Annual Crabowitz Feast
What: 5K run & Crab Feast
Date: Thursday, June 14th
Time: 6:30ish
Where: Szymanski House (709 Haddon Road, Wilmington DE 19808)
Please mark June 14th on your calendars to join us for the 4th annual Crabowitz 5K fun run and crabs! We will be supplying crabs and pizza and our own Brewmaster Tony BBQ , will once again be making the ‘Rebel Ale’ ! All family members and pets welcome!
Please bring your drink of choice and let us know if you can attend so we can have a head count. E-mail .
Last year we started something new by raising money for American Cancer Society/American Cancer Research.Because of your generosities we where able to raise over $1,000. We would like to continue the tradition and have selected the B+ Foundation as the Charity. The Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation honors the life of 14-year-old Andrew who battled leukemia and sepsis before leaving us on July 14, 2007. Andrew’s B+ blood type became the perfect message � Be Positive � to reflect how Andrew lived his life and how he inspires others to do the same.The B+ Foundation is about kids helping kids fight cancer — by providing financial and emotional support to families of children with cancer, and by providing childhood cancer research grants.
From President Ray:
B+ Fighting Childhood Cancer 5k: Run or Volunteer
(our club’s new charity partner. There’s now a link on our site)
The 6th Annual B+ Fighting Childhood Cancer 5k Run/Walk is Thursday, June 21st at Salesianum School starting at 6:45pm. As a partner of the B+ Foundation, PCVRC will help to fight childhood cancer because 46 kids are told they have cancer every school day. Join our team today by running, walking or donating to our Team Goal. Help us raise money for kids fighting cancer! Click the link below and then click �Join a Team�. Select �Pike Creek Valley Running Club� and then you�ll be prompted to register. If you have any questions please contact team captain Jim Steele at 530-7274.
https://www.elleevance.com/5K2012/SelectATeam.aspx?TeamSelected=NBI57687740
Or if you can volunteer, please contact Ray () soon. PCVRC will have a table set up to recruit members and in exchange hope that a few members can help on race day (registration, course marshal, etc). More info at http://www.BePositive.org
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Tuesday, June 5th marks the beginning of the Howard M. Laws Summer Cross Country Series at Bellevue State Park off Marsh Rd. This is a six-race series, on every other Tuesday evening through the summer. Registration starts at 5:30; races begin at 6:30. Registration is only $5.00 per race or $25.00 for the entire series with shirt. It’s purpose is to help to develop and to prepare school-age athletes for the fall cross-country season. It’s always a good dose of humility for an older runner to have kids decades younger make you eat their dust. But it’s great to see the running traditional carrying through to younger generations. If you are not familiar with this event, after parking and walking out to the gravel oval, the pavilion across the lake is where the sign-up occurs. The bridge leads you right there.
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Bob Potts Marathon
Club President Ray and I went to York, PA for the Bob Potts Marathon last Sunday. We both have positive feelings about the entire experience. For me, I was attempting for the first time a marathon only one week before a previous marathon. Lesson learned: One week is not enough time for me to recover to run a marathon up to my capabilities. For an extended version of my observations, go to: http://mccorq.blogspot.com/2012/05/two-marathons-in-eight-days-experiment.html
Ray admittedly was not as well trained as usual for a marathon attempt. Nevertheless, Ray came within three minutes of the new Boston Qualifying standard, despite warming temperatures, which definitely affected everyone during the latter half of the distance. Ray has his experience chronicled here: www.RunMarathonMan.com/bobpottstrailmarathon12.php.
For a sneak preview, here is a humorous incident that Ray recounts:
Why did the chicken…?
There’s always comic relief somewhere along the way and mine came about 15 miles in. I was approaching one of those enthusiastic crowds of spectators with an attractive lady conveniently in front of me. Suddenly, a brown chicken darted in front of her from the side of the road and I could hear her softly scream while raising her arms. The equally frightened chicken ran with her for a stride or two and never did finish crossing the road. But just when I thought it was safe, the chicken spotted me and decided to run a few more strides alongside. I laughed out loud, which is a good way to relax a tense body.
Recommendation: The Bob Potts Marathon is relatively small(425 finishers), which can make it seem a bit lonely later in the race. Crowd support is only possible at road intersections, but those who were there were enthusiastic. Plenty of hydration stations and a couple of gel places. After the first road mile, the rest of the race is on a flat, gravel rails-to-trails path. The price is reasonable, the organization is great, rooms can be had at fairly low prices if you avoid the host hotel, plenty of places to eat. One Delawarean even drove up that morning for the 6:30 A.M. start.
