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THIS ISSUE Contributors President’s Letter Letter to the Editor Running Briefs News and Notes
On the Run 50 States x 3 and Still Smiling
Race Memories 50 Years Ago at Boston
Get to Know Barney Klecker
Shoe Review Race Results Race Calendar Race Photos MDRA Annual Party 100% Irish 10 Mile & 5K
Running Insights The Bargain
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F E AT U R E S
13 for 13 in ‘13 Peter Kaul’s Minnesota Marathon Odyssey
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ON THE COVER: Runners at the Valentine’s Day TC 5K in Minneapolis. Photo courtesy of Twin Cities in Motion.
CONTRIBUTORS RON BOLE Ron Bole worked in education and investment banking for 25 years before opening the Bicycle Chain in Roseville with his two sons in 1990. He ran in the inaugural MDRA race in 1959 when he was a student at Macalester College.
BRUCE BROTHERS Bruce Brothers, former running columnist for both the Minneapolis Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, plans to write frequent columns for RunMinnesota.
CANDY PATRIN Candy Patrin feels fortunate to be a runner and enjoys every aspect of her training in the beautiful St. Croix Valley. She never tires of connecting with other runners to hear their stories. And she enjoys writing about new running topics. This year, Candy will be doing her first triathlon in August. She can be reached at cjpatrin@gmail.com.
PATRICK O’REGAN Patrick O’Regan is a runner and freelance business writer. He is a graduate of St. Thomas College and the University of Minnesota. Born and raised in Montgomery, Minnesota, Pat currently resides in Inver Grove Heights. He runs eight to 10 races a year, mostly 5Ks and 10Ks, with two marathons to his credit. He has also “competed” in three National Championships.
BILL KNIGHT Bill Knight is a freelance writer, a runner and a long time MDRA volunteer. He has served on the board of directors and as vice president of MDRA. He quit smoking and started running in the mid 1980s, prompting some non-running friends to say he just substituted one bad habit for another.
Do you have something to contribute? Contact Heidi at runminnesota@gmail.com
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CREDITS
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Editor: Heidi Keller Miler
Senior Editor:
NORM CHAMP
Mark C. Syring
Art Director: Jason Lehmkuhle
Advertising Coordinator/Sales: Heidi Keller Miler
Photographer: Wayne Kryduba
Results: Jack Moran
MDRA Officers: Norm Champ, President Melissa Wieczorek, Vice President Mary Johnson, Secretary Josh Jacobson, Treasurer MDRA Board Members: Paul Arneberg, Kate Bomsta, Kristen Bruner, Nathan Campeau, Jim Delaplain, Randy Fulton, Kristin Johnson, Dave Marek, Michael Nawrocki, Kevin Ross, Eve Stein, Scott Welle
Contact RunMinnesota! RunMinnesota 5701 Normandale Rd. Edina, MN 55424 runminnesota@gmail.com
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Dear RunMinnesota Readers, Cold enough for ‘ya? Since we are the Minnesota Distance Running Association, I feel the need to lead every salutation with some reference to the weather. Recently the board elections were held, and the results are in. Actually, the election hardly needed to happen except for our by-laws requiring that function. I am speaking of the lack of candidates in the running for officers and open positions. MDRA exists for the sake of members and for the promotion of our sport to the greater running community. All members are increasingly asked to recruit other runners into active membership, and a few are called upon for greater service, to volunteer at MDRA events (programs, races, etc.) or run for board positions. In my other position managing a non-profit, I see the changing volunteer base as newer generations are not waiting in line to be members of service organizations (Rotarians, Kiwanis, etc.), and the payroll giving campaigns (United Way) are seeing serious erosion of their giving base. The fundraising industry report millennials, gen X and Y are not Boomers and have different motivation. How does this affect the long term viability of our volunteer driven organization? I believe it is reflected in our constant appeal for members, volunteering of our members and bare minimum of members interested in running for the board. My personal service epiphany occurred long before my heavy involvement with MDRA. I was sitting in a Cub Scout meeting with my son. It was a “pack” meeting where all the smaller “dens” of scout groups come together. The meeting was poorly organized and kind of a joke (IMO). I wondered why was this, why wasn’t that, why didn’t someone do something. I realized at that moment, it was I who needed to get off the chair and into the game. The pack leadership was more than happy to accept my offer of help, and I became a den leader the following year. Was I the best Scout Leader of all time? Hardly. But I stepped in to offer what I could.
