Thursday, November 4, 2010

New Member & Sundries

New Member
Welcome Dave Feinauer.  Dave tells us, "I have been running for about 20 years the wild and crazier the run the more I enjoy.  Love doing different types of runs and biking."  Sounds like a trail dog to me!

Carpools? 
The Oley 10M/5K and Bear Creek Trail 10K/5K are both on 11/7.  The Oley carpool needs to leave from the Quakertown Park & Ride at 7:15.  Bear Creek at 8:30.  Later in November, we have Berwick on 11/25 and the Dirty Bird on 11/28.  Let me know if you're interested in any of these and I'll set things up.  Contact me at bill.tuszynski@gmail.com.  I'm running in the Dirty Bird but not the 11/7 races.


New Member
Welcome Dave Feinauer.  Dave tells us, "I have been running for about 20 years the wild and crazier the run the more I enjoy.  Love doing different types of runs and biking."  Sounds like a trail dog to me!

Carpools? 
The Oley 10M/5K and Bear Creek Trail 10K/5K are both on 11/7.  The Oley carpool needs to leave from the Quakertown Park & Ride at 7:15.  Bear Creek at 8:30.  Later in November, we have Berwick on 11/25 and the Dirty Bird on 11/28.  Let me know if you're interested in any of these and I'll set things up.  Contact me at bill.tuszynski@gmail.com.  I'm running in the Dirty Bird but not the 11/7 races.

Big Applers
Good luck to everyone running my hometown Noo Yawk marathon -  the race that starts on the Verrazano Bridge, momentarily transforming it into the world's longest urinal.  Remember to yell, "Hey, I'm running here!" to anyone who crosses in front of you.  Having a car horn to honk will help.  Share your race day superstitions -http://marathon.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/spaghetti-the-no-8-and-green-underwear-rituals-to-run-with/?ref=sports.  Mine? I always wear one of my "Spuddy Buddy Fan Club" t-shirts, one for road races and a beat-up one for trails, although a new trail shirt will make its debut at the Dirty Bird.

Why We Run (In Case You've Forgotten - PR's Are Nice But Not Important)

By THOMAS FARLEY
Jennifer S. Altman for The New York Times Dr. Thomas Farley, New York Citys health commissioner, has run 15 marathons.

Many people who run started late in life, for health reasons. I worked it other way around.

When I was in high school, I wanted to be an athlete, to compete and to win, but instead I found myself riding the bench on the junior varsity soccer team. One day the cross-country coach saw my lanky build and efficient stride and suggested I switch to his team, hoping he might add depth. As a cross-country runner I was a dud, so he ended up disappointed, but I ended up with a lifelong habit.

About 20 years later, after medical school, residency, and training in public health and after 10 marathons and dozens of shorter races it suddenly hit me that this running habit was good for my health. This is part of my job now, so, for the record, after quitting smoking, the single best thing you can do for your health is regular physical activity. It lowers your risk of heart disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, osteoporosis, colon cancer, maybe breast cancer, depression and the cognitive decline that happens with age.

But honestly, these days none of those are why I run. Instead, I run for the sheer pleasure of it, for the exhilaration of moving fast under your own power. Take any 5-year-old boy to a park and ask him to race around that tree over there. Then watch the goofy joy on his face as he sprints. I havent lost that joy when I run, and I hope I never will.

Its tougher to explain why I run marathons, because lets face it, running 26.2 miles is no pleasure. I was on that high school cross-country team in 1972 when Frank Shorter won the Olympic marathon in Munich. Soon my gang on the team started talking about trying one, and the idea got stuck in my head. After a couple of failed attempts at gearing up, I ran the Philadelphia Bicentennial Marathon in 1976, a big one for the time, with all of about 300 runners. I learned during the race that my training had been pitiful, and I walked much of the last six miles home, miserable. Like most marathoners, during the race I swore Id never do it again, but after seeing how awful my time was, I began thinking that I could do much better. And after that I couldnt stop myself.

There was once a marathon just outside of New Orleans that ran straight point-to-point across a 24-mile bridge. I told myself I was doing it so that years later I could impress my children by telling them about it. Bad idea. Years later, driving across the bridge I announced to two of my daughters that I had run across it. They acted as if I said I had once balanced an egg on my head for 30 seconds. Sure, Dad. Super. Say, its getting warm back here. Can you turn up the A.C.?

For a few years I said the reason I ran marathons was to break three hours (as if somehow that explained it). The goal seemed impossible at first, then it got closer. I ran here in New York in the mid-1980s, walked a bit in the last mile, and then finished in 3 hours 59 seconds. Ouch. Then not long afterward I took a vacation in Paris, ran there on a lark, and finished in 2:59:40. I told my wife, If I die now I die happy.

In the quarter-century since then its been a rearguard action: seeing if I can slow down less than the competition does. I think its working, because I pass more 50-somethings in Central Park than pass me. At this rate maybe Ill win the 70-and-up bracket in 2026. Which is all to say that, even at my age, Im still trying to be an athlete.

