Susan Wunderly of Capitol Hill. Susan posted a 3:46 last fall at Marine Corps, and will be on our Chicago Marathon team this year. Having worked for Senator Slade Gorton (R-WA), Susan is now a lobbyist for Boeing.

Mike Sheely, 41 of Baltimore MD. Mike will be on our masters team at the Philly Distance team. Mike was a Cross Country All-American at Haverford College and posted a 1:05 at Philly Distance Run back in 1983. But work & three daughters forced him back off running. To quote Bill Rodgers "When it comes to running, work and family - you can only seriously devote yourself to two of the three".

We welcome them all into the club.

Kudos to our Yancy Hall and Bryon Powell, both of whom competed in Hood to Coast. This is a relay run that stretches 195 miles from the top of Oregon's Mt. Hood, down to the Pacific Ocean, in Seaside, Oregon. Over 12,000 runners showed up to participate.

Yancy’s team Princeton Running Co. took 3^rd out of 978, while Bryan’s Haverford Alumni team took 38^th. Bryon has provided us with an amusing description of the start - all the more so cause we were not part of it

"I had the honor of the starting leg. 7:45 at night, almost 11 hours after the first teams got underway on their 195 mile trek, I started rolling down the side of Mt. Hood with the elite runners. I was quickly reminded that I am not an elite runner as 14 of the 15 others I started running with screamed ahead of me. When I say screamed I mean it as the fastest runner averaged the 5.45 mile leg at roughly 4:15 pace. Let me qualify that as the leg started at 6,000 ft and ended at 4,000 ft. Never has running downhill given me such nightmares as after this race. Within 15 minutes of starting this leg my calves were blown. The only consolation for running this leg was a coming around a turn halfway through the leg and seeing, outstretched before me, rolling forested hill after rolling forested hill awash in the colors of twilight and beyond those hills 50 miles away a huge mountain sticking up out of the landscape. Truly amazing."

Much fun was had by all on the first annual tubing expedition on the Potomac River at Harper’s Ferry. Fifteen of us took to the river, to float downstream, splash about, holler through the rapids, and totally disrupt the divine serenity of nature. A special thanks to Jim Wadsworth, who put a cooler in a tube, and towed it, through rapids and all, spilling nary a drink.

Mike Regan attended the Sunday run of 9/2, and cranked some miles with Gerry Ives. Mike, a graduate of G’town, was a mainstay of our club until four year ago, when he and wife Abbie moved to San Francisco. He was complaining about having only run 35 minutes for 10K. Frankly, we could not muster much sympathy ;). It was good to see Mike, and we hope he moves back!

Going to a Garden Pary

Pool party at Tris Kruger’s Sunday September 9^th at 1:00 p.m. if you have not received an invitation, please contact Jim Wadsworth at jwads@yahoo.com

Sunday Runners Crank the Mileage

Sunday run has been getting some good turnout (15-20 runners). Runners have been posting 18-20 mile run, in preparation for fall marathons.. The famed NW passage (18.5 miles) has been the route of choice, with Chris Galaty, Steve Ward, Todd Martin, Liz Parks, Darcee O’Donnell, Kate Hudson & David Stoudt all doing that run in the past two weeks.

For your benefit, and electrolyte enhancement, the club will be leaving Gatorade in a cooler at the entrance of Rock Creek Sunday, September 9^th. It will be positioned one mile south of East West Highway. This is nine miles into the run, and 2.7 miles before the Ranger Station water stop.

Don’t forget that we always go to Dean & Deluca after Sunday run. A chance to schmooze with your fellow clubmates, quaff Java, and discuss the mysteries of existence.

WRC'ers doing Post-Mortem following the Sunday run.