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

Monday, September 1, 2014

To Labor Day or Not to Labor Day...



Samuel Adams Octoberfest taste amazing!  I don’t know if it taste so good because I’ve been drinking Corona Lights for the last four months or because a cold beer just taste that much better after a long day.  Whatever the reason, the Octoberfest is a nice compliment to a day that acts as the gateway to autumn.  Labor Day.  Labor Day is suppose to offer a day off to all that work, but yet our members, friends, and families chose to volunteer their time to our Hot Diggity Dog 10k trail race.  Volunteering your time is already a selfless act, that performing in a volunteer position on Labor Day offers a trump situation.  I attempted to thank each and everyone that gave up their valuable time on the one holiday that highlights taking a break.  If I missed you, please except my gratitude now. 

We put on two races each year to generate funds for the club.  These funds allow us to keep our annual membership fees low, offer clothing at a discount, make donations to great causes that our members are involved with and the community, sponsor our most dedicated members, and of course purchase the items that we need to get through each season.  Our ultimate goal is to offer scholarships to Bucks County students and supply young athletes from struggling families with the equipment they need for their respective sports.  The Looney Leprechaun seems to be on its way to that ultimate goal.  The Looney race improved from the first year.  The Hot Diggity Dog struggled initially and still wasn’t looking good just three days ago.  The race rebounded today with a great “day of” registration.  The participant numbers were still down from the first year numbers, but those numbers were not terrible.  This leads me to believe that we could bring the Hot Diggity Dog Labor Day 10k back again next year.  We have to take a long look at the overall numbers. After that, the outstanding officers of this club and I will sit down and talk it over.  We will take everything into considerations before we pull the plug on this event.

Thank you once again to all the volunteers, thank you to all our generous sponsors, and thank you to all the participants that came out to our race.  We are aware that there are other races and events that you could have chosen today, but you came out and supported us and we appreciated that very much. Because of all of you we had a great day, a day filled with fun and spirited competition.   If you are not already a member of the Bucks County Speedsters I invite you to join us for one of our weekly workouts.  We would love to run with you outside of a race environment.

Till we run into each other again…

CT


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