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Re: [Brickyarders] 5K in the dark!

Rose,

Congrats. I bet your "cold" weather isn't as bad as our "cold". Good that you're running a lot down there.

Mike

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Team Primal Force <teamprimalforce@gmail.com> wrote:

I survived my 5K run in the dark. I think I did about 29 minutes and 30 seconds, something like that  I am not sure exactly. It would have been really nice if it was in the morning. It was so big it reminded me of Manchester Road Race. It was really cold for the first time since I've been here. It was freezing, but when I was running I was fine. It is going to be cold for couple days and then it is going to be warm again. I did not take too many pictures because it was dark. Have a good run tomorrow I will talk to you later. Rose ...

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Posted By Team Primal Force to Brickyarders at 12/21/2012 10:46:00 PM

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Michael C. Taricani

Burlington, CT
Cell: 1-860-630-0260

5K in the dark!

I survived my 5K run in the dark. I think I did about 29 minutes and 30 seconds, something like that  I am not sure exactly. It would have been really nice if it was in the morning. It was so big it reminded me of Manchester Road Race. It was really cold for the first time since I've been here. It was freezing, but when I was running I was fine. It is going to be cold for couple days and then it is going to be warm again. I did not take too many pictures because it was dark. Have a good run tomorrow I will talk to you later. Rose ...

This weekend

Well, it's the end of the race season. Goodbye '12. Hello '13. Christmas is around the corner. We'll all be celebrating in our own way, with our family and friends. Many will be traveling.

It's a non-race weekend. Tracy, Lynda and Lee will join 100+ others and run 12 miles from Roxbury to Newtown. Brent will go real long at Brickyard. Linda will hang out at home, wrapping, packing and getting ready to head out to Watkins Glen.

Next "races" I know about are Jan 1 (Joe Vailonis) and a 5K down in Guilford on the same day (Brent's doing this).

Whatever you're up to this Saturday, do it with a friend.

Merry Christmas!

Lee

If you click on the pie you'll see a post on a blog that a friend of my sister-in-law wrote. It talks about what she did for Newtown.

Sandy Hook Elementary School Benefit Run

Several Brickyarders (Tracy, Lynda, Lee so far) will be running this instead of Brickyard this Saturday. More to follow but this is what we know right now. People are volunteering to provide rides back to Roxbury from Newtown.

Saturday, December 22, 2012
8:30am
Hurlburt Park, 16 Apple Lane in Roxbury, CT

We will be running a little over 12 miles from Roxbury to Sandy Hook Elementary School to honor and pay our respects to the victims of the shooting. We will be donating as a group to a charity/fund to be determined that is associated with helping out the affected families. Even if you can't make it, please send your donations to my paypal account at bvjic@aol.com. You will be recognized! We are asking everyone to donate $20 (or more if you like). Please watch the Roxbury Races Facebook site for more details in the coming days. Thank you!

Roxbury Races Benefit Run to Sandy Hook - December 22

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to spread the word.  This is where I'll be running on Sat.

Tray

http://www.facebook.com/events/449772535079554/

Monday

Norfolk Pub 10 Miler

A somber start by RD Will Graustein who asked us to be silent for the children, parents, teachers and residents of Newtown, Connecticut.

The temp was cold but not as cold as last year. The sky was clear and blue.

For all Linda's pictures, please click

http://primepuzzle.com/tpf/norfolk-2012.html

Here's Tray and Will Graustein at the awards ceremony.

Will Will Upgrade His Awards?

I'm hoping Will Graustein will upgrade his PEZ dispensers to something like this ...

 

Re: Saturday

Yeah. I'm not sure what time but Brent is definitely running and I'm pretty sure Mike will join him. Brent is going quite long (19+) and I imagine Mike will run less. I'll put something up tomorrow so check the blog Friday nite. Tracy, Lani and I are racing Roxbury 10 miler Saturday. One of these days ... I'll run w/ you :-) . Racing season ends this weekend and it'll settle down to more Brickyard stuff / HTC Winter Series runs etc.

Anybody reading this on the blog, please comment so Lynda and others who are looking for a Brickyard run will hook up. I'm thinking 7 AM would be good.

Lee

On 12/13/2012 7:55 PM, Lynda Jaeger wrote:
> Hey Lee,
> Anyone running Saturday morning at Brickyard?
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> Lynda

Bring back the mile and 5K

Was an amazing event. Fast college runners, masters, some kids and even a coach or two. Plenty of room for everyone in the races and a comfortable track. Appeared to be remarkably well organized. Hope they have more. Good event for a Sunday evening.

More Roxbury pix!

These pictures were culled by Mike Taricani from the Roxbury site. Thanks Mike! Are we awesome or what?

Sandy Claws Beach Run - Siesta Key 5K

And while 100 or so of us were running in overcast, humid, cold, hilly yada yada yada, Ms Rose was on the sands of the Siesta Key 5K.

Congratulations Rose!