The New York City Marathon is a spectacle. Its what people my age used to call a happening. The helicopters, the thundering horde crossing the Verrazano, the kids slapping your hands as you pass them in Brooklyn, the throng cheering as you tumble down the Queensboro ramp onto First Avenue and the stadium-like scene as you approach the finish line in Central Park. Not even Boston is remotely like it. But for all that, even though thousands will cross the finish line before I do, the thing Ill think about most for those 26.2 miles is what my final time will be. Maybe my high school coach wont be disappointed now.

Club Races
Golfers will enjoy the Macoby Run Run, a scenic jaunt through the Macoby Run golf course.  Fortunately the course is closed for the race so you don't have to wear your bicycle helmet..

Nov 13: Macoby Run Run 5M/5K/1M, Green Lane PA
Nov:27: Habitat for Humanity 5K, Quakertown PA
Nov 27: Historic Bethlehem Turkey Trot, Bethlehem PA
Nov 28: Dirty Bird 15K Trail, French Creek State Park, PA
Dec 4: Jingle Bell 5K, Bethlehem PA
Dec 12: Jingle Bell 5K, Malvern PA
Jan 16: Chilly Cheeks 7.2M Trail, Reading PA

Website
Visit the club website, www.buxmontrunning.com and check out the "Athlete Profile" page featuring short self-written bios of club members. That I'm on there proves you don't have to be a good athlete to be on the page! Send yours to either me or Tom Daugherty. Tom actually does the work in his function as webmeister.

Group Runs - Suggest Confirming With the Listed Contact On Any Given Week!
Wednesday: Upper Perk HS 6:00 PM - Speed Workout, Dean Johnson 
Saturday: Tennis Zone (former Upper Bucks YMCA on California Rd.) 8:00 AM, Jerry Washcalus, Tom Daugherty  or Bill Tuszynski bill.tuszynski@gmail.com
Saturday: Perkiomen Trail (Crusher Road) 8:00 AM, Bill Blair
Sunday: Lehigh Valley Parkway, 7:00/7:30/8:00 AM, Loops from 6.65-21+ miles, Gene Lund, Debi Golbreski
Sunday: Perkiomen Trail (Crusher Road) 10:00 AM, Randy Opdyke

 Race Results
A nice busy weekend.  Sorry to have missed seeing so many of you at Evansburg.  Guess everyone left before I finished.  Fortunately Christine and Jen stayed since I rode with them.  Congratulations to Nolan Pernia for scoring first overall at the Philly Express 3K.  Crazy weekend from Laurie Reinhart who decided  one 50K was only half  the fun she needed.  Kudos to Kristin Munoz for her 5K PR at the Bethlehem Halloween 5K.

10/31/10
Halloweenie 50K
Laurie Reinhart - 7:12:11, 27

Marine Corps Marathon (21,598)
Jim Mastrianni - 3:13:26, 472nd
John Guth - 3:57:42, 4,198th
Jeff Dimmig - 4:01:13, 4,7771st

Evansburg Trail 10M (243)
Joseph Murray - 1:09:19, 17th
Terry Rooney - 1:13:22, 37th
Neil Policelli - 1:17:45, 67th, AG1
Jen Hooper - 1:23:39, 102nd
Brian Hemingway - 1:27:16, 125th
Kim Hemingway - 1:27:39, 127th
Deb Golbreski - 1:29:20, 144th
Christine Murray - 1:34:40, 173rd
Cesar Pernia - 1:39:11, 185th
George Foedisch - 1:40:25, 194th
Bill Tuszynski - 1:46:17, 216th

Radnor 5M (688)
Tom Jennings - 34:57, 83rd, AG1
Kent Prizer - 35:48, 106th, AG3
Lou Coppens - 37:58,151st, AG2
Jack Heely - 53:32

Bethlehem Halloween 5K (251)
Michael Womelsdord - 18:59, 3rd
Brian Serfass - 22:48, 55th
Kristin Munoz - 25:47, 131st PR
Michele Litke - 29:59, 211th

10/30/10
Fat Ass 50K
Laurie Reinhart - ~7:30

Skeleton Skurry 5K (607)
Anabelle Broadbent - 20;45, 15th, 1F
Dave Broadbent - 21:34, 21st, AG1
Warren Taylor - 23:09, 55th, AG1
Ruth King - 24:28, 87th, AG3

Run Like Hell 5K (54)
Michael Womelsdorf - 19;04, 3rd, AG1
Neil Policelli - 21:49, 11th, AG1

Philadelphia Express 5K
Heidi Pernia - 22:08, 1F

Philadelphia Express 3K
Nolan Pernia - 13:00, 1st

10/23/10
Stoudt's Brewing 12K (220)
Michael Womelsdorf - 49:04, 18th
Bob Bodkin - 1:11:09, 171st
Jean Artim - 1:16:21, 196th

Emmaus Halloween 5K (197)
Rob Gallagher - 19:08, 14th
Dean Dimmig - 20:18, 20th
John Guth - 20;35, 23rd
Briel Dimmig - 27:13, 107th

