tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17955071102829126462024-02-02T02:56:16.561-08:00Somerville Road RunnersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1795507110282912646.post-85598316368898657042020-09-09T16:04:00.010-07:002020-09-10T11:55:58.141-07:00The Conqueror - Summer 2020<div class="separator"><p style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><h3><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFOEPguHOgun2k97s3xumBlFGlVdf6hvu7IWjBrhb1kcpAIS-FBOdBltnyONplPNiTRTw0b9u-P9UUj-KqJaQET5yik5pH1fKUDADDXwzZ4OWshJ6xm5Pe8sGGzAarIgt_79tvKTaeTEo/w640-h640/26x1_relay.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></span></h3></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h3><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br /></span></h3><h2><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i><span><span>This edition of the newsletter focuses on inclusion and diversity </span>in the running community. </span></i></span></h2><h2><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i><span><br /></span><span><b>SRR news from the summer is recapped as well,</b></span><b> including the 26x1 Virtual Relay pictured above.</b></i></span></h2><h2><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Special thanks to Carrie-Anne DeDeo for editorial review, and to all club/board members who contributed content.</i></span></h2></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2f02668a-7fff-a595-3176-99a1ad6807a8"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Statement from the SRR Board of Directors (Originally Posted 6/4/20)</span></span></h2></span></h2><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a5b15399-7fff-62c8-83d6-27d4caab2714"><span style="font-family: arial;"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fellow SRR members,</span></p></span></span><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A few days ago we kicked off a set of challenges and a call for increased SRR social media engagement in connection with Global Running Day. However, given the continuation and recent escalation of racism, discrimination, and violence against people of color and the ongoing protests, it is clear that our original effort distracts from more immediate and important issues and we must shift our focus to support ongoing anti-racism efforts.</span></p></span></span><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our club does not currently reflect the diversity of the larger Somerville community. As an organization, we can do a much better job of welcoming and embracing that diversity and amplifying the voices of people of color. We are committed to doing this work. This growth will be a process, but here is where we intend to start:</span></p></span></span><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To focus attention on the voices that matter most now, we will not be further promoting our activities surrounding Global Running Day. Instead of making SRR's donation dependent on social media engagements, we will donate the maximum pledged amount to the 26x1 charity pool immediately. We are doing this to encourage our members to take time and space to reflect, learn, converse, and participate in activism, in the best ways they can during this difficult time. </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We reject racism and discrimination in all forms, and state clearly for our community that Black Lives Matter.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a Board, we commit to making our club welcoming to the Black community and communities of color, and we will actively seek diversity in our membership, volunteering, and leadership. We commit to doing the challenging legwork necessary to grow and learn as an organization, and to better serve our running community and our neighbors.</span></p></li></ol></span></span><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Running represents, among other things, an opportunity to strengthen body and mind, to connect with others, to spend time alone, to release stress, to explore, to meditate, and to reflect. With reflection in mind, current events are a glaring reminder of the longstanding inequalities and injustices endemic to our society, including the running community. It is a reminder that many of the prerequisites for running that many of us take for granted—physical health, time, personal safety, among others—are not shared and enjoyed by all. With that in mind we are choosing to use the remainder of the week and beyond to listen, learn, and consider how we can improve as an organization. The Somerville Road Runners is and always has been focused on community service, and we embrace this moment as an opportunity to be better at that. We have come together through running, and we will keep our community engaged around that shared love and joy while we strive to improve ourselves and our community. Please stay involved, stay motivated, and feel free to reach out to us for any reason.</span></p></span></span><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sincerely,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.srr.org/contact-directory" target="_blank">The SRR Board</a>:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Irene Lanois, President</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sara Radkiewicz, Vice President</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brian Tinger, Treasurer</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Doug Lipinski, Secretary</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dustin Counsell, Member at Large</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nils Vaule, Member at Large</span></p></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-76ecd4b1-7fff-be00-3c32-ad77e43256e5" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Introducing the Inclusion and Diversity Committee</span></span></span></h2><p style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d30c6ae2-7fff-0954-9274-5a1f7e40b59f"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Thanks to Nils Vaule for forming a committee of club members who have been starting the conversation about how SRR can better serve a larger running community and our neighbors and do better work related to inclusion and equity. Please reach out to the committee if you have ideas or interest. The committee (Carrie-Anne DeDeo, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jonathan Hearn, </span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Irene Lanois, </span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rich Lawson, </span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Doug Lipinski, </span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Urvi Mujumdar, </span><span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Jess Peterson, Sara Radkiewicz, and </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nils Vaule</span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">) will present their initial plan next week at the September board meeting. </span></p><div><span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1664" data-original-width="1889" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1sNaygwB_lM_2NOTTfgTYB5qHEfqovQIfBFrenk8Zk3PxBkCRm1xGhF3_wXYiuP8nRh407OwVyW6C6M7HfgNqDH7wfLOowk0iJ4SZQnOT1L5rhI_SJRBMMOkk0GD5zqWDH1csXa1Zl8Q/w400-h353/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">The Inclusion and Diversity Committee<br />Virtual Meeting, August 2020<br />Photo Credit Urvi Mujumdar</span><br /><br /><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-b7a38453-7fff-9241-db37-4902a63d5343"><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />Rest, Reflect, and Rebuild</span></span></h2><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">This compilation is based upon contributions from Laurie Gagnon, Julie Holt, Andy Marinelli, Urvi Mujumdar, Liza Neustaetter, Jess Petersen, and Cherie Turner. The goal is </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">to elevate</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> athlete voices, suggest readings, recommend podcasts and share more with our community. We welcome additional ideas to feature on social media and upcoming newsletters (email: marketing@srr.org). The Inclusion and Diversity Committee pictured above is working on other ways we can bring participation to SRR through virtual discussions on these topics, or book clubs for our members. </span></p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Podcast Suggestions:</span></span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scene on Radio Season 2: Seeing White</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This 14-episode podcast series digs into the history of the origins of “whiteness” in America and offers illuminating stories about its impacts of the present-day racial climate in the country. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/880379282/the-mind-of-the-village-understanding-our-implicit-biases" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Mind Of The Village: Understanding Our Implicit Biases</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This episode of the Hidden Brain podcast explores the ways in which society shapes individuals’ implicit biases regarding race.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-9f762c28-7fff-6f25-7c16-8fdfb13ae9e6" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Code Switch</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This NPR podcast, hosted by journalists of color, tackles issues of race head-on and explores its impact on all aspects of society.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://aliontherunblog.com/podcast/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ali on the Run</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This podcast series features interviews with </span><a href="https://aliontherunblog.com/?s=courtney+carter" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Courtney Carter</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Oiselle's Advisor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Navajo runner </span><a href="https://aliontherunblog.com/?s=dinee" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dinée Dorame</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://keeping-track.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keeping Track</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Keeping Track podcast by runners Alysia Montano, Molly Huddle, and Roisin McGettigan shares lesser known stories of women in running and track and field, including</span><a href="https://keeping-track.com/episodes/f/racing-for-representation" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">research on representation on running magazine covers</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and</span><a href="https://keeping-track.com/episodes/f/episode-21-gwen-berry-on-podium-protests" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">an interview with Gwen Berry</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, who was put on probation for protesting racial inequality at the 2019 Pan Am Games.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://runningonom.com/245-jordan-marie-brings-three-white-horses-daniel/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Running on Om</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This episode of the Running on Om podcast features Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Daniel, a Sioux runner who is an advocate for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.richroll.com/podcast/knox-robinson-527/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rich Roll</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In his second appearance on the Rich Roll podcast, Knox Robinson, shares his thoughts and experience as the founding coach of the Black Roses running club in New York City.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Podcasts with Black Hosts:</span></span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Run Wave: </span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftherunwave.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1fo3gOOIhhjm22OdX4baLh5iNVEkUxXZRlhJaWqrn0WZdr96m9jHopJoY&h=AT1Rp3GjPJnhdwAIAO397TxQq_EM5wDpEO0x9W1PmotPwjVZt2qIbG7jUvuJJ0AH-L15kdRV_plHlN-UwCzrQrovpW4rIfoD5IXjJ6JU_7UVH9FDPVhZa-y_RR3iK9dFG2gfoV_-2cprRMAvQQ&__tn__=-UK-y-R&c[0]=AT0dctejP09UcIH2Xf_JGAJDh3g5Fwr3ZE-cODc9Fp_2lzH8OmXYLhPf3kIywZFlOyOu0pZ-UonRTIfa1dCx6bqF7e2-Y5ZAT_ipqlNLONddp2KQk9goot3in2HokhKTzOHFtQfyuCtgpKwK4-vPSx8-o6GiQxvCbuTPVco2gtmQohRbLVbGsQC4kZhzF0dcbtB6YESSInP6SqySBWastw" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://therunwave.com</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Runner's Life: </span><a href="https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/a-runners-life-marcus-brown-Oc0vh4XBkbp/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/a-runners-life-marcus-brown-Oc0vh4XBkbp/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Start Line: </span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flinktr.ee%2Fthestartlinepod%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3FidDfcZ7dJnQ7ri7Sy595gs78MiC8Bg0j30XvAygI0qGmN8vh9LPBD2U&h=AT0S5auq5lZafh2-l57PAlOb_3jb0GSjfBGOXEgPqX7QPw5cE3SzJgsSShRrSdiVXPh1w6jbF4Rht1JMCO0Q_4HRCIL3OQyYbbHnUebPAy4x7e1-qdty0WLMZhyYDCgLNnId-xSZKXcoRJK9mg&__tn__=-UK-y-R&c[0]=AT0dctejP09UcIH2Xf_JGAJDh3g5Fwr3ZE-cODc9Fp_2lzH8OmXYLhPf3kIywZFlOyOu0pZ-UonRTIfa1dCx6bqF7e2-Y5ZAT_ipqlNLONddp2KQk9goot3in2HokhKTzOHFtQfyuCtgpKwK4-vPSx8-o6GiQxvCbuTPVco2gtmQohRbLVbGsQC4kZhzF0dcbtB6YESSInP6SqySBWastw" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://linktr.ee/thestartlinepod</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Run Duo: </span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flinktr.ee%2FTherunduo%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0l2vMW2-4jyu0sHh8vMzH8YHF4JHHUKH-DR0rzdsyPeajc6nZfsEyH2CI&h=AT2cnLpTbbRvl4YTmpGNqTpT2PAdU2_0Sxkl2AaaJnbHmYc-SKuNH2dgbASW5pBcTJqcOUUFNbS17qjO62g0KLAOnVyWvhRt-JvPI6M_NHwKa7-8fUJK10WK8k-tpT0xHFREGghkV0GiafVp3A&__tn__=-UK-y-R&c[0]=AT0dctejP09UcIH2Xf_JGAJDh3g5Fwr3ZE-cODc9Fp_2lzH8OmXYLhPf3kIywZFlOyOu0pZ-UonRTIfa1dCx6bqF7e2-Y5ZAT_ipqlNLONddp2KQk9goot3in2HokhKTzOHFtQfyuCtgpKwK4-vPSx8-o6GiQxvCbuTPVco2gtmQohRbLVbGsQC4kZhzF0dcbtB6YESSInP6SqySBWastw" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://linktr.ee/Therunduo</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 Black Runners: </span><a href="https://radiopublic.com/2-black-runners-6B0eMp" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://radiopublic.com/2-black-runners-6B0eMp</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Running the Dream: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Runningthedreamthepodcast/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/Runningthedreamthepodcast/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">300 Pounds and Running: </span><a href="https://300poundsandrunning.com/podcast/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://300poundsandrunning.com/podcast/</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Other Running Podcasts:</span></span></h3><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://timmermanreport.com/the-long-run/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Long Run</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/run-your-mouth-podcast/id1211469807" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Run Your Mouth</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/more-than-running-with-dana-giordano/id1509792131" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More Than Running</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://lindseyhein.com/podcast-2/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'll Have Another</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://cleansport.org/collective-voice" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Clean Sport</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="http://citiusmag.com/citius-mag-podcast-network/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Citius Mag</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://theshakeoutpodcast.simplecast.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Shakeout</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><a href="https://themorningshakeout.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Morning Shakeout</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We would be remiss if we didn't mention SRR Cherie Turner's</span><a href="http://cherieturner.com/podcast" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b00fe; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strides Forward</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">!</span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h3><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Video:</span></span></h3><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYNa4RfvXjs&feature=youtu.be" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inclusive Negligence</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">W</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d1c1d; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hat it's like to be a student of color at one of the University of Wisconsin campuses.</span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.728; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 14pt 0pt 4pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Readings (</span></span></span></span>articles, blogs, interviews, compilations):</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A blog about Intent v. Impact </span><a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psysociety/e2809cbut-i-didne28099t-mean-ite2809d-why-ite28099s-so-hard-to-prioritize-impacts-over-intents/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“But I didn’t mean it!” Why it’s so hard to prioritize impacts over intents</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.728; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/ahmaud-arbery/611539/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who Gets To Be Afraid in America</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this article, Ibram X. Kendi offers his perspective as a Black man who could have been targeted in the same way as Ahmaud Arbery. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.728; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Personal experiences and perceptions captured in </span><a href="https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a32678089/black-indigenous-people-of-color-runners-experiences/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11 Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Runners Speak Out About Running and Race</span></a>.</p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.728; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.himalaya.com/article/clouiseturner/raising-voices-of-bipoc-women-runners-425?Influencer_uid=3995334&Share_from=App&Share_to=Mor" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Raising Voices of BIPOC Women Runners</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: A compilation posted on the Himalaya app by SRR Cherie Turner. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.728; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><a href="http://www.fast-women.org/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fast Women</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: newsletter by Alison Wade points towards resources on diversity and highlights lesser known women in the sport telling their stories.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><a href="https://runthenorth.substack.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Run the North</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: focus is running in Canada.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/podcast-episodes-on-race-and-running-47527874" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9 Podcast Episodes on Race and Running</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pop Sugar shares a curated list of podcast episodes from a variety of sources, all of which explore the intersection of race and running.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.therunnerbeans.com/diversify-your-feed-non-white-runners-podcasts-to-follow/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diversify Your Feed</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The website Runner Beans offers an extensive list of Black runners to follow on Instagram and running-related podcasts by BIPOC runners.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.womensrunning.com/culture/wish-for-us-running-from-black-marathoner/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Speak Up, Speak Out: A Wish for US Running from a Black Marathoner</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Reflections from Courtney Dredden Carter (Oiselle) on how to create change in distance running culture. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.saltyrunning.com/diversewerun/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blog interview with Diverse We Run</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carolyn Su, at the instagram account @DiverseWeRun discusses other ways to showcase runners such as runners with disabilities, ultra runners of color, those running to combat violence against Native American Women and more. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a33240417/students-run-philly-style-inclusive-running-community/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What Does an Inclusive Running Community Look Like?</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perspectives from high-school grads from Students Run Philly Style (a free, nonprofit mentoring program). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Allyship resources in</span><a href="https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a32767304/how-to-be-ally-black-running-community-allyship-resources/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How to be an Ally to the Black Running Community</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">include running and run-adjacent groups to follow (the list is expanded below). </span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Other running groups: </span></span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most are taken from the RW article linked above or recommended by our club members. </span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 23pt;"><a href="https://rungrl.co/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0e0f0f; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RunGRL</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://blkmenrun.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0e0f0f; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Black Men Run</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.girltrek.org/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0e0f0f; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GirlTrek</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://blackgirlsrun.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0e0f0f; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Black Girls Run</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://cityfitgirls.com/group-runs/group-run-faqs" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0e0f0f; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">City Fit Girls</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/diversewerun/?hl=en" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0e0f0f; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diverse We Run</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.meaningthrumovement.com/about" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0e0f0f; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MeaningThruMovement</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://globalwomxnruncollective.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0e0f0f; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Global Womxn Run Collective</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.girlsontherunboston.org/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0e0f0f; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Girls on the Run</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 14pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.frontrunnersboston.org/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0e0f0f; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Front Runners</span></a></p></li></ul><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.728; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 14pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Books:</span></span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.sealpress.com/titles/ijeoma-oluo/so-you-want-to-talk-about-race/9781580056779/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So You Want to Talk About Race</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Ijeoma Oluo </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.ibramxkendi.com/how-to-be-an-antiracist-1" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How To Be An Antiracist</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Ibram X. Kendi</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://robindiangelo.com/publications/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">White Fragility</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Robin DiAngelo</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://nymag.com/strategist/article/anti-racist-reading-list.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anti-racist reading list</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (NY Magazine)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.728; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.728; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Athletes and Instagram profiles to follow:</span></span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diverse We Run @diversewerun</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alysia Montano @alysiamontano</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marielle Hall @mariellehall</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Will Robinson @akunahikes</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aliphine Tuliamuk @aliphine</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Courtney @eatprayrundc</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alison Desir @alisonmdesir </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Latoya Snell @iamlshauntay</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adam Merry @amerryrunner</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mirna Valerio @themirnavator</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keshia @Keshia.ro</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michelle Carter @shotdiva</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gwen Berry @mzberrythrows</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coree Woltering @coreewoltering</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marcus @themarathonmarcus</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sanya Richards-Ross @sanyarichiross</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sydney McLaughlin @sydneymclaughlin16</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Black Girls Run @officialblackgirlsrun</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tianna Bartoletta @tianna.bartoletta</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kamiliah Journet @kamilahjournet </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Bolt Journal @theboltjournal</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aisha Praught-Leer @aishapraughtleer</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">David Melly @chaserofsteeples</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paul Chelimo @paul_chelimo</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Allyson Felix @af85</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mo Ahmed @moh-speed23</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amir Figueroa @amirmfiguroa</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Boris Berian @borisgum800</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sarah Attar @sarahattar</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matt Llano @mattllano</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Abdi Abdirahman @abdiruns</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sally Kipyego</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> @sallykipyego</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hassan Mead @hassyhass35</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dawn Harper-Nelson @dharp100mh</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lopez Lomong @lopez_lomong</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Claire Green @claireggreen</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nikki Hiltz @nikkihiltz</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </h3><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Member Spotlight</span></span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Barbara Summers</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>SRR in Port Harcourt, Nigeria</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I became a member of the Steady Run Club almost 3 years ago after stumbling across the majority women group out running and walking in the streets of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. It was such an unusual sight to see a group of women exercising together, that I pulled over my car and yelled to them “Who are you? And how can I join?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Port Harcourt is the largest city in the Niger Delta, mostly known for oil extraction, militancy, and large waterfront slums--and it’s where I spend most of my days running a community mapping program. With its crazy traffic and urban violence, it is often not safe for me or many other women to even walk around the streets on our own. Steady Run Club has set out to change this by creating a fitness group that takes over the streets every week for a little bit of running and a whole lot of booty shaking.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Now, as the technical head of our club, I plan out the rotating meeting locations and routes throughout the city for our Sunday run/walk with an aerobic warm-up and cool down. It’s a bit different than your average group run because we have a lot more logistics and security measures than most running clubs: we have bicyclists at the front and back to stop traffic, we keep everyone together in a two-by-two line in 3 different pace groups (runners, speed walkers, and leisurely walkers), and we have our own security and support vehicles along the route.