Welcome to the NVRC Website!
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(3.3.6) The Nittany Valley Running Club web site is the place to go for information about races, running groups, running routes, training opportunities, email discussion groups, and pretty much everything having to do with running in Central Pennsylvania! It's a big site, so explore away. Our most popular pages are in the Quick Links on the right. If you want to connect to the local running community, join one of our email discussion groups, or visit us on Facebook or Twitter.
If you have any suggestions on how to make our web site easier to use, let us know! Email either This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with any problems you find.
For Current Local Running News and Discussion, Join Our Google Group!
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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.
Minutes of the December 3rd meeting of the NVRC
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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.
Thursday Track: On Hiatus
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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.
NVRC Supports 2019 United Way Day of Caring
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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
2018 Race Series Cup
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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.
Thursday Track: It's Been A Good Run
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October 10, 2019
The last few months have seen participation in Thursday Track workouts dwindle to less than a handful. Bwana has seen ebbs and flows before. There were times back in the late 90s and early 2000s when he would normally see from 25 to 30 runners. But back then we had the PSU outdoor track, which we lost the use of back in 2016. The IM Fields has been a workable substitute, but it’s not a track. Yet Bwana was still seeing 10 to 15 runners show up at the IM Fields last summer and fall. The loss of the use of the indoor track last winter was another blow to both our workouts and to attendance. And so the ebbs have been “ebbier”, so that even during this past summer, when we had the lunchtime use of the State High track, there were usually at most a few, and never more than ten runners present. Some of this has been due to runners finding better times or different venues for their desired workouts. People interested in track workouts can still use the State High track almost year-round during non-school hours, and Jaimie Wright leads a group that does workouts there at Oh-Dark-Thirty (i.e. 5:40 AM) on Wednesdays. Another group heads over to the flat trails along Spring Creek for some scenic speed workouts. (These are people who have a pretty loose lunchtime schedule!) And there there have occasionally been groups that go to the State High track for evening workouts while we still have the light. And don’t forget the “track-with-gravity” lunchtime Tuesday Hill Workouts led by Mike Zimmerman. If you're interested in any of these workouts, join our listserve (info here: http://nvrun.com/index.php/community/discussion).
So Bwana has decided to put Thursday Track on indefinite hiatus. Note that he used the present perfect continuous tense in the subject line. Thursday Track *has* been a good run, lasting over 25 years. And it may continue to be a good run, in the future, if there is a new upswing in interest. But for now, keep up your training with one of the other workouts our Club members lead. And, as always,…Keep Running!