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FLRC Newsletter - August 2004 |
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The summer track season is going great guns, thanks to
Tim Ingall (see details below), and Karen Grover is looking ahead to the
fall cross-country season by organizing a series of summertime
cross-country time trials.
All-Comers: This is the last of our low-key meets for the summer. Whatever your ability and age, come enjoy this version of summer fun. Bring your own refreshments, friends, and competitive spirit. The meet will go on rain or shine!
Cost: FLRC members, free. Nonmembers: students, $2; adults, $3; <6-yr-old, free. Volunteers, free. Teams, contact meet Tim Ingall (see below). for all FLRC members; free for kids under age 6; $2 for students (nonmembers); $3 adults (nonmembers).
More Info: www.fingerlakesrunners.org or timingall@hotmail.com.
Schedule: Tuesday evening; registration begins
at 5:15 pm, meet begins at 6:15 pm:
August 3
3000m
200m
1 mile
400m
summer surprise fun relay: TBA
The 2004 version of Triple Trax will start on Sunday morning, August 22, 8 am, from the Teagle Hall parking lot. For those of you not familiar with this event, it is a 9-mile run plus 1–2 miles thrown in at three different tracks: Ithaca High, Ithaca College, and Cornell (Schoellkopf track). The "rules" are as follows:
1. Run from Teagle down to IHS track. Do a 1 or 2 mile timed run on the track.
2. Run up to IC track. 1–2 miles on the track.
3. Run down and then up to Schoellkopf track. Complete 1–2 miles on the track.
4. Everyone stays more or less together on the runs between tracks. When everyone is assembled, the 1–2-mile runs begin.
Gatorade will be provided at the finish; water is available at IHS and IC.
This year's event does not conflict with Pud's Run,
which is the following Sunday. I've heard that there is a group of
runners who call themselves Thunderheads. I'd call them Thunderwimps if
they don't show up for Triple Trax.
August is the time for the cross-country training runs that will lead into the fall competitions hosted by the Genesee Valley Harriers.
The Finger Lakes Runners Club is hosting a series of cross-country training runs to prepare for the fall season. Anyone interested in running on grass and trails is welcome to join us. We will run a time clock for those interested in their times, and we encourage you to keep track of your own as we call them out.
Location—We'll meet in the parking area above the Ithaca College Track. Go in the circle entrance at IC, take a right at the circle, go up the hill, take a right at the sharp V as if going to the towers, and then a sharp right to a parking lot and athletic facility.
Course—The wheel measured 5K course consists of most elements encountered in cross-country running: grass, dirt, stone, trails, wooded area, mud, field, and hills. The IC Coach has graciously offered to mark the course and help wherever he can.
Dates & Time—We'll meet on Thursday evenings at 6:00 pm; start time will be 6:30 pm.
Fall Season—If the time trials get you
hooked on cross-country running, please consider joining our team for the
fall and contact Karen at kag22@cornell.edu. We will
participate in the Upstate NY Cross-Country Series beginning in
September. The High Noon group currently recruits men and the Finger
Lakes Runners Club recruits women for all three divisions: Vet, 50+;
Master, 40–49, and Open, <40 years old.
The Upstate New York Cross Country series will begin on Saturday, September 11 with a noon 5K race at Center Park in Fairport; it will culminate with the $5000 GVH Invitational at Genesee Valley Park on Sunday, November 14.
An entry form and information is posted at www.peteglavin.com.
Listed below are all the pertinent XC dates for this fall:
Saturday, September 11 Upstate NY XC Series @ Center
Park (Fairport)
Noon 5K
Saturday, September 25
Upstate NY XC Series @
Akron Falls Park (Akron)
11:00 am 5K
Saturday, October 2
US National Club Marathon
Relay Championship; Akron, OH
(five-person teams. Open men and
women. Legs are 10K, 5K, 10K, 5K and 7.4 miles; $16,000 in team prize
money)
Sunday, October 10
Upstate NY XC Series @ Black
Creek Park (Chili)
1:00 pm 4 miles
Sunday, October 17
US Masters 5K XC Championships;
Saratoga State Park
Sunday, October 24
Mayor's Cup XC Races; Franklin
Park, Boston, MA
Women's 5K, Men's 8k
Saturday, October 30
Upstate NY XC Series @
Cornell Golf Course (Ithaca)
11:00 am, 4 miles
Sunday, November 7
US Masters 8K XC Championships;
Franklin Park, Boston, MA
Sunday, November 14
$5000 GVH XC Invitational @
Genesee Valley Park
9:30 am, Masters Men 6K; 10:15 am, Women's 6K;
11:00 am, Open Men's 8K
Noon: Postseries awards party and brunch @
Bennigan's in the Clarion Riverside Hotel in downtown Rochester; (cash
bar; brunch will be $7.95 per person)
Saturday, December 4
US National Club XC
Championships; Portland, OR
Masters Men 10K, Masters Women 5K, Open
Women 6K, Open Men 10K
Good Deeds
Twilight 5K race director Alan Lockett reports the race donated
$170 to the Kitchen Cupboard in Ithaca.
The Women's Distance Festival 5K collected one very large box of food items that were also donated to the Kitchen Cupboard.
Many thanks to all who contributed to these donations by participating in our races.
What ever happened to Nikki?
Nikki Kimball, known to us as the overall winner of the FLT
50-miler about three years ago, won the women's title of the Western
States 100-Miler. Her time was 18:43:25. Nikki has also been a member of
the U.S. 100K and mountain running teams.
New Wineglass Marathon race director
Mollie Jarvis, 39, of Horseheads has been named the new race
director of the Wineglass Marathon and Relay. Mollie is a trade show
planner for Corning, Inc.
That other Molly
Molly Huddle, 19, of Elmira finished seventh (of 14) overall in
the Olympic Trials 5000-meter final. A junior at Notre Dame University,
Molly ran a time of 15:37.92. Shayne Culpepper, Marla Runyan, and Shalane
Flanigan qualified for the U.S. 5000-meter team.
Michelle Rohl
Mansfield University assistant track and cross country coach
Michelle Rohl, 38, did not qualify for her fourth U.S. Olympic team in
the 20K race walk. Michelle, the mother of four, was disqualified with
one lap to go.
The Scotty 5K will be a Fun Run/Walk this year. The
race will be held at the Newark Valley Trout Ponds Park on August 14, 9
am. There will be no prizes, shirts, etc. The race is still a certified
5K distance, and will be timed. The course will be "marshalled" and there
will also be a water station at the midway point of the race.
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