MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS LAST CHANCE TO STAY ON THE EMAIL LIST! We will be updating our email list this month. Be sure your membership is renewed for 2025 so you can continue to receive emails about group runs, club discounts, social events, and more! You can register HERE on the Lebanon Recreation, Arts, and Parks website. […]
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The 2025 Upper Valley Running Series (UVRS) is underway! The first race in the series was the RedZone 5K in Wilder VT. Congratulations to all of the UVRC participants; race results are here and photos can be found below. We’re working on UVRS standings, but not urgently since we’re so early in the season. Stay
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The Chicago Hustle is a stair climb up what used to be called the John Hancock Center in Chicago. This building was renamed a few years ago, and technically it is no longer called the Hancock. The annual stair climb was also renamed when the Hancock building lost its real name, going from Hustle up
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Chapter drafts continued and subject to change. 3. The Chimes It’s dark. The Old Meeting House bell is chiming – one…two…three…four…five…six… Time to get up. Stoney pulls back the covers, plants his bare feet on the chilly pine floor, steadies himself, takes three cautious steps toward the bathroom door thinking, Did I hear the chimes
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UVRC Runners, This offering is a sampling from a fictional novel I am in the process of writing entitled, The Winds of Change. It’s a story about running for runners. Below, I have included the drafts of the Prologue and the first two chapters entitled, 1. El Amuleto and 2. A Sacred Place. In the
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There is no competition. The greatest running book of all time is “Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World has Never Seen” by Christopher McDougall. Isolated by Mexico’s deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In
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“Here we, in our impatience of the steps, Get back to the beginning of beginnings, The stream of everything that runs away.” -Robert Frost, “West Running Brook” One of Robert Frost’s most complicated poems (and title of his 5th anthology of poetry) is West Running Brook. It is a poem inspired by West Running Brook
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Well, UVRC, we did it. We made it through all 479 days of January. I don’t know about you, but last month seemed to move quickly initially, and then ddddddrrrraaaaggggged on for the last week or so. But, alas, I finally turned the page on our calendars, and it’s beginning to show. A few nights
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MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS It’s that time of year again! We’re gearing up for 2025 and registration for the club is now open! You can register HERE on the Lebanon Recreation, Arts, and Parks website. You’ll see a tab for UVRC & Running, from there you can choose 2025 UVRC Membership (either individual or family rate). You’ll
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The Upper Valley Running Series (UVRS) is a series of existing road races in the Upper Valley. The goal is to encourage participation and competition in Upper Valley road races, with recognition for finishing and performance. Participation in the series road races, and membership in the club (UVRC), qualifies a runner in the series. Registration
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