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Universal NO HEADPHONES Icon Unveiled

Posted Friday, 8 February, 2008

Arlington, VA - As race directors struggle with the RRCA guideline against the use of headphones in RRCA insured events along with the USATF ban on headphones at sanctioned events, the RRCA is encouraging race directors to adopt the new universal NO HEADPHONES symbol on race entry forms and race materials. Created by veteran race director, Jim Gerweck, the goal of this universal symbol is to send the message that event directors are serious about the headphone ban at the events they manage.

“Race officials don’t ban headphones to be mean to runners — it’s for their own safety and that of everyone else in the race,” says Gerweck, a member of the USATF Long Distance Running sub-committee studying enforcement of the ban. “It’s an education effort more than an enforcement issue, as events such as Grandma’s and Twin Cities Marathons have successfully proven. This logo is a simple way to send runners the message that headphones aren’t permitted in sanctioned events.”

The RRCA has promoted a guideline against the use of headphones in running events that dates back to the mid-1980’s and this guideline has been re-affirmed several times by the RRCA membership since then.

“Banning headphones or advising participants to leave them at home or in the car is part of the risk management responsibility of a race director. Many participants do not understand or respect the awesome responsibility a race director shoulders to ensure the safety of every single participant in an event,” explains Jean Knaack, RRCA executive director. “Respecting an event director’s choice to ban headphones is the shared responsibility of every participant to ensure the safety of all runners and the future success of the event and the sport as a whole.”

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:53 PM EDT (exerpt) Labor Day has come and gone, but, it’s still considered summer until Sept. 21, which means it’s not too late to hand out the annual Honors for Extraordinary Achievements in the Summer or HEATS awards for 2007. Recipients are:

The Runaways Runaround 5-Miler: This annual benefit run for Community VNA Hospice, turned 5 on a gorgeous Sunday morning, Aug. 19, and is proving itself to be a staple of the summer road-running circuit. Offering a nice course through downtown North Attleboro and on some of the rural roads that border some of the town’s remaining farms, it’s a nice way to get some exercise on a summer Sunday, and to help an excellent cause in the process. Special HEAT awards to Olympians Amy Rudolph and Mark Coogan, whose participation this year greatly enhanced the race.  

LARRY KESSLER is a Sun Chronicle local news editor. Reach him at 508-236-0330 or at lkessler@thesunchronicle.com.

BRYANT UNIVERSITY NAMES TRISH HILLERY CROSS COUNTRY / TRACK & FIELD COACH

August 24, 2006

SMITHFIELD, RI -    The Bryant University Department of Athletics & Recreation is pleased to announce the hiring of TRISH HILLERY as its new men’s and women’s cross country / track & field coach.  The announcement was made today by  Director of Athletics Bill Smith.  

A 1989 graduate of Providence College, Hillery was a four-year standout member of the Friars’ cross country and track & field teams for coach Ray Treacy.  During her career, Hillery placed in the top 10 in all four BIG EAST Conference Cross Country Championships and captained the Friars’ cross country team to the 1989 conference championship. 

An all-conference academic selection in 1988, Hillery placed second in the 10,000 meters at BIG EAST Conference Outdoor Championships. 

A native of Limerick, Ireland, Hillery was the Irish High School Cross Country Champion from 1982 to 1985 and currently holds the Irish High School 3,000 meter record of nine minutes, 51.0 seconds. 

A resident of Greenville, R.I., Hillery has been an active competitor on the local racing circuit.  In 2003, she placed third in the 3,000 meters at the U.S.A. Track & Field Indoor Sub-Master’s and captured the 2004 New England Runner Magazine Pub Race Series title. 

Olympian glad to join NA race

BY JANETTE SEARS SUN CHRONICLE STAFF
Sunday, August 19, 2007 1:56 AM EDT
NORTH ATTLEBORO - When the fifth annual Runaways Runaround 5 Miler gets under way at 9 a.m. today at the Community School in downtown North Attleboro, it will do so with support from the cream of the crop.

World-class runner and two-time Olympian Amy Rudolph will be there to support it all the way.

Proceeds from the race benefit the Community VNA Hospice, and that’s a good enough reason for Rudolph to take time out to support it.

Rudolph, who lives in Providence with her husband, Mark Carroll, also a professional runner, says she initially agreed to support the event based on an e-mail request from race committee member Bill Beardsworth.

