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BRRC members do well at the
North Olympic Discovery Marathon -
Sequim to Port Angeles
by Joan Pribnow
Swanson, 60, sets record in 100-mile endurance run
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Becca Noble Wins First Place
at
Pan American Junior Athletics Championships
(BRRC sponsored Becca)
XIII PanAmerican Jr Athletics Champs - Single Meet License
Pan American Junior Athletics Championships - 7/29/2005 to 7/31/2005
Windsor, Canada
Event 7 Women 800 Meter
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Meet Record: * 2:03.70 7/20/1997 Mairelin Fuentes -MEX, Havana, Cub
Pan Am Jr: # 2:00.07 7/24/1982 Kim Gallagher - USA, Indianapolis,
World Jr: ^ 1:57.18 9/8/1993 Yuan Wang - CHN, Beijing
Name Year Team Finals Points
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Finals
1 Noble, Rebekah 87 United States 2:04.07
2 Magill, Heidi 86 United States 2:04.12
3 Vidiaud Quebrun, Analia 87 Cuba 2:06.49
4 Richards, Jodian 87 Jamaica 2:08.52
5 Van Buskirk, Kate 87 Canada 2:08.73
6 Hunter, Raeleen 87 Canada 2:09.01
7 Guevara, Cristina Gpe. 87 Mexico 2:09.18
8 McKenzie, Arusha 86 Jamaica 2:11.05
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Don Kardong the recipient of the Fred Lebow Award from the National Distance Running Hall of Fame
John Pierce and Dori Robertson finish Ironman Canada
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2005 Awards
Female Runner of the year Kim Price
Male Runner of the Year Walter Mueller
Volunteer of the year Melinda Hoekema
Business relations of the year Kurt Kinghorn & Runner's Soul
Most inspirational Mira Anzalone
Most Supportive Howard Stamp
The Long Road Award Joan Pribnow
Female Runner of the year
Kim Price
Male Runner of the Year
Walter Mueller
Marathon Training Clinic
Michael Wakabayashi instructs the new marathoners before their first Saturday long run at SFCC.
• Oct. 23 : View a video clip of Dori Robertson 's first Hawaii Iron Man World Championships on Ironman.com and you see her slogging across the rainy finish with a smile on her face.
It was fun, said the Mead girls cross country and track coach.
Robertson, competed in the second-largest age group division of the race, men and women combined (last weekend) and placed 30th among women ages 45-49.
She timed 12 hours, 51, minutes, 19 seconds and was 1,324 overall among the 1,787 who qualified. Robertson, the subject of my Prep Page column in The Spokesman-Review last Thursday, said she had a slower-than-expected 2.4 mile swim.
"The biggest thing was my goggles leaked and I couldn't see," she said. Her tongue was swollen and lumpy from the salt water. As a result, she soloed during the rainy 112-mile bicycle ride and figures there were only 100 or so competitors behind her.
But a 4:01:13 marathon, ninth best in her age and gender group, enabled her to make up ground even though standing water from a rainstorm at times covered her ankles.
"It wasn't what I envisioned Hawaii being," Robertson said. "But to be there where it all started was very cool."
Dori Robertson in
Ford Ironman World Championships 2006
See her results and finish!
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This month's Oreo award goes to:
BRRC members
Howard Stamp
and
Berit Mcallister
who both recently passed away.
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Senator Marr is presented the prestigious Oreo Award
at the Davenport Hotel
The BRRC Holiday Party was a big success. Pictures are coming soon!
(Joan Pribnow was Santa's elf, Ken Briggs played the bagpipes, the Sweet Adeline's Quartet performed, and Steve Heaps was a great Santa!)
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Thanks to everyone who pitched in so generously to get the running shirt quilt made for Jack and Gunhild!
Hi everybody,
What can I say? Jack is a well-loved local running icon. The word got out to our local Spokesman Review newspaper, and they decided to do a video story on him. In the past they have done stories on us as a running couple, and they thought it would be inspiring. Check out the attached link, and you be the judge.
There will also be a story in print on Thursday in the Valley Voice section of the Spokesman Review.
Jack Swanson
A great runner, a good friend, a good husband, a good father, and an all around great guy!
We'll miss you Jack!
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BRRC
Awards
2008
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Erik Anderson, the SCC track coach who died in a tragic accident.
Lets Climb a Mountain Results
Celebrate Jack Swanson
Run 2009
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Glenn Tanner's Moose encounter
...you must read this one!
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BRRC Holiday 2009 Gift Exchange
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Notice
Checks for all BRRC events
must
be made out to Bloomsday Road Runners Club (or BRRC). Do
not
include the race name on "pay" line. Please indicate the race you are entering on the memo line only.
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Fitness Diaries)
Max and Connie Bischoff given the Long Road Award.
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Cheney’s Eddie Tompson receives Bloomsday Road Runner Club award
Editor
Surprisingly, one of the things Cheney-area resident Eddie Tompson likes about running is that part others usually dread – pain.
Maybe not so much during the training phase in preparation for marathons, half-marathons and other races, but while competing Tompson uses pain to concentrate.
“It’s sort of like meditating when I’m running,” he said.
