Club Members and Guests --
Apologies for missing a week in updating the blog.
Please note that our regularly-scheduled bi-monthly meeting of the Board will take place on Monday July 10 at 7:00 pm. Location is Silver Diner in Clarendon. An agenda will be sent to Club e-mail list on Sunday. If you are not on the Club e-mail list and would like to be, please contact our webmaster Bill Bonduran.
1. Thanks to Ian and Sarah Clements for their successful direction of the 4-Mile Age-Handicapped Race on July 4th. Congratulations to Pat Griffith and Naomi Stanford for their well-deserved age-graded victories.
2. Our next Club Race is the ever-popular Bastille Day 4-Miler, starting at 7:00 on July 14th at Fletcher's Cove. Race is run in toward Georgetown and back along the Capital Crescent Trail. Volunteers are still needed! Thanks to Mike Fox-Boyd for agreeing to direct the race.
3. We are in the process of moving the club van and equipment to a more central location in Arlington. If there is anybody in Arlington who has some spare garage or basement space for items (including a couple of stacks of large cones and a wheel-barrow) that take up space but are not frequently used, please let us know. We will also explore a rented storage space for excess equipment. Our collective thanks to Pat Brown for his many years of overseeing the van and equipment, as well as getting the equipment to our races. Thanks Pat!
4. The Club 20-Miler is coming in September. Entries are now open. We are urgently in need of a team of volunteers make sure that we get race t-shirts produced and to handle pre-race racket pick-up on Saturday September 23rd. Please contact Club President if you can help!
5. Finally, as I stated in the recent Club e-mail newsletter, please exercise caution in running in the heat. One key statistic to watch is the Dew Point. If it is 70 or above, you should significantly curtail the intensity of your workout. We had one scary heat-related incident at the July 4th race, which was run at 8:00 am. So, while running early in the day is strongly advised, it is not an insurance policy against heat-related problems. Remember that this weather will pass in time for longer and more intense workouts in the fall -- be ready for them, not burned out!
Run safe and well!
Ed
Watch this space for further updates!
