Finger Lakes Runners Club Newsletter August 2004
Trail Running Stoneheads, Road Running Pavement Pounders, and Track Smacking Maniacs

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Trails, track, cross-country, roads, picnics—August has it all. Check out the race applications and get ready for the myriad FLRC events, including the annual free picnic and 5K in Dryden. Also look for updates, news, and results in the following pages. And oh is this issue full of stories!

Quote of the Month:

"My calves are sore, my lower back is tight. I feel like I carried around a fat woman all last night."
-- James Davenport, describing how he felt after setting the Forest Frolics 15K record.

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News & Upcoming Events Tribute to John Whitman, Hartshorne Memorial Volunteer of the Year, 2004 (Cleary) Finger Lakes Trail Fifties: Sweep by the Virginia Trio (Sherrer) Finger Lakes 50s: Not Quite There Yet (Clark) Inaugural Tanglewood 5 and 10 milers (Chely) Tanglewood (Ingall) Mount Washington Road Race (Tily) More Mount Washington (Grover) And Still More Mount Washington: FLRC Conquers the Mountain Together (Reynolds) The Last Mount Washington, for this year (Clark) Thunderheads (Meyer) Geezer Report from the Empire State Senior Games and Beyond (Farley) And Now From the Other End of the Age Spectrum: IUTC Reports (Goncarovs) Tupper Lake Tinman Triathlon—Why I Race (Talda) Cross-Country Time Trials Hammond Hill Block Party

Aug 1: Cayuga Lake Triathlon, Taughannock State Park, 8 am Aug 3: FLRC Summer Track Meet, Cornell Univ, 6:15 pm Aug 8: Virgil Mountain Madness 30K and 12K, Virgil State Forest, 8:30 am Aug 12: 27th Annual Tromptown Runs: 5K and Half Marathon, DeRuyter, 6 pm Aug 15: FLRC Loop the Lake 5K and Picnic, Dryden Lake Park, 10:30 am, FREE. Aug 19: Forge the Gorgeous 7-Miler, Fillmore Glen State Park, 6 pm Aug 29: Pud's Run 5K, Stewart Park, Ithaca, 10 am Sep 5: Monster Marathon and Half Marathon, Virgil, 6:30 am Sep 12: 30th Annual Ithaca 5 & 10, Ithaca High School, 9 am T-Burg, 8 am

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