Welcome:

The Bucks County Speedsters is a group of runners

that meets
twice a week to work on our speed,

strength, stamina, and
overall performance. Our goal

is to improve runners of all
levels. We encourage

anyone interested in running to come
out to one of

our workouts and see for yourself that in our


community everyone is welcomed and with our

guidance and
your hard work, together we will aspire

to make you
faster. We hope that you will lace up

your running
sneakers and meet up with us someday

soon.



"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams"


-Henry David Thoreau

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Daddy, Daughter Track Night?



"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter." 
                                                                                        - Euripides


We had 27 participants come out yesterday and two of our dads brought out their daughters.  This was a pleasant surprise and a good sign of things to come.  As much as I love all the wisdom that makes up our club, we could really use some more youth.  I’m not getting any younger (SHOCKER!), and someone is going to have to pick up where we all leave off.  It was looking like our twenty something group was about to sprout this season, but that was short lived, so I’m holding out hope that the Megan Schaal’s , Phoebe Iguchi’s , and the Alex Cohen’s continue to come out well into their, well, Rod Messenger type years. 

Joining our daddy, daughter duo’s of Dan & Megan and Steve & Phoebe were: Allyson, myself, Kevin, Tim, Tereza, Mike, Pete, Joe, Rob, Bharminder, Brian, Neil, Denise, Greg Z (first appearance of the season!), Glenn, Alex, Scott, Jimbo, Maria, Joe G, Eric, first timer Angela Walsh (we hope you come back), and our newest member Carol Albright (the Speedsters welcome you)!

Nice work by everyone last night, the temperatures were a tad warm tag teamed with longer intervals (thanks again Rob), making for a challenging workout.  I’m thrilled to announce we all survived including Eric.

Workout:

1 mile easy warm-up

1200 (600), 800 (400), 1200 (600)

1 mile cool down

Drills

Next up:

Thursday, we will be meeting at the Boat House (main lot) in Tyler State Park for a hill workout at 6PM. 

This will be your last opportunity to sign up for the Blue & Orange Track Meet and we’re still in desperate need of participants as of right now we have enough to put 13 on each team which would mean we would have to drop a good amount of the events, which I don’t want to do.  Please come out tomorrow and sign up for the track meet.  This event is free and a members only event!  This isn’t any different than running on the track on Tuesday’s with the exception of being on a Saturday and its all for fun.   Three of our newest members are signed up and so is our youngest member.  If these members are not intimidated you shouldn’t be either. 

Saturday, August 24th from 9:00-12:00 with a party afterwards (win or lose).
Bread Run on Saturday is canceled!  Sorry for the short notice, but I forgot that Allyson and I would be away in Connecticut this weekend and that the BCRR Equinox event is also on the same day.  Feel free to still stop by Great Harvest Bread in Newtown for some of their great baked goods.  We will return at the end of July.

Hot Diggity Dog Labor Day 10k:

We had a handful of members sign up this week, which has taken us up to 10 participants!  The last day to register and be guaranteed a Brooks tech tee, is August 5th so don’t wait too long.  Please get the word our about our race.  We’re also in need of sponsors for the race.  If anyone knows of a company that might be interested direct them to our website.  At the very bottom of the race page is a link to a paper form for sponsorship and also proof of our 501-3c non-profit status.


Till we run into each other again…

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