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Several years on, we are still a bit of an unusual sight to see out in the city, but our free fitness group has grown to include hundreds of members. We are even in the process of organizing our second annual Port Harcourt Half Marathon–-although it’s currently on hold for obvious pandemic-related reasons.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5G6i5LbZk5Y3M8FsHtxUMaBoIodbClUShOK2cRcQWd3w6YFMs03rjPS3THBw9gFxutp4KFDaQckBrowmkmJpAkgGaba5_aMKmbCQEgOL2W7BzleLpl5dsK3zJ1j32AxTLGO9Qx3Ol8ms/w400-h266/Steady_run_1.jpg" width="400" /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9xg4Spmu3MujZXSK2_f1ICJVFcZdOlXnt52bhaoC7asT18FmR_O-vAfK-MNZxdZzq_FUQ5Snf6snqmk3TQwQ0f5aD-zBffE35ocKB4t-1iJvbTR8QdBmg0Urzl2Fh2i-aqbW9hk394HQ/w400-h266/steady_run_2.jpg" width="400" /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFnngtDBHbBLdxe_8SM4VdzYYQfUCoNo6tKLruBkEwyFWqWWbGn-eEQnVc3tjGt4n30Et3cOHeS1o9hm6rYOv9hfeiE34Ou001EhE6thq6vy-_izmFs_pTbO2Z7Gjl5lOk0SGM_Yw7p54/w400-h266/steady_run_3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Steady Run Club<br />Photo Credit Fantashots Photography</i></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><br /></span></p><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Warm Up: Inclusion of Pace</span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Urvi Mujumdar</span></h2><div><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm glad we are having these conversations. We are in the middle of a very unsettling time in history, and we are all aware of racial injustices, socioeconomic inequalities, and other important topics coming to the forefront of conversations, social media, and our consciences. With this in mind, I have recently reflected on a different topic of inclusion--accepting runners of all paces and abilities.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-cefad17a-7fff-4054-eb6c-881b47a1a13a" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have been a member of SRR for more than 10 years. I met my husband Jesse through this club, and we’ve met some of our closest friends--whom we consider our SRR family--through this wonderful organization. That said, I have also experienced challenging conversations and scenarios in which I (and, I suspect, runners of similar ability and pace) have felt the weight of difference.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am extremely proud to be a part of an organization that respects that runners will have different goals, be it breaking a 3-hour marathon or completing a first 5K, but an important aspect of club culture is to truly respect that range. I write this with the intent to put into context what I have experienced as a runner who identifies with Group E/F on the</span><a href="https://www.srr.org/srr-track-pace-chart" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">track pace chart</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve experienced being so far behind in a race that volunteers joked that I couldn’t possibly be part of the race (exact quote: “Oh, you look like you’re just out for a morning stroll”), or running through the latter miles of the Boston Marathon (including the SRR cheer zone) to a very thin crowd, or running in races where organizers mistakenly shut down their water/aid stations thinking no one else was coming through. Sometimes talk at weekly runs of “what was your time?”, “what was your goal?”, “oh, that’s okay… at least you were out there” feels difficult. These experiences, for me, are uncomfortable because they make me feel on the outside of where many of our runners fall within. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the same time, it's important for me to highlight the examples of camaraderie and friendship that have helped me grow as a runner and to appreciate the simple gestures teammates have shown to me and others:</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Offering to run and pace me to a goal time at a race. This may not be as easy as it sounds, as I’ve heard from those friends how challenging it was to be out there for longer especially to waning crowds.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheering the back of the pack at a race, or sticking around the SRR Cheer Zone at Boston for the last of Wave 4. It is inspiring and emotional, no matter what side of the course you are on.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Considering the “goal” or “time” conversations. I get it that this is a competitive sport and therefore goals and times are important, and we often seek out teammates of similar pace to help us achieve those goals, but sometimes there is a perceived judgment of time (whether or not that judgment is real). I have appreciated the simple re-framing of the question to “Were you happy with your race today?” or "Was there a particular challenge you experienced, and maybe I can help with that?"</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recognizing that jokes or comments about time and pace may land wrong. Yes, I realize that these are </span>usually <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">unintentional, but I appreciate it when my teammates have the patience to recognize <i>why</i> something lands wrong. It helps us all appreciate and understand the other side. </span></p></li></ul><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will also strive to be a better listener, teammate, and supporter.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I recognize that someone else’s extreme disappointment may not be helped if I say something like “Oh, I could never run that pace, even for a mile.” So I will attempt to re-frame that into “I am sorry you are disappointed, and I am here if you want to talk about it.” There is no easy response. We can all do better, so this is my attempt to start the conversation. Thank you for reading. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1393" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVwyj5SPgKru4NPoe4WNxJUa3yl8Mu64QzQrd5vfrwx7bsRqWITr0I50VJOKDp-Jms5IEEkT7V3R8S_2pwZjlDMNmaHRfgGukqtHHItpcSuDzx9u9g4Dbfi-XAMSbT0nN293lVr7VlsrM/w273-h400/providence.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="273" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Urvi at the Providence Half 2016 <br />Photo credit Jesse Morrow</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></h2><div><span style="color: black; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><h2 style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">The Starting Line</span></h2><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none;"><br /></span><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">For those running Virtual Boston, here is an update<span style="background-color: white;"><span>:</span></span></span></p><ul style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><li style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We'll be providing a support option for our runners on the nicer weather day of September 12th or 13th (It looks like Saturday!)</span></p></li><li style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Support will be provided as a spot for runners to leave hydration/nutrition</span></p></li><li style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This will not be the traditional cheer zone, for safety reasons</span></p></li><li style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Specific location at Mystic Lakes has been shared on the google and Facebook groups</span></p></li><li style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We ask that SRR members please not run their marathon on the normal Boston Marathon course out of respect for the wishes of the BAA and the towns along the course</span></p></li><li style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have held some end-of-the-weekend zoom calls for people to discuss training, their long runs, etc. </span></p></li><li style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are featuring member spotlights on social media</span></p></li><li style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We're looking at options for a post-marathon celebration for our runners including a zoom call and (if feasible based on COVID developments) a socially distanced barbecue later in the year</span></p></li></ul><p style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Stay tuned for updates on the Virtual Gobble Gobble Gobble as well! </span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Weekly Miles</span></p><p style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-d0548ad9-7fff-17d0-ebbf-b1a29b7bd9b8" style="background-color: #fcff01; font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Joe has been posting</span><a href="https://www.srr.org/tuesday-track" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Track</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> workouts to the google and Facebook groups. </span></p><p style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-1cc04d81-7fff-8a2c-7872-895aa6e2f374" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The streak has been kept alive with the weekly</span><a href="https://www.srr.org/thursday-night-caseys" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Thursday Night Run</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> through virtual individual runs.</span></p><p style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reminder: We are adhering to public health guidelines and not organizing group runs of any kind right now. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Workouts are designed to be done solo while following public health guidelines such as social distancing and wearing a mask.</span></p><p style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"></p><p style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Try to seek out routes that are less congested or at off-peak times.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><p style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-10e22929-7fff-427a-fa5e-391bb875c2d1"></span></span></p><h2 style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Cheer Zone: Recap from the 26x1 Virtual Relay</span></h2><p style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e9994c8c-7fff-64a2-524d-b072c0e43184" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 780px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="780" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ulDvIRixaOibYb_Z1I8OZ5McZh-VUXr_4Zmr6SMyoja6Qkn6YGPt8PhMQ2zIJtSnsGedHxEet8B-19x_gSTOsPQNTaf3HYLCOFJEcEFmGYDVjs2chn-oiXWv86uetNdKqd8w_fUt" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-c3d69d3e-7fff-ae70-1f27-95507316e79f"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The 26x1 Race Committee was blown away by the number of participants in this year’s 26x-1 Relay,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and their generosity in donating to the race’s charity partners.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This year, despite being virtual, we had over 1100 participants who raised over $12K for the charities</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Back on My Feet, Walk Boston, Somerville Homeless Coalition, and the Massachusetts COVID-19 Relief Fund. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-89b29aef-7fff-14ed-922c-37b98ef61045" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The top 3 teams and times were:</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">HFC Striders Team #1, 2:19:34</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Heartbreakers Team #1 2:20:08</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Somerville Road Runners Team #1, 2:22:42</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration-line: none;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">SRR’s Bev Antunes was 2nd female overall. Congratulations to everyone who participated!</span></p><div><br /></div></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.srr.org/26x12020fullresults" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Link to 2020 Full Results</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><br /></p></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span><p style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJpKwd9smgjPXjnD0mLqNtjLByF2vBTHMF9uz1dlarqLhnBZ6sr_bAgqSeOiA7iw?key=SzNuZjQ3OFdWZmN1bzRCbk4yNDNQdnd3SlJIOEtn" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">#26x1Relay Photo Album</a></span></p><h2 style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Cheer Zone Continued</span></span></h2><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-37575402-7fff-de3f-8e3a-7786629a9915" style="color: black;"><p style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">In a summer of virtual races, Team SRR took to the tracks in the NYC Runs Subway Series Challenge.</span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Each runner completed the length of the NYC subway system (245 miles) between Memorial Day and Labor Day.</span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Challenge II starts September 21st for those interested, <a href="https://nycruns.com/race/nycruns-subway-system-challenge" target="_blank">check out NYC Runs</a>! </span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">SRR runners took part in many other virtual events this summer. </span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Congrats to those who wore their black and yellow throughout these events!</span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p></span><span><p style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Neurofibromatosis Northeast Virtual 5K</span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Big Ten 10K</span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Summer Classic</span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Miles for Melanoma</span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Run Across Tennessee</span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Run to Remember... and more! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><br /></p><h2 style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Shout-Out</span></b></h2><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6cddb768-7fff-9ea1-c27a-a51d2677cf06"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We had a milestone to celebrate in August as Jesse Morrow celebrated 10 years of quitting smoking, and the healthy rite of passage to competitive running, cycling, and more. Over the past decade, Jesse has raced and won several age-group and Clydesdale division awards with SRR. He has qualified for Boston on multiple occasions. Congratulations on the milestone, Jesse!</span></span></p><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: black; font-style: normal; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjz7bipe3IbNEYbRpoluop9s7Y_SmNMntaMDDnsY8R1UfwTcVvN3FLtYv9DeopXVGHdfhAFFzUNnZ1hyMCH9LWo1-WRquPQ81h04-ftuuncYGL7SORA_T8lDXSbQmEEX1sOIOx0Nr140o/s514/boston+marathon+2018.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="514" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjz7bipe3IbNEYbRpoluop9s7Y_SmNMntaMDDnsY8R1UfwTcVvN3FLtYv9DeopXVGHdfhAFFzUNnZ1hyMCH9LWo1-WRquPQ81h04-ftuuncYGL7SORA_T8lDXSbQmEEX1sOIOx0Nr140o/w400-h400/boston+marathon+2018.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Jesse at Boston Marathon 2018 at the SRR Cheer Zone<br />Photo Credit Paul Nelson</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><br /></p><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4a11f756-7fff-2fd7-03b6-32a113526a01"><h2 style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Messages from our SRR Community</span></h2><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eva Kopf-Ridout</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hailing from Longmont, Colorado, where we moved to last year in May, I am an expat Somerville Road Runner who still follows along what's happening on the East Coast.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lucky enough to live somewhere where I don't have to wear a mask while running because there is enough space to keep your distance, I have a few tips to share about how to deal with sluggishness during COVID-19--or just being a tired working mom of a toddler.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just do it.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We've all done it. Don't feel like running? Skip it? Just go out and do it. While you might feel sluggish during your run, I don't think I have ever regretted just having been out there.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cut your run short if you don't have it in you to run further, but even if you get out there for a short distance, you'll feel good when you're done. No one can take that from you. There really are no excuses.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Less but more often</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Runs don't always have to be super long. I've done a few 4 milers recently when I just had an hour between meetings at work.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was just enough to do something and still fit it in with a shower afterwards. Because we're all Zoomed out these days, aren't we?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shorter days of running but higher frequency gives you the benefit of working exercise into your daily routine.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the end, a day with exercise in it just feels different.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ditch those goals</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. I was signed up for a half marathon in July that was cancelled. I used to run at least 30 miles a week before I had a child.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, I'm just happy when I get out there. It's me time and a break from life. I'm on my feet all the time with my toddler so not logging all those miles is okay. It's temporary.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you have goals, that's great but I'm okay putting mine on hold for a while. Life goes on.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Appreciate your health</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Be happy that you're running.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our health is all we have, and that fact has more meaning than ever during a pandemic.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Take a deep breath, focus on the now, and keep on going. Spice up your route occasionally by taking a different turn.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You never know what's around the next corner. The time is now. Don't fret, and make the best of this.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-710e1c63-7fff-ea5b-f8c9-8c1d8e1dac3d"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With love from Colorado!</span></p><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="420" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/U7aMg7fP1lAt17qkNQloMIf1mFLsS8FHatmJ4BJpf1OcXqMRMPFK4YFp54VsNS1HYa9Fqbvabd33janUgCKJhSlEtYYjJ8KyG-_oQZBxOVIwOcEHrwA-cYWzKWIKnQWGx1B3h-JT" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Long Lake in the Indian Peaks Wilderness<br />Photo Credit Eva Kopf-Ridout</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><br /></i></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Corey Maillette</i></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><br /></i></span></span></span></span></p></span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><p style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Also saying hello from Colorado, Corey Maillette and Jenny Porter moved from the Boston area a few years back. </span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Here they are in front of their new home outside of Denver.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="468" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/NtHLAxY441ItrJd049UQ9WBhT8Hc_SaI_8ZWcGMvWDCVIldJaMPppuvOJykK9r6zBt83A63El-vkXpHjJczdtrThsKkITf7OR1uvoDbzsPkpjUCTaRQrHTtU4SdU-EqZKbyyTFhx" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Photo Credit Corey Maillette</i></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></h2><p style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;">The Road Ahead</span></p><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Dana Christensen</span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First of all, I miss you guys! When I first moved to Bend, Oregon in March 2017, I tried to find my running people like I had in MA, but I sort of struck out, even though this town is filled with ridiculous athletes running, biking, and skiing everywhere! </span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, I started my own running group with another runner I met at a gym who was wearing a trail race shirt. Bend Trail Runners now has over 600 followers on Facebook! </span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have paused the larger group runs for now, but not before I met some wonderful running partners who helped me train for my first 50-miler last summer near Mt. Rainier. </span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I keep it simple now with Covid raging, running and biking regularly with just two women. </span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We also all own "gravel bikes" and explore and get lost in the many many miles of off-road routes around Central Oregon. </span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They're JUST a little bit crazier than me, so they push me in great ways, and I'm so grateful to have found them. </span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They are my "Oregon Fembots," and ALSO make me get up wicked early to run! </span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In non-running news, I got married in May over Memorial Day weekend. It was a fun, small, socially distanced wedding that we held at a local park we poached last-minute. Next year we plan to have a larger celebration (hopefully!). </span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I met Keith, a hilarious ski bum chef dad at a funk concert in Bend in early 2018. He has two wonderful boys (ages 10 and 12) who are incredible athletes and love to run, alpine ski ,and mountain bike. </span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm extremely lucky with my "full" life (I try not to say "crazy" LOL) exploring the Northwest as a family in fun and active ways. </span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last thing: Please visit (once we're in the clear...)! It was SO GREAT to see Erin and Tim Morin a few months back when they passed through! </span></p><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div></div></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: black; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="416" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/ur3Vj_PJQqa2d64J_5v8fN5atjmnkDeUALSAdOMMRuct4UpLaceYSiFfLCNVsc8uX2X7cQAszGXUtVSrczDP7QPBtfzghkHxrN1lQZ8GO8ciWKthUjco6H7TQnSw5nfv7iRHMDMd" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Congratulations Dana and Keith!<br />Photo courtesy Dana Christensen</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">SRR Virtual</span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Thank you for continuing to keep our community strong through posting your virtual runs on social media:</span></p><p style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-76bf18ce-7fff-ba5f-b9b1-77c18dada4e5" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPe_tyeSZLZZ_RSEUlVPbxmfm-SpmbQgCluycF2dxU613ZOI3hclCmDK3hMUCPHfA?key=dVJSLWFTcVhkbzY1WVJBdHUtbDV0blQ3SHkwUGJR" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">SRR Virtual Album May/June 2020</span></a></p><p style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMgip4j_Trty7_dWa01AdJdK0Fk-bwUJVIYG-BGJ5Kk1FYUrOU5AByGwwLXrE9nHA?key=RVA0RkRIOFpTOFMtVHdqdzZXLWNKM0hhNk9Na1Jn" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">SRR Virtual Album July/August 2020</span></a></p><p style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Continue to tag us with #srrvirtualrun, #srrvirtualboston, #srrflattensthehills, #srrvirtualtrack, #srrvirtualthursdayrun, or #notcaseyspizza</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;">In Memoriam</span></p><div style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-356e0e75-7fff-6a02-f21d-5a858d0eb3eb"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A friend of SRR, Carol Chaoui of Wellesley, passed away on August 3, 2020, after an 11-year battle with metastatic cancer.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many SRRs lined up with her for her “Wonder Women and Her Super Heroes” team at the Cambridge Classic races, and we cheered for her in her unique costumes during the Boston Marathon and other local events. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She was an inspiration, advocating for patients with metastatic cancer, and showing resilience time and again by racing through her many treatments and procedures. </span></p></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><a href="https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/08/05/wellesley-carol-chaoui-dies-breast-cancer-boston-marathon/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tribute on CBS Boston</span></a></p></div><h2 style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Running Maxims</span></h2><section class="av_textblock_section" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><div class="avia_textblock" style="border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.65em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><blockquote style="border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: rgb(122, 213, 246); border-image: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 7px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Our best days are ahead of us. Stay positively optimistic and work your butt off.</span></p><p style="border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">– Aliphine Tuliamuk, 2020 US Olympic Team Marathon Trials Champion</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Excerpt from <a href="https://www.atozrunning.com/amplify-black-american-running-quotes/" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" target="_blank">Black American Running Quotes</a> </span></p></div></section><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span face="" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></div>Somerville Road Runnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234896043289449435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1795507110282912646.post-39150802882109980922020-05-17T08:50:00.001-07:002020-05-17T20:14:43.788-07:00The Conqueror - Spring 2020<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As we enter what feels like week 900 of social isolation, we’re all struggling to find our own ways to deal with the sudden disruption of normal life. Despite the lack of normalcy, the SRR community has made this time more bearable for me and for many of us. All the video chats, Strava posts, Instagram stories, and other virtual interactions we’ve had have helped create a sense of connection and community amid the crisis.</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-5a831a9c-7fff-cf2e-11f7-839092fe8539"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through online meetings and virtual running, SRR will persist through these uncertain times. And when we’re able to meet up in groups again, the club will be there to continue our friendships, runs, races, and charitable activities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Due to recent developments related to the spread of the COVID-19 virus, and after consulting with our weekly run coordinators and other volunteers and leadership within the club, the SRR Board has decided to take the following actions with respect to several planned club-sponsored events:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We understand that this situation is frustrating, and we appreciate your ideas and concerns with respect to these policy decisions. Please take care of yourselves and your fellow club members, and reach out to us with your ideas, concerns, questions, and feedback. Stay connected online! We are here for you and are looking forward to a return to normal as soon as possible. If you are looking for additional guidance for how to best protect yourself and our community during this time, please continue to monitor the statements by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.somervillema.gov/departments/programs/novel-coronavirus-preparedness-and-information" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">local officials</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://www.mass.gov/resource/information-on-the-outbreak-of-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the state</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the CDC</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, for up to date information. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Individuals and teams can sign up </span><a href="https://www.srr.org/26-x-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Race details can be found at the same link. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tag us on social media with #26x1relay. If you feel you need a boost, Victor Gonzalez has shared his virtual cheers that you can take with you on the road (#findaway #digdeep #yourewelcome)!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My motivation, for the moment, is just to keep running, and to contribute to the Boston and SRR running communities. I feel lucky to be here. This was my first-ever marathon training experience, and it was transformative: big mileage and crazy winter weather. I was nervous and on the fence about running Martha's this year, but I am very glad that I opted into that race. Being a part of the SRR Board during this time has also been a memorable experience. I really do appreciate how positive and supportive the SRR community has been throughout this--especially those initial few weeks of social distancing when we were all figuring it out on the fly. As a new member of the Board, I will say it is amazing to see how much creativity and work our volunteers contribute.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The past month and a half has brought many emotions, gratitude, and reflection. Rather than doing a final long run, I was getting ready for surgery. I didn't get back to running until the Thursday after Boston was supposed to happen, so ironically, September 14 (hopefully!!) will likely be a better time for me to run. Through it all the love and support of my SRR family has been abundant and unwavering--flowers, (socially distanced) porch hellos, meals, some eggs and greens, video apps I didn't know existed, people sending their well wishes, and more. I know and am grateful that I am so lucky (and privileged) in so many ways--the cancer was found early, I've been able to access top-notch care even in COVID-19 times, and I have my amazing SRR friends and community. Thank you for being there and for the opportunity to represent the club that has been my running home for more than 10 years! I will do my best to make you all proud. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We also heard from Sadik Tokgoz, who would have been running his 24th Boston Marathon, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and has been a member since 2011.</span></div>