“Bill just sent me a great e-mail, and gave me information about what it was for, and I just was really drawn to it, so that’s actually why I’m doing it,” Rudolph said.

In addition, she says she is always looking for ways to give back to the community, and can relate through a college work experience to the people who need support, much in the way that hospice provides support.

“My major in college was health policy management, and I actually did my internship at a nursing home,” she said.

“I know it’s a little bit different, the hospice, but it’s along the same lines, so my heart always goes out to people who don’t have the support, and they just need to know that someone is out there and caring about them - someone that they can lean on when they need to.”

While at the race, Rudolph will truly be there only to support it, as she says due to a stress fracture for which she has taken the past six weeks off from running, she will not be there to try to win the race.

“I had told Bill I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to run because of this injury, but I’ve been able to get some runs in, and I think I should be fine,” Rudolph said.

“I won’t be able to race it as hard as I would normally race because I’m only just coming back from injury. I’m just really excited to be a part of it, and hopefully I can help in the future.”

Organizers of the race will be only too happy to have Rudolph participate in whatever manner she is able to, according to Karole Nicholson, marketing manager for Community VNA.

“This is my fourth year being associated with this spirit-filled race, and having a runner the caliber of Amy Rudolph participating has surely brought the energy level up a notch,” Nicholson said.

The course is a USATF-NE certified five-mile course that is slightly rolling and runs along a loop through North Attleboro after starting in front of the school.

Prizes will go to the first male, female and walker overall winners, as well as to the first three male and female runners in several age divisions.

Registration is available online at runawaysclub.org/rtm.html. Entry fee is $20. Race-day registration will begin at 7:30 a.m., and the race will be held rain or shine.

Janette Sears can be reached by phone or fax at 508-222-2442 or by e-mail at janette@janettesears.com.

CUMBERLAND, RI - You can’t beat it for ‘Good Old Days’ picture postcard Fourth of July Americana.
Since 1927, the villagers of Arnold Mills have gathered along Sneech Pond Road - today’s Nate Whipple Highway - to mark the Fourth of July with a parade, followed by good summer eats and a concert of patriotic songs.
And for the past 39 years, the day has started with a village road race.
The four-mile run, which starts at 9 a.m. at the Lafayette Masonic Lodge and ends at the North Cumberland Fire Station, typically draws 450 athletes. Last year, Chris Magill of Cumberland was a five-time winner clocking 20 minutes and 19 seconds.

For more club info, to join, or signup for our newsletter go to: http://runawaysclub.org

Everybody hates spam e-mail. Because of the huge increase in spam and other un-requested e-mail that litter everyone’s mail box we are asking our members to sign into our new Constant Contact mail management system. The input box labeled “Join Our Mailing List” is located on the Runaways club home web page (http://www.runawaysclub.org).All other e-mail systems used to contact you will be deleted in the next two weeks in favor of the new system. Runawaysclub@msn.com will remain in use to contact the club administration.

Dedicated as the “World War II Veterans Memorial Trail” in honor of soldiers who defended our Country.

The trail provides a multi-purpose recreational trail within the Town of Mansfield and provides bicycle access to town facilities and recreational areas. The off-road portion is a shared-use path along the former Old Colony Railroad Right of Way from *41 East Street to *395 Fruit Street. This 2 mile shared-use path consists of a 3 foot grass shoulder along the westside, a 10 foot asphalt paved multi-use trail and a 5 foot graded dirt shoulder along the east side for horses. The remaining portion of the top of the Rail Road embankment is cleared of underbrush. Also included is a small parking area for five cars within the former Old Colony Railroad Right of Way near 395 Fruit Street.

* This address is an approximation for Mapquest purposes.

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Orthotics - The criteria of the Fit
Any orthotic that is going to work has to address the underlying repetitive motion of “overpronation” (overpronation is the maximum range of motion the arch makes with each step, which results in, “wear and tear” over time).