Roxbury Marathon 2012

 

 Mike Taricani

Well, another marathon in the bag. Where do we start? Gotta be w/ Tracy. She actually was so excited she thought w/ maybe a loop to go she might pull off a sub-4. I never saw her for about the first 15 miles but then this chick comes up and says something about "Lee, you should have ... by now" (I'm unable to remember her exact words). Anyway we then ran quite a bit together. She said something about "This course is harder than I remember it." Maybe 2 miles passed and it became clear it was her day so I told her "You got me today, Tray. Go have fun." As time passed, the lady in black got smaller and smaller and finally disappeared.

4:06:30.

Before all this I had a great guy to run with. Neil Mandel. He completes marathons in front of me by a fair amount on a regular basis so it was really fun running with him for probably 10 miles. He eventually did what Tracy did "to me," and went on ahead.

The water stop (beer stop!) and traffic / go this way volunteers were excellent. You got to know them well and you passed by each group 5 times. Oh, must not forget to mention the very beautiful out and back at the beginning. 4 miles down hill. And of course 4 miles up hill. The rock ledges on the right going out and the river view on the right coming back were unbelievably beautiful.

Brent decided the initial 8 plus two loops of 3.5 were enuf and decided to hang out w/ photographer LBrad. His friend Bill Varhue finished around 4 hours I think.

I ran 4:15. Happy with it. The last two loops were a bit tough. I became a little tired and my stomach felt a little not too good. I didn't even want to eat the candy bar Linda gave me at the beginning of loop 4. Both Mike and I haven't exactly had the best possible training opportunities and both of us were still digesting antibios. So I slowed considerably, especially on the last loop. Oh, did I mention the ratio of my number of completed marathons to my age now is greater than 1 for the first time? That's geek talk for the fact that 71/70 = 1.0142857142857142857142857142857, plus or minus.

Which leaves our very own Mr. Mike who broke 5 hours by 8 minutes. His slowest ever but you know what? I think he'll take it. He finished, he was unable to train properly and this course is big time hilly.

Emmy Stocker and Frank Colella attended, completed. Emmy clocked 9 minute miles in the last two loops! She told me she wanted to go back to bed when she arrived. So, slow start, fast finish. Frank is suffering from some weird leg problem called compacted something or other and has not run much since June. It's amazing he finished. Don't know their times.

Enuf talk. Let's get to the good stuff. Linda's pix. Check this out.

http://primepuzzle.com/tpf/roxbury-2012.html

All the best at Roxbury

Gads, Roxbury looks seriously hilly, all the best to the intrepid Brickyarders. How do people survive the steep downhills ?

Re: [Brickyarders] Santa's Run - 3.5 mile - 12/2/2012

I know a lot of the Brickyard crew is running a race next Sunday but
is there anyone available to run with me on Saturday? I have just
signed up for the Colchester half and need to start increasing my
mileage. I would like to go 8-10 on Saturday. I'm available anytime.
Lynda



On 12/3/12, Team Primal Force <teamprimalforce@gmail.com> wrote:
> Santa's Run - 3.5 mile - 12/2/2012
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> http://www.coolrunning.com/results/12/ct/Dec2_Santas_set3.shtml
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> 1424 ran!
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> To show you how competitive this race is, my friend Mark Turkington (68)
> ran a 7:31 pace and placed 8/48!
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> 190 1067 Mark Turkington 26:19 7:31 BOLTON CT 169/703 M 8/48 M6069 68
>
> Barbara Kream just missed placing by 1 (thanks to Flo, see below :))
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> 449 1074 Barbara Kream 30:28 8:43 AVON CT 114/716 F 4/24 F6069 64
>
> Flo Dickie grabbbed 3rd.
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> 298 191 Florence Dickie 28:25 8:08 NEWINGTON CT 50/716 F 3/24 F6069 63
>
> Paul must've been on holiday ...
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> 382 190 Paul Dickie 29:47 8:31 NEWINGTON CT 297/703 M 43/104 M5059 59
>
> Dave Condit was in that really tough division along w/ Mark and, with a
> phenominally good pace, like his wife, just missed placing by 1!
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> 118 1075 David Condit 24:34 7:02 AVON CT 113/703 M 4/48 M6069 64
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> Lee
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> Posted By Team Primal Force to Brickyarders at 12/03/2012 08:38:00 AM
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Santa's Run - 3.5 mile - 12/2/2012

Santa's Run - 3.5 mile - 12/2/2012

http://www.coolrunning.com/results/12/ct/Dec2_Santas_set3.shtml

1424 ran!

To show you how competitive this race is, my friend Mark Turkington (68) ran a 7:31 pace and placed 8/48!

190 1067 Mark Turkington 26:19 7:31 BOLTON CT 169/703 M 8/48 M6069 68

Barbara Kream just missed placing by 1 (thanks to Flo, see below :))

449 1074 Barbara Kream 30:28 8:43 AVON CT 114/716 F 4/24 F6069 64

Flo Dickie grabbbed 3rd.

298 191 Florence Dickie 28:25 8:08 NEWINGTON CT 50/716 F 3/24 F6069 63

Paul must've been on holiday ...

