From President Ray
MS Bike to the Bay
A number of club members are doing the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Bike to the Bay this weekend. Have a great ride and please send a recap for next week’s bulletin!
DDC 15K & 5K Volunteers Needed
Delaware Distance Classic is just 2+ weeks away. We’ve got 175 already registered for 15K and just a handful for 5K. If not running one of the events, we could really, really use your help.
Nearly twice as many are needed due to the 2 concurrent events.
To volunteer, please contact one of the following (double duty is welcome):
– Registration (starting 6:45am): Rachel B.
– Course Marshals (starting 8:00am): Vince M.
– Finish area/food tables (starting 8:15am): Dave M.
Nun Run Recap
Thanks to members who ran or volunteered at last Saturday’s Nun Run 5K!
Photos will be online by Thursday morning at www.NunRun5K.org. We had a record participation of 400 registered and 360 finishers. Volunteers included Jerry Herman, Karl Kalbacher, Pat Patnaude, Dan Weintraub, while Jim Steele, Karin Pszcszola and others manned the club table. Andy Jakubowich did a great job as lead bike before departing to ride another 100 miles or something like that.
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Guest Bartender at BBC 10/4
Mark your calendars for October 4th from 6-9pm to join us at the BBC Tavern and Grill! BBC will be hosting a “Guest Bartender Night” along with the SceneTap B+ Racing Team (our 5k race sponsor) to help raise money to fight childhood cancer. You can meet our partners as well as participate in a live auction for some fabulous racing inspired items. For more information please call Jim Steele (302) 530-7274 or visit www.bepositive.org.
World Record?
In case anyone hasn’t heard, Hugh Campbell broke his own state record for the second time for the 85-89 age-group at 5K. Hugh has been running at the McKean H.S. track one day a week and he has been working on his speed. He knocked over 1:20 off his previous state record and finished in 27:17. To understand the import of this achievement, this time is 25 seconds better than the previous national record for 85 to 89 men. The time age-grades out to 99.85, meaning that no man of 88 has ever run better. So it is also a single-age world record!
Hugh will be running the National Masters Championship 5K in Syracuse, N.Y on September 30.
Sheri Herrmann is coming back from a leg injury. So it is noteworthy that she won her age group in both the Bottle and Cork Ten Miler (1:20:13) and the Race for the Pink 5K (22:03).
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Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame From Tom Fort:
To: PCVRC Members
Following is my invitation for each of you to become voting members of the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame. With this membership, you become eligible to nominate and vote on Delaware athletes to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Tom Fort
September 2012
Dear Inductees, Members, and Friends of Sports:
The Delaware Sports Hall of Fame was established in 1976 to recognize outstanding contributions to sports in Delaware and by Delawareans. To date, we have inducted 302 individuals with Delaware ties in 32 different sports recognizing athletes, coaches, administrators, journalists, broadcasters and officials.
The Delaware Sports Museum was built as a part of the Frawley Stadium expansion and opened in June of 2002 to house the history of sports in Delaware. The Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame has operated the museum in addition to fulfilling its Hall of Fame duties.
After ten years the Museum is in need of operating funds. A decade of wear and tear takes a toll on exhibits, digital and video displays plus general infrastructure upkeep. We need your financial support to continue serving the public by collecting, preserving and displaying the history of sport of the First State.
As a Sustaining Member for 2013 you will receive a ballot and vote on the 2013 Inductees and have unlimited Museum access for you and your family. As a Sustaining Member, you will receive Signage in the Museum honoring your contribution plus special recognition in the 2013 induction banquet program.
Please help us to continue to be able to operate the Museum and commemorate the great sports history of Delaware and Delawareans.
In addition to financial support, we are seeking to expand our group of Museum volunteers. We need volunteers for everyday Museum operations, care for the Museum displays, maintain the Museum building, catalog our collections, prepare plans for school and senior tour groups, and to maintain and upgrade our web site and computer systems.
