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Central Vermont Runners Club NewsNew Training Opportunity for Upper Body and Core Strength Conditioning The Onion River Nordic Club has three open sessions a week open to CVR members and area runners. All are held at the New Shelter in Hubbard Park and focus on core strength and fitness. Intensity is by design individual because no one needs to overdo it during the summer season. Nick Petterssen is running two sessions that use the Cross-fit program. He changes up the program each session, incorporating circuit training and teamwork. The workout itself runs about 20 minutes, with about 10 minutes before hand to explain the circuit and warm up with an easy run. Sessions are: These early morning sessions begin with an easy run for warm up, then a variety of dynamic stretching, yoga, strength training, selected PAR Course stations and a bit of ski bounding intervals. Morning sessions will be done between 6:40 and 6:45 at the latest. Anyone interested in more detail contact Greg Gerdel: jggerdel@aol.com or 224-6960.
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On January 22 at the Steak House Restaurant, club vice president Andrea McLaughlin presented Priscilla Carr the Spirit of the Club award with these remarks:
The Spirit of CVR award is designed to recognize CVR members who have demonstrated consistent and substantial service to CVR over many years. Priscilla Carr has provided that exemplary service since 2004. Priscilla has dedicated many hours of her time to the club as Treasurer since 2005. Pricilla has brought the club from a state of tax chaos to being in harmony with the IRS. In other words, she has straightened out the clubs non-profit tax status and cleared many years of retroactive taxes without CVR having to pay any fines. CVR would not be in such order with out her diligence and attention to detail and numbers. In addition to her duties as the Clubs Treasurer she has volunteered at countless races.
Our Ultras Discuss Lead Up to '08 Vermont 100
Hundreds of ultra-marathoners hope to complete 100-mile race (Barre Montpelier Times-Argus)Vermont 100 the ultimate test for women (Burlington Free Press)Vermont 100 Endurance Run official results
Images From May 28 Run with Barre Town Girls on the Run...
See these and more in our Photo Gallery!
Congrats to Donna Smyers For Age Group Honors at the St. Croix Triathlon
On May 3, Donna Smyers (left) won her 50-54 age group at the St. Croix Ironman 70.3 Triathlon. The win assures her a spot at the Hawaii Ironman in the fall. Way to go Donna!! See complete St. Croix Triathlon W50-54 results...
And for inspiration for those who ran, or hope to run next year, the VCM... see "Baker returns for 20th Vermont City Marathon" (Barre Montpelier Times-Argus, May 5) which details Newton Baker's many challenges as he hopes to toe the starting line with the 10 other "Hall of Fame" runners who've done all 20 VCMs.
CVR
Honors Dave Kissner (Yours Truly) with the '07 Spirit of the Club Award
On Jan. 24, 2008 CVR awarded Dave Kissner the 2007 annual Spirit of the Club Award. (Past winners include Tim Noonan, Darragh Ellerson, Donna Smyers and Norm Robinson.) Below the photos, see remarks from Tim Noonan when he presented the award to Dave.
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"The Spirt of CVR award is designed to recognize CVR members who have a demonstrated consistent and substantial service to CVR over many years. Dave Kissner has provided that exemplary service since the mid-1990's. He demonstrated his leadership in club officer positions, most notably as CVR president. He has been race director of two of CVR's larger races. He was first race director of the First Night 5k and served in that capacity for several years. He also was race director of the Paul Mailman Montpelier Ten Miler for several years. Most recently, he has been the CVR webmaster for many years. He has done an excellent job developing and maintaining a creative, informative and timely website."
Of Recent Interest...
Are these runners ultra-tough ... or ultra-crazy?: ESPN columnist Jonah Keri, covering ultra runner Scott Jurek and others, attempts to answer this question: Are ultramarathoners thrill seekers, masochists, or maybe just the toughest athletes in sports?
Two
Perspectives on Leaf Peepers
This year's Leaf Peepers Half-Marathon and 5K seemed to draw a fair bit of pre-race attention... and now the post-race commentaries are coming in. In two successive editions, the Barre Montpelier Times-Argus has:
Off
and Running - Linda Freeman, a personal trainer at First in Fitness,
relates her journey from the '05 Barre Homecoming 5K to this year's Leaf
Peepers 5K.
Running
with the Pack - As Mark Albury states, "for some reason known
only to God and my hairdresser, I decided to enter the Leaf Peeper (sic)
Half Marathon." To give him some credit, it shows in the results
that Mark ran 2:07:22 half for 530th place overall, not the finish in
730th place as he opines in his piece.
Blue Planet Run Ends; Movement Continues
Early this
month club member Dot Helling -- and 19 other international runners --
returned to the US East Coast to end the The
Blue Planet Run. As a wrap up to our coverage, please see:
Dot's
Times-Argus Letter to the Editor with thanks to supporters
and
WCAX-TV
(Channel 3) coverage of Dot's return.
Donna
Places Second in Her Age Group at Triathlon
Worlds
Congratulations
to Donna for her silver medal performance!
Hamburg
BG Triathlon World Championships
Hamburg, Germany / September 2, 2007
swim: 1.5 k / bike: 40k / run: 10k
Age group results, F 50-54
1.
Marjke Zeekant (Ned) 2:26:51
2. Donna Smyers (USA) 2:29:18
3. Christiane Holman (Sui) 2:29:28
See
complete listing of women's 50-54 finishers
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