A collection of Cerebruns about Jenkintown Running Company’s Growlers Group Run
• Introduction • Routes • Traditions • History •
Introduction
This is the GGR
• For prospective new members • [1 MIN READ] Join the weekly Wednesday Growlers Group Run (6:30p)! We have a presence on Facebook where you can read weekly run reminders: No FB…
Bringing Newbies Up to Speed (#338: 2026’01’21’W)
• From multiple perspectives • [1½ MIN READ] When someone new walks in the door, the first thing to do is easy: exchange names. The next step is to share…
The World Is Full of Nice People
• Being with and being • [2 MIN READ] Throughout life, I’d managed to stay close to a few important people. People whom I knew and trusted and ones that…
Deputation (#265: 2024’07’17’W)
• Left in good hands • [1 MIN READ] When the sheriff has to leave town, a good deputy or two back at the jail are critical; to manage the…
Routes
The Progress of Change (#162: 2022’08’03’W)
• Diversity of the local kind • [1 MIN READ] We have been talking about experimenting with different running routes for many months. Aside from our traditional Jenkintown Sunset 5K route…
East and West (#118: 2021’09’29’W)
• A Tale of Two Routes • [<1 MIN READ] With dusk falling earlier and earlier, it’s time to start doing some transitioning. We have 2 routes that we’ve been doing…
The Sunset 5K Route (#49: 2020’04’01’W)
• Trying to get something new to stick • [<1 MIN READ] Creatures of habit that we were when I joined the Growlers Group Run before it even had that name in 2011, the legacy winter route was always…
Traditions
(Photos courtesy GGR Aaron. L-R: Train Dave, Andrew, Jim, A.A.Ron, Cuz [of Andrew], Adelaide [behind, or maybe in front, depending on the perspective], Theresa, Sam, Li)
(2024’07’17’W)
The Overrun
• As practice and as terminology • [2 MIN READ] This piece has a 2-fold purpose: (1) to describe the evolution of a practice and (2) to describe the evolution…
The Attendance Photo (#254: 2024’04’24’W)
• One and done • [1 MIN READ] One particular WWW outing became the inflection point for a feature of the Growlers Group Run called the Attendance Photo. That first…
Nonalcoholic Beer? Why? (#193: 2023’02’15’W)
• There is research-based evidence • [2 MIN READ] As mentioned regularly in this column, we Growlers like a good beer after our runs. You should know that our name…
Illumination Attire of Choice (#189: 2023’01’18’W)
• See and be seen • [1 MIN READ] The illumination gear of choice at Jenkintown Running Company’s Growlers Group Run is what I call The Squid. It’s a quasi-vest…
More Traditions
Embracing Group Conventions (#154: 2022’06’01’W)
• A few of the Growlers’ to speak of • [1 MIN READ] There was a period of time a few years ago when the future of the Growlers Group Run was hazy at best…
History
Whose Running Club Is This? (#275: 2024’09’25’W)
• Not mine • [2 MIN READ] The Growlers Group Run “belongs” to Jenkintown Running Company. The store opened in 1981 and hung out a shingle inviting runners to use…
What’s Changed and What’s Stayed the Same (#200: 2023’04’05’W)
• Cerebruns and the Growlers Group Run • [2 MIN READ] This Cerebrun marks #200 which began as thoughts then “Thoughts” 4½ years ago (2018’09’26’W). (If you want to see…
More History
Sure the Old Days Were Great, But How Great? (#168: 2022’09’21’W)
• Sure the Old Days Were Great, But How Great? • [<1 MIN READ] Aly isn’t a newbie because she ran 20 years ago, before life started interfering with her group running. Life is 100% in order now…
The Growlers Logo (#5: 2019’05’01’W)
• Now what to do with it? • [<1 MIN READ] SOOO, I proudly unveil to you our new Growlers logo! Read the blog about how it came to be…
Go up one level
2026’09’08’T: Revised (Addition of Overrun)
2026’09’08’T: Revised (Deletion of WWW)
2026’02’10’M: Revised (Introduction post choices)
2025’08’15’F: Updated (Addition of “The Growlers Logo”)
2024’12’03’T: Updated (Addition of navigation menu and links)
2024’11’13’W: Published
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