Spring Race Series, Race 1 Results

We had a great turnout of 25 participants for the first race of the spring race series this morning. Congratulations to young Audrey Napier for crossing the finish line a full four minutes ahead of the second place finisher. We won't give you so much of a head start next time!

Owl Bar Run, April 8

Melissa Begay tells me that the spring Owl Bar run will happen on April 8, in conjunction with spring fling at Tech.

Go Jan Go!

Congrats to Jan for a PR at the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon in Phoenix this January. Her 3:42:12 was also good enough for 3rd place in her age group!

Battle of New Mexico and Texas Running Clubs Course Maps

These maps have been released to SSR by the events' organizer.

5k & 10k Map

Half Marathon Map

Marathon Map

Barefoot Running Study

Dave F. thought this might be of interest to some of our members:

http://www.livescience.com/animals/running-shoes-barefoot-running-100127.html

When you strap on a typical running shoe, you may be fighting evolution.

Modern-day running shoes have changed the way people run, altering our gait from that of barefoot running — the manner by which people ran for thousands of years before the arrival of the cushioned shoes found on store shelves today — a new study suggests.

Updated Date for Battle of NM and TX Running Clubs

After a lot of feedback, the organizers pushed the race date ahead a day, avoiding Easter Sunday.

Let's go get 'em! I have a vision of a bunch of us traveling there and having a ball so put me down for the 10k and Julie down for the half. Maybe we can blast them with a bunch of XC runners in the 5k, too!

More information

Spring Running Series 5ks

Flyer

Sign-up Sheet

As a reminder, we will have 4 Spring Running Series races. These are the handicapped format wherein everyone has a roughly equal shot to finish first and the first 3 races are 5ks with the final race being a 10k worth double points.

The dates are:

January 29th
February 12th (Note Change!)
March 5th
March 26th

All events are planned to start at the EMRTC snake.

Rick Runs Races Rather Rapidly

Rick has been laying down some blistering times in recent races - fast enough to get mention in the Chieftain and on the NMT website:

Tech professor excels in ultramarathon

No mention of his sub-20 minute AGU 5k time, though. Keep it up Rick!