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I did the same with MDRA when I could no longer run. Do I think I will be the best MDRA President of our 50 plus years? Hardly. This is not a call out on Norm Champ’s service commitment. It is an example to all members that we all need to contribute to organizations we care about, and as you are all members, I hope this means MDRA. We need to redouble our individual efforts to support MDRA’s membership (we all must run with non-members who should join), races (even at a MDRA race you run, what’s wrong with coming a little early or staying after and offering your hands and backs or asking a training program coach if they need help) and board (they spend many hours advocating and deliberating strategies and decisions to promote MDRA, keep the books balanced and make decisions). I well understand as runners, we all have a huge time commitment the regular public does not have (known as training). Yet if we cannot support our own organization we will ultimately not be able to maintain our membership, support our activities and sustain our mission. Our past president went above and beyond in his efforts to personally reach out to all MDRA members in an effort to increase membership. These herculean efforts resulted in our plateauing, which is a partial victory. The bleeding of membership has stopped. We seem to be working very hard to hold our ground, and I feel we need to all chip in, do our part and rekindle the member driven mission MDRA has always been about. We’re all busy with our lives, and we’re all MDRA members. My reach out message is to please consider how each and every member can add value to our organization. I always appreciate your passion for running and MDRA, so please do not hesitate to send your comments and suggestions to me at MDRA via the email runminnesota@gmail.com. See you at Lake Johanna in March and at the other spring MDRA races. Enjoy every run.
Norm Champ
Norm Champ President, MDRA Board of Directors
FROM YOU Dear MDRA, I have always admired the MDRA organization and enjoyed participating in your races. However, I am writing to express my disappointment at learning the Jeff Winter City of Lakes 25K will be turned into a half-marathon. I read the MDRA’s reasons for doing so in the October board meeting minutes, and while yes, I do fall into the category of longtime MDRA members who are discouraged by the move, I don’t agree with the board that a shorter race will necessarily attract more “mainstream runners.” If the number of runners at City of Lakes has decreased over the years, it is because there are simply more races out there than 15 or even 10 years ago, and distance runners now have plenty of options. Changing the 25K to a half-marathon doesn’t change the number of alternative races. In addition, the Twin Cities and surrounding area are saturated with races of the halfmarathon distance. There are one or even two half-marathons almost every single weekend from April through October and one to two per month during the colder months of November through March. Many of these races attract large fields, because they are presented in a party-like atmosphere where runners pay $75.00 to $100.00 for extra amenities including fleece or zipup jackets, flashy medals and beer gardens and live music at the finish. There is nothing wrong with any of these things, and it is great to see so many more runners out on the roads and at the races. But, City of Lakes has always been a different kind of race and unique, because it presented an option to race the less common distance of 25K. I personally know numerous runners who chose City of Lakes expressly because it was NOT a half-marathon. Runners such as these may be seeking a longer distance for a final marathon tune-up and may be more likely to run one of the 20 mile races in White Bear Lake in September than the new City of Lakes. And those “mainstream runners” will still have lots of other half-marathons to choose from. It sounds like the decision has been made for 2014, but I hope the MDRA board will consider changing the Jeff Winter City of Lakes race back to a 25K in 2015. Thank you for your consideration.
Let us know what you think. Contact Heidi at runminnesota@gmail.com.
Sincerely,
Kristen Gerlach
Ed. note: Thank you for your input. We appreciate to hear from our members and the loyal followers of our races. The move from a 25K to a half marathon is for a number of reasons, including financial. The fees the race pays to the Minneapolis Park Board are in the neighborhood of $10,000. Without increased numbers in the race, or a huge hike in entry fees, the race will either be dissolved or moved to a less expensive location. We look forward to starting a great new tradition as a premier half marathon in the metro area. To see the rationale for making the change from a 25K to a half marathon, please see the January/February 2014 issue of RunMinnesota. – Heidi Keller Miler, Jeff Winter City of Lakes Half Marathon Race Director and Office Manager
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photo by Wayne Kryduba
RUNNING BRIEFS
News and Notes from the Roads, Trails and Track MDRA SPONSORED SPRING RUNNING PROGRAMS
MDRA Upcoming Races
MDRA Women’s Running Camps in Edina and Maple Grove
Please see www.runmdra.org, and check out the races page for more information on the following races. MDRA is pleased to have the spring race series sponsored once again by the Great Harvest Bread Company located in Linden Hills, Maple Grove and Stillwater.
