Club News

By: Laurie Franklin Looking for something to do on Saturday morning besides sleeping in? Twenty-three people now show up at the Seminary Hill gym at 0800 for an hour-long bootcamp session. They seem to be having fun—and they keep coming back—so I’d call that a win. This group grew out of a need to bridge Couch to 5K enthusiasm with a winter activity that kept us active and ready for spring running. While running in the snow sounds appealing (NOT), many of us prefer indoor strength and core work. Keri created a fantastic Couch to Core program and handed it…

By Tim Smith It is hard to believe that it has been a whole month since I put pen to parchment and sent a missive off to the upper valley.   I was out recently with Running Club North, for their Wednesday night, “Fahrenheit Be Darned” run and was thinking about how much light we now have because, well — Spring is coming.  Despite the temperature displayed at the entrance to the University of Alaska campus. (There is something in Fairbanks called the “Forty Club”.  Stand in front of this sign when it is -40F, in a bathing suit, and have…

Ryan in Florida, the rest of us in New Hampshire It’s Jan. 25th — 0 degree F. It’s chilly. Quite frigid. Too cold to run, some might say. And yet for one member of our motley UVRC crew, it is actually quite balmy. Ryan has made the calculated—some might say informed—decision to run in Florida. He is living it up in the sunny beachside roads of Clearwater, palm trees abound, soaking in the lovely weather on his half-marathon along the coast. He has left the rest of us—Jim, Sean and I—to fend for ourselves in the dastardly cold temps of…