From President Ray
New Club Sponsor Wins Race
PCVRC welcomes Al Carter and his SceneTap – B+ Foundation Race Team as presenting sponsor of the new DDC 5K. He’s a huge supporter of the club’s main charity partner. From his website:
“Al Carter won his first professional career race yesterday in the streets of Downtown Baltimore. TRG’s Al Carter and Patrick Pilet won the 2012 Baltimore Sports Car Challenge presented by SRT in GT Challenge in their #68 SceneTap – B+ Foundation – Adobe Road Winery Porsche 911 GT3 Cup.” …read more at www.bpositiveracing.com
Al hopes to be able to have his race car at Delaware Distance Classic on Oct 7, so be sure to be there. If not running, many volunteer critical opportunities are still available!
Group Runs Make Training Fun
Come to one of our group runs when possible. Help newer runners improve or make your own training more enjoyable. We had about 25 at our Pizza Run a couple weeks ago. I can’t bribe people with pizza & beer every week to run with me, but more people makes running easier to look forward to, even on a hot & humid day. The Horowitz twins are becoming Thursday regulars and new people have been showing up lately to run or walk. Hope to see you soon on a Wed or Thurs 6pm at Delcastle or Sun 8am on Main St. Newark!
PCVRC at Nun Run 5K: Saturday 9/15 9am
Andy Jakubowich will be lead bike. Dr. Dan will be a course marshal. Other club members are volunteering or manning club table. Pizza, Chic-fil-A, beer, chocolate milk, DJ music, goodie bags, raffle prizes!!!! It’s also the Delaware RRCA State Championship 5K. Register at www.NunRun5k.org or please contact Ray if you can help at PCVRC table.
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Hugh Campbell Moorestown Article
Wednesday’s New-Journal running column by Kevin Tresolini featured PCVRC’s own Hugh Campbell. Hugh told me in a phone conversation that Tresolini had wanted to write the article before the Moorestown 8K,which was Hugh’s first event participating in the USATF Mid-Atlantic Road Race Series. Hugh told Tresolini that he ought to at least wait in case Hugh “fell on my face”. As the article makes clear, Hugh didn’t do that:
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20120905/SPORTS1101/309050034/At-88-years-old-novice-runner-leads-pack?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CSports.
This is also a good time to report a result which was overlooked when previously reporting the Moorestown results. This writer was unaware that the club organizers had made an effort to have a runner from the club in every age-group at that race. Representing the club in the 14 and under age-group was eight year-old Liam Kauffman, who did well to finish 10th in a time of 48:17. All the other runners in that group, who finished ahead of LIam, were three to six years older than Liam.
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Ed Maher of USATF Mid-Atlantic writes:
“I’ve received a couple of emails recently regarding how to apply the $2 Grand Prix discount when registering for Grand Prix races online. The Grand Prix page on the USATF Mid-Atlantic web site lists what should be used for each race.”
PCVRC’s own Delaware Distance Classic 15K is the next event in the series.
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Runner Survey
This editor received an e-mail from a person representing Almighty, a technology & advertising firm in Boston, which has “built a number of running-related applications, digital experiences and installations”. For its own internal information, not for marketing purposes, it is conducting a survey of runners. To take the survey, to go: http://almty.co/run2012. To thank participants, it is giving away a new iPad to one randomly-selected survey entrant.
For more info in this company, see: (http://www.bealmighty.com) and specific case studies around its. work in support of running form analysis (http://bit.ly/QtPLkG) and the digital experiences around the US High School Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Championships (http://bit.ly/U8PVwS).
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Race Results:
Labor Pain 12 Hour Endurance Trail Run:
John Schultz (50K): 9:52:59; 35 miles total: 11:18:15
Cindy Foundation for Ovarian Cancer Research 5K:
17:29 Andy Jacubowitch, Overall Winner
19:09 Chris James, 3rd Overall, 1st 30-39