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It was cold, it was rainy, it was soggy, you ran sloggy but you did it. Hopefully you have defrosted and are warm by now. Congratulations to the following members on your race accomplishments this past weekend in some very difficult weather:

  • Miami Marathon – John O’Connell (1st Marathon and PR), Kimberly Reyes (1st Marathon and PR), Walkiria Salem (1st Marathon and PR), Mark Shachner (Pacer), Andrea Medalie (Pacer), Mike Zahalsky, Jill Katz, Anne Carroll, Fabio Tylim
  • Miami Half Marathon – Linda Diamond, Rich Silcox, Rebeca Rodriguez, Stephanie Rodriguez, Roberto Hernandez, Shelbie Seys, Denise Harrison, Jennifer Barter, Doug Eaton, Dana Moss, Tammy Meisel, Kim Wolman, Kristen Kohler, Corie Opdyke, Catalina Bonilla, Howard Helbein, Irma Robinson, Mimi Reeves, Debbie Meitz, Susan Frezer, Andy Espy, Gracia Lopez, Michelle Palazzo, Jill Hanson, Raquel Alderman, Zachary Zweig, Chris Miller
  • Miami Tropical 5k – Dana Moss

Obstacle Course Saturday at One to One Fitness

This Saturday, February 4th at 8am, the folks at One to One Fitness are conducting a kids boot camp. For those of you who have kids in our Youth Running Program you know what fun the kids have on the obstacle course. Manny plans on holding the boot camp classes one Saturday per month and the cost of the class is $15 with each additional child in the family at $10/class. Bring your children out for a fun time while encouraging their fitness. It is open to children of all of our members. One to One Fitness is located at 5451 N University Dr # 101, Coral Springs, FL 33067 at the corner of Westview and University. The phone number is 954-796-7001 for further information.

Beach Run

YAY!! It’s that time of year again to run with cool ocean breezes and finish up with coffee, bagels, and your fellow members. We will be having our annual beach run on Saturday, February 11th at 530 am (the weekend before the A1A Half). We will leave from The Cove Shopping Center in Deerfield Beach. The course goes to Spanish River Park in Boca Raton and back to The Cove (10 miles round trip). You can turn around at any time. Coolers will be available at Palmetto and A1A and there are bathrooms available at the golf course about a mile up from there. NOTE: If you decide to run out west that weekend, coolers will not be available so please plan your hydration accordingly.

Garmin Free

Few things divide running opinion as much as technology used on the road. I declare my beliefs from the outset. I do not, and never will, understand why people run with music piped into their ears, even less so in a race!!!! Having never been bored or in need of diversion for one yard of the thousands of miles I have run, it is an utter mystery why runners pollute the serenity and meditative qualities of running with music. I love music. I listen to it often. Never when I run. A run is time when I think, debate or structure thoughts free of influence from an increasingly noisy world. It is meditation in motion for me.

There is one piece of technology I have always used, namely the Garmin or GPS watch. Interestingly, I when look back I recall using a simple Timex ‘Ironman’ wristwatch strapped diminutively to my arm. It did little more than tell the time. Imagine that!!!! I often ask: How did I ever cope without knowing my splits and pace? How did I complete runs with absolutely no awareness of such esoteric details as calories burned, ambient temperature, humidity or cadence? How indeed?

Interestingly, the minutiae springing readily from the generously priced and larger device now adorning my arm still re- mains something of a mystery while running. Why? Because the ravages of advancing age mean that one’s ability to actually SEE this cascade of vital information recede with the passing years. Presbymyopia is my new running companion.

Runners oft times are caught furtively squinting at their watches vainly stealing brief glimpses of precious, nay life changing and critical numbers, conveniently and luminously tattooed to their wrists. I am no exception, but I ask fellow runners to read my watch for me to salve my need for information. Do they wonder if I can actually read? No matter. My craving surmounts any level of embarrassment that might result When, I ask therefore, will Garmin produce the Senior Runners GPS device? We have needs. The market should deliver. There are many of us. We are waiting!!!

A situation recently befell me at a post run breakfast. I had not run that day as I am, sadly, nursing a knee ligament and cartilage injury. This Saturday morning, I joined two friends. Conversation ensued. The joy of a race completed was shared amid humorous excuses as to why they merely strolled and did not race. This made sense to me. At least, it did, until I was exposed to a horrifying admission, read on.

Initially I noted nothing unusual. Then. Quite unexpectedly. One of us, with a fleeting hand gesture, beckoned the others to draw close. Our heads convened semi secretly around the full circumference of the Diner table we occupied in a vain attempt to ensure that NO ONE in the bustling restaurant would notice we might be learning something truly awful, embarrassing and above all shameful. They all stared, it seemed – maybe straining to hear the prospective horror.

Our impending confessor looked both of us in the eye. To make a point, we assumed. Next, she took a slow, deep, calculated breath before speaking in a deliberately hushed tone. Her eyes dropped. She quietly uttered, ‘You know. Today was not at all fast, but I have to tell you, I did not wear a watch’.

We, the listeners, fell back. Aghast at what we had been exposed to. The restaurant may have let out gasps of disbelief. I could not tell. I was caught in a subtle shock zone. Quickly, no doubt, in an attempt to capitalize on the silence in which the victims of this battery a sacred runner’s tenet found themselves; she then added, with an apparent sense of relief,

‘I was running Garmin Free!!!!!!!!!!!!!’

That was it. The air raced out of the room. Garmin Free?

