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FLRC Newsletter - February/March 2005 |
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Vice President of Track Tim Ingall is looking for some major volunteer assistance with future track meets. Our schedule now includes four winter and three summer meets, and he is looking for your help.
Please contact Tim at TimIngall@hotmail.com if you are interested in any or all of the following:
This is your club, please jump in where you can. FLRC NEEDS YOU!
Registration for the Third-Annual Cayuga Lake Triathlon (CLT) is now open! The CLT will be held on Sunday, August 7, at Taughannock Falls State Park. Details on the CLT can be found at the following race page link to the Ithaca Triathlon Club's website: www.ithacatriathlonclub.org/race/default.html
The same distances will be offered as at last year's triathlon, but USA Triathlon has changed the name of the race distances:
Short (formerly Sprint): 750-m swim, 14.2-mile bike, 5K run
Intermediate (formerly Olympic): 1.5K swim, 40K bike, 10K run
The 2005 rendition will be able to accommodate 600 athletes total. Each distance race will be capped at 265 individual athletes and 35 relay teams.
Race packet pickup will be held on Saturday, August 6, on the Ithaca Commons, 2–7 pm, or at Taughannock Park on race day.
Arrangements are in the works with the Ithaca/Tompkins County Visitors Center to arrange special overnight packages for the CLT athletes. As the race draws closer please visit their website, www.VisitIthaca.com, to find details of these special deals and other information on the Ithaca/Tompkins County area.
Please feel free to contact race director Jane Miller with any questions about the 2005 race.
Announcing Fly By Night: Formula 1 Duathlon at Watkins Glen International: Recently we promised a new race announcement, and here it is: On June 4, 2005, we will proudly present the Fly by Night, a Formula 1 duathlon staged at one of the most historic and famous racetracks in the country—Watkins Glen International. The run–bike–run–bike–run event will occur in the evening during Porsche Clash Weekend, and entry includes a three-day ticket to the car races. The three-lap bike course will take place entirely on the Glen's 3.4-mile looping, twisting, rising, and falling racetrack, and each run leg will take you on a 1.4-mile loop of the infield and over the track. Pit row will be your aid station, and a postrace BBQ will sweep our merriment deep into the night. Join us in June and at www.flybynightdu.com!
Daniels, the noted cross-country coach from SUNY Cortland, spoke at Cornell Friday evening, February 11 at 7:00 pm in the Veterinary Research Tower, Lecture Hall 3.
Many of you have read his book "Daniels' Running Formula," and most of you have heard bits and pieces of his work, as it has strongly influenced the training of many successful athletes.
The sponsoring organizations were (in no particular order): Finger Lakes Cycling Club, Wineglass Marathon, Finger Lakes Runner's Club, Cornell Cycling Team, Ithaca Triathlon Club, and Swan Cycles Inc. With cyclists, runners, and other athletes in attendance, this was a great opportunity for members of the different groups to commingle.
The date for the 2005 US Club Cross-Country Championships at Genesee Valley Park in Rochester, NY, has been changed. The meet will occur on Saturday, November 19.
After speaking with many teams and individuals at the 2004 Club Championships in Portland, it became apparent that the Thanksgiving weekend posed problems for those wanting to travel to Rochester for the event and also for those who wanted to celebrate the holiday with their families.
The new date should allow the Genesee Valley Harriers to put on the biggest and best US Club XC Championships yet, surpassing the 878 individuals and 67 teams that competed in Portland.
Official entry info will be available at www.usatf.org by May 1. Other information relating to the event will be posted on the GVH website (www.gvh.net) as it becomes available.
Spring will be upon us soon and the race season will soon be busying our weekend schedules. Some of us runners do, however, have children who are too young to be wandering the start/finish line unattended . With this in mind, here's a proposal for a way for everyone who wants to participate in the races we love to be able to do so, regardless of parental status.
Might we collectively be able to round up an adult (or adults) or responsible teenager(s) interested in watching children at FLRC road and trail races (e.g., partners or older kids of runners, or even a round-robin lineup of those of us desiring this service)? Suggestions for incentives include payment of a few dollars by each runner using the childcare service and/or a T-shirt from the race (provided permission by the race director).
If anyone is interested in coordinating the efforts, please take the reigns and run with it. If anyone is interested in doing the childcare at the races or if you have or know teenagers who are interested, please make yourself known. I think it would be a nice incentive for parents of young children, and it would bring more people to races.
Thoughts, suggestions, willingness to help with the kids, and/or coordinate the service? Please post them to the FLRC listserv (flrc@mail.cayugacomputers.com) so that we might have a community discussion.
The registration deadline for the 2005 Summer Senior
Olympic (June in Pittsburgh) has been extended to Feb. 28.
The second annual all-women masters MORE Marathon and two-person team event (two masters, or one masters and one open woman) will be held at 8 am, April 10, in New York City's Central Park. Registration and race information is now available at www.nyrrc.org.
Some FLRC women are planning on attending this event. Several FLRC and Twin Tiers women participated last year, and came home with rave reviews. If you are a FLRC woman and you are going to run either the marathon or half marathon, please contact Diane Sherrer so we can keep a tally of how many team members we have going to NYC.
Please note Laura Clark's article PAGE X in this newsletter to inspire you to action.
[Footnote: Karen Grover is gathering a group to attend
the Runners's World Half Marathon, April 24, in Allentown, PA. Email
Karen if you're interested (kag22@cornell.edu), and visit www.runnersworld.com.]
The January/February 2005 edition of New England
Runner has named the Skunk Cabbage Classic 10K and Half Marathon as one
of New York State's finest races in April. Other familiar races listed
for NYS: Forks XV (March); Race for the Cure 5K in all upstate NY cities;
Freihofer’s (June); Cazenovia and Boilermaker (July); Chris Thater
(August); Wineglass and Syracuse Festival of Races (October); NYC
Marathon and Stockade-athon (November).
This wonderful race will be the same as always, except it will be the national masters 5K championship only, and not the open national championship. All focus and prize money will be given to masters (vets and seniors) runners—team and individual. Open runners of all ages will still remain an important part of the 3500-plus field. They just won't be awarding prize money to the open champions.
Race date is June 4. (Editor’s note: FLRC Vet team, take note and put this date on your calendars! Also, renew your USATF membership by mid-March.)
Go to www.freihofersrun.com for information.
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