• Uhh, Yep. • [1 MIN READ] It’s easy to forget something during race prep. We’ve all done it. One year while driving to the Frostbite 5 Miler I realized I’d forgotten my bib. Thankfully, Wife was able and willing to drive it over in time for me to clock an official race. It’s gotten … More Forgetful? (#132: 6/24/23 RUN REPORT)
• Laughing because we can • [1 MIN READ] One of the traditions of JRC’s GGR is the weekly attendance photo. Sometimes it’s purely functional and not necessarily creative. Other times, especially thanks to digital technology, it can be functional, clever, and amusing. At least in my opinion. Take last week’s shot(s) that I composited … More Masterful Photography Because of Technology (#211: 2023’06’21’W)
• Finding new comfort zones • [2½ MIN READ] Running is not only great physically, but also socially. It’s given me opportunities to interact with people of all stripes in spaces where I wouldn’t otherwise. As a practice, I started saying hi to people right from the start (we’re talking in 2011 as a middle-aged … More New Communities
• Cerebrun effort and more • [2½ MIN READ] TONIGHT [INVITATION] Forecast says 82° with 100% chance of CtC being at Jenkintown Running Company to join the masses yearning to run free tonight (see Cerebrun for more).* 6/8/2022, W, 6:30 p.m., RUN REPORT Having just run our usual Sunset 5K route for the actual Jenkintown … More Exactly What Exclusive Group Are We Referencing? (#156: 6/15/2022, Weds)
• Permission granted to waffle • [1 MIN READ] The forecast for last Saturday and Sunday was absolutely dismal at 30-70% chance of rain for a solid 48 hours and sub-50° temps. As far as degrees of appeal for conducting a Shawmont long run in certain heat-sapping sogginess, it virtually zeroed them all out. I … More Plenty of ARGHuing (#65: 5/29/21 RUN REPORT)
• Oh you mean those degrees? • [½ MIN READ] Shawmont Running Club offers several inviting pluses every week: a challenging typical distance (14 miles), a mid-run threshold effort (Shawmont Avenue), and other like-minded crazy runners. ‘Degrees of appeal’ I call those pluses. The more degrees of appeal an effort has, the more inviting that … More Advanced Degrees (#59: Published in 4/17/21 RUN REPORT)
• Smoked • [1 MIN READ] The Sunset 5K race (06’T) took place under lovely conditions, given the Growlers turn out and the abundance of other rudder bunnies from Jenkintown, Elkins Park Beer Runners, and even SRC. As we congregated near the finish line, GGR Jimmy pointed out the sky that had become exceedingly hazy; … More Canadian Wildfire Alert (#210: 2023’06’14’W)
• Homies • [1 MIN READ] The hometown running club is doing the hometown race. That would be the Growlers Group Run running Jenkintown Sunset 5K. The claim to the HRC designation is historical. JRC pioneered the running store niche in Jenkintown in the 80’s (as Fleet Feet, before someone bigger and richer claimed the … More GGR @ JNK S5K (#209: 2023’06’07’W)
• More about Zen Yanni • [1½ MIN READ] The Zenster, Zen Yanni (John Van Allen, 1947-2023), was a lifelong competitor. His memorial biography references his running. That one I knew, simply because of his connection to Shawmont Running Club. The one I didn’t know was that he was a triathlete. The competition pix of … More The Acts of Zen (#131)
• Pushing the limits of the store that hosts us • [1 MIN READ] The Growlers come in every Wednesday evening, fill in every corner of Jenkintown Running Company, harass the customers, drink beer, and burp. How anti-social can a running group get? Very. Last week we horned in on the business side of the … More Too Close (#208: 2023’05’31’W)
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