Now, nothing made sense. At all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mark Darley aka Britrunner

 

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We are back to a great week of cooler temperatures and hopefully that will pave the way for some fast times in Miami this weekend. Good luck to everyone who is running the half or full

Some race results to catch everyone up on. Congratulations to the following members on their accomplishments:

  • Boca 5k – Gabriel Malka
  • Vista View 360 – Howard Helbein
  • Key West Half Marathon – Joe Gonzalez
  • Naples Daily News Half Marathon – Andy Espy, Susan Frezer, Dana Moss, Lily Daly, Robin Campbell, Anne Bengtson, Melissa Lee, Andrew Lee, Ivan Rodriguez, Eric Beazley, Teresa Basilone, Manuela Corrales, Linda Diamond, Irma Robinson, Cliff Goldstein, Mike Muffs

Jay Goldstein
President
Northwest Broward Road Runners

FIT, FAST, FUN OR FAT!!!!!

What is in your running wallet? It is that time of year again when all manner of promises are made to re- build bodies or reclaim former glories after a holiday season in which much festive cheer is consumed, both in liquid form and as comestibles. We will, naturally, run for fine wine. We are, after all, runners. In saying that, what notes of caution must I sound? Read on…

FIT

We can be fit, stay fit and enjoy looking fit. As runners, we like to indulge in our favorite past time as a means of attaining and maintaining our fitness. Our social media overflows with stories of how we ‘fought the flab’ and, in some cases, almost lost a whole person in the determined effort to drop

weight and get moving. While it is widely known that running alone does not lead to weight loss, adding a good diet to our running endeavors does indeed see unwanted weight fall away. Some of us struggle, your writer included, with the siren call of a great glass of wine or a beer or four with friends, but for the more disciplined among us fitness is the holy grail striven for. Of course, even if we cannot hone ourselves down to a sylph like equivalent of our high school selves, we can, at least, look forward to our annual physical. This is where the Doctor or nurse asks us while casting an incredulous look in our direction having completed our vitals, ‘are you feeling alright?’. We respond with a slight smirk on our faces by saying, ‘Oh, I’m a runner!’. Enough said!!!!

FAST

If you follow all the rules of training well such as maintaining a great diet, using the correct post run recovery supplements from Sergio Yibrin, refusing to imbibe alcohol, being a gym rat and doing EXACTLY what Melissa Hinton tells you to do, you will become fast. Fast is something many in our club aspire to and achieve, others merely dream of and a few more, me included, lament as something we had in the past. Being fast is much cherished by many, but our club holds it in the same esteem as getting out there and entering race after race, come weather of all degrees of heat and humidity. NWBRRC celebrates the fact its members can run and take part……..we are proud of the fast but equally proud of the persistent. Each Saturday I have the ‘Speed Inc’ or just Joe Gonzales….Fast is good, but not the only thing as many will tell.

FUN

This brings me nicely around to the best part of being a runner and being part of NWBRRC, it is simply the best damn running club in the land and the most fun by a country mile or is that a holiday mile? Why? The answer is simple. Everyone who participates has a ‘bloody good time’ as we English say. Even if we are injured we often turn out on a Saturday just to be with our road friends. We have training buddies, road wives and husbands and training competitors to push us to new levels of achievement. Naturally this leads to the maxim: What happens on the road, stays on the road only to see that whole concept trashed by my Saturday Facebook post. You can’t hide in this club. Well, you can if you talk to me nicely. When all is said, and done, we enjoy what we do. We laugh, sweat, cry, cheer on and proclaim our happiness individually and for each other in races.

FAT

Of course, the alternative to all those early mornings, disgruntled spouses, abandoned kids and confused pets that never understand why you do not take them for a walk, is to form a close relationship with a sofa, pull up the candies and fester. I mean, get fat!!!!! The choice is clear. If you do not get off your rapidly spreading derriere and join a running club you will not impress your doctor and you won’t have nearly as much fun either. Filling your face with chocolate might sound like fun but the fact that so many of us pitch up on the early hours of a Saturday morning to plod or speed our way around Coral Springs and Parkland proves that there really is an alternative. We are the living proof. We have found the alternative and it lies amid the often moisture soaked, wee hours of the morning in the company of a few soggy friends. Oh, how we love it.

So, there it is. No real need to talk of New Year’s Resolutions. We do not need them, unless it involves a running goal we will stick to. Rather, we can simply keep on doing what we do. The year ahead will be filled with stories, training efforts and racing rewards; but above all we will have a heck of a lot of fun doing it because we are NWBRRC. We like to say ‘every runner counts !!!!’ To me that makes a lot of sense. Good luck to all of us in 2017.

Mark Darley aka Britrunner

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News You Can Use!

This is our first News You Can Use for the 2016/2017 membership year.  For all of you receiving this, from our sponsors, to our coaches, to our board of directors, to our members, thank you for continuing to support the best running club in South Florida.  Without you it just doesn’t work; plain and simple.  We are in the process of ordering shirts, lights, swag bags an will keep you informed as they become available.  In the mean time let’s congratulate the following members on their accomplishments:

  • Mermaid Day 5k: Sergio Yibirin (2nd PL M Overall), Melissa Schwartz (2nd PL F Overall), Gineth Mendez-Yibirin (1st PL F Master), Mark Darley (3rd PL M Master), Catalina Bonilla (1st PL AG), Tess Williams (1st PL AG), Irma Robinson ( 2nd PL AG)
  • King of the Hill 5k Challenge: Pam Aks (2nd PL AG), Mitch Dworet (3rd PL AG), Annika Dworet, Celia Blandon

Save the Date

On Thursday, October 6th, as the kickoff event to our seminar series this year, NWBRRC along with ONE TO ONE FITNESS , will be hosting “Self Defense for Runners”.  We had this program last year and it was extremely interesting as well as interactive.  We invite all who are interested in learning how to protect yourself on the run to attend..  Here is the address:  One To One Fitness. 5451 University Drive, Suite 101, Coral Springs, Fl. 33067.  The time is still to be determined.