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My location (Waltham) and my frequent mostly international travel makes it difficult to join the SRR trainings. I always promise myself to join the track workouts or weekly social runs but I kept on failing. :) Hence I earn the title of "Most antisocial SRR Member". :)<br />
I try to run with the fast young guys for the long runs once in a while if my schedule/training permits.<br />
Yes, I've been a regular for Boston Marathon for the past 23 years. I always wanted to run a marathon. Coming to Boston from Turkey as a grad student made it possible since there was no marathon (or a local public road race) in Turkey back then. I mostly do marathons. I think I have a few accidental pressured by peers 5Ks, one half-marathon, one 10K. I had done 142 marathons and still going on.<br />
Since I run on my own most of the time, the Covid-19 did not really change much in my running. In fact, since I get to work from home nowadays, it even made it easier/convenient. I did not have to deal with scheduling my long runs or any runs due to my long international flights or time zone changes.<br />
What has been the most difficult was not having any goals for a race. I didn't do a tapering down a few weeks ago as I should have been doing for Boston. Having no race in the schedule took my motivation away. I usually take some time off in May/June after the races to rest my body. But this season since there were no races, instead of taking complete time off, I might just do easy runs for 4-5 weeks before getting back to regular training. Then we'll see what happens with the races in Fall. Berlin just got cancelled yesterday and we were planning to go there with some SRR members.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coach Joe O'Leary will be posting weekly workouts that can be done out on the road (see <a href="https://www.srr.org/tuesday-track">track page on the website for full details</a>). Here are a couple workouts he has suggested that can be rotated and done anywhere/anytime. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Fartlek” is a Swedish term. It means “speed play.” And that’s what you do. You play with speed. You go by feel. Run hard, then run easy, and do it by feel. Don’t be looking at a watch. The length of the fast sections is up to you, and often is decided on the fly. The length of the pickup should determine the intensity. In a fartlek workout, there is no specific pace you are forced to match, no individual runner you need to keep up with, and no particular distance you need to complete. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since we don't want everyone congregating at the usual Thursday night run time, you can run the course any time during the seven days up to Thursday at midnight. If you're worried about the streak requiring someone to do the run on an actual Thursday night, don't worry, I'm sure we'll have some traditionalists who get out there on Thursday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>2. Log or report your run</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are a few ways you can do this.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you use Strava, just make sure you're a member of </span><a href="https://www.strava.com/clubs/somerville-road-runners" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the SRR club</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and make sure your privacy settings allow your run to show up on </span><a href="https://www.strava.com/segments/20229790" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the leaderboard</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. I'll pull the list for the week off there every Thursday night.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you don't use Strava or don't want to open up your privacy settings, just let me know that you ran the course and (optionally) what your time was. You can reach me at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">thursdayrun@srr.org</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dmlipinski@gmail.com</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, or on Facebook.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every week, I'll post the results to our </span><a href="https://www.srr.org/caseys-results" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">results page</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and let you all know when they're uploaded. I'd also love to hear about anything fun or notable that happened on your run. Did you set a PR for the course? Did you get stopped at four stoplights in a row? Did you see a turkey attacking someone's car because it saw its own reflection? Let's hear about it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, and this is important, I think we might even get more Thursday night participation this way than on a normal Thursday night. I was talking with Brendan Caffrey, though and he disagrees. I believe his words were "it's not that I think you can't, it's that you won't, and also that you're not able to." Or maybe that was a different conversation. Anyway, let's prove Brendan wrong! Join the SRR virtual run this week! See you out there (online)!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While our official SRR Kids program has been postponed, our families are still finding creative ways to stay active while promoting our core principles of movement and fun! Families have written in to tell us what they’re doing during these times: indoor obstacle courses, circuit training, jump ropes, and outdoor sprints to name a few! As a reminder it’s important for kids to get a minimum of 60 minutes of physical activity a day, and with the weather improving, now is the perfect time to challenge your kids and family to get outdoors and move (while of course observing social distancing protocols)! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This May, SRR Kids has issued a challenge: Aim for 60 minutes of physical activity a day and share a photo during the month of May. All participating kids will receive a free SRR Kids stretchy bracelet! More details and how to register will be coming soon!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Strides Forward Podcast: Inspirational Stories About Long-Distance Running</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Strides Forward is a new running podcast, sharing inspirational stories about long-distance running (marathons and ultras). And, it’s made right here in Somerville: the show is hosted and produced by SRR member Cherie Turner. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each episode features the story of one (female) runner, and dives into her insights and experiences in the sport. The first season focuses on running South Africa’s 90-km (54-mile) Comrades Marathon, the world’s largest (27,500 runners registered for 2020) and oldest (est. 1921) ultra-distance running race in the world. If you aren’t familiar with Comrades, the race itself is fascinating; each episode shares a bit about the history and traditions of the event. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can find Strides Forward on your favorite podcast app or at </span><a href="http://stridesforwardpodcast.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">stridesforwardpodcast.com</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. On the website there is also a list of resources primarily focused on women and running: blogs, books, newsletters, and podcasts (Do you have something to add? Please email Cherie at </span><a href="mailto:clouiseturner@gmail.com" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">clouiseturner@gmail.com</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). </span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8b075265-7fff-9bad-8b6e-83059b829b49"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To learn more about GritLink, come join one of our free weekly webinars. Each week we discuss a different sports science topic with providers in our network. Check out our schedule on our </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/gritlink/events/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Facebook page</a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, or by </span><a href="https://gritlink.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=a1332361fb72ef70ed6f92adb&id=81b3eff543" style="text-decoration-line: none;">subscribing to our email list</a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Or join GritLink at </span><a href="https://www.gritlink.net/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">www.gritLink.net</a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">--it’s FREE! We are expanding across the U.S., and I need your help! If you are a healthcare provider or know one who is an expert in working with endurance athletes, </span><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">contact me (cortney@gritlink.net)</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and let’s get a GritLink network started in the Boston area! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ultra-X Mexico is a stage race covering 160 miles of the Barrancas del Cobre--the Copper Canyons--which comprises a large area of the state Chihuaha in northern Mexico. The course includes ~45,000 ft of elevation gain, and the terrain is famously wild and uncompromising, as described in the book </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Born to Run</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which detailed the near superhuman ability of the local tribes of runners, the Tarahumara, and their ability to traverse it. They do all that wearing flimsy, home-made sandals, which made me feel quite pampered in my gigantic Hokas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I went into this race with quite limited ultra-running experience, having only completed one 50K trail race as part of my training. I flew to Chihuaha and met up with the staff, and the forty or so other runners, and the next day we set out for the canyons. We were only allowed 25 pounds of gear, and I was horrified to realize I would have to leave my thermos and batch of instant coffee prior to departing. Fortunately, our drop bags would be transported from camp to camp by the race arrangers--who also moved the camp for us--so all we had to do was get there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That, however, wasn't as easy as I had thought. The majority of the stages were run at 7000 feet above sea level, and my Garmin told me my blood oxygen was in the high 80%. I took a nasty fall on Stage 1 and likely fractured my hand and then rolled my ankle really bad on Stage 2. By the morning of the third day, I had a balloon animal-like appendage in place of a hand, and an ankle that complained with every shuffling step. The views, however, </span><a href="https://i.imgur.com/PDTzKOI.jpg" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">made up for it.</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Day 3 went through some truly remote canyons, which our guide told us “likely hadn't been traversed by anyone for a very long time.” I'm partial to believe that, as the trail sported </span><a href="https://i.imgur.com/DGWmzYL.jpg" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">several piles of neatly ordered human skulls.</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> There was around 9000 feet of highly technical descent on this stage, which left me absolutely shattered by the time I entered the village of Urique, where we were to camp for the night.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Day 4 was advertised as the hardest stage, with 15,000 feet of elevation gain over a total of 40 miles, and I wasn't feeling great about there still being more left in this race. Luckily a nice lady in the village gave me a bunch of burritos through an open window as I shuffled past late at night with my headlamp, looking for the port-a-potties. The local Tarahumara also put on a very cool dance show for us, which I wish I could have been more present-minded for.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, I was very preoccupied with getting my blisters dressed and eating as much of my disgusting ration bars and freeze-dried teriyaki chicken mix as I could.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Somehow I came back from the dead on Day 4 and made my best placement of the week. Saw a bunch of runners that day that I had only seen in camp prior, as they were always so far ahead. I even managed to pass one of the Tarahumara runners! (Disclaimer: He was 70 years old and had likely fractured his leg on Day 3, which only seemed to slow him down enough for me to pass him). Telecom Japan, which were making a documentary about the race, seemed conflicted regarding my newfound strength, as they had dedicated a great amount of staff to document what they surely expected to be a highly emotional moment when I dropped. Later on, I heard they were hoping to make a documentary about failure and coming to terms with your limitations. Not today, Telecom. Not today.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rejuvenated by my newfound powers, I pushed through the endless descents of Stage 3 and finally made it to the finish line in Batopilas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We had a proper rager of a party, and I slept like a dead man underneath a clock tower that turned out to be undergoing repairs (the bells rung every 30 minute, all night). During the many hours of bus ride back through the canyons, I reflected on how far 160 miles really is. Ultra-X was a great experience, and I'd recommend anyone to do the Mexico stage race (or any of their other races around the globe).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Though it may seem like a surreal time, there have been recent accolades from club members that are worth the cheers from your living room windows... (as you read this, several just ran the <a href="https://runsignup.com/Race/MA/Boston/Harpoon5Miler">Virtual Harpoon 5-miler</a> on Sunday, 5/17)</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Emer O’Donoghue was the <a href="https://newengland.usatf.org/News/Emer-O-Donoghue-is-USATF-NE-Athlete-of-the-Month-f.aspx">USATF New England Athlete of the Month for April</a> and also featured in </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://trailrunner.com/trail-news/new-englands-emer-odonoghue-honored-for-24-years-of-mountain-running-accomplishments/">Trail Runner</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kate Mueller set a 5K PR on the track in April!</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sara Radkiewicz, Julie Holt, Chris Smith, and Scott Abrams participated in the Virtual Cherry Blossom 5K/10-Miler on Sunday, 4/5. The entire crew lamented cancelled travel plans with a post-run Google hangout party, nevertheless.</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paul Amaral ran an Ultra on Patriots Day. He shares the recap and photos below.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My plan was to run 100 miles in 20-mile loops throughout the day. I woke up at 12:30am after 3 hours of sleep and started my first 20-mile loop just after 1am. First loop was fast, maybe too fast. I finished in 3 hours and started my second loop at 5am. Second loop was a bit slower, and I ended up finishing in 3:11. Started my third loop just after 9am and had to do a lot of walking. My family was waiting for me at the 10.5-mile mark, and that’s what kept me motivated. I finished the third loop in 3:32.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wasn’t sure if I would be able to start a fourth loop, but a little extra rest and the thought of family and friends waiting to cheer me on from the course got me out the door at 2:30pm. I was able to keep up a run/walk effort until about mile 66 where the wheels fell off, but I had to make it until at least mile 70.7 where I had friends and family waiting to cheer me on. Once I reached them I called it a day. I couldn’t have done it without the support of my wife and kids!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Total miles: 70.7</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The pre-COVID era of 2020 was a time of many remarkable accomplishments by SRR members! We began the year with an unseasonably warm Wintah Challenge, reminiscent of the Summer Steamer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many of our crew traveled to Martha’s Vineyard for the annual relay and 20-miler over Presidents' Day weekend. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Several came back with hardware, including Kieran Condon who placed second overall!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the middle of the pandemic, in a weekend filled with snow and sunshine, buzz about Murder Hornets, there was a wedding of club members! We extend our congratulations to runners Cindy Dunn and Patrick Luckow and wish you many safe miles ahead.</span></div>
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Somerville Road Runnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234896043289449435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1795507110282912646.post-91204706068729023492018-10-31T16:52:00.001-07:002018-10-31T16:52:15.117-07:00The Conqueror - Autumn 2018<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Autumn Running - Joe Lauer at the 2014 Manchester Marathon<br />
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Is there any better season for running than autumn? (Spoiler alert: there is not.) Crisp air, mild temps and an abundance of great autumn races is a perfect recipe for running enjoyment. It's always exciting to cheer on fellow SRRs as they run their fall goal races, and this season has been no different. We had large crews representing SRR at Chicago and Bay State, and smaller groups at Marine Corps, Cape Cod and others. Coming up in the next few weeks we have runners heading to New York City and Philadelphia. Whether your goal is a PR, a BQ, to cross a finish line or something else entirely - I hope you feel a sense of accomplishment at the end of the fall running season.<br />
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I also hope that if you're in the Somerville area for Thanksgiving you'll have time to spend some of your holiday with us at the Gobble Gobble Gobble. The Gobble is one of my favorite races - running and volunteering is the perfect way to start the day. I love that I get to share part of Thanksgiving with my running family... and get my run in before I eat my weight in mashed potatoes and stuffing. It's also a great way to give back to our community, as SRR donates tens of thousands of dollars raised by the Gobble to local Somerville charities each year. I am always grateful for the hard work of the committee and our volunteers, without whom this would not be possible.<br />
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I'm looking forward to seeing everyone out there. In the meantime, happy running!</div>
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<b>1.</b> Scottoberfest
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<b>2.</b> Indoor track will be held at MIT once again this year (tentatively scheduled for 11/6). Despite efforts to secure an earlier time, it looks like we will have the 8:30pm slot on Tuesdays through the winter. </div>
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<b>3.</b> Due to schedule conflicts, Coach Rick Muhr is no longer able to provide coaching support for our club. We wish Rick well, and thank him for his service to the club over the past several months. We are working on providing additional long-term coaching support for Coach Joe moving forward and will announce details when we have a plan in place.</div>
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<b>4.</b> It's already time to start thinking ahead to the annual SRR post-holiday party & awards banquet, and we need a couple more party people to join the planning committee. If you love throwing a great bash, it's a fun way to get involved (just ask Liza and Erin)! Message Julie at president at <a href="http://srr.org/">srr.org</a> if you want to help out.</div>
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<b>5.</b> If you haven't seen it already, check out the newly renovated SRR website at <a href="http://www.srr.org/">www.srr.org</a>! Huge shout-out to Webmaster Sara Radkiewicz for her hard work in making this happen! </div>
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<b>6.</b> Keep an eye out for your annual member survey, coming to your inbox this fall. The member experience survey provides valuable information and input to the SRR Board of Directors and helps guide our decisions regarding programming and budgeting, so it's important to fill it out when you get it. The board thanks you in advance!</div>
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<b>7.</b> As always, if you want to stay in touch on the latest club happenings or find out ways to become involved, talk to a board member or go to a monthly board meeting. Details are found here. <a href="https://www.srr.org/srr-meetings-1/">https://www.srr.org/srr-meetings-1/</a></div>
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<b>8.</b> This fall's kids program is in full swing. The program will culminate with the Team Chase 6th Annual 5K for Autism Speaks & Somerville Special Education on Sunday, 11/18. Pacers may be needed. If you're interested in running and supporting one of our youth athletes, contact <a href="mailto:kids@srr.org">kids@srr.org</a> </div>
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<b>9. </b>Volunteers are needed for the Gobble Gobble Gobble on Thanksgiving Day. You can run and volunteer - just look for the runner-specific assignments. If you're not planning on running, you can be a superhero volunteer. Sign up here: <a href="https://runsignup.com/Race/Volunteer/MA/Somerville/GobbleGobbleGobble">https://runsignup.com/Race/Volunteer/MA/Somerville/GobbleGobbleGobble</a></div>
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Join the Somerville Road Runners on Saturday November 17th for fun & interesting running & wellness workshops & demonstrations, raffles, runs with the Somerville Road Runners & MORE! We have activities geared for kids, adults, and the whole family, Come learn more about running & wellness in your local community with the Somerville Road Runners.<br />
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There will be runs with SRR members, workshops on nutrition, creating a race day strategy for runners every level, intro to trail running, Chi running, Vo2 max and gait analysis sessions, how to feel comfortable attending track practices, injury prevention and strong running with yoga and strength work, and so much more! Many local community partners will be present.<br />
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Gobble Gobble Gobble – A Turkey Day Tradition</h4>
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On Thanksgiving Day in 1997, just fewer than 250 runners lined up for a 5K in Somerville. The first Gobble Gobble Gobble was, in many ways, at the dawn of the modern era of road racing. Thanks to automated timing technology and the internet we know all of the finishers and their performances. In many other ways it was a race run in a different age. There is no readily available photo of every finisher; there were no t-shirts or medals; and there is no clear record of exactly what the first course was. </div>
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Running and racing has changed a ton in the more than 20 years since that first year of the Gobble. Runners have their pick of races on any given weekend. Races offer a bounty of amenities from amazing gear to legendary post-race parties. Thanks to GPS technology many runners have access to a complete record of every step of every race (and every training run on the way to the start line). </div>
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The “Gobble” has grown and changed in the intervening years as well. The race has grown more than tenfold. This year, over 3000 runners will pack onto Holland Street for the start. At some point the course changed from a 5K to the – now classic – 4 mile tour of Somerville. A post-race party was added at the Burren (and recently added an outdoor beer garden to increase capacity!) so runners can take a few more moments to relive their glory before heading home to the feast. The t-shirt has become an important and eagerly anticipated part of the annual race tradition.</div>
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Moving forward and changing with the times has been crucial to the success and growth of the Gobble. Equally important though is maintaining a connection to the racers back in 1997 who had enjoyed a run on the quiet streets of Thanksgiving morning. The t-shirts are proudly cotton; the post-race party is pleasantly low key; and, the entry fee is among the lowest around. The thing that keeps runners returning year after year (and the reason we keep organizing it) is the unique opportunity to focus on enjoying the company of friends, family, and a few thousand other friends you haven’t met yet. </div>
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Join us this year on Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 2018 <a href="https://runsignup.com/Race/MA/Somerville/GobbleGobbleGobble">https://runsignup.com/Race/MA/Somerville/GobbleGobbleGobble</a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">As you've probably heard me plugging at track for the last two months, we've got the 35th Annual Mill Cities Relay coming up on Sunday, December 2nd. </span></div>
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The Mill Cities Relay is a truly unique event where we compete across all divisions, as one club. Think of it as both the club championship for Eastern Mass./ Southern N.H. and the end of the racing year celebration rolled into one. In additional to being a cornerstone of New England running it is fun, social, and free to you as an SRR member (courtesy of the SRR Board). In my opinion, it's one of the highlights of the race calendar with a great after party to celebrate with your teammates. We are encouraging as many SRR members as possible to sign up for this race, it's really a great way to connect with SRR members.</div>
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The relay itself is a 5 person, 27 mile relay from Nashua NH to Lawrence MA, with legs from 2.5 to 9.5 miles. We usually enter nearly 30 teams and we are always a top club finisher (2nd or 3rd) and also win some age group awards every year (the coveted bricks – yes the awards are bricks). The club chooses most of the team rosters based upon current 5K times, and we try to balance the teams to maximize the number of team points across all categories.</div>
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November 11th, 2018 – <b>Somerville Honor Run</b> in Davis Square - <a href="https://www.cambridge5k.com/honor">https://www.cambridge5k.com/honor</a></div>
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November 18th, 2018 – <b>Cambridgeside 10k Classic</b> in East Cambridge - <a href="https://runsignup.com/Race/MA/Cambridge/CambridgeSide10KClassic">https://runsignup.com/Race/MA/Cambridge/CambridgeSide10KClassic</a></div>
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December 9th, 2018 – <b>Yulefest 5k</b> (and first race of the 2019 SRR Grand Prix) in Harvard Square - <a href="https://www.cambridge5k.com/yulefest">https://www.cambridge5k.com/yulefest</a></div>
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We’re still getting stewed at the BurRun every Monday night! Just this September was the 10th Anniversary. For those of us who were there for the first one, it was crazy that the little run that could reach double digits. Just this week the BurRun hosted BooRun VIII, our annual costume run with a couple of adult beverage stops en route.</div>
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You can join us every Monday at 6:45 for a 3.1 mile run through the streets of Somerville. Hang out afterwards, buy a pint and partake of the complimentary Beef Stew and/or vegetarian option. SRR loves to meet new people and deepen our connections with the local running community.<br />
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SRR’s weekly Thursday night run out of Casey’s Tavern in East Somerville continues its streak of 23 years and counting. During the past several months we’ve welcomed beginning runners, new members and out-of-town visitors to run with us for the 4.06 miles.</div>
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As always, we held a summer streak contest to see who could attend the most Thursday night runs during the summer. Sean Finn ran away from the competition by attending all 13 runs during the contest. In August we held our second annual kids run and ice cream social. September featured the annual old school Khoury’s course run. We also held two cook-offs featuring barbecue sides and dips. Come enjoy our friendly group runs and free pizza every Thursday at 7pm!<br />
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SRR in the Windy City: Chicago Marathon</h4>
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In the great tradition of Somerville Road Runners, each SRR finishing – whether it was Chris Klucznik who came in 116th or Heather who ran in more than five hours – was given equal congratulations from their club members.</div>
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Five hours before I was congratulated, Brendan and I had made our way to the dark lakeshore. The misty grey rolled in off Lake Michigan. Interspersed with the mist would be occasional rain. For those of us who had run Boston in April, this was but a sprinkle. </div>
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Somerville Road Runners invaded the rainy course. Two dozen SRRs were listed on Joe O’Leary’s tracking list. In the morning we found each other at various corrals and tents. In the Balbo tent, Paula Radcliffe gave a send-off to all the runners: “Trust your training and don’t go out too fast.” (I for one, sadly, didn’t heed that advice.)</div>
