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What's New...
- Urayasu runners arriving December 2
- ORC/Orlando Runners Selected for Japan
- Race to Win updates posted - check out new
rules and
results
- FSU student needs your help for dissertation
Congratulations Seth!!!
Congratulations to ORC member Seth
Elsheimer on completing the Route 66 Marathon in Tulsa, OK this
Sunday, making him part of a elite group of runners that have completed
a marathon in all 50 states. Way to go!
FSU Grad Student Wants Your Opinion
Erika North, a grad student at FSU, is running a research project
(her dissertation) examining people's attitudes about exercise.
She's created an online survey to facilitate data collection and hopes
to gather information from exercisers across Florida.
If you'd like to help, click
here
to access the survey. It takes 5-10 minutes to complete and is
completely anonymous. If you have any questions about the survey
or research project, contact Erika.
Sunday Morning - Running for Covers
Thank you to everyone that joined us last Sunday morning and brought
blankets to benefit the
Coalition for the Homeless. We had about 40 runners and
collected around 100 blankets that will be delivered to the Coalition
this week.
Sunday morning runs continue, so come join this unique group of runners which meets
every Sunday morning at 7am on Park Avenue at Welbourne. Distances and
paces vary, but range from 5 to 11 or more miles. For more information, please
contact
Jack Gallagher.
Urayasu Exchange
The City of
Orlando/ORC selection committee is pleased to annouce that four runners
have been selected to parcipate in the Tokyo Bay Urayasu City Half Marathon in
February 2010 as part of our annual cultural exchange.
The selected runners are:
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Dave Berry
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Jason Johnson
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Melissa MacDonald
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Heather King
Congratulations to
our selected runners; we wish you safe and fun travels. If you
applied and were not selected, or missed the application deadline, watch
for information about the program next summer and plan to apply then.
For more
information on our cultural exchange program with Urayasu, Japan, click
here.
The URC created a blog to
help ORC and URC members keep in touch. To post a message or read
what others are talking about, check it out at
http://orcandurc.blogspot.com/.
RRCA Blog
Check out the RRCA North Florida
blog
site for upcoming events, RRCA information and other interesting running
news and websites. "It's everything you, an individual runner, or
a prospective club might have wanted to know about the North Florida
district, RRCA, or the myriad of events we have in Florida."
Volunteers Needed
The ORC has
apprentice positions open to work with the membership database
administrator and webmaster to learn the skills for these positions and
work towards taking over these responsibilities. If you are interested,
please send an email to
president@orlandorunnersclub.org.
ORC Race Into Summer 5K
Thank you to all of the participants and volunteers that helped make
the ORC 4th Annual
Race Into Summer 5K a huge success. We had yet another
record turn-out for the event and the post race party.
Many thanks to the local businesses that donated equipment, food,
gift certificates and other items - Track Shack,
Fleet Feet, EMMI, Panera Bread,
Publix, Mellow Mushroom, and
Pepperidge Farm/Billy Kovaly among
others.
Full
results are available
here.
ORC Club Competition
All 2008 - 2009 Challenge Series race
events have been run, and results have been tallied.
If you have any questions or corrections on the below results, please
contact Amy. For
more information on this fun club competition, click
here.
2008-2009 results:
Challenge Series -
Overall /
Age Group
Race to Win -
Overall (Competition ended
June 30)
ORC Group Runs
ORC Group Runs are held on
the
1st Tuesday and 3rd Thursday of each month. The first Tuesday run
starts from O'Boys BBQ in Winter Park at 7pm. The 3rd Thursday run
will rotate to different venues around Orlando.
Volunteers are
needed to host third Thursday runs throughout Orlando. If you'd like to
help coordinate a Thursday run in your area, please contact Michele by
email. Watch the Upcoming Events section or the
Calendar for details each month.
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