Relating to specific, highly-defined areas (like running or training routes)
• When the original doesn’t quite make it • [1½ MIN READ] While weekly attendance photos have become de rigueur, a photo theme isn’t necessarily as typical. This last week’s photo was exceptional. The panoramic shot felt in order, with the understanding that no one would move. Here’s what happened the last time, a few … More The Attendance Photo – Director’s Cut (#278: 2024’10’16’W)
• And talking about them • [2 MIN READ] As circumstances would have it, the make up of GGR has been shifting in the last months. I can claim no direct influence on that shift. I’m just an observer and commentator. In this case, I’m talking about a shift in the direction of Asian-ness that … More Thinking About Group Ethnicity and Racial Make Up (#277: 2024’10’09’W)
• Why? Why not? • [1½ MIN READ] One of my standard questions to GGR club newbies is, “What’s your running like?” It’s just helpful to know where people are so that all of us club members can encourage each other. It helps to build the sense of community. Lately we’ve gotten a few newbies, … More Marathon Training, Again? (#276: 2024’10’02’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 it as a starting place for weekly workouts. I didn’t start running with the group until the year I started running, period, in 2011. Groups … More Whose Running Club Is This? (#275: 2024’09’25’W)
• Not really • [2 MIN READ] Already at least 10 years ago, a long-time friend and I were among a few others comparing notes about the things that were going wrong as we were aging. In closing, Friend uttered the immortal quote: “It sucks to grow old.” When running with SRC folk, I’ve taken … More It Sucks to Grow Old (#167: ZY Weekly Newsletter 9/7/24)
• With a couple of other SRC-ers • [1½ MIN READ] To me, community deepens through conversation. With the breadth of abilities and knowledge represented in SRC, there’s so much to gain. Not long ago, I had a chance to learn about wholesaling and new-product promotion through Teddio (If you don’t know what I’m talking … More The Way I See It (#168: ZY Weekly Newsletter 9/14/24)
• Running at another level • [1 MIN READ] Among the Growlers, more than one has used the description of us as a drinking group with a running problem. Last week it was more like a drinking group with an exploring problem. A handful of us started from one of the Growler couples’ houses near … More A Drinking Group with an Exploring Problem (#272: 2024’09’04’W)
• With a great convergence • [1 MIN READ] The group seemed small when 4 of us Growlers met last week at Bill’s Best for WWW, but it happens; so off we ran toward JRC. When we got there and checked in with JRC Nicole, we discovered that a boatload of Growlers had met there … More A Minor Divergence (#271: 2024’08’28’W)
• One especially special • [2 MIN READ] Anyone who attends the Growlers Group Run with any regularity (or even reads the run report in each weekly message) will notice that there is precisely one Dave running with the group these days. So why does he have to get the title ‘Train Dave’ when ‘Dave’ … More The Daves of JRC’s Running Club (#269: 2024’08’14’W)
• Of 2 different sorts • [2½ MIN READ] Wife excitedly caught my attention as I walked into the kitchen. A hawk was getting harassed by some smaller birds over our backyard and had just dropped its prey. When they finally flew away, I went out to clean it up. It turned out to be … More Urban Adventures (#270: 2024’08’21’W)
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