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Farrell Malone of Georgetown University, currently training for the Columbus Marathon on October 29th . Farrell grew up in Shreveport, LA and intends to graduate next spring from G’town with a double major in economics and mathematics. We welcome Farrell to the club, and wish him the best of luck in the upcoming academic year.
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At the Annapolis Ten Miler on August 27th, Patty Fulton took 3rd woman overall in a time of 1:01:53. Good going Patty! Below is a listing of club member’s time for that particular race
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"I did better than I thought on the swim, although apparently swimmers do not extend the same courtesies as runners do when passing someone slower. A couple of women swam OVER me if you can believe that. Finished in like 25 minutes, which was good for me and considering I zig zagged all over the lake. Then I lost my bike in the transition area. Bike was hilly but ended up being fast at the end. I once again forgot where my spot was, and hammered the run. They rank your splits, and I was like the 250th fastest swim, 220th fastest bike, and the 4th fastest run. GO figure...I'm sticking to the roads"
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Kevin was also 13th in the WaWa Hartwood 10 Miler , in a time of 58:35. This is very good.
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Our friends John Rusinko and Jay Wind did quite well in the 3000 meter race at the PVTC All Comers, with John posting a 10:06, while Jay ran 10:51. Ted Poulus won whole nine yards in a time of 9:35. Good going gentlemen!
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Our friend Ron McGraw posted a 1:30:34 in the Parkersburg Half Marathon in West Virginia. This is a bit slower than his PR of 1:22, but still a sub seven-minute pace for 13 miles.
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I discovered a local 5 mile race was happening in conjunction with the Machias Blueberry Festival - so I registered and ran. Driving to the race on an overcast morning was peaceful. But the moment the race started the sun came out in full force. It actually became hot for Maine. The course was a very hilly one (with two LONG hills in mile 2) but a lot of fun. Only 230 people ran/walked - which made for a nice, uncrowded field. I came in 3rd in my age group (19-29) at 47:48
Good job Caitlin. Caitlin (along with fellow clubmate Anthony Belber) will soon resume teaching duties at Georgetown Day School
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At the club meeting on August 16th, at the Cap City Brewery, a number of decisions were reached.
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Two new captains have volunteered over the past week to coordinate races teams. Todd Martin will be captain of the team we are fielding at the Fair Lakes 8K on September 10th. And Kevin Ryan will be captain of our men’s Marine Corps Marathon team.
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Our warmest congratuations to Jack and Jodie Pozo-Olano, who had their second child Juan Carlos this past week (Katherine was born back in Winter of 1999). As mentioned on the WRC listserv "both Jodie and Juan Carlos are doing well". Wit Bob Platt observed impishly "I see you said the mother and son are doing well. I guess that means Jack is a nervous wreck!" So we hasten to add that Jack is doing fine also!
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Kudos to WRC alumnus Peter Nye whose book The Lance Armstrong Performance Program: The Training, Strengthening, and Eating Plan Behind the World's Greatest Cycling Victory is being published in September. The book, which Pete co-wrote with Lance Armstrong, is already #14 bestseller in Canada.
Peter posted a 2:23 marathon with the club twenty years ago. For the past ten years, Peter has been writing about bicycling, with this being his fourth book. We congratulate Peter on his latest achievement, and wish him continued success
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Speaking of alumni, we have word from Karl Stith, who used to train with us
five years ago. Karl is now living in the Netherlands representing Nike in its dealings with
elite athletes (Juriy Borzakovsky, Ali Saidi-Sief among others). Writes Karl about
the upcoming Olympics:
"All I can really say is that it has been a real strange season. The
Olympic Games will be different. People are expecting a ton of fun down there. Me? I
see it the completely other way....I saw Jerry McGwire one too many times."
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To close things out, we'd like to note an excellent article this month in Outside Magazine called Endurance Predator, by Benrd Heinrich, professor of Biology at the University of Vermont.
Professor Heinrich enunciates a rather provocative hypothesis about the relationship between long distance running and hunting:
"We were all runners once. Although some of us forget that primal fact, comparative biology teaches us that life on the plains generates arms races between predators and the prey – and our ancestors were definitely not into unilateral disarmament. We humans have one major physical advantage. We can sweat copiously, which allows us to manage our internal temperature and extend our endurance. Most animals have no such mechanism. Through the age, there are examples of men chasing down beasts that are much faster.Like the North American antelopes residual ability to outrun a cheetah, a creature that became extinct on the continent 10,000 years ago – our ability to run, throw and jump are leftovers in our survival tool kits. As such, we used them in play, because they are instinctually important to us."
There is strong circumstanial evidence to support that hypothesis that our forebears were ruthless predators. Man first arrived in North America 10,000 years ago - at the same time that numerous mega-fauna became extinct. Included in this number were saber-toothed cats, mastodons, wooly mammoths, huge ground sloths, short-faced bears, and dire wolves. Scientists like Heinrich beleve the sophistication of man's weapons - and ability to run animals to exhaustion - doomed numerous species.
ClubNews however, believes these mammals disappeared for a different reason. Once Homo sapiens appeared in North America, Wooly Mammoth realized it was only a matter of time before John Gray’s Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" would top the New York Times best seller lists. And they said "Oh how awful -we are definitely not sticking around for THAT". And poof! -- they disappeared.
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