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Short
Sprints...
Summer Youth Track Programs
- Applications are now available
for the Summer
Track & Field Program and the Hershey
Track Clinic, start getting the word
out!
Elections - Will
be held at a meeting shortly after the road
race. Kerri is already accepting
nominations.
Dues - Are
due for 2009 if you haven't paid up yet.
$10 - Individual
$25 - Family
Mail to:
P.O. Box 451
Groton, MA
01450 |
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Groton Road
Race...
April 26,
2009 - There are a lot of
opportunities avail
ble to help out and
support your club. Contact Devon to offer
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Boston
Marathon
Each year, the BAA grants the
SqRR 5 entries to the 'big race' which are
distributed to deserving club members and allows
them to enter without having run a qualifying
marathon.
This year, those deserving members are Alix,
Rick, Colleen, Tracy, and Jenny. I'm sure
they have been hard at work training during the
long, cold winter months.
If you're not running the race, why not
come anyway and cheer them and our other
runners on, then join us at the club sponsored
hotel room at the finish line for some post race
revelry and recovery.
GO
FISH!!!
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Welcome to the Q1
Newsletter
Greetings my fellow Fishies of the
Squannacook River Runners. It has been a
few long months since we produced a newsletter -
but we have plenty of good excuses!
In the fall Chris, who has been
pulling the newsletter together, took on the
responsibility of race director for the 2009
Groton Road Race. This further impingement
of his free time and limited mental faculties
caused the publishing schedule to
slide.
A call went out to our running
tribe to backfill the editor
position. Tom Penny gamely stepped
forward and has produced this current
masterpiece. Think of Tom every time you
run a race or do something cool that you want to
share.
The last six months have been a
whirlwind of activity. We have a renewed
and expanded Road Race committee that will share
the load and ensure the longevity of this great
tradition that has given so much to our club,
our communities and our families.
We have partaken in our normal
hubbub of races and events, finishing strong and
remembering to smile while doing so. We
have had a particularly active social calendar
of brunch runs - where good food and running
comradeship comingle to warm our
souls.
April 26th will see the 17th
Groton Road Race and we need all shoulders to
the wheel to pull it off.
Here's to all of you! We wish you
a wonderful spring of running and living with
Joy as part of the SqRR! It's a privilege
to work, run and celebrate life with you.
We are truly blessed.
I'll see you out
there!
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Welcome New
Members!
In their own
words...
Collin Knaub:
My wife and I moved to Ayer about
a year ago so that I could work for the State
Police as a DNA Analyst. I have been
running for about 8 years and usually stick to
the short races (5K and 10K). My goal this
year is to break my PR at both distances and
place in my age group at every race. I am
also planning on competing in several mountain
bike races and completing an off-road triathlon.
Kristen,
Alfred, Katie, and Alex von
Campe:
Our children are the
runners in the family. Katie (14) and
Alex (11) both enjoy cross country running: the
muddier the better. Katie came in
second in her age group in the 5K at the Groton
Road Race last year and will eventually work up
to the 10K, but not this year. Alex ran
the 2K fun run and the 5K back to back last
year. They are both participating in the
spring track program at Country Day School,
where Katie's main event is the 800 meter and
Alex will compete for the first time this year.
Katie is looking forward to running cross
country when she starts high school this
fall.
Alfred and I are known to jog
an occasional lap or 2 around the track and then
fall to the ground panting. I hope to
work up to 4 laps this spring. You will
mostly find us walking or biking the rail trail
and running only if a bear is chasing
us.
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2009 Groton Road
Race
Hello my friends 
We are entering into the final weeks of
preparation for the 18th annual Groton Road
Race.
It's a new year with a new approach.
In order to support the ever diminishing herd of
key directors we spread our responsibilities out
into a much larger and more distributed race
organization this year.
Bear with us as we learn our new roles this
year and thanks for the club and community
support to enable us to give this proud old race
another year in the sun (yes it never rains on
the Groton Road Race).
With Gordon's help we re-jiggered the race
committee to leverage the best and the
brightest...and so far it is working.
This year we will be having our traditional
road races 10k, 5k, 2k and Tot's trot at the
Groton Dunstable Middle School on April 26th
2009. We look forward to your help to
drive participation, volunteerism and
sponsorship. Registration will be held on
the Saturday and everyone is queued up to pull
of another quality event we can be proud
of.
If you'd like to volunteer give Devon
Skerrit dmskerritt@gmail.com a call and he'll
hook you up. If you have any other
pressing questions or needs drop me, or any of
the other race directors a note or call and
we'll hop to it.
Now's the time to close our eyes and
leap! See you at Registration, on race day
and at the Apris-party.
Chris,
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Race
Wrap-up
Once
again our school of fish has been busy swimming
competitively. It doesn't matter that at
this time of year water has a habit of freezing
and turning into ice, snow and all sorts of
other non-liquid forms. Proof of this is
the Mill
Cities Relay, where we had 6 teams compete
on a snow-covered course under grey
skies.
Of course, that didn't compare to the
conditions at the Hangover Classic, where
Chris and Brian acted like true fish and took a
leisurely swim in the
ocean after a 10K.
In the more distant past when weather was
more pleasant (that would be only a few degrees
below freezing and without a strong wind), we
had over 35 fish and their family and friends in
the Ayer 5K. Halaina also set the course
record for females on that day.
And going even further back, both the Bay
State Marathon and the Groton Town Forrest Trail
Race were held on the same day. We had
many members work both the marathon water stop
and run the Groton race on the same day.
If you've never worked a water stop before, it's
a lot of fun and a great way to get your
non-running family members out and supporting
runners.
Members also participated in
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Dignity Dash in Groton
- Philadelphia
Marathon (Pennsylvania)
- Derry Prep 16
Miler (New Hampshire)
- Sweetheart 4
Mile (Connecticut)
- Stu's
30K
- Wild Rover
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Spring Hash
Anyone?????
The
Two Lunatics have been busy all winter planning
the next SQRR Hash Run. We have not set a
date, but should have the info out to everyone
shortly after the GRR.
What is a
Hash Run you may ask? Simply put, it is a
chance for a bunch of friends to bust out their
finest festive running garb such as red dresses,
pimp hats, and American flag boxer shorts,
get together at a yet to be announced
starting point for some running, drinking,
singing, name calling, mud throwing, more
drinking, orienteering, and a little more
running.
Sound like
fun? Good, because it is. You don't
need to be a serious runner. You don't
even have to like whiskey or beer, although it
does help to dull the pain of a broken
ankle.
For those of you who
participated in the Hash Run last November, we
hope to see all of you again this Spring.
If you weren't able to attend, please check out
the video and please consider
joining us this year.
Stay
tuned..........................
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Sincerely,
Tom
Penny
Squannacook River Runners
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