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:

• Dave Berry

• Jason Johnson

• Melissa MacDonald

• 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.

"The race is not always to the swift, but to the one who keeps on running."

--anonymous

Upcoming Races

• Seniors First Turkey Trot - November 26

• OUC Half Marathon - December 5

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To join the ORC, simply complete and mail in your Membership Application or click here to register online. 

Upcoming ORC Events

• Dec 1 - Group Run  - Join us the 1st Tuesday of each month for a group fun run (course map).  Meet at 7:00 pm at O'Boys BBQ, 565 W. Fairbanks Ave in Winter Park. (directions)

• Dec 2 - Urayasu Runners' Welcome Party, Anthony's Pizza, Thornton Park, 7pm

• Dec 4 - Pre-Race Pasta Party, 6:30pm, Brio, Winter Park

• Dec 5 - ORC Christmas Party, 6:30pm, Seth & Janice Elsheimer's home

• Dec 17 - ORC Group Run, tbd

Suggestions/Events?  If you have suggestions for the website or events you would like included, please email the webmaster.

Have news to share?  Check out the ORC Footnotes page for interesting information about the Club and its members.  If you have news to share, please email the webmaster.

Going somewhere?  If you are planning to run in an out of town race - let us know!  We encourage members to post (here) out of town races they will be participating in.  If you'd like to find out places to get a great pre-race pasta dinner, course info, or travel with other members of the Club, this is the place to start.  Email the webmaster with the race name, location, who will be attending and the date.

"Runners' Corner"  If you are an ORC member, send a note to the e-Letter editor to post or find a neighborhood run.  We'll publish your scheduled run in the next newsletter, or post a notice you are looking for a running partner.  Be sure to include the day/time of your run, location, distance and a way to contact you.  Regular neighborhood runs will also be posted on the Training Partners page of the website.

Rules to Run By - Courtesy of Florida East Coast Runners.  This is a fun read with some good points.

Have an injury or fitness question?  Ask the professional at ProFormPT

Click here to send a question to Ed Dullmeyer, PT, MBA, OCS, CSCS - Board Certified Specialist in Orthopaedics

Donations

The Orlando Runners Club is a non-profit corporation under the laws of Florida.  To make a tax deductible contribution, please click here.

Road Runners Club of America

The Road Runners Club of America is the national association of running clubs, running events, and runners dedicated to promoting long distance running as a competitive sport and as healthful exercise.  RRCA's mission is to represent and promote the common interest of its member clubs, events, and individual runners through education, leadership, programs and other services.  The Orlando Runners Club is a member club of the RRCA.  For more info, click here.

ORC Apparel Now Available

The ORC is happy to announce that we now have ORC shirts available for sale to our members.  Shirts are available in men's and women's cuts in sizes ranging from small to XL.  All shirts are $15 and will be delivered upon receipt of your order.  Shirts are made from a technical fabric from Sports Science^TM and have the ORC logo fusion printed on the front.  For more details, click here.