Wednesday, April 15, 2009

April 18, 2009 Newsletter


NEWS FLASH: TWO SATURDAY TRAINING RUNS CANCELED

There will be no organized training runs this Saturday, April 18th and next Saturday, April 25th. You can come out and run but there will be no course support. Read on for more details.

The Camarillo Half-Marathon is this Sunday, April 19th. Some of are members will be racing. If you have a few hours to spare, please consider volunteering at the Inside Track booth. We are still looking for volunteers for the 6 am to 9 am shift and the 9 am to 12 noon shift. Come out, race/volunteer or cheer for your fellow Inside Trackers!

Two big races are coming up next weekend --- the inaugural Ragnar Relay in Los Angeles and the Big Sur Marathon. A huge number of Inside Trackers will be participating in those two races.

See you at the beach on May 2nd!


TRAINING CORNER
By George Arita, Advisor of Training
Georgerunvta@aol.com

LSD

Due to the Camarillo Half-Marathon on Sunday, in which many members will be participating either as race entrants and/or booth volunteers, there will no official LSD run on Saturday. You may come to our regular meeting site at Inside Track at 7:30 AM to do you own LSD run but there will be no water, Gatorade, bananas, bagels and no or not many friendly faces to provide encouragement. If you run on Saturday on your own, the calendar calls for a 12 mile LAM preparation run. Those running Big Sur next Sunday (April 26) should run eight miles, or better still, run the 10K at the Camarillo race on Sunday (I don’t recommend running the half).

UPCOMING RACES

In addition to The Camarillo Half on Sunday (April 19), other events, in which several of our members will be participating, include the Boston Marathon on Monday (April 20), the Ragnar Relay (April 24-25), Big Sur International Marathon (April 26), Orange County Marathon and Half Marathon (May3), and LA Marathon (May 25).

Regarding the Ragnar Relay, Lisa Anderson’s team needed two replacement runners (I don’t know if the replacements were found). If you are interested, send me an email to that effect and I will forward it to Lisa.

Regarding LAM, I read in The Times that the LA City Council is considering urging the race organizers to return the race to the original first of March race date. Hope they are successful with the fallback.

To everyone participating in these upcoming events, I wish you all the most pleasant and successful day or days of running.

ESSAY

No essay this week.

CLUB NEWS

*Birthday greetings

April 25 - Mike Miskel
April 28 - Richard Hernandez

Good luck to our Boston Marathon-bound members --- Mike Miskel, Rick Kanatzar and Carole Coffman! Hats off to you folks!

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