Tompson recently received some reward for his pain by being named the 2010-2011 Senior Male Runner of the Year by the Bloomsday Road Runners Club. It’s an award given to male runners over age 50 based on race participation and volunteering support throughout the year.
“We definitely look at somebody who is actively involved in the club,” club past-president Dori Whitford said.
A native of Taunton, Mass., Tompson has been running since his freshman year in high school, turning a necessity in catching a school bus into a competitive and coaching career.
After competing in high school Tompson ran at Southeastern Massachusetts University, now known as University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. While working as a teacher he also coached for 19 years in high school and college, helping set up cross country programs at Massachusetts’ Babson and Westfield State colleges along with City College of New York.
Tompson also founded three running and track and field clubs in Massachusetts as well as serving on the Indonesian Olympic Committee as an advisor. He and his wife moved to Washington in 1999 where he taught for a couple years at Spokane Community Colleges before retiring.
Tompson said he runs every other day, usually around 3-5 miles but longer if he’s training for a specific race. In 2010 he competed in 22 races, including several marathons. He lists Cheney’s Happy Hoofer’s Fun Run as one of his favorites because of all the familiar faces on the course and along the sidelines, equating it to being in an episode of the former TV show “Cheers.”
“You know that thing where everybody knows your name,” Tompson said.
He also listed the Qualchan Seven Mile Trail Run and White Salmon’s Backyard Half Marathon Trail run as two more favorites because they’re off road – “It’s softer on your feet” – and they’re scenic. Tompson didn’t point to any specific race as being the most challenging, but rather a series of two he ran last fall, competing in the Spokane Marathon and then three weeks later in October in the Tri-Cities Marathon.
“There wasn’t enough time for me to rest properly,” he said.
Along with the physical challenges there was a sense of danger along the Tri-Cities course where it crossed the Columbia River via the US 395 bridge that Tompson said had a narrow, albeit protected walkway with large enough holes affording a good view of the river below. The wind and speeding traffic added to the feeling of intimidation and unease.
“It was very scary,” Tompson said. “I just let a runner pass me and I concentrated on his back.”
Tompson is a big supporter of running and area cross county fans will recognize him among spectators at Cheney High School and Eastern Washington University meets, along with track and field competition. Whitford said his support of other runners was just one of the reasons the Bloomsday club – which is not officially connected with the road race of the same name – picked Tompson.
“He’s out there,” Whitford said. “Once he’s done he sticks around and cheers people on. He’s a good team player who’s kind and helpful.”
Tompson said his Bloomsday training has been slowed somewhat because of shin splint issues but he’s taking it easy and still preparing. Besides pain and concentration, he said he also enjoys running because of the camaraderie runners have.
“They seem to understand me better,” he added.
John McCallum can be reached at jmac@cheneyfreepress.com.
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Spokesman story
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Fitness after 50 runs women into healthy futures
Jan Kirk, 65
Back story: She grew up on Chicago’s South Side and attended an all-Catholic girls’ school before Title IX, the federal law mandating school sports opportunities for girls.
The lack of opportunities didn’t stop her from physical activity - and dreaming.
“I had a twin brother who played baseball. I had my own little baseball glove and sat on the bench. I slept with it at night. I did tomboy playing. I thought my bicycle was a horse.”
When her two children were small, Kirk didn’t have a car, so walking and bicycling with them kept her in the outdoors she loved. But Kirk worked part time and didn’t have the time to get in tip-top shape.
When it changed: In the fall of 1980, her youngest started kindergarten. She started to run that day.
“I had little hiking boots on, blue jeans,” she remembered. “I went out and did three miles.”
Kirk did her first Bloomsday in 1980 and the Coeur d’Alene marathon in 1981.
Track record: Kirk has done 41 marathons since 1981, three triathlons, dozens ofhalf-marathons and shorter races.?She has missed only four Bloomsdays.
She runs three to five times a week. She also hikes, bicycles and skis - downhill and cross-country.
Kirk loves winter running. “It’s my very favorite season,” she said. “Running shoes are made like little snow tires.”?
Injuries: She underwent arthroscopic surgery on her right knee 12 years ago. Three weeks ago, while skiing in the Grand Tetons in Wyoming, she took a tumble and got a black eye. But that’s been it.
“I never run seven days a week, and I always get new shoes appropriately,” she said.
Work: Retired April 1 after 38 years as a cardiac care nurse at Deaconess Medical Center.
“(Running) kept me balanced,” Kirk said. “Even if I was tired after work, if I?went out for a short run, the weight of the world was released.”
As for her patients? “I had the honor of walking patients one day after open-heart surgery. Even if they felt like they couldn’t get out of bed, the majority of them felt better immediately.”
Her advice to the sedentary: Take baby steps. Believe you can do it. Keep it fun. Call a friend. Set a goal.
“I’ve walked the New York marathon with friends who had been very sedate,” she said. “We trained all year, and they actually walked the New York marathon. It took them seven to eight hours.”
The future: Her son wants to run the Great Wall of China marathon in five years, when he turns 40 and Kirk turns 70.
Kirk told him: “You do the whole. I’ll commit to the half. But I’m in.”
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Fitness Diaries)
Sylvia Quinn Born October of 1936
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Fitness Diaries)
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Nelson LaPlante
proposes at
Newman Lake
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