List Serve Created

I know this might be a bit too much of forcing us into the new millenium, but I just put together a Google Group for us to use as our email list serve. This will allow people to manage their own email address and update it when they get a new one. Also now all you have to do is send an email to uonoonrunners@googlegroups.com and it will be sent to everyone subscribed. Of course you have to become a member first to be able to send/receive emails. If you didn't get an invite from me today (leap day!) then let me know and I will send one your way. Also once you have signed up, you have the ability to send invites to anyone else you think should be included in the list serve. If you have any questions, let me know. Looking forward to puking Saturday!

Random Posting of the Day

This one is via Jim B -

Topic: ways to beat your friends to the finish line during "friendly" fitness runs:

• Bracket your friend between you and an accomplice while you pummel them into submission while running (Tom and Greg, ganging up on Monte).

• Start about a mile out to make sure you really break their spirit.

• Use trees, cars and other obstructions to mask your sneaky approach to mount a sprint to the finish line.

A Cry for Help

This afternoon at approximately 3:15pm, a radical splinter cell of the usual Noon Runners will be beginning their death march. What drives this insane sect of a normally sane group to attempt such dangerous feats is unknown. Their workout will consist of 12 mile repeats at 10 minute intervals. When the math is done to include their warmup and cooldown, the total mileage will rival the 15 miles experienced over the last weekend. Our hearts and prayers go out to the innocent victims of these reckless individuals, the aching knees and gasping calf muscles that must endure such harsh treatment. If you would like to join them, the group will be meeting at the Adidas Trail at 3:30pm. This Saturday will include

"a 14 mile timed run, with target pace near projected marathon pace. The route will start at Knickerbocker Bridge heading a mile toward Springfield and then finding its way to the Owasso Bridge then back to the Fire Station. I imagine some folks running in the 7:30 or better, with others much slower."

Home

The University of Oregon is steeped with tradition for distance running. Names like Bill Bowerman, Steve Prefontaine and Alberto Salazar echo through the halls of Oregon distance. There is however another great tradition that is rarely trumpeted, the Noon Group Runners. The humble beginnings of one of the oldest amateur running groups arose from a passion to run and a passion to belong. The group has seen 30 minute 10k runners as well as 30 second schnicken eaters. The ages and professions run the gamut from a 25 year-old Web Developer to a 70 year old Psychology Professor. Some runs display the wandering minds of the group as a trail can be invented with little effort. Other workouts reach deep into the soul to discover, as Prefontaine so elegantly put it "who has the most guts!" But every event always share a common thread of decency and unity that is known as the "stretching-spot." A spot where all members rally each runner to once again congregate and set forth as a team, growing stronger together as they grow stronger individually.