MDRA Ron Daws 25K
MDRA 7 Mile Saturday, March 29, 9:00 a.m. This seven mile race provides a very challenging hill test for the second race of the MDRA spring race series. Starts and ends at the Cross of Glory Baptist Church in Hopkins. MDRA members only race and free to all MDRA members. You can join or renew your MDRA membership on race day. No pre-registration. Please bring a $1.00 or $2.00 donation for the use of the church facilities.
MDRA Ron Daws 25K Saturday, April 5, 8:00 a.m. Cross of Glory Baptist Church in Hopkins. Cost is $5.00 or $10.00 race day if space is available. The 25K has been a great race to train for the Boston Marathon and other spring marathons for the past 36 years.
Wednesdays, April 9 through May 28, 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The women’s running camp is for any walker, beginning runner or experienced runner aiming to become fitter, faster and have fun. If you are an experienced runner of any ability level, we can help you gain speed, strength and endurance. This class has a wonderful staff of coaches. In addition to workouts, there are speakers on topics ranging from running shoes to nutrition to core strength training. Please see www.runmdra.org for more registration information.
Fred Kurz Memorial 10 Mile Saturday, April 12, first runner at 8:30 a.m. Wayzata Central Middle School. $8.00 for MDRA members, $15.00 for non-members and $25.00 for all on race day. This unique 10 mile race has been around 50 plus years and never disappoints for a fun race full of camaraderie. The race is handicapped by time with the slower runners leaving first and the fastest last with the idea that all the runners converge on the finish line around the same time. Pre-registration encouraged. Check out the race website for more information at www.fredkurz10mile.com.
MDRA Mudball Classic Sunday, May 4, 10:00 a.m. Quaking Bog of Wirth Park. Four mile race and quarter and half mile kids race. The Mudball moves to May this year so as to not conflict with Easter. Hopefully there won’t be snow again this year with the new May date. FREE for MDRA members and MDRA members only. You can sign up for MDRA membership at the race. Bring your kids to run for free, families are encouraged to share in the fun.
Mom’s Day 5K Saturday, May 10, 9:00 a.m. East River Flats Park near the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. $2.00 for MDRA moms, varied prices for others up to $10.00. All participants receive a plant for finishing.
MDRA Mississippi 10 Miler Sunday, May 25, 8:00 a.m. Ten miles out and back on East River Road starting at the monument at Summit. Please see www.runmdra.org for entry information. Cost is $10.00. Shirts available for an additional $10.00. MDRA members use the code “MDRA” to save $2.00 on the $10.00 entry fee. Race day entry is $15.00 for all runners.
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Speedwork for Faster Running Wednesdays, April 14 through May 19, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. This six week class is for runners who want to find out and practice what it takes to run faster. Each 60 to 90 minute session includes a speed workout, drills and a discussion of various tools for determining the appropriate training pace for workouts.
Beginning Running Tuesdays, April 16 through June 4, 6:00 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Are you a non-runner who would like to start running? Join us for eight weeks of fun, inspiration and camaraderie as we help you prepare to run a 5K race. Be ready for a walk/run workout at the first session. By the final class, you will be able to run for 30 continuous minutes. Weekly workouts, coaching and training schedules will be provided.
The recent MDRA Board of Director elections were held online and via mail again with a record turnout of voting. Thanks to outgoing President Mike Iserman for his three years serving as MDRA President. He will be serving a one year term on the MDRA Board as the past president. Bill Knight, long serving board member, has run out of eligibility due to term limits per the MDRA bylaws. We appreciate his many years of serving on the MDRA Board and are happy to know we will continue to have Bill as a great volunteer at our races. Norm Champ moves from vicepresident to president for a one year term. Melissa Wieczorek becomes the new vice-president, and Mary Johnson moves to the secretary position. The MDRA welcomes new directors Kristen Bruner, Randy Fulton and Scott Welle. Winning re-election for two year terms are Paul Arneberg, Nathan Campeau and Kevin Ross. Current board members with one year left on their terms are Kate Bomsta, Jim Delaplain, Kristin Johnson, Dave Marek, Michael Nawrocki and Eve Stein. Thank you to our dedicated board members and officers for their service to MDRA.
