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July 14 Race Roundup

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This is another busy racing weekend with eight different options across the region! I probably would not race this weekend, but since I am in the Anderson Road Runner’s Road Race Series I am going to make the short trip to Lapel to run their race.Also a special note that the All-Star Cross Country Camp begins on Sunday.

8th Annual Lapel Village Fair CdLS 5K Race is located on the west side of Lapel with a 7:30am start time. Meet at Woodward Park, West of the Town Water Tower off 200 S. Note that pre-registration ends at 7:15 and all proceeds benefit Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation, Inc.

Ironhorse 4 Miler in Logansport. This will be held at the Cass County YMCA at 8am. More details here. All proceeds benefit the Cass County YMCA.

Special 5K located in Greenwood begins at 8am.

The 4th Brown County XC Challenge will be held on the Brown County High School Cross Country course. This is a trail race located at Eagle Park, near the north gate of Brown County State Park. All proceeds benefit the Brown County High School Cross Country Teams.

Unite 2 Fight Against Prostate Cancer begins at the War Memorial in downtown Indy. Events begin at 7:30am with a Prostate Cancer Survivor’s picture. It appears that there will be a lot of activities at this Tuxbro event.

5th Annual Zoo Run at the Columbian Park Zoo in Lafayette begins at 8:30. A pancake breakfast follows this race around Columbian Park. All proceeds benefit the zoo.

Bulldog 5K located in Pennville, IN starts at 9am and is on shaded country roads.

Sizzlin Summer Classic 5K starts at 8am in Richmond on IU – East campus. Includes both trail and road running. Part of the Wayne County Challenge.

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Obsessive Running Logs

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Runners are obsessive about… well running. We are also obsessive about keeping track of our running, our PR’s, shoes, clothing, and technical equipment we use.

Over the years I’ve heard lots of stories about runners and their running logs. Some lock them away each year in a safe deposit box and treat them as prized memories, leafing through them with a mist of sentimentalism similar to looking through old family photo albums.

Another runner would do anything to keep from putting a “goose egg” or 0 into the log book.
I didn’t really start keeping a log book of my running until the past few years. If I recall correctly my first log book was a free one from Runner’s World that came with my subscription.

I then progressed to using an excel spreadsheet log that someone had created on the Internet. This worked great for a year, then I couldn’t remember where I got it, so when I wanted a new one for the new year I went looking again! I found another great excel version but again didn’t keep track of where I got it!

A year or so ago I also tried using a web-based training log. That didn’t last too long because it was more of a hassle than anything else. But I recently came across a site called Running Ahead and have been able to stay consistent with keeping it updated and really enjoy the variety of features. Running Ahead is actually so good that Runner’s World bought the software to use for their logs!

A quick search on Google produced a plethora of running logs and excel based logs. If you are reading this you are probably a little tech-savvy and I would highly recommend using Running Ahead for logging your mileage. Check out their demo page.

A quick review of 10 important elements of a running log by Jeff Galloway and I find that Running Ahead lets you incorporate pretty much everyone of them, if you so desire. I’m not quite so obsessive about some elements (i.e. I don’t heart rate train, so I don’t keep track of my heart rate).

What do you use to keep track of your mileage? Do you even care? Leave comments and let’s discuss what’s out there for logging in your miles.

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Jennifer’s Run Update

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Do you recall my race review from my June 16th race in Hartford City. The race was called Jennifer’s Run and was a race to raise money to increase awareness and prevention of domestic abuse.

I was a little critical about some aspect of the race and e-mailed the race director in an attempt to be constructive and help them for future events. Last week, I was informed by a friend that the race’s website had been updated with a response from Teresa, the race director.

In a letter she corrected the race results and said:

Thanks for your patience everybody. We still have a bit of an issue with the results in that we are unable to force the computer to exclude the top 3 overall finishers from the age groups, however we were able to get it to exclude the top 2 overall finishers which has only effected two age groups. I’ve listed the corrections to the age group results below, if you do not see your name then you may rely on the computer generated HTML for your results.

On race day, our program printed out 10 year age groups instead of 5 year age groups. This discrepancy was not noticed until after the awards had been presented, however as everyone had already left we were unable to make corrections at the time. We are addressing that issue now. The program has been fixed and the correct age groups are reflected in the computer generated html. You will find your results there. We would like to apologize for the inconvenience as we seek to disperse the awards to those of you who earned them.