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At the sharp edge of the SRR spear, Chris Klucznik, Kieran Condon, Joe Lauer, Patrick Luckow and John Scott all had big PR’s. Meanwhile Robert “The Machine” Cipriano won his age group. (For those keeping score at home, Robert has now won his age group in 2 of the 6 Marathon Majors).</div>
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In other victories: Megan Prokop finished her Ezra comeback with a great race; Victor Gonzalez was the fastest of the three registered Victor Gonzalezes; Henry Wu ran his very first marathon; and, Cindy Dunn continued SRR’s tradition of supporting Chicago Paws by running for that charity.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cindy's Cat - Quicksilver - with her Chicago Marathon and Team Paw medals<br />
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SRR in the Spindle City: Baystate Marathon</h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From top left clockwise: <br />
Kate Daniel, Issac Burleigh, Øystein, Simon Anderson, Carrie-Anne Dedeo, Patrick Haneberg, Sarah Bolt-Culla, Dennis Shay, Paulo Amaral (center)</td></tr>
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Crisp weather reminded us that it was early autumn in New England. The tree colors turning reds and oranges reflected off the Merrimack. If you looked hard, you could see the golden singlets of a dozen SRR runners reflecting as well.</div>
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A mass of SRR spectators greeted our runners at the Rourke Bridge. Victor’s over-cheering helped Øystein push on to a half marathon PR. Kate Daniel barely missed improving on her half PR by only 16 seconds.</div>
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On the full side, we saw as the men’s team tore the course up, Issac Burleigh had a PR, Paul Amaral had a PR, and Patrick Heneberg finished a tough race with a 2:43. The three of them led the team to 4th place overall.</div>
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The women placed in 4th with Sarah Bolt-Culla running a PR 3:19, Carrie-Anne Dedeo and Sarah Poplawski both turning in big 5 minute+ BQs. </div>
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Dennis Shay also had a big PR. Tom Bok and Simon Anderson pulled in with Boston Qualifiers as well.</div>
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As usual, SRR also was representing in the pace groups: Scot DeDeo, Tom Breider, Nat Farny, Deb Downs and Nichole Bukowski were all seen out on the course carrying time signs in bright orange shirts.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Race to the Row</b><br />
August 26th was our 6th Annual Race to the Row in Assembly Row, Somerville<br />
Above: race director Scott Abrams receives $2000 toward our recognized charities from Assembly Row/Federal Reality.<br />
Since 2013, Somerville Road Runners has raised over $20,000 for East Somerville Main Streets and Somerville Track PAC through Race to the Row.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>SRR Volunteers</b><br />
In October, SRR continued its long tradition of volunteering at the finish line of the BAA Half Marathon<br />
above: some of our many volunteers who distributed medals to the finishers<br />
If you want to volunteer with us this year, you still can. We are always looking for volunteers for our Thanksgiving morning Gobble Gobble Gobble.<br />
Volunteer registration here - <a href="https://runsignup.com/Race/Volunteer/MA/Somerville/GobbleGobbleGobble?remMeAttempt=">https://runsignup.com/Race/Volunteer/MA/Somerville/GobbleGobbleGobble?remMeAttempt=</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Tune into Antunes</b><br />
In September, Chris Antunes set the club record for the 5k with a 15:29 at the Downtown 5k in Providence.<br />
But he wasn't done yet. Two weeks later at Lone Gull in Gloucester, Chris set the club's 10k record with a 32:10!<br />
It's a 15 day stretch that will forever go down in the annals of the Black and Gold.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Wedding Bells</b><br />
On October 13, Team RyBri made it legal;<br />
Brian Ketterer and Ryan Doherty were married in Portland, ME.<br />
As they celebrate their honeymoon in Hawaii, SRR gives them their warmest congrats. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>SRR Runs Cascades</b><br />
In July, a large group of SRR runners competed in the Jack and Jill Marathon and Half, in Snoqualmie Falls, WA. <br />
Melissa and Brian each took second place in their age groups.<br />
In August, at the Tunnel Vision Marathon (over the same course), Dominic Shulz qualified for the Boston Marathon!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Remember that Time?</b><br />
Photo from the Vault - October, 2011 (before Marielle and Greta).<br />
Lino Mancini and Jim Moberg handing off at the Mount Desert Island Relay<br />
The two of them, Boozing for a Cruising, would go on to win the relay! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Somerville Road Cyclists?</b><br />
In June, many SRR members took on the annual Battlefield to Vermont Gran Fondo.<br />
Rory and Patrick placed 2nd and 3rd in their age groups<br />
Dave and Joe also rode the full 149 mile route<br />
Jesse and Brian rode the "short" 113 mile Iron Distance route</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>First Time's a Charm</b><br />
In October, SRR's Jenny Brown ran her first marathon.<br />
At the Cape Cod Marathon in Falmouth, Jenny beat her goal pace in her first (maybe only?) marathon.</td></tr>
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<i>Eva Kopf-Ridout, SRR's Official German-English translator</i></div>
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There comes a time in a runner’s life when you reach your limits. It can be an injury, not being able to hit any more PRs, slowing down having a baby, or another life event. We’ve all been there. So today, I’ll leave you with a few words of wisdom hailing from my native country of Germany. Be inspired, take a moment to reflect about this wonderful sport of ours, and keep on running!</div>
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<b><i>Geteiltes Leid ist halbes Leid.</i></b></div>
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Shared misery is half the misery. If you’re struggling, find someone who is going through something similar. It makes it so much easier. When I was dealing with a foot injury training for my first Boston in 2014, I bonded with Urvi, who had a similar foot problem. We both ended up running the marathon, and the road to get there was rough, but being able to share the pain made it only half as bad. </div>
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<b><i>Aller Anfang ist schwer</i>.</b></div>
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All beginnings are hard. When we are set back from running, starting all over again is tough. Tabula rasa, a blank slate! I felt like that when I started running again after childbirth. Rather than being intimidated or discouraged, take a moment to reflect and see this as an opportunity for a fresh start.</div>
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<b><i>Übung macht den Meister.</i></b></div>
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Practice makes perfect (exercise makes the master). Seems obvious but it’s true! The important lesson here for running is to start slowly. If you overdo it, you’ll be thrown back and will have to start all over again. Take it easy initially and be consistent, it will pay off later. I ran my best races going to track every single week.</div>
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Time heals all wounds. Injuries suck and no matter what derailed your running, recovering is not easy. The human body, however, is a miraculous machine that will eventually bounce back. It might take longer than you expect but it will happen. Be patient. </div>
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You must take things as they come. Everyone is different, and every situation comes with its own challenges, so make the best out of it. My body now feels back to normal, but I had to adjust often as I went through my recovery. This journey has made me more grateful than ever for every mile and race I get to run. Run with gratitude and run in the moment!</div>
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<i>Geteiltes Leid ist halbes Leid </i>with Liz Cooney at the Gobble last year. I had to call it quits a month earlier due to back pain related to pregnancy but decided to give it another try that day since I was signed up. From what I remember, Liz had been struggling with a recent injury. Thanks for running with me, Liz!</div>
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<i>Urvi Mujumdar, President-emeritus</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36876194-strong">Strong: A Runner's Guide to Boosting Confidence and Becoming the Best Version of You</a> </div>
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Kara Goucher</div>
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Blue Star Press (2018) </div>
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208 Pages</div>
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ISBN-13: 978-1944515591</div>
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✪✪✪✪✪ [5 stars]</div>
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I decided to buy this book when it appeared on an Instagram post. I've always admired Kara Goucher as a role model for female athletes, but admittedly I didn't know much about her story. The book, a quick read, surprised me because she wrote in a style that was both inspirational and relevant. Goucher shares her own personal challenges and doubts, and a host of training tools from the field of sport psychology. A training tool she suggests for runners of all abilities is to keep a confidence journal. Runners tend to focus on the negative aspects of a workout or race ("I didn't have it in me"..."the weather destroyed me"..."Couldn't get myself out the door" etc). Goucher suggests taking the time to focus on something positive, with the goal of building confidence. </div>
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The summer of 2018 was a popular year for SRR members to run the Pemi Loop. This is one of the Northeast’s classic White Mountain long hikes. At around 30 miles and over 9,000 feet of climbing most people will do this loop as a multi-day trip, but we’re obviously not like most people. In three separate trips, Scot DeDeo, Doug Lipinski, Patrick Haneberg, and Matt Kiesz all did the Pemi Loop this summer. The weather was warm and humid, the trails were full of rocks, roots, mud, and water, and the route was long, but the views and the wilderness were worth it.</div>
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For the second straight year, Cheng-Chih Yang, Chi-Heng Wang, and Hsien-Chung Tseng ran the North Face Endurance Challenge on Mt. Wachusett. The race was rocky and challenging, but they all finished in good spirits. Rich Matthews joined them for his first 50k; while, Scot DeDeo ran the 50 miler.<br />
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Chris Smith ran the Vulcan’s Fury trail race on October 13th in New Hampshire’s Pawtuckaway State Park. The 13 mile long course features lots of climbing and descent on technical single track. Chris had a great showing, finishing third in his age group and just 21 minutes behind the race winner. </div>
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Also on October 13th, Scot DeDeo and Doug Lipinski ran a traverse of the Wildcat-Carter-Moriah range. Running is hard to come by on this route with continuous rocks, wet leaves, roots, and mud that add even more difficulty to a route with 8,000 feet of climbing over 19 miles. This includes an extra 1400 feet of climbing gained by doing the route from north to south. This is a point-to-point route so Scot and Doug ended the day by biking the 15 miles downhill on the road back to the car at the starting point. </div>
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Takes on the Big Apple (with Some Michelob Ultra in Tow)</b></h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deb Downs, Boston 2017<br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0.25in;">Back in July I entered an essay contest for a spot on Michelob Ultra’s NYC marathon team coached by Shalane Flanagan. I had to write about running and beer. With a little time and research, I can do this, I thought. I had discovered my love for this straight-up beer flavored beer the summer before. It brought me back to my Bud Heavy days only with fewer calories and total drinkability. And then there’s Shalane. She’s my modern day Jon Bon Jovi - a rock star and culinary hero. </span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.25in;">I figured it was a shot in the dark, but I soon found myself jumping up and down in my office after learning I was selected. Michelob Ultra is covering the cost of everything and hooking us up with the NYRR VIP experience. Pretty sweet.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.25in;">My journey to the start line has included hours and hours of stretching and exercises to overcome an injury known as Disastrous Gait Syndrome (GDS). Years of bad posture, my entry into the master’s (aka you will be in knots constantly) category, and complete ignorance about compensating patterns resulting from last year’s broken toe, had left me in a bad place. I gimped my way through Boston and still struggled to run pain free through August. Slowly, with the help of many awesome resources, it began to click. I’ve been fortunate to have a great build-up over the past couple of months and I’m psyched to be toeing the line on 11/4. Injuries are torturous, but can be a gift. I’ve learned a ton.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.25in;">A – Meet Shalane at the post-party</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.25in;">C – Talk to the heroically supportive and dedicated craft beer enthusiast, Steve, about something other than Michelob Ultra, workouts, and Shalane food…for at least one week.</span></div>
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<li><span style="text-indent: 0.25in;">Molly Crellin</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0.25in;">Amie Gauthier</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0.25in;">Cheng-Chih Yang</span></li>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.25in;">I have been running since I came to US in 2006 for graduate school at MIT, and have been a SRR Member since December 2015. I remembered it was 3 weeks after my first overseas marathon - Taroko Gorge Marathon - in the world-renowned Taroko National Park located in my hometown Hualien, Taiwan. My very first club event was the Casey’s run.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.25in;">It is definitely the one and only “Boston Marathon”. I watch Boston Marathon every year in the past decade, and have the Boston Marathon dream as every runner has. I was very grateful to receive one of the 10 SRR invitational bibs in 2017. It was truly a blast!</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.25in;">I guess I have short-term memories. The only unusual thing I could remember is seeing tons of bird poop dropping around me while I am running, and (thank god!) none of it hit me.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.25in;">Collected 4 Marathon Majors so far. No luck with London and Tokyo. </span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.25in;">Such a great community! I enjoyed Monday Bur-run (beef stew, yum yum…), Tuesday track, Thursday Casey’s run, and the annual Mill Cities Relay. I also appreciated SRR provides us the opportunity to volunteer at the BAA 10K, BAA Half and BAA Boston Marathon where you could see elite runners!</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.25in;">Of course! Great people, nice community, and delicious (free) food!</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.25in;">In my first year of my PhD, a casting director saw me in the Muddy Charles Pub at MIT, and asked me If I am interested in auditioning for “Beauty and the Geek” TV show. Hmm, did he want me to be the Beauty or the Geek?</span><b style="text-indent: 0.25in;"> </b></div>
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<b style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><i>“Some days it just flows and I feel like I’m born to do this, other days it feels like I’m trudging through hell. Every day I make the choice to show up and see what I’ve got, and to try and be better.”</i></b></div>
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Somerville Road Runnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234896043289449435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1795507110282912646.post-32779206524753441512018-04-05T09:37:00.002-07:002018-04-05T10:51:43.614-07:00The Conqueror - Late Winter/Early Spring 2018<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>The Winter 2018 Edition of the Conqueror was compiled and edited by Urvi Mujumdar and Carrie-Anne DeDeo. Special contributions from Shane McNally, Tina Mack, Julie Holt, Jesse Morrow, Nichole Bukowski, and Brian LaValle, as well as many words of wisdom from the peanut gallery in our Boston Marathon feature. Interested in contributing to the next edition? Send an email to marketing@srr.org.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">President’s Corner </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Happy Spring, I think. Is it here yet? I can't tell for sure. This winter was full of exciting achievements, awards and PRs (and lots of hardware), saw the addition of new coach Rick Muhr to the team, and included another year in the books for the Gobble, An Ras Mor and of course the Wintah Challenge. Still, I think most of us are ready for milder weather and the arrival of the day around which the running calendar revolves: Marathon Monday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It is no secret that Marathon Monday is my favorite day of the year, and I am enjoying the buildup to "runner Christmas." I love how our team comes together for our pre-marathon events, I love the adrenaline of our cheer zone at the 30k, and most of all I love the spirit of camaraderie and excitement that the marathon brings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In this issue of The Conqueror we have included advice and tips from you all to our Boston Marathoners, and I'll include mine here: m</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">y number one recommendation is enjoy the race and take it all in. Boston is unlike any other marathon in the world. Most people will never get the opportunity to have this experience, so make the most of yours! I have so many incredible memories from race day 2015, not the least of which is rounding the bend and seeing the SRR tent at the 30k mark, but my favorite moment was coming up out of the Comm Ave tunnel and realizing that I was about to make the famed right on Hereford, left on Boylston. I still well up thinking about that moment and the last stretch along Boylston Street, where I actually wanted time to slow down so I could savor every painful, wonderful step. Everything after I crossed the finish line is a blur, but I'm glad I took the time to take everything in during the last few minutes of my race.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whether you're running, volunteering, or spectating, have a fantastic Marathon Monday. Happy Running!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Julie Holt, President</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Congratulations to the 2018-2019 Board of Directors:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">President: Julie Holt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Vice President: Nichole Bukowski</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Treasurer: Brian Tinger</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Secretary: Melissa Glotzbecker</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Members at Large: Irene Lanois and Jason Lachapelle</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>As their first order of business, the incoming Board approved the following appointed coordinators:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Volunteer Coordinators: Liza Neustaetter and Jenny Brown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Membership Coordinator: Dennis Shay</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Welcome Wagon: Kari Lavin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Marketing Coordinator: Jesse Morrow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Long Run Coordinators: Deb Downs and Scot DeDeo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Casey's Coordinators: Irene Lanois and Doug Lipinski</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Webmaster: Sara Radkiewicz </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>SRR welcomes Coach Rick Muir! </b>Rick has been a runner for 43 years and a running coach for 22 years. He has had the honor and privilege of coaching over 10,000 runners to the completion of their first marathons. The following are several of his personal best times:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">100K: 8:41:17 (finished fifth in the national championships)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Marathon: 2:33:13</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Half-marathon: 1:12:12</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">10K: 32:25</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5K: 16:05</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rick says, "I am extremely excited to join the SRR family of runners. I am looking forward to sharing my running and coaching experience to help others realize their potential and become lifelong runners. I also look forward to learning from the collective experience of everyone at SRR in my pursuit of being the best possible runner and coach!" </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Coach Rick had the special experience of appearing on a panel with Meb Keflezighi in Austin, TX. <br />(Photo courtesy of Rick Muhr.)</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Get ready for the next season of SRR Kids!</b> Co-coordinator Shane McNally shares five reasons you should consider getting involved:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. Free pizza and 5K! If you volunteer with the Kids Program, you’ll have a great time hanging out with a terrific crew of coaches and coordinators. A team in every sense of the word, we support everyone’s achievements, from the kindergartener running her first mile to the coach aiming for a marathon PR. And after we run a 5K together, we all celebrate with a pizza party!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. Volunteer and have fun! Looking to get more involved with the club and gain meaningful volunteer experience? Coaching involves a commitment of an hour each week and a 5K at the end of the program. Not available every Wednesday? We’d love the additional help on weeks that you’re free. Or consider pacing a kid at for the end-of-season race. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. Share your knowledge and gain coaching experience. As an avid runner, you’ve learned a lot about this wonderful sport. Consider passing this knowledge on to a young person just starting out running. Past coaching experience is not required; your own experience as a runner is sufficient to benefit the kids in the program.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. Be a kid again! You may be a very respectable doctor, lawyer, or computer programmer during the day, but at SRR Kids, you’ll get the chance to hop like a bunny and play tag like a five year old. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. Make a difference! The SRR Kids Program offers you a chance to connect with kids and make a positive difference in their lives. By getting involved with SRR Kids, you’ll help to combat forces like excess screen time and promote a healthy lifestyle. If you want to pass your love of running onto a new generation, join us!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The SRR Kids Program began this spring on Wednesday, March 28, and will run until Saturday, May 19. Practices take place on Wednesdays from 6:15-7:15pm at the Tufts outdoor track. The season ends with a 5K in which kids run with adult pacers. Coordinators Shane and Darren are always looking for coaches to help out. Email kids@srr.org for more information. </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Upcoming SRR volunteer opportunities:</b><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/e/1FAIpQLSdG4FHBRtfCj13ZB8MXhck28PUd8y_ErrJ8h08XxIwdPQGpyQ/viewform?usp=send_form" target="_blank">Marathon Monday Cheer Zone & Elite Water Stop - Saturday, April 14, through Monday, April 16</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Check out our weekly runs--Monday night’s Bur-run and Casey’s on Thursdays:</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seth Maleri reports from the Bur-run: “Come out on Monday night for a 5K and food afterward. The Burren has a new and improved beer list. Love, Seth.” </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Check out the following link to sign up to help out with timing or for upcoming events at our Thursday night weekly run held out of Casey’s Pub in East Somerville.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Become an SRR Ambassador & Share What You Love:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Joining a new community can be intimidating. Sometimes you need someone to ease your fears and make you feel welcome. SRR is launching a brand-new Ambassador Program to support new club members by giving them someone to talk to, ask questions of, and establish a connection with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As a club ambassador, you will be given a special t-shirt to wear once a month to a weekly run (the Bur-run, track, or Casey’s) or to one of our races or other events. You will introduce yourself to the community during pre-run announcements, so that people know you are the one to go to with questions and for more information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is a great opportunity to support SRR and the community by continuing to do what you already do--run and have fun! If you are a regular Bur-run, track, or Casey’s participant and enjoy helping people to learn more about SRR, please join this new initiative!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We will be kicking the program off after the Boston Marathon. This new program will also count toward volunteer points, which we use as one criterion in selecting recipients of Boston Marathon invitational numbers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To express your interest, please fill out this <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKQ1rNxHOi0YIptdpxtxWRJD_uz6PV4P6bTiMKVtnkaGSA_A/viewform" target="_blank">Google Form for Community Ambassadors</a>. If you have any additional questions, contact SRR VP Nichole Bukowski at Nichole.Bukowski@gmail.com. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Want to Become A More Resilient Runner? </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our club VP Nichole Bukowski is leading a workshop in Waltham on Sunday, April 8. This workshop is geared for runners of every ability and will help you to feel and perform better! Nichole will teach you how to develop greater physical and mental resilience to up your game and keep you doing what you love with more strength, confidence, and ease.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The workshop will address how, when, and why to incorporate strengthening postures, myo-fasical release, deeper stretches, breathing exercises, and mindset strategies in order to make you more efficient and conditioned in body and mind. During the class, you will be guided through yoga strength and mobility postures and breathing exercises for efficient oxygen intake and carbon dioxide release--resulting in more energy and stamina--as well as mindset preparation exercises to give you the mental edge and post-exercise stretching and rolling routines to maximize the impact of each workout.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nichole has a rich history of competing in sports and teaching fitness classes. She has completed 22 marathons and is currently training for her 14th Boston Marathon. She finished an IronMan this past fall and played on a Division 1 field hockey scholarship for the Boston College Eagles. She believes the true game-changer that fuels her and continues to ignite the fire of the human spirit within her is a balanced routine of self-care strategies that extend beyond the miles she puts in hitting the pavement, trails, and treadmills. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Come learn how to become a more resilient athlete, mover, and human being.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">April 8, 1-3pm</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Laura Buso reports that buffs are in. They’re $15 each, and they’re a limited run, available from the <a href="http://www.store.srr.org/" target="_blank">SRR online store</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Congrats again to SRR’s ten invitational runners! Find out more about them in our weekly Facebook posts. This year’s invitational runners are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mary Booras</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Charoma Blyden</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Molly Crellin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ryan Doherty</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Chris Lupien</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Andy Marinelli</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Liza Neustaetter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sara Radkiewicz</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Leevi Raassina </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dennis Shay</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Everything You Need to Know for the Boston Marathon (from marathon coordinator Tina Mack):</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Planning is underway for this year's Boston Marathon, taking place on Patriots’ Day, Monday, April 16. Please make sure your membership is up to date at www.srr.org. Some perks require six or more months of club membership. Please let Tina know if you have any questions! (You can reach her at tktobey@gmail.com.