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Snowball Awards Banquet; Wed. Night track

Club Members and Guests:

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1. Wednesday Night on the Track: We are on the trail this week! There will be rain on the trail Wednesday night, so come prepared. We will meet at the south end of the stadium, along Washington Blvd. First groups will go out at 7:00 pm. Workout will be 2 minutes on, 1 minute off -- to work on a bit of speed, and provide some flexibility in the event of inclement weather. Speed should be pretty hard -- what you would do 600M repeats in on the track. Repeats should be no more than 8 -- that will be enough at that speed and in these conditions. Come prepared to run. Boston folks, if you do show, should do only 5 repeats, at a slower pace.

2. Snowball Awards Banquet: April 23rd, 7:00 pm, at Cactus Cantina on Wisconsin Avenue, just north of the Cathedral. Please come enjoy appetizers and drinks while honoring your fellow runners! RSVP to Toni Diegoli at
tmdiegoli@hotmail.com.

3. Marathon Training Program: The program this year will be bigger and better than evrr -- but we need your support Volunteers are needed to serve as assistant coaches. water stop monitors, and for other functions. We hope to begin the program is late May. Head Coaches this year are Kerry O'Brien and Joe Racine. Please contact the club president, or Kerry at raptorkerry@yahoo.com,. to register as a volunteer.

4. Mark's Azalea Run, Sunday April 15th: See schedule for details on this fine race, run on the Landon School campus in Bethesda.

Ed

Snowball Reslts; Marathon Traning; Upcoming Events

Club Members and Guests:

At the suggestion of some Club Members, you will henceforth be able to post replies to this blog. See button below.

1. Wednesday Night on the Track: We are back on the track this week! The workout will be dircted by Max "Honorary Kiwi" Reid. At Max's suggestion, we will postpone the "5-minutes @ 5K with 5 min. rest" workout, usually done the first week of April, and do defined distance intervals instead. We will do 800M repeats at 5K pace. Those running Boston or other spring marathons can do these as "Yassoo 800s" -- aim to run the 800s in the "same time," minutes and seconds, as you aim to do your marathon in hours and minutes.

2. Speaking of Boston . . . Arlington County Board Vice-Chair Walter Tejada will be at the track on Wednesday April 4 at 6:45 to read the proclamation declaring Monday, April 16, 2007, as Arlington Boston Marathon Day. This annual event is recognition of the fine relationship between Arlington County and its many runners. Please come out, even if you are not running Boston, to encourage our Boston participants and thank the County for all of its support.

3. Call for Newsletter Items: Our copy deadline for the DCRRC Newsletter portion of RacePacket is the end of this week. I am accepting news and feature items, which should be brief given our limited space.

4. Snowball Results Posted: Results of the Snowball Series are posted to the left, top button. Please check and make sure your records are accurate. Deadline for finalizing is Friday April 6th.

5. Marathon Training Program: The program this year will be bigger and better than evrr -- but we need your support Volunteers are needed to serve as assistant coaches. water stop monitors, and for other functions. We hope to begin the program is late May. Head Coaches this year are Kerry O'Brien and Joe Racine. Please contact the club president, or Kerry at raptorkerry@yahoo.com,. to register as a volunteer.

6. Congrats to DCRRC National Marathon Teams! DCRRC swept both first place team awards at last Saturday's Wirefly National Marathon. Congrats to the following competitors!

7. More Wirefly National Marathon: Congrats to all our other finishers in the half-marathon and marathon. Toni Diegoli finished as 7th woman overall, leading the Club's showing. Club members also served in a number of critical volunteer positions: George Banker was director of volunteers, ably assisted by Jay Wind. Ted Cochrane managed the baggage check operation. Other club members served as course marshalls and at aid stations.

8. 2006 Award Winners: Congratulations to the following winners of our annual awards, featured at the Club Banquet on Sunday, March 25th.

9. Board Elections: The following slate of officers and directors were chosen at the Annual Meeting on March 25, 2007:

President: Edward Grant

VP Operation: Kerry O'Bren

VP Races: Joe Racine

Treasurer: George Getek

Maryland: Aaron Cheskis

Virginia: Ian Clements

DC: Rob & Judy Wolfe

At-Large: Robin Martz

At-Large: Ben Richter

Membership Secretary: Toni Marie Diegoli

In lieu of a Newsletter Editor, Bill Bondurant, our website manager, will also serve on the Board.

10. 10K Training Program: Our "goal" race for the 10K training program is the Capitol Hill 10K in May -- so there is still plenty of time to get in shape. More information is available under the "Programs" button to your left. Please contact program coordinator Peter Lamberton if you are interested in joining the group as a coach or as a runner. plamberton@yahoo.com

Run well in this great weather!

Ed