Slainte Pub Run

Looks like a good night was had by all. A good race (13 RoadRunners came home with 7 age group medals) and more importantly lots of swag, free beer and food.

Fresh Air Fund-Racers

From Sara Wilson of the Fresh Air Fund-Racers:

Hi

I wanted to write you a quick note to let you know that our 2009 Fresh Air Fund-Racers completed the NYC half marathon and raised a whopping $80,000 this summer! We are really thrilled and just wanted to thank everyone who supported us. I've posted some photos onto our Facebook page here:

http://www.facebook.com/freshairfund
Please become a fan if you aren't already. If you'd like to share this wonderful news on Barrie Road Runners or on Twitter that would be great. Our twitter handle is @freshairfund. Please shoot me back the link if you do so I can share it with the rest of the team.

Thank you so very much,

Sara
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Sara Wilson, Fresh Air Fund
sara@freshair.org
www.freshair.org

Shithouse 5K

Name: Shithouse5k: The Shittiest Race in the World!
Type: Just for Fun - Totally Pointless
Description: Shithouse 5k: the Shittiest Race In the World
Saturday, July 25th 2009 @ 6:30 PM

This scenic 5k route starts right on the Mississippi near the sewage treatment plant in La Crosse, WI. It then winds its way through the run down streets of the La Crosse's industrial park. After running through beautiful Riverside Park you come back and finish at the famous Shithouse Flame. If you are looking for a shitty race and a great post race party...La Crosse's very own Shithouse 5k is the race for you. Although this race is dubbed the "Shittiest Race in the World," there will be a couple hundred runners from all over the midwest. In the past times have ranged anywhere from 15 flat to 35 minutes, so everyone will have someone to run with.

The flame may put off a horrible smell, but the competition is anything but shitty...visit shithouse5k.com

$20 pays for your t-shirt, runner's world race bib, live dj, gatorade, fruit, lodging, party, burgers, brats, catered food, 2 bands, and beer (if you are 21 or older)

if you have any questions do not hesitate to ask. Also, if you have an suggestions on how to make the race any shittier let me know.

Invite everyone you know!!!

shithouse5k.com



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This year...

**THE Dan Vogel (devout ETC member) and the band, "The Paragraphs" from Minneapolis will be playing at Houska park following the race.

**Scotty Hayden (UW-L Runner) and Meridene will be performing once again for the post race party.

**New shirt design this year and new awards

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It just keeps getting shittier! You don't want to miss it!

Contact Info
Email:
Website: http://shithouse5k.com/eagletrackclub.or...
Office: 1801 Ferry Street (cariage) (race headquarters)
Location: Joseph Houska Dr. (Houska Park)

Midsummer Night Run Results

A lot of RoadRunenrs took a bus trip down to TO Saturday afternoon to take part in the Midsummer Night Run 30k and 15k. It was a very warm, humid night, but it looks like everyone had fun. Here are the results:
30k

15k

Nancy Chong Wins Yellowknife Marathon

Last weekend Nancy Chong travelled to Yellowknife to check off The Northwest Territories off her quest to run a marathon in every province and territory in Canada. Well not onoy did she complete it, but she won the race, outright, male and females. Her time of 3:31 was 5 minutes a head of the second place finisher.
Way to go Nancy.

1st Annual RoadRunner Golf Tourney

Sunday August 16th at 2:30 will be the start of the 1st annual RoadRunner Golf Tourney. Thanks to Jim Tuttle for all his work on this and hope everyone has a good time. The 4somes are as posted below along with tee off times:

2:30 Jim T., Scott, Adam, Trish
2:40 James, Mr. Stevenson, Janet W., Cindie T.
2:50 Mike T., Terry, Zoe, Anne
3:00 Fred, David R., Lindsay, Patti
3:10 Bill L., Craig, Regina, Bev S.
3:20 Keith, Tom W., Lyndy, Joan
3:30 Glenn S., Brendan, Deb W., Catherine
3:40 Jason, Ron L., Angie, Marie

New RoadRunner Shirts?

Ok so after a few failed attempts at getting an order together for RoadRunner shirts we have something on the go. Thanks to Bill Lovetts leg work, we have some numbers and some idea on which we want to find out what interest there is out there for shirts.

We were approached by an apparrel company from BC who makes technical athletic shirts and have an offer which we find quite reasonable:

What we are looking at is orders for Singlets, Short Sleeve shirts and Long Sleeve shirts. They're will be women's and men's cuts. BUT we need a minimum of 24 orders per style to amke an order, and the more we order the more we save.

Prices are approximate since we do not have a price on shipping yet.

Singlets = $35 50 or more ordered = $30

Short Sleeves = $40 50 or more = $29

Long Sleeves = $42.50 50 or more = $31.50


See the attached file to view an example of what we are looking at.

If you are interested please reply to Bill at blovett1@live.com with your possible interests.

If we can get our order in by the end of August we can have the shirts by the end of October.


Thank you,

Keith

Chicago Rock&Roll Half Marathon Aug2/09

The inaugral Chicago Rock and Roll Half Marathon was one of the Rock and Roll series and was a big event. 18,000 runners hit the streets of Chicago at 6:30 am running through the down town area crossing the Chicago river 4 times before heading down Michigan Ave and then back along Lake Michigan. A gorgeous fast course finishing in Grant Park with all the perks, good food, concert, and 2 free beer, all before 9:30 in the morning. Oh well, its about the rewards to!

This event featured American Track Star Kara Goucher who finished 1:08. We are trying to do as many in the R&R series as we can this year.This was my 3rd event in and Tracys 2nd.

Wakefield 24/12 hr Ultra &Marathon July 24/09

For Cindy Marcelli, Tracy MacLean and myself, we had never ran a lap style marathon before, let alone in Wakefield MA. This was a great set up from the Lord Wakefield hotel around Lake Quannapowitt 8 times. The 5k lap was perfect for the 24 and 12 hour ultra runners, solo and teams because they all had their support crew and family at every lap. The marathon started 2.2k away from the start line to get the distance.With Boston only 16k down the Interstate, it was a fast and flat local qualifier. The start time at 7pm on Friday night changed each lap as it got darker and actually helped if you were bored with laps, it was dark at some spots, but always runners and spectators around. We had a great time and the race was well organized.