Rob On The Run

Hey run clubbers.  I got a great email today from one of our SF Bay Area members.  He’s started his own blog.  While some people track training through online tools and others use diaries, Rob has started www.RobOnTheRun.org  Reading his first post may just increase the number of e-resumes for jobs near there by 10% this next year.  Who doesn’t want almost perfect weather year round and a huge running community?

Are you a club member who also have a blog (about running – or at least loosely related to fitness)?  Send it to admin@runuscg.org to get it published here.

The USCGRC was awarded the 2010 National Running Award for Outstanding Club Website (overall and small club) at the RRCA National Banquet and Running Awards Ceremony on May 14, 2011 in Fredericksburg, VA.  Simone Adair, USCG Auxiliary District 11 Division 1 Commander and RRCA California – East State Rep, received the award for the club and presented it to the Chief Technical Officer along with the President and Chief Operations Officer on Coast Guard Island in Alameda California.  This is a particular honor because the club website is a main focus as it links together the community of athletes within our service family.

 (Photo L to R:  LT Ken Burgess – President, LT Nathan Menefee – CTO, Simone Adair – RRCA/USCGAUX, LT Luke Petersen – COO.  Background, USCGC MORGENTHAU)

Headlands 100

100 Miles – The Headlands Hundred 7 Aug 2010

From USCG Running Club

USCGRC member Skip Crockett takes to the hills for this exciting race.  Having completed multiple 50 mile races, the PACAREA member is one of the most versatile runners in the chapter also competing in the Holiday Mile and PAUSATF XC Grand Prix.  Skip keeps it real, he recently competed in a fitness challenge on Treasure Island.  If you’re out today feeling bad while running a 10 miler, chin up you could be running 100 miles!

Update (Race Recap):  

As the sun rose over the Golden Gate Bridge, Skip Crockett hobbled down the last mile of his first Headland’s 100. After a day and a night of looping around the Headlands four times on a trail that gained and eventually dropped 5,000 ft per lap, the sight of the finish was pure joy for these ultra harriers. Danny Neverosky, a Naval Post Graduate student, capitalized on his light academic load to train for the one of the most grueling ultras on this planet. Not even a wrong turn around mile 85 would stop Danny from his destiny. In the end, both runners earned the coveted “Headlands 100 Coaster” and of course the right to look down on mere marathoners! Way to go lads!  Read a full account here

SF Bay Area – Coaches Needed

Greater Golden Gate Members

Do you want to train the next generation of athletes?  The next Magdelana?  Two middles school teams in the SF Bay Area could use help coaching their teams.

Piedmont Middle School (Piedmont, CA): www.pmscc.com

Practices are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.  Monday’s practice will start at 2:15 p.m. until 3:45 p.m.||  Tuesdays we will practice from 3:20 to 4:50 p.m. || Thursdays we will practice from 3:20 to 4:50 p.m. Contact Len Goldman at lgoldman@pacbell.net if interested.

Willard Middle School in Berkeley Seeking Cross Country Coach:

Two Coast Guard teams compete in “The Relay”

We have started the great race south and will be posting a few updates from the road as we go. Go Coast Guard!

Tough Mudder

This was so awesome we had to post it (click logo to get to event page).

That’s right – run through flames…. and much more.  It’s a series and it’s coming to NorCal.
Date: Saturday October 9, 2010 REGISTER NOW!
Start Time: 11am (First Start Group)
Location: Bear Valley Mountain Resort, Highway 4, Bear Valley, CA 95223

Head for the Hills

Members in the G3 Chapter got a personal invitation to participate in this event.  If you’re not out with us doing the relay then you might be interested in checking out this community event here in Oakland.

Where: Aurora School, 40 Dulwich Rd., Oakland, Ca 94618.
The course begins and ends at Aurora School and winds through the picturesque streets of Upper Rockridge. Our famous Family Fun Fest begins after the run at 10:30am.

When: Saturday, May 1, 2010, 8:30 a.m.
Race begins at 8:30 a.m. Family Fun Fest begins at 10am.

Tahoe Relay – June 12

Teams now forming for the Lake Tahoe Relay

http://www.laketahoerelay.com/

7 People, 72 miles.

The CG has done this once in the last two years placing 3rd in the corporate division after a last minute pass by the another team in the final leg.

WE NEED TEAM CAPTAINS!  Volunteer to organize a team and get a free USCG Running Club tech shirt.

If interested in captaining a CG team contact admin@runuscg.org for more information as we have planning materials from previous years, including MWR funding requests, leg tracking planners, motorpool access and more – we’ll make it easy for you!  For starters use the forum to give updates to the team sparing mass emails and raising visibility of the planning and fun to the whole club!  This is one of the most fun events because it is relatively small team, it’s on a saturday, and you can get a cabin real cheap in Tahoe to celebrate the days race before heading back on Sunday.  This is a truly great race, at a great price, and for a good cause – all right in our back yard!

“The Relay” Teams Forming

1 Weekend, 200 miles, 12 people

“The Relay” Teams are forming now.  Contact admin@runuscg.org for more details.

Sailors with a Running Problem returns this year to improve upon it’s 9th overall and 2nd Law Enforcement divsion place from 2009.  In addition to 12 runners teams typically have 2 drivers and require 2 volunteers to fill 5 hour shifts on race weekend.  Use the Forum to find teammates and get organized – it’s lonely.

More information on “the relay” can be found at www.therelay.org A special web page is in the works to keep our running club teams informed about important dates, training tips, fundraising, and logistics.

Bay Area group runs (free)

We will utlize our sister club, Lake Merritt Joggers and Striders, weekly saturday training runs as part of our preparatory program.  This was a successfull practice carried over from last year where members of the team could get together and go on varied runs, ranging in length, organized by LMJS with multiple different pace groups to meet everyones needs.  More information can be found at http://www.lmjs.org/LMJS_training_runs_schedule

Holiday Mile – Tue 22 DEC 09

Come celebrate the holidays with a HOLIDAY MILE! USCGRC Bay Area Chapter is hosting the first Holiday Mile. Competitors will toe the line at 1730 PST on the track in Piedmont for a one mile race.

Date: Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Open to: Anyone!
Location: Witter Field, Piedmont, CA
Start of mile: 1730 (5:30PM)

“I’m going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.” – Johnny Gray
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
“The great thing about athletics is that it’s like poker, sometimes you know what’s in your hand and it may be a load of rubbish, but you’ve got to keep up the front.” – Sebastian Coe