She also indicated that if you wanted to claim your awards you can do so by contacting her.

She also added a section entitled “Participant Suggestion Box” which highlights what they are doing to address some of my concerns. She specifically talks about post-race water, course length and layout, and finally start time. I would encourage you to check out her comments and provide feedback.

I also forgot to mention in my original post that they did have a professional photographer taking pictures. Results are also currently available here.

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Race Review: Chesterfield 10K – July 4th

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On a relatively cool morning, at least for the Fourth, about 125 runners and walkers from around East Central gathered to take part in this 16th annual 5K and 10K tradition starting near the Millcreek Civic Center in downtown Chesterfield, IN.

I ran a decent race, considering my pre-race preparations (eating ribs and staying out until 1:30am watching the midnight parade!).  My time was 43:05, with my splits being 6:25, 6:26, 7:27, 6:36, 7:26, 7:00, 1:45.  Don’t get too excited about my uneven looking splits.  I was told that the overall race was exactly 6.2 by GPS, but the individual miles weren’t marked correctly.  So those middle couple miles where my times varied by a minute were long, short, and long respectively!

The course overall is pretty flat.  10K runners start with the 5K group, running through Chesterfield and down the hill to the river level.  The 5K group then runs into the Greenhill (?) addition up a hill and turns around.  The 10K proceeds through “Deadman’s curve” before heading up a hill.  The 10K had 3 water stops and a 4th “rouge” stop!  The only other hill of significance is right before the 6 mile mark, although there are some smaller hills leading into that.

The race started approximately on time and was supported well by the Chesterfield Police force. Each mile mark was marked and had someone reading off overall race time, which was appreciated. At the finish there was water and making the short walk back to the Civic Center they had water, bananas, cookies, apples, and WATERMELON to rehydrate and replenish your body!!

Unfortunately, we waited a long time after the completion of the race it was around 10:30 (8:30 start), before the awards started.  This was actually better than last year, so that is encouraging! All winners received plaques.

I haven’t done this for other races, but click here to see a map of the actual course. I’ll post overall results when I get them.


Race Results from June 30

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Here is a quick roundup of results from the weekend.

Haynes-Apperson 4 mile race was won by Kyle Walsh of Kokomo in 20:33 (5:09). It was a competitive field with BJ Needler of Wabash coming in second in 20:40 (5:10) and local favorite, Andy Prieshoff running 23:06 (5:47) to finish 8th. The top female was 14 year-old Waverly Neer from Russiaville with a time of 24:22 (6:06). Two hundred and forty-four participants completed the 4 mile road race, while eighty-four completed the 3 mile walk. Greg Callahan, Muncie, won the walk in a time of 30:12 (10:04) and Mary Miller of Bunker Hill won the female division in 31:58 (10:40). Since they posted the fun run results I’ll highlight them: Carl Christianson, 16 won, but may have been pacing Heidi Freeman, 12 of Kokomo; they both finished in 5:39. Quite impressive Heidi!

The Summer Scamper 4 Miler with eighty-two participants was won by Ramon Chairez in 23:38 (5:54) and the female winner was Carla Yerkes who ran a 27:40 (6:55) to place tenth. Ramon was in the 15-17 age group and Carla the 45-49.

Don’t forget about tomorrow’s races:

Firecracker 5K Run located in Portland, starting at 8am.

CarmelFest FREEDOM RUN & WALK 4.5 Mile run starts at 8am and 1.5 Mi family walk at 8:05am. Event is located at Carmel High School and managed by Tuxbro. This event benefits Donate Life Indiana. Award given to most patriotic outfit!

Fast Track Mile located in downtown Terre Haute. Organized by the Wabash Valley Roadrunners Club, the mile race includes a scored school division. Women race at 8:15 and men at 8:30.

Chesterfield Optimists 5K and 10K (pdf) located in Chesterfield (just east of Anderson). Starting at 8:30am this is a pretty good race with a pancake breakfast, and Chesterfield Town Parade following.

Fowler 5K Run/Walk located northwest of Lafayette. $5 entry and pancake and sausage breakfast afterwards!

Weather Forecast for July 4th is currently a high of 86 with Isolated T-storms.

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