From a pretty early age I recognized that all adventure stories (Treasure Island, The Call of the Wild) started by going through the door and getting out of the house. And in a great many of them (Narnia, The Hobbit) that ment walking. Usually a long ways. Hiking was clearly the simplest rout to adventure […]
Hello, UVRC! While we might see a few more flakes fall before we put away all of our cold weather gear, I still think it’s safe to say that spring has sprung! As I have come to learn in this, my third spring in the Upper Valley, the official kick-off to the season has nothing
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Congratulations to everyone who ran the Lebanon Shamrock Shuffle 5K on March 15th, the 2nd race in the Upper Valley Running Series (UVRS)! 119 UVRC finishers, according to my calculations: Wow! Photo: Sean, Geoff, and Dan at the Shuffle The April race in the UVRS is the Lake Morey Icebreaker 5M on April 6: https://runsignup.com/Race/VT/Fairlee/LakeMorey5Miler
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Goals Goal Description Completed? A sub 2:20 (7:00/mi pace) No B sub 2:30 (7:30/mi pace) Yes C don’t bonk (and have to walk) Yes D finish Yes Training I’ve been training for the REVEL white mountain marathon in may, but as a somewhat new “serious” runner — and by “serious” I mean entirely “someone who
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This poem was written while on a run that I dragged myself out for, as the title hints, at night. Since I have such easy access to the treadmill, it’s become the default for any situations that require even a modicum of mental effort to convince myself to run outside. Raindrops in the sky? Treadmill.
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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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