Five Area Runners Earn Athlete Development Grants Five of Minnesota’s most accomplished post-collegiate long distance runners were recently awarded developmental grants totaling $6,000 through the Minnesota Elite Athlete Development Program (MEADP), a partnership among Grandma’s Marathon, Inc., the Minnesota Distance Running Association, and Twin Cities In Motion. Earning the grants were Jonathon Peterson ($2,000), Chris Rombough ($1,000), Kelly Brinkman ($1,500), Stephanie Price ($750), and Elizabeth Yetzer ($750). Grant-winners were judged based on each athlete’s current state of athletic accomplishment, their potential for further athletic accomplishment, and the extent to which a grant will assist the athlete in reaching his or her potential. Peterson, a member of Team USA Minnesota, was the winner of
last fall’s Medtronic TC 10 Mile. A graduate of University of California, Davis, Peterson, 25, has personal bests of 13:41.93 and 28:50.45 for 5,000-meters and 10,000-meters, respectively. Rombough, a former Big Ten cross country and 10,000-meter champion while competing for the University of Minnesota, plans to transition to the steeplechase this season. Rombough, 28, has run 13:42.05 and 28:46.76 for 5,000-meters and 10,000-meters, respectively. Brinkman, a member of the Twin Cities Track Club, finished third at the 2013 USA Half Marathon Championships held in conjunction with the Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon in Duluth. An Iowa State University graduate, Brinkman, 33, was an Olympic Trials Marathon qualifier in 2012. Price, also a Twin Cities Track Club member, was an NCAA AllAmerican in cross country for the University of Minnesota in 2010. Price, 24, has clocked personal bests of 16:31.86 and 34:02 for 5,000-meters and 10,000-meters respectively. Yetzer, 25, a University of Minnesota graduate, has a personal best of 16:24.20 for 5,000-meters. As a prep runner at Lakeville North in 2005, Yetzer clocked 4:41.42 for 1600-meters, still the fastest time ever run by a feale Minnesota high school student. In its 15 years of existence, MEADP has awarded more than $85,000 to Minnesota’s most promising post-collegiate runners.
Prize Purse Increased for Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon Grandma’s Marathon officials have added to the cash prize purse for the upcoming Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon. The race has elevated the total purse by $4,600 and will now distribute a total of $26,100 to the top runners at the event’s 24th running on Saturday, June 21. The champions of the men’s and women’s open divisions will each receive $3,000, a $500 increase. The cash payout structure goes 10 deep in the men’s and women’s open divisions and three deep in the 40 and over groups. For a complete purse breakdown and more information, visit www.grandmasmarathon.com.
photos by Wayne Kryduba
MDRA Election Results
MDRA Annual Party Recap
Pat Lanin Award for Distinguished Service Craig Yotter The Lanin Award for Distinguished Service recipient for 2013 is Craig Yotter. Craig has been the Managing Director of USATF Minnesota since 2007 and before that had been the treasurer for five years. Craig puts in many hours making sure things run smoothly for Minnesota runners. His work covers many bases including working with officials, race certification and sanction, timing and membership. During the summer, many nights and days are filled with youth track and field meets. Congratulations to Craig on his Lanin Award for Distinguished Service. His behind the scenes efforts have not gone unnoticed.
MDRA Volunteer of the Year Ann Snuggerud Ann Snuggerud is the 2013 MDRA Volunteer of the Year. Ann is a tireless volunteer at MDRA races. She was at many races from the spring to the fall, including the Ron Daws 25K, Mom’s Day 5K, the Mississippi 10 Mile, Victory Races and the City of Lakes 25K. Ann was usually the first to arrive and last to leave. MDRA is thrilled to have such great volunteers who dedicate their time to making the race experience better for everyone.
