Summer edition
As the Road Runners Club of America (RRCA) enters the Summer
season I thought
it would be a good time to catch up on recent news and happenings.
o Elections and votes were held at the RRCA National Convention
in
this month. A special committee had
completely rewritten the RRCA bylaws, and
all updates were approved, except that proxy voting was retained. The go-forward
plan is to put in place a tested and proven
means of electronic voting accessible by
all RRCA clubs so that attendance at the RRCA
Convention is not a prerequisite to
voting, and to consider removing proxy voting
from the bylaws at the RRCA Convention
in
There were hastily assembled nominations from
the floor for the RRCA Board Positions
but as expected the candidates put forth by the
RRCA Nominating Committee all won
handily. New RRCA board members are Brent
Ayer (President), David Cotter (Vice President),
Dennis Novak (Treasurer), Mark Grandonico
(Eastern Region Director), and Mitch Garner
(Central Region Director). I actually
have history with all five of these fine gentlemen and
believe the RRCA will be very well-served by
the new board. Full information is available at
http://www.rrca.org/news/index.php?article=2286 and http://www.rrca.org/rrca/board/.
o The Cincinnati Convention was a blast, of course.
From a
highlight was the Awards Banquet where Sabra
Harvey was presented with the RRCA
Master Female Runner of the Year award, and I
was presented with the e-Newsletter of
the Year award. Sabra's icing on the cake
was winning the Female Grand Master category
of the Flying Pig 5k, the RRCA 5k National
Championship for 2008. Sabra finished in
and was the third female and first master to
finish. (The RRCA puts you firmly in your age
category for national championships and Sabra
is 59.) Details available at
http://www.rrca.org/news/index.php?article=2287. I did
take a couple of photographs which
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The amusing highlight of the Convention was
that the RRCA organized two large posters.
One was the cover of the RRCA 2008 Calendar,
and the other was...my long time colleague
Brett Riley finishing the 2006 Bayou City
Classic 10k. Brett was pleased to learn he had
been able to make the convention afterall.
o Future RRCA Conventions:
o Are you getting RRCA news delivered to your email
address? If not, it's so easy, just go to
http://www.rrca.org/join/join/ and
whack in your email address.
o The Third Annual RRCA Run@Work
Day is scheduled for Friday, September 19th. Roger
Boak and I will again be staging a Tour de Art
Run here in
so easy - if you'd like to put on a Run@Work event in your location I'll step you through it
or take a look at http://www.rrca.org/programs/runatwork/.
o Are you putting on a race 10k or longer in 2008 with at
least 400 participants? If so, are you
getting Gatorade for the race for free?
No? Then take 5 minutes to fill out the forms on
www.rrca.org
and become an RRCA South Texas State Championship for 2008.
o Do you have the RRCA News Feed on your web site?
This is another 5 minute task - go to
http://www.rrca.org/services/news/ and follow the
instructions.
o Want an easy way to learn all about RRCA services and
programs in 5 easy minutes? Check
out the new RRCA promotional video on http://www.rrca.org/rrca/about/.
Regards,
Steve Shepard