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Boston Marathon course long run was a success on Saturday, March 24. Thank you to all drivers and volunteers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>SRR Sean Collier Memorial Run & Pre-Marathon Pasta Dinner</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Sean Collier Memorial Run & Pre-Marathon Pasta Dinner will be held on Thursday, April 12, at Casey's in East Somerville. Runners will leave the bar just after 7pm to run the 4-mile Casey's course. After the run, we’ll come back to the bar for a pasta dinner celebration. We will also be collecting funds for the Sean Collier Scholarship Fund.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>SRR Party Bus - BIG CHANGES HERE!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The party starts later!!! In a bold move, the BAA has pushed back our Party Bus arrival time. The SRR Party Bus will leave the Assembly Square T Station at 7:45am. No more early wake-ups! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you are parking at Assembly, please use the paid MBTA parking lot. The non-MBTA lots at Assembly will tow cars left over three hours. The Party Bus price is $30 (<a href="https://runsignup.com/Race/MA/Somerville/SRRMarathonBusSignup" target="_blank">signup</a>). The bus will wait in the Athletes’ Village, so you will have a comfortable place to sit before your start time. There is a bathroom on board the bus. There is no bag check at the start of the marathon. Anything you take on the bus you will have to discard or carry during your run. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On marathon day, Tina will meet the bus to check everyone in and to pick up any personal items (wallets, phones, etc.) that need to be taken to the Post-Marathon Hospitality Suite. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>SRR Post-Marathon Hospitality Suite</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We have a room reserved at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, a short walk from the finish line at 50 Park Plaza, Boston, for you to clean up and catch up after the race. The room will be stocked with post-race food and friends. Tina will be in touch in April with detailed instructions about the hotel and information about bag collection for the room. This perk is available to SRR members (of six-plus months) only.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>SRR Elite Water Stop & Cheer Zone</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The SRR Elite Water Stop Team will be providing an elite-style water stop for SRR members at the 30K mark. Need to pick up a specific kind of gel, feel like changing your socks after 18 miles, or just want a hug before Heartbreak Hill? Carrie-Anne, Urvi, and the whole SRR crew will be there for you! You pack up and label your snacks, and Urvi and C-A will make sure you have just what you need to finish the race strong. They will be in touch in April with collection times and locations. Here is the <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/e/1FAIpQLSfy_LzWTRgriCPsHstFNYH5wpK6b7gMy05o8CjrLQ8C0allEg/viewform?usp=send_form" target="_blank">form for runners to sign up in advance</a> with bib numbers, special requests for the cheer zone, and so on. <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdG4FHBRtfCj13ZB8MXhck28PUd8y_ErrJ8h08XxIwdPQGpyQ/viewform" target="_blank">Volunteers can sign up here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Also located at the 30K, the Cheer Zone is where all the cool kids hang out on marathon day! The Cheer Zone is open to SRR members, families, friends, and non-members. Really, it is just a big SRR party. MORE COWBELL! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>SRR Post-marathon PARRRRRRTTTAAAYYYYYY!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Head to the Burren in Davis Square at 5pm on Marathon Monday to have a pint, scarf some munchies, and talk split times, chafing, and race-day weather. <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aSzeeaiRJuPdLRzO9vwnFNGidLf_vp0BMHqOEs46JoA/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Sign up here if you plan to attend.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We’re looking forward to seeing everyone on Marathon Monday. Good luck with your training! Still have questions? Email tktobey@gmail.com</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Advice and Motivation for the Boston Marathon</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We asked the peanut gallery for any and all tips, tricks, and motivation for the Boston Marathon Class of ’18 and for those doing other spring marathons. Here’s what we heard from the SRR community! Thank you to those who contributed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Ryan Doherty:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On Marathon Monday, I am looking forward to the entire experience, from the bus ride to Hopkinton to the crowded start to the epic finish--and everything in between. Since this is my first marathon, I'm excited to see if/how all this insane training actually works! At this point, my motivation is just proving to myself that I can actually do it. (There have been days in training when I doubt myself!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Kieran Condon: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who volunteers at the 30K mark. I have done Boston the last six years, and through good years and bad years, this location has always inspired me. Even when I have been walking a lot of the back half, I always run through here! This is one of the things that I think makes the club special to me. Look forward to seeing you all again on April 16! Here is hoping it is not too warm…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Kimi Macdonald:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Everyone dreads the Newton Hills but expects them to start after the Mile 18 firehouse. But the first one is over I-95 as soon as you go through Newton Lower Falls. Be smart about that one so you don't burn out before 18 like I always do! If you're having a bad day, don't be a Scrooge, and be sure to soak up the experience--high-five ALL the kids, drink the beer (remember: unopened cans), smile for the cameras, help another runner. You won't always have the opportunity to be on that side of the barriers on Marathon Monday. <3 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There's always some drunk college kid at BC (or BU, let's be honest) wearing a horse mask giving out beer to the runners. Speaking from experience, TAKE AN UNOPENED CAN, NOT A RED SOLO CUP--for your own safety! Breathe deeply before you run past the VFW in Natick. So much cigar smoke ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Brian LaValle:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My advice for any first timer? Slow it down, breathe, and find your natural pace. Don’t look at your watch too much, and try to savor the experience. Think of just getting to the SRR tent. The shot of adrenaline from the SRR cheering section will give you the strength you need to keep those legs moving to the finish. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Warning: This advice is the EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT A COACH WILL TELL YOU TO DO!!! My advice for seasoned marathoners? If the weather is good, go out fast and hold on! You’re gonna hit the wall at some point, so you might as well have minutes in the bank to draw from. Just get to the SRR tent!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Bradley Harris:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No matter what happens on race day--performance of a lifetime, not what you planned, extended walking breaks, or ending your race before the finish line--always remember to hold your head high. You are in the goddamn Boston Marathon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Scot DeDeo:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My favorite experience with the Boston Marathon begins with one mile to go as you run under the "Boston Strong" bridge. At this point, any pain you’re feeling becomes irrelevant, and the finish pulls you in. As you turn onto Boylston, the world stops. Take in the crowds, the other runners, and the sight of the finish line. You have done it. Running Boston is an accomplishment that no one can ever take away from you. Be proud of yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Sara Saba-Sher:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The best advice I ever received was from Coach Joe. He told me that you shouldn't feel any pain at all the first 13 miles. It should just be pure fun--high-fiving the spectators, smiling, waving, etc. He said if you feel pain, then you need to slow down! That advice is dead-on, and I use it for every marathon. Also, draw strength from the crowd. Everyone in Boston loves Marathon Monday, and their excitement and fun is contagious! I like to think about the Red Sox playing downtown and all the great Boston sports teams!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Also, for me, the best approach is to treat the race like 26 mini mile races. I set a mile pace and try to hit it for each mile consistently. I use a regular Timex watch (I think Garmins are too much information for during a marathon) and hit lap after each mile. Then I only think about the mile I am in--not the previous miles, not the future miles, and not the overall time. I don't stress out tons about being off the pace for a mile or two; I just restart the race with the next mile. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For the 2013 Boston Marathon, I was coming off a year-plus of injury. I had done a lot of cross training during that injury with Rachel Shanley. She got me to go to yoga, lifting classes, and boot camp much more than I ever would have on my own! Rachel also agreed to run to the SRR support table with me during the marathon (she had a marathon number, but was still injured, so she couldn't run the whole marathon--an uninjured Rachel is way faster than I will ever be!!!). We ran together, and I was feeling great! I was way ahead of my projected time, and Lee says while he was tracking me, he was freaking out that I would crash and crawl through the last few miles! Lee, my parents, and my aunt were sitting in the VIP bleachers at the finish line. Rachel stopped at the SRR table, and I was exhilarated passing my teammates and hearing their words of encouragement (hands down the best part of the Boston Marathon!). As I ran through the hills in Newton, I was feeling really strong and still way ahead of my projected pace. I was getting nervous that I would crash at some point but just went with it. All of a sudden, this man stepped out of the crowd. He was wearing a 1980s track suit (he looked like a character in Hot Tub Time Machine or something), and he made eye contact and pointed straight at me and said, "You’ve got this!" It was the weirdest sensation; I got tingles throughout my entire body, and I clearly remember thinking, "I do. I have this." I couldn't stop smiling. I picked up the pace even more and ended with a PR and a negative split. I saw Claudia and Lee at the finish, and I told them immediately, "I had an out-of-body experience during the marathon." They laughed and congratulated me, but it was a feeling, I will never forget. I had run about ten minutes faster than the years prior (which turned out to be a crucial ten minutes), and my parents and aunt left the bleachers immediately to meet me at a designated meeting spot. My dad didn't want to hang around, so we immediately left. While we were in the car in the parking garage, the bombs went off, and the rest is history. People think that I remember that out-of-body experience because of what happened after the marathon, but Claudia and Lee can vouch that I said it before anything bad happened. I do feel like I had the marathon I did to get my family away from the finish. I wish everyone had been so lucky that day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Good luck to the runners! Boston is an experience like no other! I can't wait to get back out there :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Emma Kosciak:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is a tough course, and most folks in fact do not run well here. (The stats are something like only 10% of BQers run a BQ time at Boston). This is, of course, with the exception of Deb Downs who for some reason completely owns Boston like a boss. So, don't be upset if your "goal time" doesn't happen. Trust me, you'll be in good company when you go back to the club and tell them your woes. (Joe is famous for saying he is only 1 for 9.) It happens to all of us. However, with the right mentality, it could still be the best race of your life--the hometown crowd, the history, make sure to SOAK IT IN! I started at a BQ time in 2013, but cramping got the better of me. My 16-year-old cousin jumped in to run a few miles with me (this was before the bombings of course), and with all the family and friends we saw along the way, we ended up having the time of our lives! Read the <a href="http://globalcyclist.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-tale-of-one-city-boston-marathon-41816.html" target="_blank">infamous blog of Jesse Morrow</a> for some inspiration on how to handle that moment when everything you've trained for turns against you, and it turns into an amazing day after all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Urvi Mujumdar:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The experience of running or cheering Boston with SRR is unparalleled! Whether you’re at the pre-marathon events at the Bur-run or Casey’s, doing the final track workout (Lou Ristaino), shopping at the expo, cheering or receiving cheers at the 30K--it’s amazing and surreal. I want to give special shout outs to my hubby, Jesse Morrow, who always puts his doubts aside and gives it his all AND to my new training buddy, Ryan Doherty, who has lifted me up with her dedication and love for the sport. I wish them and the rest of the SRR crew a special Boston experience. I also want to take a moment to thank the board and SRR’s marathon coordinator, Tina Mack, and all the designees and volunteers for putting the whole SRR Boston experience together! It truly takes a village, and it’s a fun one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Sarah Bolt:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Marathon day is long and stressful - and fun and exciting! - even before you get to the start line! Be mentally prepared for a long morning, stay calm and save your mental and physical energy as much as possible. Try not to let the stressed out runners around you stress you out even more! Go into the day with your own vision and goals and stick to it. Everyone will be chattering about their paces and strategies, but trust your own training and game plan! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Victor Gonzalez:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Best piece of advice I can give all the first timers is to have a small disposable water bottle with you at the starting line of the race. The first few water stops are chaos, and when you come upon them, all hell breaks loose, it's like the parting of the red sea. Everyone is running left and right to grab water, so the idea is as everyone runs outwardly, you as a runner with his/her own disposable bottle of water run to the center... it's amazing how clear the pathway becomes as everyone else is scrambling. The crowd starts to thin and the water stops start to clear up by mile 3 or so, so you just need a water bottle large enough to get you through the first few stops. Little 8 oz gatorade bottle will do the trick, doesn't haven't to be anything big or fancy. Good luck all of you! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When you reach mile 11(ish) and the Wellesley scream tunnel (you’ll hear it coming!), go to the right for kisses or to the left so you don’t get trampled by those going for kisses! Either way, it’s a lot of fun! And you’ll know you are almost halfway done! Seeing teammates at the SRR 30K tent is another highlight--I yearn for those yellow and black balloons! The energy and enthusiasm from SRR will give you a boost, and the finish will be practically in sight. To quote an SRR great (Kevin Guarnotta), a marathon is a 10K with a 20 mile warmup. Throw down when you hit Mile 20! Know that it will probably hurt, but that you will find strength you didn’t know you had. The combo of these two makes the success of finishing taste even sweeter. Go get it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Toe the Line - Upcoming Races</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>USATF Grand Prix</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The USATF New England Grand Prix kicked off on March 18 with the New Bedford Half-Marathon, followed by the Nealon 15K two weeks later on March 31. SRR paid club members’ entries to the Nealon 15K (and one other USATF Grand Prix race) this season.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To be eligible for SRR paid entry for other races, you must be a current member of USATF with SRR declared as your USATF member club. Also, consider doing 5 of the races to have SRR pay for your USATF membership next year. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here is the full USATF Grand Prix Schedule for 2018.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We have currently completed three of ten races. Though there are seven more to go, you only need to finish six to make the final cut. Race #4 was the New Bedford Half Marathon, and Race #5 is James Joyce Ramble 10K, coming up on April 29. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here are the SRR Grand Prix Results through the first three races.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here are some highlights of what SRR members have been up to since our Fall Edition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>An Ras Mor 5K - Sunday, March 25</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An Ras Mor is SRR’s annual spring club-managed race. This year’s race took place on Sunday, March 25, in the heart of Cambridge. Zelus Beer provided some of their new beers for the finish line post-race party, Heartbreak Hill Running Company provided the race headquarters, and the new winter hats were a hit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As you know, our club’s race proceeds go directly back into the local community, so our races need your support to keep making this happen! The more support we can gain from the strong SRR community, the greater impact we are all able to have.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our charitable giving goes to the Cambridge Rindge and Latin Track Team and the JLK Sanfilippo Foundation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The An Ras Mor Committee would like to give a special shout out to Laura Buso, who recruited over 30 runners through marketing the race to her colleagues and a local charity she volunteers with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The entire An Ras Mor Race Committee thanks you for your support and time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Congrats to the SRRs who took to New Bedford!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">SRR had 11 men break 1:20 which has only happened once before in the club. PRs were set by Patrick Haneberg, Kyle Pochini, Brian Ketterer, Ryan Doherty, Liza Neustaetter, Sarah Canterman, John Longo, Brian Cullinan, Sarah Cullinan, Dennis Shay, and Dan Forward. Karen Encarnacion also took third in her age group! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Martha’s Vineyard 20 Miler: Another Medal Hoard for the Black and Gold (by Jesse Morrow)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At the late-night Tuesday track session at MIT, Kieran was not overly optimistic on repeating his 2017 Martha’s Vineyard victory. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Toledo Steve positioned himself up at Mile 4 to play SRR photographer before his annual pilgrimage to Offshore Brewing. As the first runners approached, the lead cyclist whipped around the corner and warned the detail officer: “Here comes the first runner; and, he’s hauling a**.” It was not Kieran.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the annual trek to Vineyard Haven, the Runners did not require as much fortitudinem as usual. Saturday was a mild dry day, especially for the race that requests “No Weenies.” The mid-winter day was about the same temperature as the first day of spring. While the number of 20-miler finishers has decreased in the past few years, the new relay option saw 75 teams participate. Included in that total were Somerville’s own Runner Twins (Scott A. and Shark Tank) and the Sethcast Audience (President and former President, Julie and Urvi).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sixteen miles after passing Steve, Kieran’s prediction turned out to be correct. A Michael Schroeder from the Tar Heel State had beaten him by three and a half minutes. But Kieran still represented the Black and Gold by finishing in second overall and winning his age group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Joining Kieran atop the Age Group podium were first-place winners Dennis Shay, Brian Culla and Deb Downs. Erin Morin, Carrie-Anne, Jesse, and Dirk also finished with places in their divisions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Later that evening, SRR congregated at Offshore Brewing to share battle stories. In all we had 15 runners and two relay teams spanning the gamut of our all-abilities club, from Kieran at second overall to Sethcast Maleri who came in 173rd. Each of us shared our respective victories over Beachnut Road Browns and Lazy Frog IPAs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Please extend your congrats to Deb Downs and Todd Prokop, the 2017 Steve Burton Most Improved Runner Award recipients. Liza Neustaetter, Doug Lipinski, Chris Smith, and Barbara Grandberg were recognized for being outstanding volunteers in 2017. We gave appreciation awards to Bradley Harris for his work taking over the Gobble Gobble Gobble, Mark Duggan for his contributions to our race committees, and Carrie-Anne DeDeo for her ongoing commitment to the club in various capacities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dennis Shay was our 2017 Rookie of the Year, and Charoma Blyden was presented with the Grit Award for her toughness in sticking it out to finish 50 miles at the TARC Fall Classic. Paul Nelson and Pensri Pilotte were given the Tom Cole Award for their efforts to photograph SRR runners at the Boston Marathon and throughout the year, keeping Tom's legacy alive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Finally, Steve Vaitones was the 2017 Don Molloy Unsung Hero Award recipient for his tireless service to SRR throughout the years. The next time you see him, be sure to thank him for everything he does for us (and he does everything for us!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The 2017 Gobble Gobble Gobble was another successful running of SRR’s premier race event. With our largest ever field--we had 2700+ finishers this year--and a new outdoor beer garden, we were able to raise funds to support SRR’s programs as well as donate $38K to Somerville Homeless Coalition, Somerville Track PAC, Somerville Auxiliary Police, and the Sean Collier Fund.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We are always looking for new committee members or families to be featured as our favorite family. If you’re interested in either (or both!), email gobble@srr.org.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here’s a photo of Laurance Stuntz from this year’s favorite family with his official G3 turkey!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Maybe you've seen her sprinting at the start of the Bur-run, or perhaps you've almost tripped over her while she catches up on some urgent pee-mail in the middle of the Casey’s Thursday night run. Undoubtedly, you've seen her sad puppy dog eyes gaze longingly at you while you try to enjoy a post-run piece of pizza or bowl of beef stew. This fun-size canine has been called "The Queen of Somerville" by SRR member Jackie Silago, and she certainly lives up to her name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the four years that Spice Bean has lived in Somerville, she has frequented many locations typically reserved for human counterparts. Spice regularly attends CrossFit workouts with her human, Jon Bean. She has kayaked down the Charles River and even attended a Red Sox game where she met pitcher Joe Kelley. "He wanted to pat my head so I let him," remarked Spice. She later confessed, "I was hoping he would give me a treat." But what is Spice's favorite activity?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Spice reports that, in addition to running, she enjoys lounging in the sun, rolling in foul smelling patches of grass (for some unknown reason her human always interrupts this pastime), chasing sticks, swimming at the Fells, cuddling, being carried, and defending her home from the neighbor's dog, Rosie. "She knows what she did," stated Spice after being asked why she has such a dislike of Rosie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In addition to her many hobbies, Spice also enjoys being a member of the Somerville Road Runners. She considers herself a full-fledged member of the SRR although she has yet to pay any dues, stating, "My human takes care of my finances." Spice has been an avid runner for three years and has completed the Freedom 5K and MOM’s Run, where she came in first in her species. To novice runners, she offers the advice, "Go slow and enjoy the process of running," and, most importantly, "Always wait and make sure that everyone has gotten at least one serving of food before going back for seconds."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s no secret that Fall is my favorite season for running. Anyone who’s heard me whining about the heat and humidity finds me pleasantly quiet--cheerful, even!--about the weather as soon as the temps drop and the air gets crisp. On a not-very-fall-like-day in Vermont back in October, I was at mile two of the Harpoon Oktoberfest 3.6-mile race when I felt a sharp pull in my left hamstring. The race was already a hot and humid mess, so I took a quick break to shake it out while walking a few feet. As I did, two runners passed me. One said loudly to the other, “Some people just don’t know how to seed themselves in the corral, and they end up walking.” Those of you who know me know that this aggression would not stand, man. I quickly started up, dropped them, and never saw them again.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just a reminder that SRR’s old Yahoo! Group was replaced by a </span><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/somerville-road-runners/join" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Group</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with a new email address this past summer and that we have a </span><a href="mailto:somerville-road-runners@googlegroups.com" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">new email address</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As noted above planning for the 21st Annual Gobble Gobble Gobble Thanksgiving Race is well under way, and we are on track to sell out once again. Race director </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bradley Harris</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> notes that Somerville Police Department has called us "the best-run race in the city." That distinction would never be possible without the amazing contributions of our volunteers. If you are able please consider </span><a href="http://racemenu.com/gobble-volunteer-2017" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">signing up to help out</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> before, during, and/or after the race (or all three!).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you like parties? Keep an eye out for the Save the Date for the annual SRR post-holiday bash, typically held in late January. Email </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Julie Holt</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at </span><a href="mailto:president@srr.org" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">president@srr.org</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> if you are interested in joining the planning committee!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Indoor track season at Tufts kicked off on Tuesday, November 7th. Thanks to coach </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joe O’Leary</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for continuing to organize and run the workouts for 10 years and running! You can choose to add track when renewing or signing up for your club membership. This year, track fees return to the pre-2017 price of $50.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This fee includes </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">indoor track</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> guaranteed through January 16, 2018 at Tufts track. After January 16, track membership will include EITHER a) weekly indoor track sessions through the rest of the winter at Tufts or another local indoor facility OR b) an alternative program, TBD, comprised of weekly sessions that may include a combination of indoor track workouts at a local facility and coached training sessions that cover topics crucial to healthy running, such as strength training, mobility, heart rate training, nutritional fueling, adjusting training and racing plans for weather conditions, and injury prevention (topics subject to change). Track fees also include </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">outdoor track</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (approximately March through October 2018).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Join us for weekly runs on Mondays and Thursdays! Casey’s coordinator </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Irene Lanois </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tells us what we have look to in the late fall and early winter</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Co-merchandise coordinator </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laura Buso</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> tells us what’s new at the </span><a href="http://www.store.srr.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SRR Store</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: We ordered a restock of men's black size medium singlets. Samples of running jackets are on their way, and along with winter may come knit pom pom hats!