FROM THE PREZ FOR THE WEEK OF 2/08 - 2/14/10:  

Birthdays:  Margaret (Sam) Pace 2/08, Danielle Guttinger 2/9, Bonnie Benson 2/10, Georgia Lee Albrecht 02/13, Tara Shipper 02/13, Robert Thompson 02/13 (NAG), Joe Landry 2/14, Andrea Milbourne 2/14, Karen Hasson 2/14  (NAG = New Age Group)


GREETINGS BAYOU CITY ROAD RUNNERS!

Congratulations to all those New Orleans Fans out there! Hope you look and feel your best today. Thank you Bob Brown for inviting everyone from the club to your Super Bowl Party.

Congratulations and thanks to all who ran the Buffalo Wallow 6K Cross Country Race, the first of the HARRA SPRING SERIES. The race this year was especially well attended and BCRR made an impressive showing as usual. The weather was perfect and the course conditions were surprisingly good, considering all the rain earlier in the week. Complete results can be found here.  Congrats to members who earned a spot on the podium:

Lauren Wilder 3rd AG, 28:05, Carlye Graydon 1st AG, 27:29, Michael Barney 1st AG, 23:00,
Theodore Shybut 3rd AG, 22:48, Jeff Eisle 2nd AG, 23:52, Anna Helm 1st AG, 27:58,
Rhonda Emerson 3rd AG, 29:01, Kathi Mahon 2nd AG, 35:01, Gloria Mahoney 3rd AG, 37:01
Hope Sellers 1st AG, 46:46, JoAnn Luco 1st AG, 54:00, David Piper 2nd AG, 24:29
Scott Bounds 1st,24:36, Jay Hendrickson 3rd AG, 25:22, Fred Steves 2nd AG, 32:16,
Gary Wood, 3rd AG, 33:22, Rick Siemens 1st AG, 28:24

Congrats to Team Bayou Storm - 3rd - Open Div. in the Team Competion (other team results incomplete). There was steep competition for 2nd and 3rd in this category: only 12 seconds separated 2nd and 3rd, and 25 seconds between 3rd and 4th!

Team Bayou Storm:Theodore Shybut, Quentin Malloy, Simon Brabo, Carlye Graydon, Lauren Wilder (2:08:13 total time)


The next HARRA Race is the Bayou City Classic 10K on Saturday, March 13. This is a fun race to run. We always have a costumed centipede entry, so feel free to come up with suggestions for a theme or volunteer to be part of the "chain gang". This is the only race actually put on by HARRA (our own Joe Sellers is the Race Director), so please support it by running or volunteering.  Eddie Rodriguez (ed_rod1@yahoo.com)  once again is the Volunteer Coordinator for the race, so please help if you are not planning to run.

Complete list of Spring Series races and links on the BCRR Home page.


This Week's Activities (in addition to the usual scheduled group runs on Wednesday and Sunday):  
 
- Wednesday Run/Valhalla: Thanks go to Bob Thompson for sponsoring the beverage tab in honor of his birthday and new age group last Wednesday. This Wednesday, Sam Pace will support the tab to celebrate her birthday (which is today- Happy B-Day)! 


More Announcements:

-From April Murphy:  BCRR Summer Marathon Relay Trip!!
 
Now that we are past the Houston Marathon and Half, it's time to think about reserving condos in Corpus for our annual trek down to the beach at Padre for the Beach to Bay Relay. If you are new to the club, this is a group trip you don't want to miss. Ask anyone who has done it before. It's a relay marathon on Saturday (6 runners to a team running from Padre to Corpus). We stay in North Padre for the weekend at some condos on the beach. Lots of outdoor cooking, dueling margaritas, beach time, pool time...
 
So, to make sure you have a spot, it's time to make that call and reserve your condo. I will be putting up a page like always that will have info on who has reserved what condo and who needs people for what teams. That way if you are in need of a spot to rest your head or a team to run with, you can start by looking there.
 
The race is on May 15th, 2010. Condos will need to be reserved for May 14th Friday and May 15th Saturday. The condo website is here: http://www.gulfstreamcondos.com . Give them a call! Beachside rooms are the best! I think they are $10 or $20 more but well worth it.
 
The race website: http://www.beachtobayrelay.com
 
April Murphy


- From Tom Stilwell: Race Against Violence

In all of my spare time, I have been helping organize and race direct the Houston Area Women's Center Race Against Violence.  The race is set for March 6, 2010 and information can be found at the website.  Obviously I want all the runners I can get to come support the race and the center, but I also need volunteers on race day if anyone isn't running. Thank you tremendously.

Tom [rtstilwell@gmail.com]


Have a great week everyone!


Kathi Mahon
BCRR President