Please call me or Museum Director Jon Rafal with any questions.
Sincerely Yours in Sports,
Thomas H. Fort, President
302-234-7803
Philadelphia Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon
Two club members sent in their recollections on the Philadelphia Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon from this past weekend:
From Keith Crispin:
Here’s my stats for the Philly half…;
Chip time 1:26:11 – Pace 6:35
7th from Delaware and I see Sarah Rusk was right on my tail
Div 21 out of 737
Overall 328 out of 15116
Ran about the same time as the last four or five years… Only difference I drop my car key – TWICE. Nothing like turning around and with 20,000 the people coming at ya. I lost a good 30 seconds… and on top of it I drop the key off at a pole and someone then stole it…. Luckily I drove up with friends (so why did I have a car key)?
The first half was 6:20 pace… fell apart from mile 7 – 11 6:38 pace and the last mile or so 6:22 pace. The endurance with good and the breathing was just too relax. It’s just the one hamstring. It’s so tight that I can’t get that leg going. Once it tightens not much more I can do. It’s been like this since Boston or maybe longer so I suspect I just have learn to deal with it. Anyway the good thing is that I didn’t blow up.. so Chicago in 3 weeks is now looking a little brighter. Maybe if I’m lucky I can get Annette to massage it out 20 minutes… each night.
From Jerry Herman:
Last Sunday, 9/16/12 2012 Rock ”n” Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon. It will always be PDR to me. What’s in a name anyway? I just really like to run this race. This was probably the 20th time I’ve run this race under its’ various names. I wasn’t nearly as fast as Keith or the other 9500+ runners that finished before me. My fastest mile was mile one in 9:49 and the slowest was mile 13 in 10:49 for a finish of 2:15, probably only two minutes slower than 2010.
I missed the race in 2011. That means that this year was the first year I ran the “new course” which went counter-clockwise around the river. Running counter-clockwise means that the last two-tenths was up hill. Probably not much of a hill but after 13 miles it was like Mt Everest to me.
The weather at the start was great. Almost two hours in to the race it became pretty warm. I guess to enjoy the best weather you just have to run faster.
To save money the Rock-n-Roll series didn’t put the usual information in the swag bag. You know little things like starting time and place and parking information. I was told it was part of the on line confirmation that was sent via E-mail. It is just something to keep in mind if you run one of their races.
The shirt is really nice. The “logo” on the front isn’t all that BIG and it is repeated on the side, towards the bottom on the back of the shirt. It is a nice blue color. No sponsor logos on the shirt. The entry fee tells me they didn’t need sponsors.
Would I run it again next year, high cost, minimal swag, nice shirt and an almost mandatory trip to the expo? For sure if I’m in town, I’ll be running PDR again.
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The account of my running the Fox Valley Marathon in St. Charles, Illinois is posted here:
http://mccorq.blogspot.com/2012/09/fox-valley-marathon.html.
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Race Results:
Bottle and Cork 5K
26:35 Nina Smeltzer, 1st 50-54
Women’s Race for the Pink Ribbon
19:57 Lynn Knothe, 3rd Overall
20:03 Kelly Horowitz, 4th Overall
AHEPA Olympic 5K
19:11 Epi Camacho, 2nd Overall, 1st 50-59
Nun Run 5K
18:04 John Costello, 1st Master, 2nd Overall
18:52 Tom Jermyn, 4th Overall
Philadelphia Rock ‘n’ Roll Half-Marathon
1:16:12 Enos Benbow
1:24:09 Matt Cutrona
1:26:11 Keith Crispin
1:28:01 Sarah Rusk
1:30:59 Chris James
1:36:24 Dirk Sweigart
1:36:37 Michael Peyton
1:42:35 Sheri Herrman
1:53:51 Elena Kupchik
2:15:48 Jerry Herman
Fox Valley Marathon (St. Charles, Il.)
4:35:54 Dave McCorquodale, 1st 65-69