What Do You Reflect?
Reports from a few club members state that many of you veteran runners are STILL not wearing reflective materials when out on club runs. If your club jacket has reflective piping and you don’t wear the jacket because it’s not cool enough, you’re invisible to drivers. Wear reflective bands, flashing lights or a safety vest if your long sleeve tops don’t reflect. Black shorts + black top = invisible. Play safe out there, eh?
Danny Kassap the Marathoner Needs Our Help
See letter about him at bottom of newsletter.
Club Christmas Party
Saturday November 29th, 7pm arrival, 8pm dinner… Check the Evite for details then see if you can fit the party in between poker.ca and buffing the Audi.
What’s He Doing Now?
While most of you know one of the running club co-founders, Michael Brennan, some of you don’t know his co-founder, Paul Vacirca. Paul has worked in the Whistler BC area for about 7 years and in that time took up the hobby of stone carving. He made elaborate carvings for gifts at his wedding and since then has sold his beautiful works to gallery stores in Whistler and Victoria. He continues to ‘polish’ his skill and ‘carve’ a niche out for himself! Visit his elegant website . Oh yeah, he still runs but mostly from the bears that frequent his subdivision of Pemberton.
A rebuttal for Rob Gonsalves (from Bob Glazier)
Coconuts v. Beer
I am sure Rob’s analysis of the benefits of coconut water are correct. However he omitted to mention the following.
1. A coconut can give you a nasty bang on the head when it falls off the tree - beer bottles DO NOT grow on trees and therefore are not dangerous.
2. Beer contains alcohol which is essential to stay sane.
3. Coconuts are really hard to open - to be able to drink beer, all you need is a bottle opener.
4. Coconut shells cannot be recycled.
5. Can you really see Doug Piercey, Steve Jones, Andy Watson, Dan Little and Peter Kain enjoying coconut juice at Scruffy Murphy’s after the Wednesday night run?
No More Complaining
I thought people might be interested in this extract from a recent email I received from my friend back in Harare. Her description of the prize reminded me of my Granddad’s tales of post war rations. Cheryl’s final sentence hit me hard - this from a relatively well paid school secretary with two young sons. And to think that all we have to fret about is the color of the run shirt. Thank you Canada! ~ Sheila Jacobs
Race Results
Angus Glen ½ Marathon
Bob Glazier 1:40
Katherine Ing 2:01
Sheila Jacobs 1:51
Judy Knott 1:52
Dan Little 1:41
Sue Pearen 1:47
Road 2Hope ½ Marathon
Stephen Stein 2:12
USA 10 Miler, Oct. 13
Hi gang - hope all is well in Snowy Toronto! I am working way too much down here in Houston but did manage to run the USA 10 Miler - Alliance Space Center Run on October 13th. Here is a photo and my run time. The run started from the University of Houston at Clear Lake and circled the NASA Space Center. The great thing about this part of the country is it is very flat, not a hill to be found but unfortunately the humidity is a killer. The race was on a very hot humid and still day, I was drenched with sweat along with everyone else as soon as we started running. I did get a few comments from people if I was actually from Toronto and if it was snowing back home or not. It was great to get out and do a run while I was here.
Hope everyone is doing well in Toronto - I should be back around Christmas time and will be back out to run with the group then. - Joanne Agnew
Rank Chip Time Gun Time
15 1:33:18.7 1:34:00.3