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• A few • [<1 MIN READ] With the end of the year upon us, a few transitions are nigh. The last WWW of 2024 found us celebrating Stacey’s 40th trip around the sun. 2025 will have her starting to experience all of the aging that comes with a body’s 4th decade. As we celebrated our club’s … More A Season for Transitions (#288: 2024’12’25’W)
• What it took to get one run going • [2 MIN READ] Since Jason’s place, The Silvermane Estate (my designation), is relatively on the way from 2 of our homes to JRC, a few of us have taken to meeting there and going to the store together for the weekly Growlers Group Run. Last … More Critical Mass (#287: 2024’12’18’W)
• How irresistable is it? • [1 MIN READ] SteVath did his first run with the crew just 3 weeks before this writing. He’d been doing a lot of cycling before that. All of a sudden he had a 3-week streak going. As he headed out with his ebike last week (probably Not what he’s … More Sucked into the Vortex (#286: 2024’12’11’W)
• World and local • [1½ MIN READ] Many of us SRC runners pay close attention to big marathon events and we know the range of paces that winners of those marathons produce. So, one particular video caught my attention after Eliud Kipchoge’s 2018 Berlin Marathon world record of 2:01:39. Runner’s World produced this 2019 … More Pacing with Some Greats (#174: ZY Weekly Newsletter 11/30/24)
• Going out of one’s mind as success factor • [1½ MIN READ] Most people would consider it insane to run a marathon, I can qualify the conditions for the term a little. Sylvia was a Growlers noob at the beginning of September. At the time, she shared that she was a first-time marathon trainer … More Run Report: Philadelphia Marathon (#285: 2024’12’04’W)
• Premier crew vendor event • [<1½ MIN READ] For the first time in my 12-year tenure with the Growlers, we have had enough runners to support a vendor visit. JRC Keith made the suggestion and local Asics rep Ken made the event. One great benefit a vendor visit provides is the opportunity to try … More Run Report: Asics (#284: 2024’11’27’W)
• PR’s all around • [<1½ MIN READ] Consider this a motivational piece for any new runners out there. The last few months brought 5 particular GGR runners (4 brand-new and one pseudo-regular[:p]), all with marathon aspirations: AndEss, CJ3, Li, Sylvia, and Yuki. Except for CJ3—doing his second, all were doing this mammoth distance for … More Fall is Marathon Season (#283: 2024’11’20’W)
• Ill-advised isn’t stopping me • [2 MIN READ] Kind of like for my unparalleled 3-race spring this year, fall has had a little of its own nuttiness in the form of a couple of not-originally-planned races (including the Rocky Run 10MI on 11’09’S). Spring was a function of my social-running mentality that made me … More Marathon Training Long-run Distances Relative to Weekly (#173: ZY Weekly Newsletter 11/16/24)
• Nicknames 2.0 • [2 MIN READ] One thing I’ve learned both from editing for the Facebook group and ShawmontRunningClub.com and from talking about trail tags with club members is that not everyone likes them. WHAT? I guess I never woulda thunk it. When I say not everyone likes them, I don’t mean they don’t … More Trailtagging III (#172: ZY Weekly Newsletter 11/9/24)
• You just had to be there • [<1½ MIN READ] Everyone who’s been working on fall race training has had to start actually delivering. This past Saturday (11’09), that meant 3 rudder bunnies doing the Rocky Run 5K and 10MI and 2 doing the Boston Half Marathon. The Rocky Runners were Grace (35:12) and … More Awesome Race (#282: 2024’11’13’W)
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