See you there: You may be aware from reading the Yahoo! group as well as the club web site, that long-time member, friend, club treasurer *Paul Krentar* passed...
An incredible number of RVRR members came out for Paul's viewing Monday evening. Many of us talked with John, a great guy who had worked with Paul for the...
I did not go to Paul's funeral today but I am sure it was sad but lovely. last night at the funeral home, as Ken said, so many runners showed up (with or...
Just a quick last-minute reminder that tonight we will do a "guess your time" run at the club run tonight. You simply predict your time, and run without a...
The November issue of Trail Runner magazine includes a quote about the Train run: "Chris 'Night Train' Lehman was the 'little engine that could' running solo...
Hey all you runners out there. If any of you have been following this post, and I hope you have, I wanted to give you the link to my latest update video......
Hey there - I tried responding to this post yesterday, but had technical difficulties. Anyway, what I wanted to say is that Trail Runner took a fair amount of...
The two winners of $25 gift certificates for being the closest to predict their times run last Wednesday night were Mike D with a prediction that was within...
Nice people, hot as blazes today, high DNF rate today (180 out of 750). I can't say I liked the course (I'm a trail runner) but the challenge of literally a...
I remain blown away by GPS as a training and racing tool. It signaled dehydration issues to me in the LBI 18-mile oven run today long before I felt them as my...
Agreed. The best thing for me has been intervals (quarters, 800's, even ladders, etc, at least with Garmin Forerunner) anywhere, anytime. I usually can't get...
Mike Dixon and Kristen Althausen were also both 2nd place in their age groups at LBI 18-miler today! http://www.compuscore.com/cs2007/october/lbi1.htm Doug...
I am stupid. I would not have stopped. After spending all that time in training and travel, and after spending the amount of money it costs these days to do a...
I also would have been pissed. I know that the race organizers had to be concerned with everyone's safety and, unfortunately, liability issues but shutting...
I have also been at parties where someone brought up Jim Fixx to show me that running was bad for you. In fact I was at a party back in 1984 ? two days after...
Hmmmmm............... Hard call! I would have hated to be on that race committee that day trying to make that call. 300 people to the hospital, 1 fatality and ...
I liken it to a referee that stops a fight. There's often a controversy as to whether the fight was stopped too soon. But I'd never criticize a referee who's...
from other groups.... ... From: David Berg <drberg1000@...> Date: Oct 8, 2007 11:45 AM Subject: [RunningBarefoot] Re: The Chicago Hot-a-thon ~~~ To:...
I'm not a non-runner and don't scare easily but I had a friend at that marathon and he reported that it was scary on the street. He's in shape to run...
I ran a San Francisco marathon several years ago when the temperature was over 90 and no clouds in the sky. Of course, no humidity either. many people had the...
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Having run Marathons in similar conditions I certainly understand how difficult it was for everyone in Chicago yesterday. The tragic death of a participant...
Those people in LBI don't know how to organize a long race. It was a sham, a pitiful SHAM!! pre-reistration $25 and they ran out of water and didn't even...
RVRR community and of course the anonymous "rvrrbabyman", This is the third harassing anonymous email I have gotten from someone who has signed-up for an Yahoo...