Race Calendar (Club Races in Bold)
October
30: Skeleton Skurry 5K/2M, Hatboro PA, gchamberlain@philaymca.org
30: Monster Mash 5K, Ridley Park PA, www.meetup.com/dragonboatcrew
30: Run Like Hell 5K, Fish Hatchery, Allentown PA www.runlehighvalley.com
30: Monster Mash 5K, Newtown Square PA
31: Bethlehem Halloween 5K, Bethlehem PA, www.bethlehem5k.com
31: October Lauf Fest 1/2 Marathon, Philadelphia PA, www.uberendurancesports.com
31: Radnor Run 5M, Wayne PA, www.lunginfo.org.radnorrun
31: Evansburg Challenge Trail 10M & 4.6M Fun Hike, Evansburg State Park, Collegeville PA, www.pretzelcitysports.com

November
6: Warrior 5K, Norristown PA, www.sites.google.com/site/warrior5k
6: Transitions Autumnfest 5K, Washington NJ, www.raceforum.com/transitions
6: Bird in Hand Half Marathon, lancaster PA, www.pretzelcitysports.com
7: Bear Creek 5K/10K Trail, Macungie PA, http://www.runreg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=2287
7: Greyhound Freedom 5K/2M Walk, Yyler Park, Newtown PA, www.runtheday.com
7: Oley Valley 10M/5K, Oley PA, www.pagodapacers.com
7: Kristin's Krusade 5K Run/Walk, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, www.kristinskrusade.org
7: Cooper Norcross Bridge Event 10K/2M, Camden NJ, www.runthebridge.org
13: Autism Cares 10K/5K/2M, Richboro PA, www.raceforresources.kintera.org
13: Y12K 12K, Philadelphia PA, www.whyy.org/12k
13: HTCC Pump & Run 5K, Bethlehem PA, www.hanovertwp-nc.org 13: High Point Hills 5K, Chalfont PA, www.actsportsmanagement.com
13: Macoby Run Run 5M/5K/1M, Macoby Run Golf Course Green Lane PA, www.pretzelcitysports.com
14: South Mountain 10M/5K, Hellertown PA, www.lvrr.org
14: Harrisburg Marathon, Harrisburg PA, www.harrisburgmarathon.com
14: Trimax Media Mud Stain 5M/10M, www.trimaxendurancesports,com
14: Thon 5K, Reading PA, ejy5014@psu.edu
20: Towamencin Turkey Trot 5K, Lansdale PA, www.towamencin.org
20: Stone Mill 50M, near Frederick MD, www.stone-mill-60-mile.org
20-21: Philadelphia Marathon/Half Marathon/8K, Philadelphia PA, www.philadelphiamarathon.com
21: Fallen leaves 7K, East Allen Tsp. PA, ed.e4events@gmail.com
25: Run for the Diamonds 9M, Berwick PA, /www.runfordiamonds.com
25: Bucks County RR Turkey Trot 5M, Tyler Park, Newtown PA, www.bcrr.info
25: Pumpkin Pies 5K/1.5M, Nazareth PA, www.nazarethymca.org
25: Abington Gobble Wobble 5K, Abington PA, www.philaymca.org
27: Habitat for Humanity 5K, Quakertown PA, www.habitat.org
27: Historic Bethlehem Turkey Trot, Bethlehem PA, www.historicbethlehem.org
28: Alvernia 5K, Reading PA, www.pretzelcitysports.com
28: Celebrate Joan 5K, Allentown PA, www.celebratejoan.com
28: Dirty Bird Trail 15K, French Creek State Park, www.pretzelcitysports.com

December
4: Festive 5K Run/Walk, Coatesville PA, www.brandywinefoundation.org
4: Jingle Bell 5K, Bethlehem PA, davee58@msn.com
5: Tour Tyler 5.3M, Tyler State Park, Newtown PA, www.brcc.info
5: Shiver by the River 10K/5K, Reading PA, www.pagodapacers.com
11: Christmas City Challenge 5M, Bethlehem PA, www.peakrace.com
11: Reindeer Romp 5K/3K, Havertown PA, www.reindeerromp.org
12: Jingle Bell 5K, Malvern PA, www.jbrphilly.kintera.org
12: Covered Bridge 5K, Tyler State Park, Newtown PA, www.brcc.info
19: Predict Your Time 5.3M, Tyler State Park, Newtown PA, www.brcc.info

January
1: Cham-pain 5K, Tyler State Park, Newtown PA, www.brcc.info
2: Shiver by the River 10K/5K, Reading PA, www.pagodapacers.com
9: Predict Your Time 5.3, Tyler State Park, Newtown PA, www.brcc.info
16: Chilly Cheeks 7.2M Trail, Reading PA, www.pretzelcitysports.com
16: Polar Bear 8M, Tyler State Park, Newtown PA, www.brcc.info
23: Honest Abe 4.6, Tyler State Park, Newtown PA, www.brcc.info
30: Terrible Tyler 15K, Tyler State Park, Newtown PA, www.brcc.info

Keep me posted on favorite races and your race results.
Bill

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