Relating to specific, highly-defined areas (like running or training routes)
• 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)
• Returning to a 2022 photographic theme • [1 MIN READ] You can check out the ‘pose’ subject heading for some examples, but we haven’t featured any in the attendance shot for a while. And then my mind went to Army Drew, whose presence of late made me think of his fave: psychotic eyeballs. I … More Posers (#207: 2023’05’24’W)
• With us Growlers • [1 MIN READ] Broad Street Run is the largest 10-mile race in the country. And it has to be the most popular long-distance race in Philly. It is definitely popular with the Growlers, past and present. My social media apps were buzzing furiously on 04’30’U (Sunday) with notifications from those … More Trained for Broad Street Run (#206: 2023’05’17’W)
• A Remembrance • [2½ MIN READ] I can only claim to knowing John Van Allen from a relatively limited perspective, given that I came on as a club member in the last 10 years (in 2013) of his 30-some year tenure. Still, based on what I’ve learned myself and heard from others (before and … More Zen Yanni (#130: 5/6/23)
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