</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As mentioned elsewhere in this newsletter, the 21st Annual Gobble Gobble Gobble will take place on Thanksgiving Day (11/23). Volunteers are needed, and volunteers who are not running are in high demand!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the pursuit of camaraderie and bricks, SRR will be fielding teams once again in all categories at the annual </span><a href="http://millcitiesrelay.com/" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Mill Cities Relay on 12/3</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSer8T21DZuSU3Pz9nZqw_-IsBp6KuP4X4skfdGXXWc73VeejA/viewform" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Click here</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to sign up! Teams will be announced around Thanksgiving weekend.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SRR is also fielding teams for the </span><a href="https://www.cambridgehalf.com/" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Cambridge Half-Marathon on 11/19</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="https://www.cambridge5k.com/yulefest/" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Yulefest 5K on 12/10</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (the first SRR Grand Prix race!).</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Speaking of which, mark your calendars for the next SRR Grand Prix! Here is the scoop from your co-coordinators </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Victor Gonzalez </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and</span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Tim Blanchard</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We are very excited to announce this upcoming SRR Grand Prix schedule. To put the GRAND into Grand Prix and add some race regularity, we have put together a ten-race series with races once a month December through September 2018. We’ve included a variety of race distances, from 5Ks to a half-maratho--a total of 49.8 miles if you complete all 10 races.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline;"><u>2017-2018 SRR GP Race Schedule:</u></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Race 1: Cambridge 5K YuleFest, Cambridge, MA - December 10, 2017</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Race 2: Wicked Frosty 4-Miler (10th Annual), Salem MA - January 1, 2018</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Race 3: Super Sunday 5-Miler (</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">not</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> the 5k), Cambridge MA - February 4, 2018</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Race 4: New Bedford Half-Marathon, New Bedford MA - March 18, 2018</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Race 5: James Joyce Ramble 10K, Dedham MA - April 2018</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Race 6: Run to Remember 5-Miler (</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">not</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> the Half), Boston MA - May 27, 2017</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Race 7: 26x1 Mile Club Challenge Relay (1 Mile), Medford MA - June 2018</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Race 8: Summer Classic 5K, Cambridge MA - July 2018</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Race 9: Race to the Row 5K, Somerville MA - August 2018</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Race 10: Lone Gull 10K, Gloucester MA - September 2018</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2017-2018 SRR Grand Prix Rules/Regulations:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. The 2016-2017 Tom/Tom method of scoring will be used for all races in this series.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. For each participant, the best of 8 races will count towards the final standings. You must run a minimum of 6 races to compete for age group awards. (If you run 9 or 10 races, your best 8 races will be computed in your final score.)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Your age as of the first race on December 10, 2017 will be the age and age group for the remainder of the Grand Prix. Those who turn 20, 30, 40, 50, 60+ before this date will stay in their old age groups.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Participation prizes will be award those who finish 6 and 8 races. Top 3 overall and top 3 age group winners will also receive awards.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Though some of the races listed offer multiple distances, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">only</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> the race distance specified above will count towards your Grand Prix points.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. To promote volunteering at our SRR races (26x1 and Race to the Row), +5 points will be awarded to those who volunteer during the race. If you run and volunteer only your race points will be calculated.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Please check the SRR Facebook page and Google Group for race discount codes and USATF race entries paid for by the club. This information will be posted as it becomes available.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><br class="kix-line-break" /></b></span></span></div>
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<li><b>SRR Runs Boston (April 16, 2018):</b><span style="color: #222222;"> Running the Boston Marathon as part of the SRR squad is a truly unparalleled experience. Whether you’re volunteering, cheering, or running, stay tuned for more details to come in early 2018!</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since the </span><a href="http://somervillerr.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">summer edition</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> hit the press, SRRs have been in action both locally and around the world, setting new PRs and BQs and bringing home the hardware! Here is a round-up of SRR repping at races near and far this fall.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">The <b>5th annual Race to the Row</b> took place in August. Words of gratitude from the race director, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Scott Abrams</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">:</span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you volunteered for the race either on Saturday or Sunday, I gratefully applaud your time, generosity, and efforts. As with every year, this race is put on by a village, not by just a committee. So many of you chipped in wherever you saw the need. The Somerville Road Runners has some extraordinary members.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Thank you to my awesome race committee of </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Tim Morin, Julie Holt, Mark Duggan, Carrie-Anne DeDeo</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">and </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Laurie Gagnon</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">. Also thank you to </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Jesse Morrow</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> for taking over the Fast Mile, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Jenn Fonda</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> for leading the Kids Fun Run, and Mark Duggan for again being the 5K big cheese. These guys took on so many different responsibilities over the last six months, and everyone chipped in with enthusiasm, especially on race day. Thanks to </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Irene Lanois</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> for ensuring our volunteer turnout was successful. And one more shout out to </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Steve Vaitones </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">who comes out every year and helps out in countless ways.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">While I couldn't award SRR the fastest 5K team award, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">SRR </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">definitely</span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"> was the fastest team</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">. Congratulations to </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Patrick Haneberg</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> (who came in 2nd overall), </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Chris Smith, John Wichers, Jason Pollutro</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">and</span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"> Sarah Norcott</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">. We hope you had a fantastic time and will return next year for the 6th annual Race to the Row.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Co-coordinator </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tom Breider </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">shares his report</span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 2017 SRR Grand Prix awards night took place after a Thursday night Casey's run in September.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year’s Grand Prix saw 119 SRR members participate in at least one race and over 40 people compete in three or more races. The most popular race was Yulefest with 65 SRR participants. In total SRR members ran 880 miles over the six races.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Awards were presented to SRR members who competed in three races, plus a second bonus prize for people who competed in five races. This year's participation prizes were Somerville Road Runners custom shoelaces. Keep an eye out for these yellow-and-black laces at your next race.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">The overall female and male winners in the series were </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Erin Morin</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Kieran Condon</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, followed by </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Deb Downs</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Paulo Amaral </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">in 2nd place and </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Florentien deRuiter</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Matthew Kiesz</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> in 3rd place.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Congratulations to the Age Group winners: </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Barbara Grandberg</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Tresa Casaletto</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Kate O'Malley</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Carrie-Anne DeDeo</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"> Ryan Doherty</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Erik Bok</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Patrick Haneberg</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Tom Breider</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Tomas Bok</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, and </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">David Oldham</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">A special mention to the people who competed in five or more races: </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Erin Morin</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Kate O'Malley</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Carrie-Anne DeDeo</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Nicole Tateosian</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Megan Prokop</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Barbara Grandberg</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Tresa Casaletto</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Kieran Condon</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Paulo Amaral</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Matthew Kiesz</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Tomas Bok</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Patrick Haneberg</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Tom Breider</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Ryan McCracken</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">David Oldham</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Victor Gonzalez</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Dennis Shay</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, and </span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Vittorio Montanari</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Those who have not yet received their prizes can collect it from the SRR track session on Tuesdays or email </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">tomjbreider@gmail.com</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you to everybody took part in this year’s race series. Don't forget that the first race of the 2018 SRR Grand Prix will be Yulefest in Harvard Square on Sunday December 10.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;">Top stat of the series:</span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></b><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;">one second. That’s what </span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Kieran Condon</span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;">’s victory margin was over </span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Paulo Amaral</span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"> in the men’s overall competition. Kieran finished one second ahead of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Brian Cullinan</span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"> in the 26x1 relay. Had Kieran finished one second slower, Paulo would have won the competition.</span></span></span><br />
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<li style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Congratulations</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> to SRR's 2017 USATFNE Grand Prix Iron Runners </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/tim.blanchard.75248?fref=gs&dti=2396209859&hc_location=group" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Tim Blanchard</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/cdklucznik?fref=gs&dti=2396209859&hc_location=group" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Christopher Klucznik</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">, and</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"> Dan McCarthy</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">. An Iron Runner is someone who runs all seven races in the Grand Prix (from 5k to Marathon) in a single year--not an easy task! </span></li>
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<li style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/barbara.grandberg?fref=gs&dti=2396209859&hc_location=group" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Barbara Grandberg</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Michael.Quinn.PhD?fref=gs&dti=2396209859&hc_location=group" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Michael Quinn</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">and</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/noel.clarke.77?fref=gs&dti=2396209859&hc_location=group" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Noel Clarke</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> all ran five races in the series.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">PRs were set almost across the boards at Baystate, the marathon distance in the USATF Grand Prix. The men’s open and masters’ teams each placed 6th. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Chris Klucznik</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Kieran Condon</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">, and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Karen Encarnacion</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> each placed in their AG!</span></li>
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<li>Tim & Erin Morin - Summer Beer Run & BBQ - July</li>
<li>Herbert Lin - Long Run & Pool Party - August</li>
<li>Nichole Bukowski & Brian LaValle - Long Run & Corn Hole - August</li>
<li>Deb Downs & Steve Smrcina - No Frills Charles River 30k, Half, & 10k - September</li>
<li>Scott Abrams & Julie Holt - Fall Scottoberfest - November</li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our SRR down in Texas, </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Emma Kosciak</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, qualified for the Xterra Trail Racing Championships in Utah and placed 7th overall in the 21K. She is going on to the Worlds in Hawaii this December! </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Did you know SRR has been either a platinum or gold sponsor of the Somerville Homeless Coalition 5K for several years? Or that at this year’s race </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chris Antunes</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was the overall winner?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">I run with blinders on, my own private little bubble of hell. I'm always taken aback when someone comments on how beautiful the course is. WHAT? Ain't nobody got time for that! If you're noticing the view, then you're doing it wrong!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Finished up my 15th Reach the Beach, as team captain of the Fellowship of the Bubblewrap. I'm very proud of our team retention. Four of us have done all 15 years, another six have done 14 and the other three spots have been filled by runners that have run at least seven or eight of them. What's really interesting is that in all that time, the vans have never swapped, so everyone in Van 1 has always been in Van 1 and the same with Van 2.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The camaraderie. I love being at the 30K water stop [at the Boston Marathon] and cheering each and every SRR as they run by. That excitement is genuine and often exhausting.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">It's fairly well documented that I'm a Nike whore. I train in Lunarglides and race in Lunaracers, though lately I have returned to running in Mizuno Waveriders as well.</span>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Welcome! As you may have noticed, The Conqueror took a little hiatus. But never fear--we’re back now to catch you up on all the awesome things SRR has been up to in the first half of 2017, plus some exciting events and opportunities to look forward to in the future. We finish this edition with a very special member spotlight.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Read a </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/somervilleroadunners/permalink/10154940242094860/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">recap</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of the annual awards presented at the Post-Holiday Bash on January 20th. Thank you again to all who attended, volunteered, and helped organize!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SRR was named one of two Best Running Clubs in the Northeast by </span><a href="http://running.competitor.com/2017/01/news/best-competitor-2016-northeast-region_161230" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: blue;">Competitor</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">!</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have you renewed your membership for 2017? If not, here is the </span><a href="https://www.signmeup.com/site/online-event-registration/117623" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: blue;">Membership Sign-Up</span></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interested in a calendar that brings together all SRR events in one place? Soon you’ll have it! Thank you to club member, Irene Lanois for taking on this project. Stay tuned for info on how to subscribe.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Did you know the Bur-Run has been on a consecutive streak for over 8 years now? Join the Monday night fun! Info can be found at the </span><a href="http://www.srr.org/events/bur_run/index.php" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: blue;">Bur-Run Page</span></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Thank you to current organizer Seth Maleri and prior coordinator Paul Venuti, who have been manning this run every week for 3+ years! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Casey’s Thursday Night Summer Streak competition is currently in progress! Stay tuned to weekly updates posted on the </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/somervilleroadunners/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook group</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or visit the </span><a href="http://www.srr.org/events/thursday-night-run/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Casey's Page.</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Thank you to current organizer Irene Lanois! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This year's </span><a href="https://groupmatics.events/#/event/redsoxrunners" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Red Sox Runner's Night</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> will be Wednesday, August 2, vs. Cleveland @ 7:10pm. Bleacher seats are $30, and the Budweiser Deck & bar will be open for us to hang out and socialize with members of our club as well as other local running groups starting at 5:40pm. (Grandstand seats are $32, but the view from the bleachers is better!) Follow the link to purchase tickets by July 31st. You can see who else is attending and where they're seated by clicking on the "Show All Attendees" button.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In March, our newly elected </span><a href="http://www.srr.org/membership/board-of-directors.php" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Board of Directors and Club Officers</b></span></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> took office. Thank you to Club President Julie Holt, Vice President Nichole Bukowski, Secretary Paola Massoli, Treasurer Stephanie Finnegan, and Members at Large Jason Lachapelle and Melissa Glotzbecker for leading us into the new year!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">April was a busy month as 50+ SRRs once again took the field at the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>121st Boston Marathon!</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Despite an unseasonably warm day, several SRRs made their mark including our own Deb Downs featured below on her way to a course PR of 3:10.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May was a month of community spirit! The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>SRR Kids Program</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> came to a close at the Mystic River Herring Run. Many runners and volunteers braved the cold rain at MOM’s Run (to benefit Dana Farber), and scholarships were awarded to local Somerville High School graduates. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In June, the annual </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>26x1 Club Challenge Relay</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> brought together teams from across the area and capped off the SRR Grand Prix. The committee put together a great event at a new location (Hormel Stadium in Medford, MA) this year. Pictured below, the top female Emma Kosciak came back all the way from Texas for this hand-off!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most recently, a crew of awesome SRR volunteers braved a hot day at the Mile 5 water stop at the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>BAA 10K</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. For future volunteer opportunities, contact Irene Lanois at </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="mailto:volunteer@srr.org" style="text-decoration: none;">volunteer@srr.org</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where: 275 Foley St., Assembly Square, Somerville MA </span><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/275+Foley+St,+Somerville,+MA+02145/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89e37120ab419ebf:0xe767b47429277175?sa=X&ei=wMOQVfzhMcjt-AGcwrvwBg&ved=0CB0Q8gEwAA" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(map)</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Race to the Row 5K will run through the Assembly Square District and along the Mystic River, ending with a fun-filled post-party and beer garden! There's also a Fast Mile race and a free Kids Fun Run! Proceeds will be donated to East Somerville Main Streets, the Somerville TrackPAC, and Somerville Auxiliary Police.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Long Run Committee kicked off the summer with three fun-filled long run events (and post-run celebrations) this summer. We strongly encourages you to save the remaining dates in the list below. Thank you to the hosts of all past and upcoming runs!! Stay tuned for more detail as events approach. All are welcome! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would have to say it was the “mud run” 5K at Pineland Farms. It wasn’t a PR, but I was very proud of the fact that I ran through mud up to my shoulders and finished the race strong!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”</span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;">—</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Aristotle</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>September 11: </b><a href="http://www.onyourmarxracing.com/seasons/index.html" target="_blank">Seasons 20k</a>, 9am, Acton, MA (USATF-NE Grand Prix Race)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>September 25:</b> <a href="http://www.northshoretimingonline.com/reglivecb.aspx?eventyear_id=1342" target="_blank">Lone Gull 10k</a>, 9am, Gloucester, MA </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">(USATF-NE Grand Prix Race)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><b>October 16: </b><a href="http://baystatemarathon.com/" target="_blank">Baystate Marathon and Half</a>, 8am, Lowell, MA</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">SRR has been voted #1 Running Club on the <a href="http://boston.cityvoter.com/best/boston/winners" target="_blank">Boston A-List</a> for 2016! Thanks for being awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Join us this Saturday for the September edition of the Second Saturday SRR Long Run. All levels and paces welcome. Meet us at Au Bon Pain in Davis Square at 9 a<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">m. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; line-height: 16.08px;">Please reply to </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10210107628824381&set=gm.10154503305824860&type=3&theater" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; line-height: 16.08px;" target="_blank">this post</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; line-height: 16.08px;"> on our facebook page if you plan to attend with desired distance and approximate pace. Our goal is to make sure all have a running buddy! </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.08px;">You don't have to be a current SRR member to attend. We would love for you to come to join us for a weekend community run and learn about our wonderful club!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In May, SRR awarded two new scholarships (plus one deferral from last year) to graduating seniors from Somerville High School. <span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Thank you to our scholarship committee: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.facebook.com/john.gorvin&source=gmail&ust=1473510498411000&usg=AFQjCNE1thRyXfq-HiQZyTJGSeibZ_KP1Q" href="https://www.facebook.com/john.gorvin" style="color: #365899; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">John Gorvin</a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">, Linda Mar, </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.facebook.com/heather.hagerty&source=gmail&ust=1473510498411000&usg=AFQjCNHDHNMNxxLnE7hktqbB4dOzj8QU4A" href="https://www.facebook.com/heather.hagerty" style="color: #365899; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Heather Kispert Hagerty</a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">, </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.facebook.com/molly.crellin&source=gmail&ust=1473510498411000&usg=AFQjCNFTE13bZOUPvr_zvnf9R_FWIWCAdQ" href="https://www.facebook.com/molly.crellin" style="color: #365899; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Molly Saghirian Crellin</a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">, and </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.facebook.com/nicole.tateosian&source=gmail&ust=1473510498411000&usg=AFQjCNEChKhwwz5xvND4eyN0cTedqyB4Bw" href="https://www.facebook.com/nicole.tateosian" style="color: #365899; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Nicole Tateosian</a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"> for all their time and effort for making this a successful program for the Somerville community. The recipients will enter into college programs in the fall, and have exemplified our motto "Fortitudine Vincimus."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>A thank-you message from Scott Abrams, Director, SRR's <a href="http://www.srr.org/racetotherow" target="_blank">Race to the Row</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let me start out by saying the SRR has some of the most amazing people as members. Folks were still signing up to volunteer almost until the day of the race. I appreciate that so much. We basically filled up every spot we needed. On top of that, other SRR folks were just pitching in wherever they saw a need for some additional support. Didn't need to be asked, just jumped in. If you ever want to start your own race, make sure you've cozied up to Steve Vaitones who is a race director's guardian angel. Thank you everyone who came out on Sunday to help put this great event on. This is how we are able to donate so much to our charities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you to my awesome race committee of Tim Morin, Julie Holt, Mark Duggan, Carrie-Anne DeDeo, Jenn Fonda, Stephanie Finnegan and Laurie Gagnon. These guys took on so many different responsibilities over the last six months and everyone chipped in with enthusiasm, especially on race day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We are all very happy with how the races turned out, especially considering the curves in the road we always have to deal with. As has become our custom, we had to move our headquarters and party area for the fourth year in a row, and we moved the Fast Mile course as well. Both of those changes actually worked out for the better and these will probably become permanent. There was a lot of growth in the event. The Fast Mile grew from 17 runners in the first year to 80 registrants this year. The winner ran a 4:44 which hopefully will lead to making this a more competitive race. We had around 75 youngsters in the Kids Fun Run which is probably close to double last year. The 5K race went off smoothly as well and it was such a great site to watch racers pretty much taking over every road in Assembly Square.