382 190 Paul Dickie 29:47 8:31 NEWINGTON CT 297/703 M 43/104 M5059  59

Dave Condit was in that really tough division along w/ Mark and, with a phenominally good pace, like his wife, just missed placing by 1!

118 1075 David Condit 24:34 7:02 AVON CT 113/703 M 4/48 M6069 64

Lee

RE: [Brickyarders] Mitten!

PS that's a good luck to everyone running Roxbury, Norfolk ect. And also Congrats to our Tinsel Runners! 

Lani 

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Subject: [Brickyarders] Mitten!
From: Team Primal Force <teamprimalforce@gmail.com>
To: laniralston@msn.com
CC:



Lani sends us the following:

Brickyarders Everywhere! Judy nice to see you this morning! Rose we miss you, come back soon. Lee good luck at Roxbury, see you in Norfolk.

Judi placed 1st in her division and Lani ran 22:41. Full results at 

http://results.bazumedia.com/event/results/event/event-2371 

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Posted By Team Primal Force to Brickyarders at 12/02/2012 02:02:00 PM

More Mitten!

Sandra Arguelles ran Mitten

5 minutes quicker 

this year than last. Do the math. That's HUGE.

Mitten!

Lani sends us the following:

Brickyarders Everywhere! Judy nice to see you this morning! Rose we miss you, come back soon. Lee good luck at Roxbury, see you in Norfolk.

Judi placed 1st in her division and Lani ran 22:41. Full results at 

http://results.bazumedia.com/event/results/event/event-2371 

Re: [Brickyarders] Tinsel Fun Run

Yayyyyyu Brickyarders! Well done everyone!! 

Sandra

On Dec 1, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Team Primal Force <teamprimalforce@gmail.com> wrote:

Brickyarders showed up in force this morning at the Tinsel Fun Run. Mike Taricani, fresh from a 7 mile or so warm up that included 4 w/ Lynda Jaeger came, fully Santa compliant.

 

Results below truncate on Mike but I know what he did: 17 minutes flat. He's off to NYC this afternoon w/ his wife and grandkids (I think) to catch the Rockefeller Center scene.

Tracy performed as I was sure she would, collecting her 2nd trophy from this race and her third overall. Her trophy cabinet's top shelf is pretty much overloaded, noticeably warped in the middle from the weight and in need of replacement. She left Bradley in the dust, trailed Slackin' by not much and showed us that ultrarunners can't be discounted in short races. She writes "So this Brooke chick beat me last year too.  But last year, she slaughtered me.  This year she only beat me by 11 sec.  Guess it wasn't a good day for her.   Next year, she's going down!"

Tracy ran  15:08 (7:34)

Brent ran 14:22 (7:11), faster by a lot than all other Brickyarders. He missed 3rd place by 9 seconds. Extremely well done Brent.

Lee played clean-up today. Couldn't catch anybody. Fortunately, being ancient helped. William Gagnon, 76, one of the founding members of the Hartford Track Club, was behind him. There was one other guy in the 70+ group.

That's Bill next to Eskimo girl.

Veteran Jeannette Cyr picked up hardware today.

Here's today's Rose between two Thorns.

Well done everybody! Thanks Linda for taking the pictures. For four of us, Roxbury, 7 days. See some of you at Brickyard tomorrow at 7:30 AM for about 12 easy miles. Stay healthy, happy, positive, up, close.

Lee

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Posted By Team Primal Force to Brickyarders at 12/01/2012 02:27:00 PM

Tinsel Fun Run

Brickyarders showed up in force this morning at the Tinsel Fun Run. Mike Taricani, fresh from a 7 mile or so warm up that included 4 w/ Lynda Jaeger came, fully Santa compliant.

 

Results below truncate on Mike but I know what he did: 17 minutes flat. He's off to NYC this afternoon w/ his wife and grandkids (I think) to catch the Rockefeller Center scene.

Tracy performed as I was sure she would, collecting her 2nd trophy from this race and her third overall. Her trophy cabinet's top shelf is pretty much overloaded, noticeably warped in the middle from the weight and in need of replacement. She left Bradley in the dust, trailed Slackin' by not much and showed us that ultrarunners can't be discounted in short races. She writes "So this Brooke chick beat me last year too.  But last year, she slaughtered me.  This year she only beat me by 11 sec.  Guess it wasn't a good day for her.   Next year, she's going down!"

Tracy ran  15:08 (7:34)

Brent ran 14:22 (7:11), faster by a lot than all other Brickyarders. He missed 3rd place by 9 seconds. Extremely well done Brent.

Lee played clean-up today. Couldn't catch anybody. Fortunately, being ancient helped. William Gagnon, 76, one of the founding members of the Hartford Track Club, was behind him. There was one other guy in the 70+ group.

That's Bill next to Eskimo girl.

Veteran Jeannette Cyr picked up hardware today.

Here's today's Rose between two Thorns.

Well done everybody! Thanks Linda for taking the pictures. For four of us, Roxbury, 7 days. See some of you at Brickyard tomorrow at 7:30 AM for about 12 easy miles. Stay healthy, happy, positive, up, close.

Lee