See more annual party photos on page 23
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ON THE RUN
50 States x 3 and Still Smiling The Serendipitous Running Career of Roger Hauge BY CANDY PATRIN
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he majority of runners do not even think about running a marathon in every state. Meet MDRA member Roger Hauge who recently completed his 50 states plus DC not once or twice, but three times around. Hauge, who turned 82 this year, ran his first mile when he was 60 years old. If you ask him why he started running, he sounds a little like the legendary author and running philosopher Dr. George Sheehan. “The bigger question is why did I continue to run,” says Hauge
The Start At 60, Hauge was working for Northwest Airlines in London and, as a result of eating a lot of pub food and working long hours, he started to feel “stodgy.” A coworker who ran, Alan Hudson, suggested to Hauge that he might want to give running a whirl. After several weeks of walk/run sessions, Hauge was able to run four miles nonstop and had shed about 20 pounds. At that point, he was delighted with his weight loss and was at a turning point where he could have gone back to his former lifestyle or
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continued running. When Hauge shared his good news with Hudson, he was surprised by his coworker’s reaction. As Hauge recalls, Hudson said, “Good, now we are going to do a race.” The Hastings Half offers a little bit of everything: historic town, Cliffs of Dover, the English Channel, to name a few. For Hauge, whose longest run prior to the half marathon was eight miles, the race changed everything. He recalls the energy among the crowd of runners at the race start. Hudson stayed with him throughout the race and offered encouragement when Hauge started to fade as well as an incentive to push on to the finish. A running career was born that day. In 1993, Hauge signed up for the Twin Cities Marathon. After finishing in a time of 5:10, he recalls thinking that he would never do another. However, after a “self diagnosis” of his performance, he found a way to do better. Hauge also had a chance meeting with Bill Wenmark, the founder of ALARC. As a result of that meeting, Hauge joined the ALARC marathon training class and took 50 minutes off his marathon time in one year with a 4:20 finish in 1994.
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50 States Hauge was on a flight to Pensacola, Florida, where he was registered for the Blue Angel Marathon (the predecessor to the Pensacola Marathon), when another serendipitous meeting influenced the course of his running career. He was reading Runner’s World magazine when Hauge saw a photo of a married couple, Nancy Broadbridge and Tony Lopetrone, who had run 50 states in one year. He recognized Broadbridge and Lopetrone as the couple who were seated in the next row. When Hauge turned to the row behind him and pointed to the picture, the couple confirmed that they were, in fact, the same two people. After a brief conversation, Broadbridge and Lopetrone invited Hauge to join their 50 states group at the pasta dinner the evening before the marathon. It was at the dinner that Hauge listened to runners talk about some of the logistical challenges and tips for doing marathons in 50 states. He recalls one of the “hot” topics being the cancellation that year of the one and only marathon held in Delaware. “I thought that I will never do 50, but I should pick
up some other states just in case,” says Hauge Within a couple of years, Hauge had turned “just in case” into a reality when in 2001 he completed his first 50 states plus D.C. at Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota. He reached his goal by sometimes running one marathon a month and a one year high of 20. The only time Hauge experienced an injury was during a five week gap between marathons. “I went out to do hill repeats and speed work, and my body had adapted to slow and steady,” says Hauge. Hauge says that when he had completed 45 or so states, he really just wanted to be done with 50. He remembers getting a lot of questions about his plans after finishing the 50 states. When asked, Hauge was ready with a comeback. “I told people that I am going to get me a Harley and head to Sturgis,” says Hauge.
50 Plus He did not get a Harley. Hauge took an inventory of his completed marathons and realized that there were 16 doubles. He was already one-third of the way done with his 50 states without
“putting his shoes on.” He started to work on his second 50 states and reached his goal in 2007 at Indianapolis, Indiana. When asked about the decision to do 50 states a third time, Hauge shrugs his shoulders. He had started to worry about the six hour cutoff times at many marathons. For example, Hauge recalls being one step ahead of the sag wagon at Steamboat, Colorado, where he was battling heat and altitude. “I don’t know. You are learning all the time,” says Hauge. “My biggest concern was slowing down even though I am running smarter.” During the third time around, Hauge started to spend his winters in Florida where he helped grow a local running group, the VPack. During the week, he typically runs five to six miles a day at a faster pace and twice that distance on the weekend. He also gets in core workouts. Hauge says that he has not done a 20 mile training run “forever.” During marathons, he relies on his heart rate monitor and has been consistently finishing his races in a little over five hours. He completed his third time around milestone at the Maine Marathon in Portland on October 6, 2013 with a time of 5:00:09, within seconds of his nine-year personal record. Many family members were in attendance, including his spouse, daughter and son along with their families. Hauge’s son Eric, who is working on his 50 states, ran the marathon. To celebrate the third time around weekend, the family rented a house at Cape Elizabeth, Maine. It’s hard for Hauge to pick one favorite marathon among the 191 that he has done (as of the end of January with more planned). He has several special marathons excluding Boston, which he refers to as the “Mecca” for runners. Hauge loved New York because it was a beautiful day, a race with an international field of runners and he had a good run. However, he says that he would not do it again. Other favorites include marathons in Hartford, Connecticut, Balti-
When asked about the decision to do 50 states a third time, Hauge shrugs his shoulders. He had started to worry about the six hour cutoff times at many marathons. “You are learning all the time,” says Hauge. “My biggest concern was slowing down even though I am running smarter.”
