There is a CRC meeting on Monday, June 14th. It will be at Smitty’s BBQ at 6 pm. We have a guest speaker, Mike Dupriest, and he specializes in running injuries. We have the back room reserved, so it should be an awesome meeting! Please email Stacy if you plan to attend or have any other questions. We need to give Smitty’s an accurate head count. Hope to see everyone there!
Oh, and if you are not a Conway Running Club member? Come anyway and be our guest. See you there.
Membership Meetings
When: Tuesday, March 16 at 6 – 7 pm
Where: Conway Regional Fitness Center
Guest Speaker: Leah Thorvilson, 2008 & 2009 Arkansas Female Runner of the Year
It’s been a busy running season already with 3 Grand Prix races behind us and a lot of marathon racing and training completed. Over 20 runners will be heading to New Orleans for the half marathon / marathon event next weekend and many others are in the final preparation for the Little Rock half and full marathon the following weekend. There will be a lot of stories and PR’s to share in the next membership meeting.
Leah Thorvilson will be our guest speaker, sharing her story and talking about setting goals and reaching them. One of the great things about running is no matter how fast you are, you get to race with elite runners. I’ve run the Berlin marathon twice and both times Haile Gebrselassie broke the world record. Tommy Walsh ran the Phoenix marathon last month where Deena Kastor, American Olympic bronze medal winner, won the half marathon and our runners going to New Orleans to run the half marathon will be in the field with Ryan Hall. On a local level, we get to “run with” Leah in Grand Prix races all the time. Some of you may know her from her overall win at the first Soaring Wings Half marathon in 2008 when she crossed the finish line in 1:16, running at a 5:52 pace for the entire course. Leah also was the 2010 Little Rock Marathon female winner. Others may know her by her contagious smile and friendly disposition. Our March meeting is a great opportunity to hear her story and learn and be inspired by it.
Join us in March for a night of inspiration and information about the sport of running. Invite your friends. You don’t have to be a member to attend.
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2010 promises to be a great year for the Conway Running Club. We had 47 present for our first member meeting. We all enjoyed hearing an update on the walking/running/biking trail system in Conway from Brian Knopp with the Parks and Recreation Department. It will be years before the plan is completed but just knowing there is a plan is great. Brad Rogers was happy to hear that they do plan some PERMANENT toilets along some of the new trails. We covered the annual task of electing new officers for 2010 term. Effective March 1st they are as follows:
President – Stacey Ohlde
President Elect – Not filled at this time (anybody want to consider this position?)
Treasurer/Secretary – Christian Sterka
Past President – Judy Massingill
News Letter Editor – Jermaine Jones
Program Director – Not filled at this time
Public Relations Director – Brad Rogers
Fun Run/Social Director – Jamie Schwartz
Equipment Manager – Christian Sterka
Unofficial positions:
Grand Prix Coordinator – Billy Gaines
Photographer – Frank Massingill
We are going to bring back a monthly publishing of our News Letter. Jermaine needs everyone’s help with this. Please submit articles of interest, personal experiences, favorite quotes, recipes, pictures, running tips, etc to newsletter@conwayrunning.org by the 25th of each month for publication in the next month’s newsletter. Send race results or information about races you are planning to enter so we can track the race to results@conwayrunning.org.
Association, Membership Meetings
There will be meeting for all members and guests of the Conway Running Club on Thursday, Jan 14th at the Conway Regional Fitness Center on Salem Road, at 6:00 pm.(in the class room located behind the reception desk). Please make plans to attend.
The board has been working hard to come up with a plan for 2010. We want to see our club become more active. Although running is considered an individual sport, sticking with it and improving is something that requires other people. Others to help you stay motivated, others who share a time and place to show up to run on a regular basis and people who miss you when you are not there. We want the Conway Running Club to be all it can be, but it takes YOU to make it happen.
The agenda will include our Grand Prix Team, socials this year, races we will be helping with, other exciting things.
Feel free to invite anyone you think might be interested in joining the CRC. Come and lend a helping hand.
Judy Massingill, President
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