Central Vermont Runners Club Archive

(Page 2, CVR News, prior to current year)

Rowly Brucken Gets Barre Girls Team Up and Running

A past Sunday's Times-Argus Living section featured a great story about our area's Girls on the Run program. The latter third of the article provides Rowly's perspective on directing Barre City Elementary's Girls on the Run team.

Rowly says of his crew: "they've inspired me with their responses to questions we've asked... endless smiles and teamwork." And he acknowledges "running is not the end; running is just the means."
See the 4/22/07 Barre Montpelier Times-Argus "Runners' High" story

 
 CVR Honors Norm Robinson with '06 Spirit of the Club Award

On Jan. 25, 2007 CVR awarded Norm Robinson the annual Spirit of the Club Award. (Past winners include Tim Noonan, Darragh Ellerson and Donna Smyers.) Below these photos -- a montage of similar photos was presented to Norm on Jan. 25 -- see remarks from Donna Smyers when she presented the award to Norm.

"He has held every club office -- President (an office which he held for a stint in the 80's and in the 90's and we hope again in the 2000's), Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer -- the only person to have done that (17 years of service as a club officer). He has also been newsletter editor, publicity chair, mailing list coordinator and nominations chair. He organized teams for the Lake Winnipesaukee Relay and other events. He has been a race director for Kids Track Meet, Capital City Stampede, Sub-Ultimate Runner, Berlin Pond Couples Race and the Montpelier Mile. He continues to be a frequent volunteer at many CVR events."

 
 Onion River Relay Team Wins First-ever 2005 "100 on 100" Ultra Relay Event!
Our local daily, the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, continues to feature sporting news on our area running events. The latest story features long-time CVR member Newton Baker... as well as CVR'ers Rowly Brucken, Steve Comolli and Wilson Skinner, who formed half of the victorious 6-runner ORS team. Newton, who should know, said of the "100 on 100" relay, "It was by far the most fun event I have ever run..."
See the Times Argus story!

Our Annual Race Series Awards & Volunteers Recognition Dinner... Plus New "Spirit of CVR" Awards!
Awards were resplendent at the annual Central Vermont Runners/Onion River Sports Awards and Volunteers Recognition Dinner held on Jan. 27, 2005 at The Steakhouse in Berlin. For the first time, "Spirit of CVR" awards were presented to Darragh Ellerson and Tim Noonan in recognition of their outstanding contributions to CVR.
See more... 
See remarks introducing Darragh's award
    (as read by Norm Robinson) 
See remarks introducing Tim's award
    (as read by Bob Murphy).

PURA VIDA COSTA RICA! Dot Helling Reports on the 2005 Coastal Challenge - A 7-Day 250K Race!
From January 16-23, 2005 CVR Publicity Director Dot Helling participated in (and completed!) the first Coastal Challenge along the Pacific coastline of Costa Rica. 77 runners began the 7 day event, including 63 individuals and three teams. Only 10% failed to finish all the stages, because of blisters and heat-related problems.
See Dot's full report (opens 34K pdf) of this incredible event.

25th Anniversary Celebration... and the Revival of the Subultimate Runner Competition!
Central Vermont Runners celebrated its 25th anniversary on Saturday, Aug. 7 with a revival of the Subultimate Runner competition first held in 1987. The event was held for three years from 1987 through 1989 and was brought back for the Club's anniversary. Learn all the details...!!
See complete Subultimate Runner results!
And see what happened... go to our photo gallery pages

Past CVR Webmaster Bob Murphy Receives Barre Citizenship Award
Founding CVR member Bob Murphy -- also this site's first webmaster -- was honored by the city of Barre with the '04 Wendell Pelkey Memorial Citizenship Award.

Click here, on the Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus website, and scroll down roughly 2/3s of the way down the page, to where it reads "solid citizen - BARRE TOWN" for more about Bob's many accomplishments.

Our Hometown Hero

See Hometown Heroes - law enforcement from the Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus (Feb. 23, '04) for more about John's Hometown Hero nomination. Photo courtesy of Times-Argus.

Congratulations to CVR's John Martin (a 30-year veteran of the Montpelier Police Department) for being chosen as the winner in the Hometown Heroes law enforcement category by the Central Vermont Chapter of the American Red Cross.

Smyers Wins Age Group at '03 Ironman World Champs in Kona, Hawai
Club President Donna Smyers once again posted an outstanding race at the 25th Anniversary Ironman Triathlon World Championships in Kona... winning her age group, women's 45-49.

From left, Donna Smyers, Teresa Ryder and Julie Moss headed the 45-49 Age group.

Also, in winter '03, Donna was named Masters Triathlete of the Year by Triathlete Magazine and Ironman Inc. Learn all the details!

Commentary by John Morton regarding fall running in Vermont and Leaf Peepers '02, as heard on VPR.

For more news and event results, please see Onion River Sports' News Events & Results page.