Relating to specific, highly-defined areas (like running or training routes)
• 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)
• And what we do about them sometimes • [1 MIN READ] Report: Hello to Army Drew who’s back after nursing injuries. Once around the Submarine Route last week for the first time in 6 months (2022’11’09’W). Shout out to Mo who’s been sending kudos to the whole crew through this editor who’s sending them … More Ironies in Life (#205: 2023’05’10’W)
• By static • [1½ MIN READ] A glance at the Fine Print of this feature (as written by this columnist) will reveal that the SRC Run Report gets disseminated in 1 of 4 ways every week: through the Facebook group, the group website, through email, and finally (at least for the Rumination feature as … More This Program Has Been Interrupted (#129: 4/29/23 RUN REPORT [Intended])
• The running group isn’t that academic, either • [1 MIN READ] Academic types have a way of thinking about things they know or want to understand in the space of other existing knowledge. Why else would they spend so much energy reading and investigating the work of other academics? If someone else has written … More Not Quite Academic Writing (#203: 2023’04’26’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 the numerical progression as the weeks go by, check out each posting on Cerebruns by CtCloser.) ATTENDANCE: Since the first, the attendance has changed just … More What’s Changed and What’s Stayed the Same (#200: 2023’04’05’W)
• But what about this feature? • [2 MIN READ] “Ruminations” is one feature of Shawmont Running Club’s Weekly Run Report. If your intersection with the Report comes from outside of Facebook (where you can read all of the features since its inception, long before I started contributing), then you wouldn’t know what the various … More A Different Opinion on Ruminating (#124: 3/18/23 RUN REPORT)
• A particular thing from a particular individual • [1½ MIN READ] The prompt for this Rumination was a run with the Blue Belle contingent of SRC. The bunch of us took off from a park in North Wales and it wasn’t long before Lisa Marie apologized for being kind of loud. Not to say … More To Hell with This (#123: 3/11/23 RUN REPORT)
• Prophets We Are Not. Thankfully. • [1¾ MIN READ] A few weeks ago, Jim joked about my effort to fix the photographic attendance record (2023’02’21’T). You can go read that Cerebrun for more details; but basically, I had x-ed Jim out from one photo because I had added him to earlier one in error. … More Things Did Not Go South, Permanently (#197: 2023’03’15’W)
• Been a long while since the last bunch, but they do keep coming • [1 MIN READ] Another linguistic offering inspired over earlier days and years. See Fine Print for others. -CtCloser (Calvinthe) “Negative Split or Positive Splat” #dothedue FINE PRINT ¶Double Entendre, Double Entendres II, Logophilia, The Babe-ification of Language. ¶Text by Calvin … More Double Entendres III (#122: 3/4/23 RUN REPORT)
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