Your Chicago
Marathon Results!
If you ran the Chicago Marathon please contact Carlos
Viramontes at wings26.2@comcast.net and let him know so we
can add your results to our circuit listing. This will greatly
reduce the amount of time it takes to filter through all the
finisher names. Thanks!
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2009 FRTR Circuit Results to
Date
Click here to go
to the website to see club circuit results to date.
If you ran a race and your results aren't listed, please
send your finish time, along with your name and the name of
the race to Carlos Viramontes at wings26.2@comcast.net.
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Weekly Training Runs
Wednesday Evenings
6 p.m.
Meet at the north side parking lot of 5th/3rd
Bank, 165 W. Wilson Street,
Batavia.
Saturday
Mornings
8 a.m.
Fox River Bike
Trail South of IL 38 at RR Bridge. For a map, click here.
Saturday Mornings
7 a.m.Meet at the 3.1 mile
mark of the Great Western trail - across the street from the
McDonald's in Wasco on Route 64. Parking is available at this
location. Please check the website as the location of the
Saturday morning 7 am run will likely change once the trail is
too snowy. Click
here to view info on the FRTR
website regarding this group run.
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Club
Officers
Tom Spadafora, President
Tom Jurgens, Vice
President
Tom
Dieter, Treasurer
Jennifer
Zuri, Secretary
Directors
Jennifer Zuri
Foxtales Editor
Lesley Chermansky
Membership Director Gillian Leananh
Education/Social Events
Dave
Helmick
Great Western Half Marathon Race Director
Jon
Burmeister
Viking Sunset
Race Director
Tom Jurgens
Fox &
Turkey
Race Director
Roger
Schellenberger
Beginner Runner
Program
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| Dear
Member,
You are receiving this email as a
member of the Fox River Trail Runners, or you may have
signed up for this newsletter from our web site. If you
are receiving this from a forwarded email and would like
to join this list, you go to www.foxrivertrailrunners.org. Also, please keep us informed of any changes to
your email address so that we can be sure you are
getting all club communications. For any email
address changes, email Tom Spadafora.
Please add jzuri@mchsi.com to your list of "Safe
Senders."
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| Word
from the Editor ~
Feelin' a Little Lost
By Jennifer Zuri
 It always seems to me that November signals
the end of racing season ... not running season, mind
you ... just racing season. And so I
find myself looking back on this year with a bit of
contemplation for this was the year I struggled with the
choice not to run a marathon in the fall. My main reason
being that I didn't want to risk getting an injury
before Boston rolls around in April 2010. I also didn't
want to be burnt out from training just to turn around
and do it all again in time for
April.
While I felt relieved over the
decision, I found myself kind of floundering around with how to train. My
personal philosophy is that I should run enough weekly
miles so that the only
race I ever really have to train for is a marathon. This
training philosophy allows me to pick up any race,
5k to a half marathon,
at a moment's notice.
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| Important News about Fox and Turkey
New Date: Thanksgiving
Day, November
26th
 This year's Fox and Turkey 4-mile and 1-mile
race will is this Thanksgiving Day, November 26th!
Please make note of it on your racing
calendars.
This year's race will be a regular
chip-timed race as opposed to a predictor race. We're
hoping the move to Thanksgiving Day will increase
participation. Many runners enjoy a Thanksgiving race
after popping the turkey into the oven. But without a
Thanksgiving race in the tri-cities area, it can pose a
problem driving some distance to a race and getting back
in time to finish dinner preparations.
The race course is the same as
previous years. For more information about this year's
race, visit our
website.
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Fox and Turkey Volunteer Help
Thanksgiving
Day
A
few volunteers are still needed with the Fox and
Turkey 4-mile race. If you can do any of the following,
please notify Tom Jurgens at jrunalot@yahoo.com with your name and
how you can help.
- Post race refreshment distribution
- 4 mile race trailer (walk behind last
person)
Ask friends and family to join
you to help before, during or after the
race!
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We Want Your Marathon Photos!
Did you run a marathon in 2009? We want to include
your photos in a special PRINT edition of the FoxTales
newsletter that will hit member mailboxes in December.
If you have any marathon photos from 2009 (runners,
spectators, etc) please send them to the editor,
Jennifer Zuri at jzuri@mchsi.com by December
1st. Be sure to include your name, finish time
(if you want it included), date and name of marathon,
and whether it was a PR or a Boston Qualifier for you.
This special print edition of the newsletter will
be mailed to Fox River Trail Runner members only - so if
you're not a member and would like to get the December
edition of The FoxTales, sign up for membership today at
www.foxrivertrailrunners.org. Note:
There will not be an electronic edition of the
newsletter in December - just the print issue.
Send in your photos by December 1st to jzuri@mchsi.com. Please do not
send thumbnail photos that are emailed to you from
Brightroom or Marathon Photos as these do not have the
quality needed to print
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New and Renewing
Members
Congratulations to our new and
renewing members!
New
Individual: Lindsey Anders, Pat
Fitzgerald, Megan Germain, Kimberly Gremo, Sarah
Lindgren, Debra McInnis and William White.
New Family: The Amy Adams
Family and the Gerald O'Keeffe Family,
Renewed
Family: The Gene Boehm Family, the
Jon Burmeister Family, the Fritz Dejongh Family, the
Bill Holstine Family and the Alexander Shemyakin
Family.
Renewed Individual: Kelly
Patchett, Sandra Ithal and Matt Dalpiaz.
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New
Shoes at Dick Pond Athletics
By Glen
Kamps
 November is always one of the
biggest months for new updated shoe styles to reach the
marketplace. Six of the The industry's TOP TEN
will get a face lift in November. That means two
things to you the runner:1. Your favorite shoe is about to
become extinct, the price has just gone down, and it is
time to make a move to avoid saying, "They discontinued
my favorite shoe and I'm going to scream!"
2. The new version of your favorite shoe has
arrived and you either want to be the first in your
running club to own it or, you want to assess the
alterations made to it for the better.
The NEW shoes that will arrive this month
are:
Brooks Adrenaline GTS
10: The best selling Brooks shoe
ever.
Asics GEL 1150: Mr
Pond's favorite shoe.
New Balance
760: This replaces the 769 - our best
selling NB trainer.
Asics GT GEL
2150: The best selling shoe in the
USA.
Saucony Triumph 7:
Saucony's most cushioned trainer
Asics GEL
Kayano XVI: The best running shoe ever
made?
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The
Race Place
This time of year
provides a challenge in finding local races. Here are
some races in and around the Fox Valley. For a
full listing, visit www.cararuns.org.
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November
Birthdays
Happy Birthday to Steve Dittman,
Allison Evans, Karen Cerveny, Betty Bechtold, Kevin
Radisewitz, Susan Stevens, Isola Metz, Glenn Lyle, Glen
Kamps, John Keller, Renee Daily, Kate Jeffrey, Bill
Gilmore, Linda Feeney, Randy Meyle, Marlene Manning,
Barbara Bond, Amy Adams, Kristine Bennett and Rena
Sweeney.
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