more, Maryland, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Marathon Wisdom Hauge has some advice for anyone who has thoughts about doing 50 states. He spends a lot of time on research of the race logistics, which he views as highly important. Hauge acknowledges that it is helpful to be a former airline employee with flight benefits. Another plus is a phone with a GPS (global positioning system). During his research, Hauge looks at the availability of ground transportation and hotel options in relation to the start and finish of the race. In addition, never underestimate the race details you can get from other runners, whether they are friends or people who have posted comments online about their marathon experience. One resource for that information is the 50 State Marathon Club found at www.50statesmarathonclub.com. An annual fee of $10.00 will give you access to logistical information, including where you can find doubles (two marathons that can be completed in one weekend). It is also a good way to connect with other 50 state members who may be looking to share a room or transportation expenses at a particular event. Another bit of marathon wisdom is to be prepared for the unexpected. Hauge recalls waking up to a dead car battery the morning of the Cowtown Marathon at Fort Worth, Texas. He was able to hitch
a ride to the start with two 50 State Club members who happened to be walking through the lobby just as a frantic Hauge was on his way to call a taxi for what would have been a $50.00 fare. For the ride back to the hotel, Hauge enlisted the help of a guy who had been traveling the country for three months in a truck with a camper and doing marathons. The truck and camper were so packed that Hauge had to squeeze in the back where his face touched the ceiling of the camper. The helpful runner delivered Hauge to the hotel and used jumper cables to get the rental car going again.
Encore Besides running marathons, Hauge is well known for being an enthusiastic cheerleader. No one gets more excited about watching his family and friends in Minnesota and Florida pursue their running goals than Hauge. He is quick to congratulate and loves to hear details about their running experiences. In the near term, Hauge plans to support several runners from his Florida V-Pack running group who are working on their 50 states. There is also his son, Eric, who often meets up with Hauge to do out of town marathons. Hauge cherishes the time spent with his son on marathon adventures. In addition, there is one event that is on his future radar: the Big Sur International Marathon in California, which Hauge has always wanted to do but could never quite fit it
into his schedule. Getting back to the question, why did Hauge continue running? He has a couple of reasons. “I believe it is essential to continuing good health and mental acuity,” says Hauge. “Next is to be recognized for competing at an advanced age which seems to come as quite a surprise to many who have not yet become aware that 80 is the new 60.” While out on the road doing marathons, Hauge often gets approached by other runners who say, “If you do not mind my asking, how old are you?” Hauge jokingly says, “I am running out of age groups.” He thinks that a lot of race directors who cut off their awards at a specific age could be losing customers. At age 82, he says it is hard to compete with those 70 year olds. Writer’s note: I consider Roger Hauge to be my running mentor. I reconnected with Hauge in 2005 at the urging of a good friend (we had all worked at Northwest Airlines at one time) who said, “You should call Roger Hauge, because I hear that he is really into running.” I did, and another runner was born.
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RACE MEMORIES
50 Years Ago at Boston Author Remembers His Experience at the 1964 Boston Marathon BY RON BOLE
The Race
Background My background for writing this article was that I was one of the charter members of MDRA in 1961. I finished third in the first MDRA race on March 12, 1961, behind Rod Lazorik and Ron Daws on a five mile race around Columbia Golf Course in northeast Minneapolis. After a college running career at Macalester College in St. Paul, I was getting a masters degree and training with Bill Grebe (Mid American conference cross country and two mile champion) at Central Michigan University. We were both graduate students, and there were few races to run in that area, so we decided to train for a marathon. The Central Michigan faculty and a local bar owner pitched in to provide funds for our trip to Boston in April 1964. We ran from 30 to 50 miles per week through February and March. All our runs were on secondary roads around Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.
