John,
You have been a wonderful team captain- motivating, knowledgeable and inspiring- and I am sad to hear you will not be captain any more, but do understand the other commitment. Thank you for leading the group as you did.

I look forward to still seeing you at the races and any group runs.

As well, Good luck to the new Captain!

Best,
Natalie

--- In BrooklynRoadRunners @yahoogroups. com, John Shostrom <jshostrom@. ..> wrote:
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> Unfortunately, I don't think posting on Feb. 28 was very useful for getting people to come to the race the very next day, especially as it was in faraway Washington Heights.
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> BRRC had a dismal showing at Coogan's: We didn't have a legal women's team (3 showed up), and we had 6 men, who finished in 20th place, our worst showing in many years.
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> For the Scotland Run, on April 11, please enter the race soon, as it is a capped race. The Colon Challenge filled up 3 weeks ahead of time, and that wasn't a team race, so if you snooze, you'll lose the chance to run this race.
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> I stepped down as men's team captain as of January of this year after 11 years' of doing it; the position remains unfilled, and anyone who wants to volunteer for it is free to do so. If you want to discuss what it entails, Steve Bonal's phone number is 917-238-9447, and mine is 718-469-0589.
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> I've enjoyed doing it, and it has really kept me in touch with virtually all active BRRCers, as they can attest. (I probably barely escaped arrest for harassment and stalking!) However, I'm now back running my other volunteer organization, the union at my workplace, and doing both is too much.
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> I will continue to run all the team races and talk them up at the group runs, so the next captain will have a very active informal assistant.
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> John Shostrom
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> --- On Sat, 2/28/09, brooklyn_rrc <balbos@...> wrote:
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> > From: brooklyn_rrc <balbos@...>
> > Subject: [BrooklynRoadRunner s] Upcoming Team Scoring Races
> > To: BrooklynRoadRunners @yahoogroups. com
> > Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 5:15 PM
> > The upcoming NYRRC team scoring races are:
> > 3/1 Coogan's Salsa, Blues, Shamrock 5K in Washington
> > Heights
> > 4/11 Scotland Run 10K in Central Park
> > 5/16 Healthy Kidney 10K in Central Park (technal t-shirt!!)
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> > Good luck to all our club runners!
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