Relating to a particular event
• Second of 2 club vendor events so far • [1½ MIN READ] Saucony at Growlers Group Run was the motivation for starting promotion of the club to 3 different neighborhood groups. Although I’ve been a member of Jenkintown’s Facebook group for a few years, I’ve never used it to introduce the run club and … More Promoting Saucony via GGR (#330: 2025’11’12’W)
• Now that I know, first 2 of ? times • [2 MIN READ] The conviction from those in the know is that club principal Zen Yanni is the nutter runner who conceived the 4 Sisters route. As I’ve asked around from those in the knew, several club members are among the nutter runners who’ve … More RevisitED the 4 Sisters of Manayunk (#202: ZY Weekly Newsletter 11/8/25)
• A different kind of ooch • [1½ MIN READ] Philadelphia Marathon training (11’16’Sun) has a few of us Growlers doing track workouts for speed at Cheltenham School District’s Cedarbook Middle School. Thaddeus’ place has been a good place for me to park and do a mile-and-a-third warmup. The route to the school cuts through … More A Hazard of One Speed Workout (#326: 2025’10’15’W)
• There might even be spiritual lessons to learn from the game • [2 MIN READ] Apparently, I wear out on my sleeve the fact that I play Wordle: “Calvin, you look like you play, right? How did you do today?” This made game playing a casual point of Arcadia Christian Fellowship engagement as that … More Wordle and the Word
• I did 2024 okay • [2 MIN READ] Last week’s ZY Newsletter feature, “Elsewhere on the Web” (“Rumination 2”), got my attention because I wanted to compare notes with my experience last spring 2024. Then, I did two marathons in a row for the second time in my 14-year running career, those were to … More A Double-marathon Season (#198: ZY Weekly Newsletter 9/20/25)
• Generating remarkable attention • [1 MIN READ] Alden went to Chemistry wearing his new Arcadia Christian Fellowship shirt. The one that has 2 Timothy 1:7 on the back: For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline. The one that the Chemistry professor read from to encourage … More The 2025 Arcadia Christian Fellowship T-shirt
• Manor Road is great, too • [1 MIN READ] Twenty-one recorded runners took off from the horse stables at the top of Forbidden Dr with one newbie in tow, Lynette. She’ll get to Shawmont Avenue eventually—what with her sights on a first marathon with Philadelphia in November—but that run was to be an 8-miler … More Run Report: 6/14/25 (#190a: ZY Weekly Newsletter 6/14/25)
• But I made it too easy • [1 MIN READ] “Hey, Calvin, check out these leopard-skin tights! You could wear them.” “You’re right! They’re awesome! Who couldn’t use a pair of leopard-skin running tights?” And so the conversation went. Or some variation of it. They were on the discount rack at the running store … More She Did Me Wrong, Stacey Did (#319: 2025’08’27’W)
• Now just a little older and more familiar • [2 MIN READ] Hanging out again post-run at The Pizza Wheel, I looked at the name of our young server on the bill. Sometimes restaurant staff use other people’s logins, so I confirmed it with her as we made to go. Meredith took the opportunity … More You’re My Neighbor (#317: 2025’08’13’W)
• Communities in community • [2½ MIN READ] At Black Men Run Wednesdays Five years ago (virtually to the day), Train Dave and I joined Black Men Run Philadelphia as the inaugural Growlers travel team. We attended a 2nd time in 2020 then went on hiatus while we waited for the Growlers Group Run to … More Good Times with BMR for Wednesdays and Juneteenth (#316: 2025’08’06’W)
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