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you came out to Race to the Row, we hope you had a great time. If you stayed until the end of the party, you know our supply of Harpoon beer didn't run out, and you probably woke up on Monday with a headache and bouncy house burns on your knees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you have any feedback at all about the Race to the Row, positive or negative, please feel free to reach out to me and let me know. We are always looking for ways to make this better. Next year's race is scheduled for Sunday, August 20, 2017. Don't plan your bachelor party, wedding or kid's birth that weekend, please!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Once, in the middle of winter ran through Oak Square I saw a car on with a baby inside with absolutely nobody around. I waited for what felt like hours (probably was 3-5 minutes) and as I was about to call the police a woman finally came over to the car. I felt like I was on the show What Would You Do and I was being videotaped to see how I would react. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Winning the 24 hour event at 3 Days at the Fair with 123 total miles run <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">in 24 hours</span></span>. It wasn't as many as I hoped, but several things didn't go as planned and luckily it was enough miles to still get the win in my first ever attempt at this event. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">The people. Hands down. Getting involved with SRR when I first moved to Boston was one of the best decisions I made. The events, the weekly runs, the giving back, and the other SRR activities are all great, but none of it would be the same without the great people who make up the club. </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>May 21:</b> SRR Grand Prix Race #4, <a href="https://donate.playworks.org/dorchester/events/7th-annual-playworks-run-for-recess/e71211" target="_blank">Playworks 5k</a>, 10am, Dorchester</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>June 25:</b> SRR 26x1 Team Relay</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Congratulations to everyone who ran the New Jersey Marathon and Half Marathon, the Providence Marathon and Half, and of course, the Boston Marathon!</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Chris Klucznik finished fourth overall at the Providence Marathon</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Would you like to help SRR with one of our various race committees? We need your help! Being on a race committee is a great way to get more involved in the club, give back and learn more about our role in the Somerville community, and meet your fellow members. We have something for everyone, from marketing to race-day logistics to planning that awesome post-race party. As a first step, visit the <a href="http://www.srr.org/" target="_blank">SRR Annual Races</a> page and email info@srr.org and we can point you in the right direction!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mark your calendar: we'll be holding the first annual SRR Amazing Race run to celebrate National Running Day and Global Running Day on Wednesday, June 1! This 5k fun run will be a friendly team competition, with prizes for our winners. Stay tuned for more details to come on our facebook page and yahoo message board!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 19.32px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now that the 120th Boston Marathon is behind us (and the 50th anniversary for women!), we would once again like to thank the entire SRR village for making this a great experience! The list of shout-outs goes well beyond this: Nichole Bukowski and Aaron Beer (Course long run), Irene Lanois, Jenn Fonda, John Gorvin, Heather Hagerty (for help with the Casey's Pasta Party and Sean Collier Memorial Run), Melissa Glotzbecker (and the volunteers at the Boston Marathon expo), Jon Bean, Irene Lanois, and Laura Buso (Cheer Zone/Elite Water Stop Coordinators), Julie Holt and Nichole Bukowski (#SRRRunsBoston and Guess the Weather fun!), Kimi Macdonald and Julie Holt (creating and ordering the popular Boston Marathon shirts!), Kate O'Malley (winner of the Cheer Zone Cheer Award!), Victor Gonzalez, Sarah Wright (for your helpful cheers and team support at the 30K), Gordon Pilotte and the folks at the Burren (awesome after party), Kathy Hynes (bus coordinator), Tina Mack (hotel coordinator), and Jesse Edsell-Veter (Boston Marathon coordinator) for putting it all together. The list goes on, and please know everyone's help was appreciated! </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Robert Cipriano at the 30k on his way to an age-group win!<br />Photo courtesy of Andy Marinelli</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>SRR Boston Marathon Results (courtesy of Coach Joe O'Leary):</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; line-height: 1.38;">* An age group win by</span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; line-height: 1.38;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.facebook.com/robert.cipriano.96&source=gmail&ust=1463520237482000&usg=AFQjCNHopHrf_nk6yDlrd9OApy3UqHr8qw" href="https://www.facebook.com/robert.cipriano.96" style="color: #3b5998; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Robert Cipriano</a><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; line-height: 1.38;">, the first in the history of SRR </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; line-height: 1.38;">* A top-ten age group performance by Wolfgang Ketterle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; line-height: 1.38;">*Men's Masters team took SECOND overall! (Robert Cipriano, Greg Picklesimer, Wolfgang Ketterle)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; line-height: 1.38;">*</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.srr.org/results/2016/apr18.html&source=gmail&ust=1463520237482000&usg=AFQjCNGPdpl3wcMBLN_sgedsXdHNn34OZw" href="http://www.srr.org/results/2016/apr18.html" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; line-height: 1.38;" target="_blank">Full list of SRR Results including PRs</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We had so many great Boston Marathon photo submissions last month. Congratulations to our April #SRRRunsBoston contest winner, George Woodward!</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUfWUWZWeVH16llI4fARpF-Uz6hAX-iZmD52-GfbRbpdVwQ8Z8CXpX_MRh3ND4e96aXzp3SjomDX18RDkGb61zh2VRcP8Fq9HBznH4VbUwgM9ULvJtEmO8Zg3Ra2P5w5POGkZ2JlC2k9XK/s1600/60979.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUfWUWZWeVH16llI4fARpF-Uz6hAX-iZmD52-GfbRbpdVwQ8Z8CXpX_MRh3ND4e96aXzp3SjomDX18RDkGb61zh2VRcP8Fq9HBznH4VbUwgM9ULvJtEmO8Zg3Ra2P5w5POGkZ2JlC2k9XK/s320/60979.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">What's Fueling Your Run these days? Do you read up on the latest Runner's World articles searching for "newly released power foods" in search of your PR? Then again we hear that those nibbling on swedish fish mid-run are happy and running just fine. Perhaps you are fueled by something greater than food...now we're getting all deep on you. You thought this was just a running club social media contest didn't you? ;) Are you fueled by a morning sunset, the shirtless crew team on the Charles, the reward of more ice cream for your miles, morning laughs with friends, or post run celebrations? The time is NOW! Let us and let the world know what Fuels Your Run! </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">All entries are put in a drawing each month to win a prize. Use #SRRFuelMyRun on our SRR facebook page or instagram (tag us: @somervilleroadrunners) to be entered in the drawing to win!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was a very busy month at Casey’s! On April 14<sup>th</sup> we held our annual Pre-Marathon Pasta Dinner and Sean Collier Memorial run. Well over a 100 people came to honor Sean and enjoy the festivities, and we were even featured on both the Somerville Community Access Television and also on channel 7 news. This month has also seen a bunch of new faces and the return of some past regulars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">April also saw many SRR members and Casey’s regulars running marathons. Between Boston, Providence, and New Jersey, a lot of miles were covered by SRR! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We are looking for any suggestions of things that folks may want to see at Casey’s. Please give us a hand by letting us know your thoughts and fill out this quick survey: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6V5SS7N&source=gmail&ust=1463521814947000&usg=AFQjCNESA8wqYpwE7SDBvbVnLEiSuVcQKQ" href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6V5SS7N" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.surveymonkey.com/<wbr></wbr>r/6V5SS7N</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Lastly, we are still working on getting the results posted again. Some of the missing results should be going up soon, but it will take some time to track the PRs (we will let everyone know once those are all organized).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.32px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.6px;">Where I am right now might not be where I was, or where I want to be, but it is where I am </span><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.6px;">just now</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.6px;">." Read more about Urvi Mujumdar's Providence Half Marathon: </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.32px;"><a href="http://blogpaperspot.blogspot.com/2016/05/just-this-mile.html" target="_blank">Just This Mile</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Age: </b>2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Weight:</b> 26</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Nickname:</b> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">James, Jamesey</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Day Job:</b> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hanging out, Playing, Napping</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>How long you have been running and a part of SRR? </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I started running in June 2015. Crawling is for babies and when I want to be sneaky, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">walking is boring to be honest, but running is where the fun is! </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I like to think that I became an SRR member on April 20, 2014. Technically dad had </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">done the family membership although I still don’t think he’s remembered to include </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">me in the family listing – some lame excuse about me not having an email address.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dad started running back in middle school and claims he did high school track </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">although I haven’t seen any picture evidence yet. He took some time off from </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">running for awhile after high school before joining SRR in June 2011. He said it was a </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">fun summer of track workouts and was talked into running the Baystate Marathon by </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Tom Breider. He’s been running since, except when broken with injuries which makes </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">him sad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mom was a swimmer in high school and an occasional runner afterward. Mom claims </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">that when she and dad were first together, mom would run 4-5 days a week while dad </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">would sleep in every day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Born in Cambridge, first few months in Somerville, now living in Needham. I do miss </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Somerville. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dad grew up in Canton and mom in Westford.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>What is your favorite race and why?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Good question. Well I decided to come out 4.5 weeks early to watch my first Boston </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">marathon. Luckily dad didn’t seem to mind missing the race, he seemed pretty happy </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to hang out and keep me warm at Mt. Auburn. I was born on my first Easter and </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">watched my first marathon on tv at the hospital the next day. Dad and I got to watch </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Meb go for the win, then we actually got to see Pick propose to Carla on tv! </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Besides Boston, I just enjoy any race I get to run with mom or dad or watch the </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">runners go by. I could see myself doing this someday! </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I know if dad could pick, it would probably be Doyles, Gobble x 3, or the Boston </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Marathon. Mom is partial to the Tufts 10K, the Dennis 5 Miler, and any race where </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">she gets to run with me. She claims I’m getting heavy now, but it’s fun for me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>What's the most unusual thing you've seen on a run?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Turkeys! Lots and lots of turkeys!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Favorite thing to see on a run?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Choo choos!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Favorite Workout Songs?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Taylor Swift – Shake it Off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>What's a goal you're working towards?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Making it through a run without pooping in my diaper and/or falling asleep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Why do you love being a part of SRR? </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Everyone is so welcoming and friendly. It looks like a fun club for every type of </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">runner. It doesn’t matter your pace, favorite distance, or reason for running, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">everyone shares a love for running and being part of a supportive group. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It’s fun being at races and seeing so many SRR singlets and support along the course </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">for everyone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>What is something that your teammates might not know about you?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have a baby brother coming in August!</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">April 18: 120th BAA Boston Marathon</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Over 50 SRRs will be tackling Boston on Marathon Monday. Good luck and we'll see you at the 30k!</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">April 23: Spring Classic 5k, Cambridge, 9:30am</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Spring 2016 Kids' Program race will be the Mystic River Herring 5k, May 15th. If you are interested in being a pacer, please email kids@srr.org.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One of our favorite times of the year is here! Months of hard training give way to excited - and maybe nervous - anticipation of one of the world's most prestigious racing events. From the pre-race pasta party and the 30k Elite Water Stop Cheer Zone, to the post-race hotel suite and Burren after-party, our club works hard support our fellow runners as they tackle the storied Boston Marathon. Good luck runners, and thank you to our many volunteers and club members who make this week so memorable for us all!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For your one-stop guide to Marathon Week SRR-style, visit <a href="http://www.srr.org/boston-marathon/">http://www.srr.org/boston-marathon/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yup....you heard us right. We are inviting you to guess the weather on Marathon <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_885792017" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Monday</span></span>. Will it be another April snowstorm, a scorcher for the record books, a 50 mile tail-wind pushing our runners through the streets to Boylston? We are tough and ready for whatever Mother Nature throws at us....so why not add a little levity to the anticipation of planning our flat runner outfits and spectator gear?! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>The Details</b>: One entry per person, guess the exact temperature in Hopkinton when the first wave goes off at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_885792018" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10:00 am</span></span> on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_885792019" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Monday April 18th</span></span> & guess the weather conditions (sunny, overcast, hail, rain, snow, cloudy, etc.) Entries can be submitted using this form up until <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_885792020" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">9:59 am</span></span> on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_885792021" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Monday April 18th</span></span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The winner will receive an SRR T-shirt. If more than one person enters the same information and guesses correctly then we will draw a winner from those entries. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Congratulations to our March #SRRRunsGreen contest winners, Christophe Attias and Liza Neustatter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">It truly takes a village to support our SRR community in prepping for and running the marathon each year. Show your support and gratitude for all things SRR Boston Marathon this year by submitting a picture to our monthly social media contest. Tag yourself picking up your bib, kissing the finish line or a spectator along the screaming tunnel in Wellesley, volunteering at number pick-up, carbing up, high-fiving the black and gold, celebrating your commitment to training and supporting your SRR community. It takes all involved to make this happen each year. All entries are put in a drawing each month to win a prize. Use #SRRrunsBoston on our SRR facebook or instagram page to be entered in the drawing to win!</span></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Boston Marathon Course Run Recap</b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Once again those running the Boston Marathon built up their legs, hearts, and souls at the end of March with a long run on the Boston Marathon Course. This Boston Prep run is made possible each year by the incredible generosity of our SRR Marathon Course Prep Run Coordinator and all the volunteers who drive our runners out to Hopkinton, man the aid stations, and give us high fives and bum slaps along the way. Our very own Aaron Beer did a stellar job organizing this event. Now our marathoners are ready to rumble on April 18</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">! #SRRrunsBoston</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This month Karen Vitali and Alison Lackey stepped down as the Casey’s Run co-coordinators, we are all very thankful for the hard work and dedication that they brought each week to Casey’s for the last two years! Irene Lanois has taken over as Casey's coordinator and is excited to be taking on this role.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Elections took place <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1578993732" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Monday 3/14. Congratulations to all the newly elected board members and club officers! The list of officers has been <a href="http://www.srr.org/membership/board-of-directors.php" target="_blank">posted on the SRR website.</a> Please reach out to the board with any questions, ideas, or to learn more getting more involved with SRR!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You may know Jenn as the Boston Marathon coordinator for 2015 and the fearless leader of the SRR Kids' Program for the last few seasons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've been running since 2007 and joined SRR in March 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A bike with wheels almost as large as a unicyle. They were riding it on Beacon St close to Kenmore as if it was a normal thing to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I joined SRR for the friendship and running companions but I got so much more. I love the encouragement that everyone in SRR gives whether your chasing a PR, conquering a new challenge, or trying to get through an injury (I've had my share the past few years). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've seen two no hitters--Jim Abbott at the old Yankee stadium and Derek Lowe at Fenway on my birthday!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Somerville Road Runners</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are a RRCA & USATF certified running club geared to all ages and abilities with over 400 active members. In 2016, SRR is celebrating 20 years as a recognized community organization in the City of Somerville, and we are committed to promoting the sport of running as a healthy activity in our community and among our members--regardless of age, ability or background. We are a charitable, non-profit organization that sponsors many events a year including weekly runs, track workouts, annual races and a free </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">community-based non-competitive youth running program for kids</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Since 2007, SRR has contributed almost $250,000 in charitable donations raised through our club races and other fundraising efforts. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The existing Linear Path from Alewife to Davis Square and on to Lowell Street are heavily used not only as vital links for transportation in our community, but a safe and convenient off-road link for runners throughout all seasons. Somerville is the most densely populated municipality in New England; as such, open space is at a premium. We hope that you will continue to allow for more safe, family-friendly linear parks like the Community Path to help reshape how residents work, live, and play in our city in the coming decades.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Under blue skies and in the best weather we've seen in many years, 954 runners completed the 19th annual An Ras Mor 5k. Nine men finished in under 15:00 and 17 women broke 18:00. Congrats to <b>Jen Rapaport </b>and <b>Liz Cooney</b> for finishing third in their respective age groups!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Full results <a href="http://www.coolrunning.com/results/16/ma/Mar6_AnRasM_set1.shtml" target="_blank">here</a>, and p</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">hotos courtesy of Jim Rhoades </span><a href="http://jimrhoades.com/16/anrasmor/" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">March 20: USATF-NE Grand Prix race #2, <a href="http://newbedfordhalfmarathon.com/" target="_blank">New Bedford Half Marathon</a>, New Bedford, MA</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Congratulations to <b>Mark Duggan</b> for winning the Beach Fun Half Marathon (CA) and to <b>Emma Kosciak</b> for finishing first in her age group at the Katy Half Marathon (TX)!</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We hope to see you on Saturday morning! Spread the word about the Saturday run - open to all!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 14.7727px;">We will start the </span><b id="yui_3_15_0_1_1457623655984_1969" style="line-height: 14.7727px;">SRR Kids Spring 2016 season next Wednesday, March 16th</b><span style="line-height: 14.7727px;">. Practices will be on Wednesday nights from 6:15 to 7:15 at the Tufts outdoor track. We will finish our season with the Mystic River Herring Run & Paddle race on Sunday, May 15th. For more information, please visit the SRR Kids website: </span><a data-rapid_p="1" href="http://www.srr.org/kids/" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1457623655984_1954" rel="nofollow" style="color: #324fe1; line-height: 14.7727px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.srr.org/kids/</a><span style="line-height: 14.7727px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Congratulations to our February <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/srrlovemyrun?source=feed_text&story_id=1761820057382321" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="color: #627aad;">#</span><span class="_58cm">SRRLoveMyRun</span></a> photo contest winner Greg, and our An Ras Mor 5k <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/srrrunsgreen?source=feed_text&story_id=1761820057382321" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="color: #627aad;">#</span><span class="_58cm">SRRRunsGreen</span></a> photo contest winner Christophe! Greg wins an entry to the Spring Classic 5k and Christophe is the proud new owner of an SRR green shamrock t-shirt. Thanks to everyone who participated!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the spirit of loving being GREEN, SRR will continue to host our #SRRRunsGreen social media contest through the month of March. Do you prefer to run, walk, bike, T, hover board,<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"> skip, or crawl around town? Do you cry tears of joy when you drop your worn out running sneakers in the refurbished shoe bins? Are you growing your own kale and spinach in city gardening beds for delicious post run smoothies? Share your love of all things GREEN with us this month to win a 2015 Boston Marathon Street Banner. Yes, we do mean you will win one of the street banners that was adorning the tall street posts last April. Post your #SRRRunsGreen picture to SRR's Instagram or Facebook Page and let us know what is so GREEN about YOU.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.32px;">We mourn loss of one of our club members, Thomas Cole, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.32px;">who passed away on Wednesday, February 17th. As a runner and photographer, Tom avidly captured our truest moments in any kind of weather, any kind of condition, and any time of day. He was a loyal supporter of each and every SRR, on and off the course. It was a highlight of any race to have him there, and to see the moments he captured. He will be missed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Elections will take place <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1578993732" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Monday 3/14</span></span> at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1578993733" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">7pm</span></span> at the Eastern Bank Community Room in Davis Square. All current members are encouraged to attend and vote! </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Members will vote on the board of directors, and then the board will appoint the club officers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To get to know the candidates beforehand, please take a minute to review:<br /><a href="http://www.srr.org/membership/elections/2016_candidates.php" target="_blank">Candidates for Elected Positions</a><br /><a href="http://www.srr.org/membersh%E2%80%A6/elections/2016_appointments.php" target="_blank">Candidates for Appointed Positions</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Also on the ballot will be an amendment to the <span class="il">bylaws</span>. </span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 14.7727px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Over the years, the structure of the board and the responsibilities of each board member has evolved. Similarly, the list of appointed positions and race committees has expanded. After a careful review of the bylaws, the current board is proposing an amendment to better reflect the current structure of the board positions and duties. At the elections on Monday, each individual revision will be listed and if the membership is in agreement, then the amendment will be made and published for future reference. </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;">Members will vote on the summary of updates.</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.7727px;">Article III/Seal/Logo: Updating previous seal/logo to the name logo “Somerville Road Runners”</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.7727px;">Article V/Dues: Updating statement that dues are collected by club Membership Coordinator (previously Treasurer). Updating due date to any time in fiscal year (previously April 1).