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FLRC Newsletter - November 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 Hartshorne Memorial Masters Mile will be held on Saturday, Jan. 22, at Cornell University with the time to be announced. Rick Hoebeke is the meet director, and Tom Hartshorne is the elite-mile coordinator.
I believe it's the 38th anniversary for the men's mile, and the 25th anniversary for the women's mile?both the oldest indoor masters mile for men and women in the world.
Of course, we can't let the women's 25th edition go by without some celebration. Phyllis Radke and I are cochairing the special recognition project of the women's mile, with a few additional perks. [Lorrie, we're giving you a break from more work.]
We already have two wonderful male benefactors who have stepped forward to give us money. We are soliciting additional funds, even modest amounts, to help us finance the re -issuing of the women's results booklet; a women's T-shirt and a cake. We'll call you Friends of the Women's Mile."
More information on the Hartshorne Memorial Masters Mile will be available in December.
I urge all local masters runners to participate in this one-of-a-kind mile.
Anyone wishing to offer us assistance in the women's mile, please email or call me (Diane Sherrer) or our club treasurer, which may be John Sholeen or Chris Irving—both are transitioning the position.
Thanks!
The Tompkins County Public Library in Ithaca has many periodicals on the endangered list due to budget limitations. The Library is asking individuals or organizations to adopt a periodical for a three-year period. About 107 periodicals will be dropped from 228 current subscriptions.
The subscription fees are higher than the usual fees we pay to have magazines come to our homes. The library is not eligible for the same rates the average person.
The library has a list of periodicals they need adopted. Runner's World was on the chopping block, but it has been saved.
If you adopt a periodical, there will be a nameplate on the magazine shelf or cover saying you adopted that particular periodical. Donations are tax deductible.
For more information, contact the Tompkins County
Library, 101 East Green St., Ithaca, NY 14850, or call 272–4557,
ext. 231; email: ssmithjablonski@tcpl.org.
First Sgt. Jeremy T. Peterson of Horseheads, who served in the Army Reserves in Iraq, said there is a need for clean T-shirts and shorts for wounded military personnel being treated in U.S. hospitals in Iraq. Letters of thanks to the soldiers are also needed along with personal items.
Medics in the field often cut away or remove clothing of wounded soldiers, then there is nothing to replace that clothing. If anyone has extra T-shirts, it's runners. Perhaps a local runner or organization would like to chair a committee to collect, then send the needed shirts? Contact Neil (neilchaffie@yahoo.com) for details on where to T-shirts and other items for combat support hospitals.
NEW!
Neil Chaffie provides an update on 9 Nov 2004:
We had hoped by now to have the addresses of combat support hospitals in Iraq, where the need exists for tee shirts and shorts. But those addresses have not arrived. In the meantime, a Horseheads GI is allowing the use of his name and address.SFC Jeremy T. Peterson
CMATT
OST (MNSTCI)
APO AE 09316
There are more Thanksgiving Day races than there are turkeys, but two have local significance. Please see the general calendar for races in Syracuse, Rochester, and Berwick, PA.
But home sweet home it is...
The 33rd (or is it 190th) Bob's annual Turkey Trot Prediction Run will be held on Thanksgiving Day at 9 am at the Ithaca High School Activities Building. Sign in around 8:30 am to make your prediction, and the ~5-mile all-terrain, no-arrows-pointing-the-way run will begin at 9 am.
"Prizes" to the runners who can predict most accurately how long it'll take to complete the course.
The trot is free for everyone; no
preregistration. Postrace snacks will be served to all runners. For info,
call Bob at 387–5130.
Despite threats and dire warnings by the Wineglass Running Club that the Pie & Glove would die at No. 10, Corningites Kurt Cornfield and Lou Forillo (Corning track/XC coach) have paired up to save and direct this delightful 5K race one more year.
The flat and fast 5K race is held on Thanksgiving Day morning at 9:30 in Denison Park (downtown, just off Rt. 17/86) and is an out and back through the park and downtown Corning. All entrants receive gloves, and top age-group champs get pies (they give a ton of pies out to all ages!).
I don't know at this press time what the entry fee is, but registration opens around 8 am and there is no warm shelter. Dress accordingly, and be ready to go. Hopefully, apps will be out at Red Baron.
For info, email Kurt at kurt_cornfield@ml.com.
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