. His email for this is: July_4th_5miler@comcast.net (clever huh!). We should be all cleaned up by 10:30 that morning, so you'll have plenty of time for additional July 4th activities. Thanks!
John

Invite to Summer Races in Gilroy

I want to invite your club members and local Sac. runners - down to Gilroy for the following summer races;

Run for the Stinkin' Roses 10K (and 5K walk/run/race) Saturday July 14th, 8am
Mt. Madonna Challenge 6K Fun Run and 12K Race, Saturday August 25th, 8am

South Valley Running Club is now managing these races and it would be great to see some of you down here to enjoy it!

Buffalo Chip runners will receive 10% off the registration price (Stinkin" Roses 5/10K Races only), I'm looking into whether we're offering this to the Mt. Madonna Challenge too - will get back to you!
Put your Running Club on the reg. form and mail it in (mail in only). You can also registrer using www.active.com - but no discount.

The forms are at www.svrchome.org.

Stinkin' Roses Races; 5k is flat, out and back along a bike trail. 10k is loop race with one, one mile hill (up & down) along the way.
Mt.Madonna is a true trail race; 1/4mi flat, 20min hill (2.5mi up), 1mi flat, 3/4mi down, 1.5m rolling up, 1.5mi down (or something painful like that!).

Sincerely,

Joe Green (Race Committee Chair); former WVTC ('70's), Aggie (80's), Tamalpa (90's), SVRC (00's) runner.

These should be fun summer training races!

Please say hi everyone!

Weekly Workout Update

Tuesday	Thursday	Saturday	Sunday
251 Commerce Circle	Univ. Park on Univ. Ave	Univ. Park	Check Below
5:30 p.m.	5:30 p.m.	8 a.m.	8 a.m.
19 June	21 June	23 June	24 June
Grps: A-E 4(600), 6(1200), F-H 6(600), 2(1200)	Relay 200’s	WS Aid Station Devil’s Thumb Tempo Run in Morning	WS 100 recovery run Panera 8 a.m. and some may want to start at 7:30 a.m.
26 June	28 June	30 June	1 July
Grps: A-E 8(400), 4(1000), F-H 8(400), 2(1000)	8(200) @ 1 min.6(300), 100 jogs	Tempo run of 3-5 miles or steady state on bike trail.	Bella Bru to parkway and upriver for 2-2.5 hours. 7:30 a.m. start DEFINITE

Which Chip has the fastest marathon time so far in 2007?

Mark Murray sez:

Congratulations to Kirsten Schneider who ran 2:55:15 this morning at Grandma’s, to move atop the Chips leader board for the year in the marathon. Her time was less than a minute faster than Mary Coordt’s 2:55:40 at Napa, and Ed Randolph’s 2:56:09 at Boston.

I believe that is a PR for Kirsten, who ran 2:57:23 at the CIM. Something tells me that the crowd of folks looking to go under 2:50 at CIM this year just got bigger.

July 4th Five-Miler!

The Buffalo Chips have taken over the job of organizing the 4th of July 5 Miler. This is a free race in River Park that has been a great community event for years. Since it is a free race we are going to keep things very simple. However, we still need volunteers to help with set up, aid stations, and course monitoring.

Volunteering for this race will be a great way to spend a short amount of time 4th of July morning. We need some people to help during the race itself, but if you want to run the race we can use your help before and after.

Please email Ed Randolph if you can help.

Thanks!

Chips Glamor Boy!

If you subscribe to Ultrarunning Magazine, you'll likely notice your fellow Chip Erik Skaden gracing this month's cover! Congratulations Erik and good luck at this year's Western States 100!
John