By Dr. Dennis Kiper
Posted Friday, 7 April, 2006

The biomechanical damage once it occurs is due to a lifetime of all those
footsteps. Comparatively, each footstep is like a mile in a car. So every
decade of life is like 100,000 miles. In order to repair some, most or all of
that cumulative damage is dependent on two things:

1. The proper prescription fit of the orthotic, must meet 4 criteria:

1. The orthotic must be supportive, the person must feel the support such that
   it is full or snug fitting
2. It “must” be comfortable to wear all day without it causing more discomfort
   or problems [this comfort does not relate to symptoms].
3. It cannot overcorrect your alignment position on the ground, you “must” be
   stable.
4. It “must” fit the way your muscles and feet are working and not necessarily
   the architectural fit of just the foot.

2. The other is much more difficult to understand. The one thing no one can tell is how long it will take to get better. Not “feeling” better does not mean the orthotic is not working for you. In fact, if the orthotic meets the “criteria of the fit”, it is working for you. In most cases particularly if you are under 55 years of age and in good health, symptom relief may start to diminish within 60 days.

To reverse the “tissue health” [100%] that is now felt as pain can take weeks, months or even years to restore. Remember every step you take [including around the house, let alone high activity], antagonizes the time it takes to get better.

Depending on various factors such as age, weight, mandatory daily activities (which antagonize the healing process), chronicity of the problem, complexity of the individual’s biomechanics and lastly if you are athletic and continue to be active despite your pain can result in a long delay in even starting to feel better. This is the area in which many people fail. Your level of frustration and impatience to begin to feel better may cause you to stop wearing the
orthotic prematurely.

So, how does one know? Simply by establishing the “criteria of the fit”. In order for that prescription to be precise, there is no compromise in the criteria. If an orthotic is helping you, but is uncomfortable to wear then that is not a precise fit, but it is probably better than nothing at all.

How long will it take? I can’t tell you that, I do know that correcting your alignment position to the ground will improve your lower extremity mechanics and will reverse the damaging effects that a lifetime of overpronation has caused.

Editor’s Note: Dr. Kiper is the developer of the Silicone Dynamic Orthortic. For more information go to http://drkiper.com/.

Irunawaysclub Note: I didn’t need orthotics until “suddenly one day”, don’t delay, plantar fasciitis is very uncomfortable/painful.

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Three men run 4,000 miles of Sahara in 111 days
Runners first modern athletes to cross Sahara

By The Associated Press
Posted Tuesday, 20 February, 2007

IN THE WESTERN DESERT, Egypt — Three ultra-endurance athletes have just done something most would consider insane: They ran the equivalent of two marathons a day for 111 days to become the first modern runners to cross the Sahara Desert’s grueling 4,000 miles.
“This is 100 percent, without a doubt the hardest thing any of us have done,” said American runner Charlie Engle, 44, while eating tuna and plain pasta during a lunch break about 112 miles northwest of Cairo on Saturday, day 108.

Engle, 38-year-old Ray Zahab of Canada and Kevin Lin, 30, of Taiwan, finished their ultra-marathon Tuesday afternoon at the mouth of the Suez Canal in Egypt after running through the night.

In less than four months, they have run across the world’s largest desert, through six countries — Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Libya and finally Egypt.

A film crew followed them, chronicling the desert journey for actor Matt Damon’s production company, LivePlanet. Damon plans to narrate the “Running the Sahara” documentary.

Well, it was half a decade ago that I started wearing “running gloves”. I was motivated by the need to keep my hands warm on chilly 10K training runs. After some experience with the gloves I realized that since I’m not shoveling snow and my hands are starting to sweat like mad I probably don’t need “Sgt. Preston’s” style dog sled gloves. The next running session I switched to very lightweight cotton gloves, like the kind you can get at any discount store.  As I suspected I froze for the first 3/4 mile but then a miracle happened, my body started to warm up from the run, I didn’t need the gloves anymore. Since the gloves were only a few bucks I thought for a moment to toss’em. But being in favor of a clean environment, I took them home and washed them. Do you know the care instructions for cheap cotton gloves? It goes like this, put the gloves on, wash the gloves in warm water with mild bar soap, squeeze the water out, carefully remove the gloves so as not to stretch them, hang them from the clips on a pants hanger to drip dry, voila. So, you obviously want my glove recommendation, here it is, I wear Runy Urazzoff imported running gloves. I buy them through our online store, http://runawaysstore.org the best thing about them is after a dozen or so wearings it becomes a quest to see how long you can wear’em before they fall apart. Happy running, don’t foget to put your gloves on!

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