Yahoo Listserve Being Phased Out - Join Our Google Group!

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Written by Martin Mazur Martin Mazur

In the last few months, after 15 years of reasonably good service, the Club has experienced numerous incidents of unreliable service from Yahoo in the administration of its main listserve hosted through Yahoo. The Yahoo Discussion Group "NVRC” has had the highest volume among among our listserves, and much of its correspondece is time-sensitive. We’ve experienced several days over the course of a few months when email was not pushed out to the group for 12 to 24 hours. This unreliable service was apparently widespread among Yahoo users globally. 

We have decided to move our main listserve to Google Groups. We will soon delete the Yahoo Group "NVRC". If you want to remain in touch with Club emails, you'll have to get a Gmail account and join the Google Group "Nittany Valley Running Club". To join, get a Gmail account if you don't already have one. It's pretty much like getting any other internet service like Hotmail, etc. It's free. You answer a few questions and you're in. Once you have a Gmail account, while signed in to your account, go to https://groups.google.com/. From there, search for the group "Nittany Valley Running Club", or click this link: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nvrun. Then click "Apply for membership". Fill in your preferences. [NOTE: In the "Apply to join" form, please use the text box there ("message to the manager") to say something about yourself. It helps us to weed out spammers.]  After the administrator approves you, you'll be in!

These instructions and more are here. 

NOTE: You do not have to be a dues-paying member of the NVRC to join our listserve, but we encourage you to join the Club!

We’ll keep the Yahoo Group open for a few more weeks during the transition and post some of our important correspondence to both places. But the Yahoo Group will be eliminated soon, so join the Google Group!

2018 Race Series Cup

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Written by Marty Mazur Marty Mazur

The 2017 Race Series is in the books. Final tallies can be found here. The 2018 Race Series is well underway. So far we've had 2 races in the Series: the FIrst Knight Resolution Run 5K and the Indoor Mile Series. More races are coming, so lace up! 

We'll have the 2018 tallies here as soon as they're available. If you spot an error, please contact Bob Shafer at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Check here for rules and here for the list of Series races. There are also numerous opportunities to earn Volunteer points: Helping out at NVRC races, at the NVRC/Centre Parks and Rec Youth Cross-Country Meets, Volunteer coaching with the Nittany Track and Field Youth Group, and donating blood at the NVRC Blood Drives, and many more. But to participate, you have to be an NVRC member to participate. Join the Club! More information on the Series is here.

Join the 2018 Marathoners For Medicine (M4M) Team

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Written by Jaimie Wright Jaimie Wright

Come be part of the 2018 Marathoners for Medicine team! If you are running a longish race this spring, please consider joining the team. We raise funds for Centre Volunteers in Medicine (CVIM), a local organization that provides free and/or discounted medical and dental care to our neighbors in Centre County who lack health insurance. The need is great, and there is no better time to combine your love for running with an opportunity to enable more of our neighbors to live healthier lives.

We request that you dedicate your race to CVIM, and then ask your family and friends to support you by making a donation to CVIM. You are not required to raise a minimum dollar amount -- every dollar counts, and every dollar you raise goes directly to providing services at CVIM. You'll help to make a difference in our community.

There will be a team photo on March 29 at noon at the Multisport Facility Indoor Track on campus (where the NVRC holds track workouts). Greg Fredericks will once again be serving as an honorary coach, and we are hoping to have Sue Paterno return. The photo will be taken before the Thursday track workout, so feel free to stay for the workout. Please come if you are able and wear your CVIM singlet if you have one. We will try to have a few extra on hand if you don't have one.

The M4M fundraising pages are now going up on the CVIM web site. If you can't run with M4M this year, please take a moment and donate to the cause in the name of one or more of the athletes!

 

For more information or to join the team, contact Jaimie at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

Thursday Track Report: Abandoned!

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Written by Bwana Bwana

April 12, 2018

It was an actual nice, mild, Spring day with partly sunny skies and temperatures in the 50s (climbing eventually to the 70s later in the day). A great day for the first official outdoor track workout of the season. So where was everybody? Last week, we had 15 people show up for an indoor workout. This week, only Adam Ilgen, David Lloyd, and Marty Mazur showed up at the IM Fields. Did Bwana not give a clear enough message last week about the change of venue? He hopes no one went to the MSF Indoor Track instead. Were people tapering for a coming Marathon? Only a few of the Crew are heading for Boston this weekend. Where’d everybody else go?

The IM Fields are in pretty good shape. The turf is firming up. No winter mud. The groundskeepers are aerating the soil in some spots, but that did not present a problem. They’re still in the process of repainting the lines for the coming year, but the faint remains of last year’s lines were enough of a guide. Bwana gave the NXU workout. The “U” is three sides of the rectangle that makes up the border of the IM Fields. (Two long sides and one short.) That distance is about 700 meters. Run each repetition at close to mile race pace. For a rest, do a loop of the perimeter of a smaller rectangle on the fields (plus an edge to get you back to the start), about a quarter mile. Do that N times. Today the Crew (or Trio) did N=4.

Good luck to all who are going to run the Boston Marathon on Monday. Hopefully, they’ll have some great stories to tell next Thursday…at the IM Fields!

Thursday Track: Track Venue Until Summer (REVISED 03/29)

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Written by Bwana Bwana

March 29, 2018

The Thursday Track Crew meets every Thursday at the Curtin-Burrowes entrance to Rec Hall at noon for a warm-up run to the Penn State track. You can run with the group from Rec Hall (about a mile-and-a-half warm-up). They leave around 12:10. Or meet at the track for the workout at about 12:25.

NOTE:  On April 5, we'll have our workout at the MSF Indoor Track due to the continuing blustery weather. As of April 12, we are moving Thursday Track to the IM Fields on the north side of Park Avenue just east of the Law School. In case of a return of abominable weather, Bwana will put out an email blast on the listserve announcing a temporary indoor hiatus at the MSF. Otherwise, we'll be at the IM Fields until June when we move to the State High track. 

April 19: We'll be indoors at the MSF due to the weather.

Minutes of the April 4th 2018 Meeting of the NVRC

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Written by Erika Christiansen Erika Christiansen

Board Meeting

Club officers present: Bob Shafer (president), Dave Eggler (treasurer), Marty Mazur (communications director), Erika Christiansen (secretary/archivist). Others present: Jake Clements and family, Cheryl Capone.

Membership Meeting:

Club officers present: Bob Shafer (president), Dave Eggler (treasurer), Marty Mazur (communications director), Erika Christiansen (secretary/archivist). Others present: David Lloyd, Jake Clements and family, Liz and Jim Kisenwether, Dave DeGroote , Rev. Carl Miller, Monica Mahoney, John Iceland, Mark Fedkin, Kim Gasper and family, Josh Cone and family, Katrina D’Anca, Cheryl Capone. A new member, new to State College: John Julius.

The officers discussed the proposed routes for the Arts Fest races. There will only be 2 races, 5K starting at 8:00 am and the10K starting at 8:15 am. The kids race will start at 9:30 am. This year, there will not be a 10 miler.

Josh Cone presented to the officers a request to look into purchasing an entry level new timing system, RFID. This request would be for smaller races with no more than 50/75 runners. Josh will send all the details of the proposal to David Eggler . The officers will look into the proposal.

Read more: Minutes of the April 4th 2018 Meeting of the NVRC