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FLRC Newsletter - December 2004 |
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Please join us Saturday December 11th, 4–9 pm, for our annual running community holiday open house. Bring good cheer, a dish to pass, and your favorite beverage. We will have lots of home-baked goodies, some wine, beer, and soda, along with smiles and laughter for all.
Directions: From the Ithaca area, go North on Triphammer Road. Go straight at the blinking stop sign light. Take a right onto 34B. Drive ~5 miles. Proceed past Bakers Acres. Turn right onto Locke Rd (Nancy's Diner is on the corner). Follow Locke Road to the end. Take a right onto Route 90. Follow Route 90 to the four-corners in Locke. Go straight through the four-corners. Our house is 0.2 mile up the road on the left. It is a gray house with white trim and a huge sycamore tree in the front yard. Coming from the Syracuse/Cortland area, take Route 222 to Homer. Turn west onto Route 90. Follow Route 90 for 12 miles. Our house is on the right on the base of a steep hill. You can also call for directions. (315)497–3743.
The always-popular Last Chance Trail Run and Breakfast will be held Saturday, December 18, at the (heated) Community House, Highland Forest, in Fabius, with staggered starts from 8:00 to 9:30 am. You can start and stop whenever you desire, but there are set courses of varying lengths for you to follow. If as much as a few feet of snow lies on the ground, runners will have plowed dirt roads to follow.
A pancake breakfast follows, from 9-11 am, in the Community House. The cost is $4 per person, or $2 for youth 12-under, free for kids 6-under and a one fee $10 per family.
Please register by December 12 for an accurate food count. This low-key event is hosted by the Syracuse Chargers. PS: Bring a dry and warm change of clothes.
Contact Ed Stabler, 5387 Anvil Dr., Camillus, NY 13031; (315)443–4370; go to www.syracusechargers.org for the application.
The race date is Saturday, January 22 at Barton Hall on the Cornell campus. The event is held in conjunction with a Cornell Invitational track meet. The starting time will be announced in January.
The Hartshorne Mile is open to men ages 40-up, and women sub-masters (30–39) and masters (40-up). There are several sectional heats based on seed times, and elite invitational races for the very best masters men and women. There are qualifying standards, but not etched in stone. It's a chance to see all ages compete in the indoor mile.
As always, we do not print the Hartshorne Mile race application in the newsletter, nor is it available to just pick up at race sites. If you ran the mile last year, you will receive an application by mail very soon. If you want to request an application, contact meet director Rick Hoebeke, 2706 Agard Road, Trumansburg, NY 14886; call 387–6281; or contact elite coordinator Tom Hartshorne at 266–8222.
There is equal prize money for both elite men and women, plus bonus money for records and performance. Tom Hartshorne tells me he has a stellar field preparing to race.
Diane Sherrer and Phyllis Radke are cochairing the women's 25th-anniversary celebration. It is not too late to get on Diane's good side by donating funds or prizes for this celebration. We've already received some very wonderful help. We are preparing special T-shirts, a 25th-anniversary results booklet and we'll order a fat-and-carbo-filled cake. [Masters women of FLRC: Don't make me start dialing you up to harass you into showing up!]
And remember, spectators are always welcome.
For the past 10 years, the Ithaca 5 & 10 has been directed by Lorrie Tily. It has been a great run! Lorrie has generated consistent participation, excellent volunteer support, and expanded the base of sponsor and community involvement. Lorrie is now stepping aside. How one person could manage all of this so well is hard to imagine. Could anyone match her string of successes? No!
So, as the Ithaca 5 & 10 enters its 31st year, Lorrie is being succeeded by a whole team. The September 11, 2005 event—5 miles, 10 miles, and 1 mile family fun run—is being directed by Tom Scharff, along with Zsofia Franck, Nancy Winemiller, Sarah Postgate, and Evan Kurtz.
Each will focus on a preferred area of responsibility, from promotions to registration, and from equipment to race day logistics. The group is already meeting and taking steps toward next fall’s race day. With Lorrie’s record, and her continuing advice to guide the new team, the Ithaca 5 & 10 should continue to run well!
If you would like to help along the way, feel free to contact Tom at: (607)272–8206; tscharff@twcny.rr.com.
The national championship for senior athletes will be held June 3–18 in Pittsburgh, PA.
As a New Yorker, you must be age 50-over and have competed at the Empire Senior Games at Cortland last summer.
Sports include more than running, although there is competition in road racing, track & field, race walking and triathlon (sprint). Swimming, cycling, tennis, team sports, golf, bowling, badminton, archery, racquetball... and more, are all part of the competition.
We tell you now, because the entry deadline is January 31, 2005. If you are eligible to enter the national games, you should have received a hefty application booklet by now.
The shocking news is the fee requirements. It's $90 for the first sport entered (one sport, for example is track & field; another sport is road racing; another sport is triathlon, and on and on). Then it's $25 for the next sport entered; and a required $25 to join the NSGA. There are also dorm and hotel fees, and no transportation from one venue to another (you'll need a car).
There's much more to know. For information, write for an application at 2005 Senior Olympics, PO Box 54892, New Orleans, LA 70154-4892. Or type “National Senior Games” into a search engine, and you'll find related websites.
There are Ithaca-area athletes planning to go to these
Games, and it's a prestigious event fairly close to home (nationals, held
every two years, rotate to sites all over the US).
The Boston Athletic Association has announced plans to
bid for both the 2008 men's and women's U.S. marathon trials. Most
likely, the trials course will not be the actual Boston Marathon
course. [See www.baa.org
for press release.]
USA Track & Field recently named Kathy Martin, 53, of Northport, NY, Bengay Masters Athlete of the Year. Martin, who has won the Hartshorne women's mile, was cited for her outstanding performances in track, road, and cross country. For example, last winter, Martin set a F50 world record in the indoor mile (5:13.93) and 1500 meters (4:57.6). She also was the age-graded women's champion at the XC 5K nationals in Saratoga Springs. [See www.usatf.org for press release.]
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