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.7727px;">Section One: Updating Corporate Officers to be all Board of Directors (expanding from previous list of President, Treasurer, and Clerk)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.7727px;">Section Two: Updating Duties of Officers to be consistent with job descriptions used in annual elections, including two-year term for Treasurer and Membership Coordinator</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.7727px;">Section Four: Updating statement that club communications and press releases are updated by all relevant club officers and race committees (previously Public Relations Coordinator)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.7727px;">Section Four: Updating list of appointed positions to be consistent with list used in annual elections, including two-year term for Membership Coordinator, and updating those positions appointed in July vs March. Expanding additional club leadership to race committees, and the club coach (as paid by stipend determined by the Board)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.7727px;">Section Five: Clarifying duties of Membership Coordinator vs Treasurer</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.7727px;">Section Five: Updating due date to any time in fiscal year (previously April 1). Removing language of active members without paying dues, as we only maintain list of dues-paying members</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.7727px;">Section Six: Removing media communications as one of the duties covered by the Secretary as this has been addressed in Section Four</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.7727px;">Section Eight: Updating sentence regarding Corporate Officers and appointment of positions as this has been revised to the Board of Directors and is previously addressed in section Four.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.7727px;">Section Nine: Revising statement of compensation to include coach stipend.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.7727px;">Adding Sections 1,2,3 on Voting and Voter Criteria, Election Procedures, and Counting Ballots to be consistent with current procedures</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Many, if not most, of you know our club President Urvi Mujumdar. Urvi has been an SRR member since 2010 and has served as Volunteer Coordinator, Vice President (two terms), and is running for a second term as President in 2016. Please join us in thanking Urvi for her tireless leadership and service to the club, and also congratulating her on her recent marriage to fellow club member Jesse Morrow! We wish you both many years of happiness and adventures!</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Congratulations to 3000m AG Champion Brian Cullinan, 5000m AG 2nd place finisher Joe O'Leary, 3000m AG 2nd place finisher Jim Pawlicki, and 1 mile AG 3rd place finisher Jesse Morrow!</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The 2016 officer elections will take place at our Annual Meeting on </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1732161863" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Monday, March 14, 2016</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">. We are now accepting applications for positions between </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1732161864" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Feb 1-Feb 19th</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> (at </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1732161865" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">11:59pm</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Eastern). </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">At the elections, the ballot will include all candidates for the elected officers that make up the board of directors. Once elected, the board will then appoint several additional positions critical to club leadership. In addition to these positions, we have prepared an amendment to the club bylaws. A summary of the proposed changes will also be added to the ballot. Final results will be announced after the Annual Meeting.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.8px;">If you are a current member (dues paid for the 2016 year), you may vote for candidates for elected officer positions. <b>You must be present at the meeting to vote!</b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.8px;">Any current SRR member (dues paid for the 2016 year) may run for elected office or submit their name for consideration for an appointed position. A list of elected and appointed positions and their job descriptions is <a href="http://www.srr.org/membership/elections/index.php" target="_blank">available on the SRR website</a>.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.8px;">To run for an elected or appointed position, submit your application to Urvi Mujumdar at president@srr.org no later than 11:59pm on February 19, 2016. Please include the following information:</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Brief statement that can be posted on the SRR website</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">telling club members about you and your interest in the position.You are</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">encouraged to disclose any memberships, management, business</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">involvement or significant roles in the sport, outside of SRR, if</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">applicable.</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over half </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(52%) of respondents have been club members for 5+ years</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Top 5 events for running participation</span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (in order of frequency): Casey's, Track, Mill Cities Relay, Group/Long Runs, Bur-Run</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Top 5 events for volunteer participation</span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (in order of frequency): Casey's, Gobble, Ultra Around the Lake, An Ras Mor, Boston Marathon</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the highest, the average overall rating for SRR was </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8.61 </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most common mode of communication: </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yahoo Email Group</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most commonly known aspects of the club: </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">USATF </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">followed by </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SRR Kids</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Least commonly known aspect of the club: </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Road Runners Club of America </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Exploring the possibility of SRR having a </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">youth running club</span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to allow for our younger club members/SRR Kids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creating a new initiative to be more </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">environment-friendly and green! </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tom Breider, Irene Lanois, Sonia Sharan and Mariah Tinger are organizing this effort and will be trying out new recycling possibilities at our next club race, An Ras Mor. If you are interested in getting involved, contact Tom at </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tomjbreider@gmail.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Building up our group </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">long run program </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to offer a monthly standing run for all paces with easy-to-follow routes out of Davis to Fresh Pond, and to create a committee of interested runners to help our current Long Run Coordinators with planning and organizing. If you have ideas or want to help in the execution, please contact </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nichole.bukowski@gmail.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">newsletter</span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has been introduced as a means for monthly streamlined communication, taking all the important information already posted in various channels and offering other types of information for the club. This can also be a place for members to share stories, race reports, or post about potential destination races or trips. If you'd like to share in an upcoming edition, please contact Julie Holt at </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">marketing@srr.org</span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Committee involvement</span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. We understand that some individuals may want to volunteer in a more involved capacity without taking on a leadership role. Survey feedback indicated we need more opportunities for this. To that end, the board has already expanded some positions (long runs, for example) and we want interested members to know about our various race committees. As stated in the call for election nominations, if you are interested, please email </span><a href="mailto:president@srr.org" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">president@srr.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An internal initiative is </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">club documentation</span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for the board, club officers, and race committees. The goal is to capture institutional knowledge and help the future leaders of SRR.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have resources available to us as we are a </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">member club of the Road Runners Club of America </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(such as our club insurance), that will be made more available. This was the least known aspect of the club, according to the survey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We will brainstorm new ways to offer </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">discounted or free race entry </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">as a membership perk. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We had mixed feedback related to </span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">club culture</span><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, with comments that it can be hard as a new member, and that some feel there are many cliques. We thought it would be best to provide that feedback back to the club so that we can each do our part to be welcoming. If there are ideas for newcomers, please email </span><a href="mailto:president@srr.org" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">president@srr.org</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is encouraged to continue to use the Yahoo email list and Facebook group for any and all needs for the club: carpooling, ideas for runs, ideas for destination races, runner resources, questions, and more. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Most Improved Male:</b> Aharon Wright<br /><b>Most Improved Female:</b> Megan Vdk Prokop<br /><b>Appreciation awards for their dedication and contributions to the club:</b> Brendan Kearney and Julie Holt<br /><b>Outstanding Volunteers:</b> Amy Dierberger and Anthony White<br /><b>Rookie of the Year:</b> Irene Lee<br /><b>Unsung Hero:</b> Aaron Beer<br /><b>In Appreciation for his TEN years of service as SRR coach:</b> Joe O'Leary</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">We had some special awards this year because club spirit, being a supportive teammate, and camaraderie should also be applauded:<br /><b>Florence Nightingale:</b> Dafne Cardamone<br /><b>"You've Got This":</b> Deb Downs (Bam!)<br /><b>Pacing Queen:</b> Jennifer Rapaport</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Seth went to the very first Bur-run in the spring of 2009. Rich Lu convinced him to check it out. <span class="il">Laurie</span> first went to Casey’s in September 2009, when she was training for her first half marathon. It was the Thursday before the Lake Winnie relay and everyone kept asking if she was on a team.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In January 2011, our friendship turned into more and we got married this past <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1732161940" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">October 3</span></span>! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">SRR is an amazing community. We’ve made such wonderful friends in SRR and found love. All while benefiting from the wisdom of the group and helping SRR to give back to others.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Seth likes Mizuno or Brooks. <span class="il">Laurie</span> has many pairs of Brooks Ravennas in different colors.</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Happy New Year, Somerville Road Runners!</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Six<b> annual club races </b>were held: Wintah Challenge, An Ras Mor, 26x1, Ultra Around the Lake, Race to the Row, and Gobble Gobble Gobble </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The <b>Sean Collier Memorial Run</b> out of Casey’s which was captured by local media</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Bur-run organizers organized <b>two fun runs</b>: “The Waffle Run” and “The Boo Run”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The <b>Thursday Night run</b> continued its streak and hit <b>20 years</b>!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>SRR Grand Prix</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> had its fourth successful series with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">137 participants </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Chris Antunes and Deb Downs were the overall winners, with several age-group winners</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">175 individuals <b>volunteered </b>their time at 17 different opportunities within the club, the local running community, and the city of Somerville!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ten individuals received <b>Boston Marathon Invitational Numbers</b> for 2016, awarded by the BAA </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Three <b>scholarships </b>were awarded to Somerville High School graduating seniors</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SRR donated a membership package to the </span><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Somerville Homeless Coalition 20</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Annual Gala</span></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">SRR took home <b>eight of the coveted bricks</b> at the annual Mill Cities Relay</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Runner shout-outs: </b> Deb Downs was 1st female at the Asheville Marathon; Liz Cooney was 4th in AG at the Boston Marathon; </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 22.08px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kieran Condon was 3rd Overall and </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joe O’Leary 1st in AG at Westport Half Marathon; Shaun Miller was 3rd Overall at Across the Years Ultra. There were many other amazing AG performances this year - too many to keep track!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">SRR participated in two races as part of the <b>USATF incentive program</b>: Five College Realtors 10- miler in Amherst and the Vermont City Marathon</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The <b>119th Boston Marathon</b> had at least 59 runners including our 10 invitational recipients for 2015 </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We had a<b> club officer appreciation night</b> at a Red Sox game this fall</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our webmaster introduced the new <b>Google Drive </b>for club documentation and records</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2016, we look ahead to the 20</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> year of SRR activities (though we officially became an organization in 1998). The club will also honor the memory of Coach Steve Burton who passed away ten years ago in 2006. The SRR board has great ideas for the new year, including seeking to apply to the Road Runners Club of America to make Somerville a designated “runner-friendly” community. We have already started sharing ideas based on the recent survey feedback, and we’ll announce those initiatives soon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Huge thanks to all the runners and volunteers who came out despite the wind and rain to enjoy a Seinfeld-themed run and post-run breakfast! </span></span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 16px;">Current SRR members (for 2015 OR 2016) are invited to join us on Friday, January 22 from 7-10:30pm at the Somerville Armony for our annual party! Come enjoy great company, food from Redbones and music from DJ White as we celebrate the accomplishments of 2015. Tickets are $20 in advance using <a href="https://www.signmeup.com/site/online-event-registration/111728" target="_blank">this link</a> or $25 at the door. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Melissa at mmglotzbecker@gmail.com. Volunteer slots are filled on a first-come, first-served basis and all volunteers receive free admission. </span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The people spoke and your wishes have been granted. You wanted more community runs open to all pace groups and we are putting the plan into action. Starting on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saturday February 13</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 8px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (the Second Saturday of Feb) SRR will host a Saturday morning run from Au Bon Pain in Davis Square. The route will head down the bike-path to Fresh Pond. There will be options to do loop(s) of Fresh Pond and/or incorporate parts of the Charles River. The route was selected to provide multiple options for SRR Second Saturday runners to run the mileage that supports their goals. We’ll be looking for individuals to commit to being a pacer – simply meaning show up that day to run with others opting for similar pace! These runs are open to current SRR members and the community. More details will be posted in the coming weeks. #SRRSecondSaturdays Woot Woot!</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes, that infamous day is coming! Before Mother Nature kicks our behinds on Marathon Monday with perhaps another scorcher or a sleet-filled rainstorm, get course miles under your belt with your favorite running club! The course supported long run is set for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saturday March 26</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 8px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Mark that calendar. Stay tuned for sign up details – both to run and volunteer!</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Want to get more involved in planning fun running opportunities for your fellow running friends? Interested in being more involved in SRR without the full commitment of holding an office or board position? As a committee member you will help us plan community and long run opportunities that meet the varied needs of the SRR community. Contact Nichole Bukowski at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nichole.bukowski@gmail.com</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to share your interest. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;">March 2: Running Safety Talk at the Somerville Police Department, time TBD</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;">March 6: SRR's An Ras Mor 5k, 9am, Central Square</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;">March 7: SRR Annual Meeting/Elections, 7pm, Eastern Bank in Davis Square. All are welcome to attend and vote!</span></li>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2016 is the Fifth year of the Somerville Road Runners Grand Prix. The Grand Prix has four main goals:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. Compel off-season running for members;</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. Promote local road races;</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3. Fly the flag for SRR in the local running community; and,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4. Engender intra- and inter-club competition.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In furtherance of these goals, the Grand Prix is a yearly evolving event. We try to make to make it </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">different and exciting each year. This year’s series includes two relays and a cross-country race.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now, the skinny - </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Run at least 5 of the 6 races to receive the five-race prize and three-race prize</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Run at least 3 of the 6 races to receive the three-race prize</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Volunteering for a race will earn you one point and credit as having participated in the race.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- Men & Women will be scored separately</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Overall Points will be awarded based on participation and place - ex. 50 SRR women participate </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and you finish first of those 50 women, you get 50 points.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Age Group Points will be awarded separately, based on place - ex. 5 Men's 50-59 participate and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">if you finish first of those Men's 50-59, you get 5 points.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Top three overall winners for men and women will be excluded from the age group prizes (i.e. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">no double dipping)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Top three Male and Female, and 1st place of each age group, receive the competition prizes. You must </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">run at least three races to receive a prize.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If the race has a team competition, you cannot be on a team other than "Somerville Road Runners" and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">receive points toward the Grand Prix for that race.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Remainder of the Series:</b><br />Race #2 - <a href="http://www.super5k.com/" target="_blank">Super 5k</a>, Lowell, MA</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Race #3 - <a href="http://www.srr.org/anrasmor/" target="_blank">An Ras Mor 5k</a>, Cambridge, MA<br />Race #4 - <a href="http://www.playworks.org/communities/massachusetts/news/6th-annual-new-balance-5k-run-recess-and-1-mile-fun-run" target="_blank">Playworks 5k</a>, Franklin Park </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Race #5 - <a href="http://cambridge5k.com/freedom/" target="_blank">Freedom Run 5k</a>, Cambridge, MA<br />Race #6 - <a href="http://www.srr.org/events/club-challenge-marathon-relay/index.php" target="_blank">SRR 26x1 Relay*</a>, June 2016, Somerville, MA </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">*- 26x1 will be a handicap race. We will take your last year’s time and divide it by this year’s. (If you did not run it last year, Jesse will use the VDOT mile from your fastest 5k during the Grand Prix.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Flowers in Your Hair: USATF Club Cross Country National Championships</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On Friday, the weekend did NOT look welcoming. In the Outer Richmond Area of San Francisco, I ran </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">through Golden Gate Park and along the Ocean with a blustery sideways wind and rainstorm that nearly </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">gave me swimmer’s ear. Fortunately, by Saturday the skies had cleared. And while parts of Golden Gate </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Park were soggy bogs, the course was mostly perfect and ready for the National Championships. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In 2014, we had put together an entire masters’ team for this event – which was much closer in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bethlehem, PA. 2015, we were not so lucky. Without a team, I was the only SRR runner in the Masters’ </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">10K and had to line up behind the box of our Greater Lowell frenemies. We nearly had a full team for </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the Women’s open, as Erin Morin, Sara Saba-Sher and Urvi Mujumdar all took part in the Women’s 6K </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">event. And, Tim Morin participated in the Men’s Open 10K.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The event is filled with such positive energy. Almost everyone running is in the class of “recreationally </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">competitive.” And there are runners from all over the country. Within 10 seconds of me finishing were </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">runners from Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, California and New England. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also, the camaraderie is special. As the races are all at different times, while running the Masters Men </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">10K, open runners and women were doing their warm ups and cooldowns along the course. This led to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">many moments where a group from some New England club would just yell: “Go Somerville!” as I ran </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">past.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The five of us who flew the flag for SRR, all got caught up in the wealth of talent and had excellent races:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Erin Morin - 25:57 (for the Golden State native, it was a two minute course PR!)</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sara Saba-Sher - 27:19</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Urvi Mujumdar - 38:48</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jesse Morrow - 39:26</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">SRR alum – Jon May – 37:00</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">SRR alum – Kerry May – 25:24</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.visittallahassee.com/events/274953/2016-usatf-national-club-cross-country-championship/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #222222;">Next year in </span>Tallahassee<span style="color: #222222;">! 10/10/16</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have been awarded 10 invitational numbers for active club members to have the chance to run in the 2016 Boston Marathon. It is an honor to receive these numbers, and we will continue to serve the BAA as a volunteer organization. We were recently acknowledged by the BAA </span><a href="http://www.baa.org/utilities/volunteer/outstanding-volunteer-groups/somerville-road-runners.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Club Spotlight</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">We asked our 2016 recipients about their experiences with SRR and what excites them most about running the Boston Marathon:</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Boston Athletic Association (BAA) has again invited Somerville Road Runners to participate in the Boston Marathon Invitational Number Program and has granted 10 numbers to SRR members to run the marathon on Monday, April 18th, 2016. To be considered for a number, you must have been a member for one full year and you must be a current member for 2016. </span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please note that the deadline for all applications is at midnight on Wednesday, December 9.</span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> For more information, please reference the instructional email sent to all club members or contact </span><a href="mailto:president@srr.org" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 1.2; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">president@srr.org</span></a><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SRR Kids Program Concludes Successful 5th Season</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On November 8, 2015, 28 young runners took part in the Boston River Run 5k at the culmination of the 5th season of the SRR Kids youth running program. SRR Kids, founded in August 2013 and run entirely by SRR volunteers, is a free community-based non-competitive running program for kids in kindergarten through grade 6. The purpose of this program is to encourage children to think of running as fun, and instill in them a healthy, active lifestyle to carry through their entire lives. Each season consists of weekly practices and ends with a fun 5K race. For more information about SRR Kids, visit </span><a href="http://www.srr.org/kids/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.srr.org/kids/</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. If you’re an SRR member and want to help out as a coach or pacer in the future, please email </span><a href="mailto:kids@srr.org" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">kids@srr.org</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilmSRtQ5BzVPZvkP7xRvet49a_8H1389JNgQXxfqcrw21KGUh25Eb7wRqjdbVqc-ao2fOd6TPC5fnmJ7y951J4kB0ZTVFzcBMzfpULfu_t-LLcau_wBckDyaJSnh4FR7xgzft-t1G-v7U0/s1600/gobbleturkeys.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilmSRtQ5BzVPZvkP7xRvet49a_8H1389JNgQXxfqcrw21KGUh25Eb7wRqjdbVqc-ao2fOd6TPC5fnmJ7y951J4kB0ZTVFzcBMzfpULfu_t-LLcau_wBckDyaJSnh4FR7xgzft-t1G-v7U0/s200/gobbleturkeys.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Three thousand runners kicked off their Thanksgiving Day festivities by running in SRR’s Gobble Gobble Gobble 4-mile Thanksgiving Day Race. A time-honored tradition, the Gobble Gobble Gobble is not only a fun race for family and friends - it is also a great cause, with a majority of proceeds going to Project Soup and Somerville Track PAC. We are incredibly thankful for our running community and grateful for the opportunity to give back. Special thanks to our sponsors Marathon Sports, Harvard Vanguard and the Burren, and most of all to our volunteers - we couldn’t do it without you!</span></span><br />
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