Racing Updates

• HUGE Congratulations to all the UVRC Racers who came to run the Shaker 7! Y’all crushed it out there earning the club over 1,000 points if my math is correct! Specific shoutouts to Gunner Currier, Pam Moore, and Dan Shea for snagging the big points! 
• The next NHGP race is the Run for Freedom (July 4th) which is also the same day as the next UVRS Race the Red, White, and Blue 6.2 and 5k. Decisions, decisions. 
• Road races not your thing? Hurricane Hill is just around the corner (20 July) and is sure to satisfy your trail racing cravings
• Coming up in August us a new entry in the UVRS put on by one of our own members! The Triple Dam 10K (25 Aug)
• Congratulations to the graduates of our Spring 2024 Couch to 5k Session! They completed the Lace up for Laura 5k June 29th AND won the award for the “Most Laces” aka the largest club! Congratulations all! I hope you will keep your progress going! 

Club Announcements

Local Resources: Our good friends at Ciofreddi and Associates (Physical Therapy and Wellness) want to remind our members that they provide a multitude of services specifically for runners and athletes beyond physical therapy, such as their VO2 Max testing service (see attached flier). VO2 Max is a critical aspect of optimizing your running performance and essentially is understanding how fast you can get oxygen to where it needs to go in your body while working out and get CO2 out of there. They gave a great seminar on running performance and endurance training that is available on their website here and is a great watch if you want to learn more about how you can train smarter! UVRC has a long history with Ciofreddi’s and they’ve done amazing work in keeping our runners injury free and helping them recover so we highly recommend them! 

Tuesday Night Track: We are on for our summer schedule which means that effective immediately we will be on the Dartmouth Track @ 530! The entrance is in the Northwest corner closer to the baseball fields. And we will be there come rain or shine! 

Summer Runner’s Night Outs: Every Second Tuesday of the month we head over to Hanover Ramuntos for free pizza on the club! Come hang out with your pal’s after Tuesday Night Track, and eat FREE PIZZA!

• July 9th
• August 13th
• September 10th

Saturday Morning Runs: REMEMBER! Saturday morning runs will be at 0800AM instead of 9AM to beat some of the summer heat.  We will meet in front of Omer and Bobs for a chiller social run. People break out into groups based on pace and route and head off. Afterwards we meet on the Leb Green for baked goods or head over to Lucky’s Coffee for some breakfast!

Volunteer Opportunities

In case you missed it we’re doing a 2024 UVRC VOLUNTEER CHALLENGE see the March Newsletter for full details! 

Upcoming opportunities include

• The VT100 needs people to sponsor an aid station from the 1600(Sat Jul 20)–1000(Sun Jul 21) shifts. It’ll take a whole crew to help staff and i’m sure they’d be happy to take a few or as many volunteers as we can manage! Reach out to uppervalleyrunningclub@gmail.com to get connected with the volunteer coordinator!
• The Reach the Beach Relay (Sept 13-14) needs volunteers at the following aid stations
• Cannon Mountain, Franconia NH
• Whales Tale Water Park, Lincoln, NH
• Clark's Bears, Lincoln, NH
• Webster Park, Epsom, NH
• Bear Brook State Park, Allenstown, NH
• Henry Moore School, Candia, NH
• Tuck Learning Campus, Exeter, NH
• North Hampton School, North Hampton NH 

Reach out to uppervalleyrunningclub@gmail.com to get connected with the volunteer coordinator!

Club Discounts: 

• We are entering a partnership with Eastern Mountain Sports, another one of your local sporting good suppliers! As part of this partnership they have provided us with a coupon that is usable online and instore. A great time to grab some summer camping gear or a new pair of trail shoes! The coupon is attached to this Newsletter and can be canned in store from your phone or you can take the numbers and use it online!
• Also it has come to my attention that we as a club have had discounts at Running Warehouse (apparently we have for a while, whoops!) Let’s make up for lost time with some running gear discounts! Use the following code: AU33ER6 at checkout for the following discounts
• 20% Off*
• Clothing
• Socks
• 10% Off*
• Select Clearance Shoes
• Nutrition
• Hats & Visors

Local Club Spotlight

If you’re looking to get some running surface diversity in this summer, hang out with cool people, and spend time in nature than the Lebanon Trail Club has got you covered! 

Started by recent Upper Valley resident Elizabeth McGurk, the club is a great group of likeminded trail runners that are blazing the trails of the Upper Valley. 

Elizabeth had this to say about the club:

“I'm a mountain/ultra runner; I moved to the Upper Valley last summer. I wanted to bring the local trail community together and get to know people up here so I started LTC (Lebanon Trail Club). It's a very low-key, informal "club" by design: I wanted it to feel as accessible and low-pressure as possible. The #1 goal of LTC is to connect and foster community.

We meet every Wednesday at the Boston Lot DHMC trailhead at 6pm for 6ish miles, and the loop changes week to week. In general, it's usually 6+ miles with 800-1000 feet of gain depending on where we go. We keep it casual, waiting at junctions for the whole group and these days there's always a mid-run swim in there somewhere. It's been a ton of fun and a great way to get to know the trail community here.”

If you’re interested in joining their runs, give them a follow on Strava here: https://www.strava.com/clubs/1188083