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I posted information about the stopping of the Green Bay Marathon on Sunday on the club’s Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/289855916248/. What is your opinion of this decision?
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Steve Thorpe’s Windemere Marathon
I choose the Windermere Marathon because I wanted to visit a long time friend, Dave, who lives about 25 miles south of Spokane. This was my 18th marathon and my 10th state. I flew out on a Thursday and stayed with Dave and his wife on their 160 acre ranch. Dave is a nuclear engineer Monday through Thursdays at the Hanford Washington nuclear plant and a fix-it man Friday through Sundays.
On Friday I went back into Spokane to pick up my race packet and to spend the night at the race host hotel, The Red Lion Hotel at the Park. The expo, a disappointment, was in the Spokane Convention Center, but none of the vendors sold running gear. A volunteer directed me to a nearby running store, Runners Soul, so I could replace the GU I had mistakenly left at home. The store had several pieces of running memorabilia, signed shirts and shoes by runners such as Don Kardong and Dean Kananzes and a great staff. My pre-race dinner was at Sushi.com with another friend, Scott, who is a professor at Gonzaga University School of Law; more on Gonzaga later. Yes, I did eat sushi, but also had a bowl of Soba noddle soup.
There were no restaurants open early Saturday morning. I needed to catch the shuttle to the start line, in Post Falls, Idaho, by 6:00 a.m., so I had a Cliff Bar. The hotel shuttle driver insisted on giving me a ride the block and a half to the site where I needed to catch one of the school bus shuttles. They let the marathoners on the bus first, 18 of us, and then the half-marathoners, about 50. The school bus driver closed the door and said “Does anyone know how to get to the interstate?” The women sitting next to me quipped,”If we were leaving the elementary school she would know how to get there.” The driver had been asked the night before the race to help shuttle us runners. Since most of the runners were local they knew the way. It was about a 40 minute trip and we had to make one stop to discharge the half-marathoners. I never saw them again.
The marathon started at 7:00 a.m. and the temperature was in the low 50’s and overcast. By the end of the run it was sunny and in the mid-60’s, but with a nice cool breeze at your back. The course was on a recreation trail along the Spokane River. Due to the recent snow melting the river was raging. A kayaker had died on the river two days before the run. Water stops were plentiful, every two miles, with water and Heed (an electrolyte) at each stop and gel and Gummi bears at a few stops. At one of the water stops some young volunteers were chanting, increase your speed with Heed. At the end of the race you could vote for your favorite water stop. The two most memorable were the ones were the men wearing grass skirts and coconuts, you can guess where, and the one at Gonzaga University where they had painted their faces and bodies blue. That was a little scary!
During the run I followed McCorq’s advice and drank my electrolytes and kept my head up. It was a long 5 1/2 hours. I started at a 11:30 to 12:00 minute per mile pace for about the first 20 miles and then dropped steadily back and ended with an average of 12:39. In my age group, 60-64, I finished 7th out of 10. I didn’t know it but the person who finished 8th in my age group was just 3 seconds behind me. I missed most of the post race party and food; there was one green banana left and some vegetable soup. The hotel let me check out late, so I took a shower and headed back to the ranch to help Dave put in a fence corner rock jack (see the picture) and re-do a cattle guard crossing.
Overall the race was well organized and I love my long sleeve shirt (see the picture). I would consider running it again since I could visit Dave and do some more work on the ranch. Once in a while it’s wonderful to be in a place where you can’t hear a vehicle or see another house.
Race Results: Some of these are several weeks old
Dover Duathlon:
48:07 Dan Simmons, 1st 60-64
Broad Street 10 Miler:
1:10:31 Kurt Hendrickson, PR
1:25:48 Deborah Compton
Run for the Dream Half Marathon (Williamsburg, VA)
2:08:48 Victoria Acker
Camino Latino 5K
20:09 Matt Coffin, 1st 19-29, 3rd Overall
20:30 Lynn Knothe, Female Winner
Girls On The Run 5K:
17:35 Andy Jacubowitch, 2nd Overall
17:40 Greg Cauller, 3rd Overall, 1st Master
20:32 Lynn Knothe, 1st 30-39
Bob Potts Marathon:
3:12:06 John Costello, 1st 50-54
3:32:51 Ray Christensen
4:54:13 Dave McCorquodale
Windemere Marathon
5:31:38 Steve Thorpe