For Current Local Running News and Discussion, Join Our Google Group!

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Written by Martin Mazur Martin Mazur

In early 2018, we moved our email listserve to Google Groups due to unreliable service from our previous provider Yahoo. The Club listserve is where we keep you updated on coming events including races, group runs, meetings, and other activities. It's also a forum for discussing training programs, running health and injury prevention, and anything else of interest in the local running community. 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!

If you would like to join our Google Group, instructions and more are here. 

Marathoners For Medicine to Hold Kick-Off Dinner February 6

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Written by Jaimie Wright Jaimie Wright

Members of the 2019 M4M team at last year's kick-off dinner at CVIM

Be part of this year's Marathoners for Medicine team, and use your love of running to support Centre Volunteers in Medicine (CVIM), a community organization that provides free and discounted medical and dental care to low-income adults who live and work in Centre County and their families. While running is often a solitary activity, Marathoners for Medicine lets you use your love of running to benefit our community. The team has raised over $600,000 for CVIM to date.

Here's how it works: You sign up for any spring race (it doesn't have to be a marathon) and ask your friends and family to make a donation to CVIM. We do not require you to raise a minimum dollar amount, and every dollar that you raise goes directly to CVIM.

The kick-off dinner will be February 6 at 6:00 p.m. at CVIM (2520 Green Tech Dr unit d, State College, PA 16803). See firsthand the amazing work that the CVIM staff does and tour the clinic, as well as enjoy dinner and fellowship with your fellow runners and our honorary coach, Olympian Greg Fredericks.

To sign up and bring a dish to the potluck, click here: https://www.PerfectPotluck.com/KORZ4206

Contact Jaimie Wright at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with any questions. Hope to see you there!

Thursday Track: On Hiatus

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Written by Bwana Bwana

October 10, 2019

Thursday Track is on indefinite hiatus. See the article http://nvrun.com/index.php/training/running-groups/thursday-track/3811-thursday-track-it-s-been-a-good-run

If there is a new upswing in interest in starting a lunchtime speed workout at the IM Fields (with a summer home at the State High track), the workout may resume. For now, runners wishing a speed workout can take advantage of the regular Wednesday Early Morning Workouts (5:40 AM year-round when the track is clear of snow), the lunchtime Tuesday Hill Workouts, or occasional evening workouts at the State High track. If you're interested in any of these workouts, subscribe to our email list (info here: http://nvrun.com/index.php/community/discussion) to get the latest times, and the meeting place for the Tuesday hill workout.

Minutes of the December 3rd meeting of the NVRC

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Written by Erika Christiansen Erika Christiansen

Board meeting

Club officers present: Bob Shafer (president), David Eggler (treasure),Marty Mazur (communications director, Marty Klanchar (membership director), Erika Christiansen (secretary / archivist).

The officers agreed to donate $200 to Miles for Smiles an annual 46-hour treadmill running event, organized by the Penn State Club Cross Country Team. All proceeds support THON, which helps families affected by childhood cancer. At this event, club members run on a treadmill for hour or half-hour shifts, one after the other, for 46 hours total. 

Read more: Minutes of the December 3rd meeting of the NVRC

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.

NVRC Supports 2019 United Way Day of Caring

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Written by Martin Mazur Martin Mazur

The 2019 United Way Day of Caring brought crews totaling 65 volunteers to the jogging/walking/biking trail adjacent to the Penn State Golf Courses to clear brush from wooded parts of the trail. The trail has been a Centre County United Way Day of Caring project each year from 2011-2019. Joe Hughes--Penn State Golf Courses PGA General Manager, Liz & Jim Kisenwether, and Cheree Jones coordinated the project.

This year's volunteers: The Penn State University men's lacrosse team, State College Borough employees, Joe Hughes--Penn State Golf Courses PGA General Manager, Liz Kisenwether--KidTech, Inc., Jim Kisenwether, Cheree Jones, and several individuals worked tirelessly to clear brush and make the trail safer.

The Nittany Valley Running Club, as usual, chipped in for food and drinks (lunch).

Here are some photo highlights of the day.

State College Borough Volunteers and Liz Kisenwether

Volunteers from the Penn State Lacrosse team

Read more: NVRC Supports 2019 United Way Day of Caring