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We battled cold weather and windy conditions all spring. Our longest run was 16 miles at six minute mile pace. Our goal was to break three hours and finish the race. I was a middle distance track runner at Macalester (880 and mile relay MIAC record holder and MIAC XC champion in 1959 and 1960).
What We Didn’t Know We didn’t know much about Boston. There were no qualifying times. Aurele Van den Driessche from Belgium had won it in 1963 by out kicking 1960 Olympic winner Abebe Bikila and Mamo Wolde in 2:18:58, a course record. We didn’t know that there were no water stops. We didn’t know the drinks offered by the Wellesley coeds might be spiked. We didn’t know the course was hilly. We didn’t know what a strong east headwind would do to your time. We didn’t know that you had to weigh in and pass a heart check before entering the start area.
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We should have known that going out in 57 minutes for the first 10 miles was too fast for first timers trying to break three hours. We had never been in a road race where spectators cheered for you by name, because they had a program with all 302 numbers on it. After 10 miles in 40th place, we settled down to a slower pace. We ran together through 20 miles and helped each other through the hills. At 20 miles, we both hit the wall and began struggling. I heard applause rippling up behind me as old John Kelly (55, winner in 1935 and 1945) passed me at 22 miles. Young John Kelly (unrelated) was ahead finishing seventh in 2:27. The twenty-fourth mile was the longest and slowest mile I had ever run. Bill had dropped back even at that slow pace. My wife was waiting at the finish. We had to start driving back to Michigan after the race.
How Did It End? From an entry list of 400, 302 runners started the race. Seventy runners finished under three hours. Aurele Van den Driessche won in 2:19:58, beating two Finnish runners by just under a minute. Aurele weighed in at 141 pounds with a heart rate of 68. Hal Higdon from Chicago was the first American in fifth place in 2:21. Old John Kelly was 48th in 2:48.
Five runners failed the pre race physical and didn’t start. Only three USA runners were in the top 12. There were no women runners. There were no Minnesota runners. Ron Daws entered Boston a year later in 1965 and finished 15th in 2:29:31. Bill Grebe, my training buddy, just missed three hours, running it in 3:02. I finished 55th in 2:52:03.
The Aftermath I learned something in those last six miles. After 20 years of rest, I lined up for my second marathon. I still only trained 40 miles per week, but most of it was at six minute mile pace or faster. I drank more water (helps in the last six miles). I ran three Twin Cities Marathons and three Grandma’s Marathons in the 40 to 50 age bracket and hit just under two hours at 20 miles and finished all between 2:37 and 2:42. I was better at 5K to 25K. I had 10 Minnesota single age records and 18 all time listings at the shorter distances. I also learned how important it is to keep your family life, work life and running life in balance. A hip resurfacing operation in 2007 interrupted my racing career, but I still run the 5K in 26 minutes at age 74. Maybe, just maybe, when I’m 80 in 2020, after 32 years of rest from my last marathon, I might try another.
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Barney Klecker BY PAT O’REGAN
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ltrarunners, those who race at distances longer than a marathon, are different than you and me: different physically and mentally. To run competitively at great distances is not just a talent, though it is that, of course, it is also a personality type.
On the Farm Barney Klecker grew up on a beef and hog farm near Ellsworth, Wisconsin. One of 10 siblings (his twin sister was sixth, he was seventh), he didn’t engage in sports. Like the others, he just worked. He worked in the morning before school and for two hours after coming home. Weekends were also work days. Finally, in his junior year in high school, he got a break. His father, just 50, but probably worn down, got out of farming. Freed from the hard work, Barney went out for cross country.
High School Starting out as the third best runner on the cross country team, by the end of the season, Barney was number one. In the middle of that school year, the family moved to Reedsburg, Wisconsin, where Barney competed on the high school’s wrestling and track teams. As Barney recalled, the track workouts were simple enough. The coach, resting at the high school, told the boys to run to the track, a mile away, run a hard 440 and run back. Nevertheless, Barney ran a 4:56 mile in his senior year. More telling, he ran the two mile in 10:26. “I could run and
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hang on to a pace,” he said. “I might have been able to run three miles in 15:45.” Following graduation, Barney worked for a luxury hotel in Wisconsin Dells. To say he worked understates the matter. Sixteen hour days were commonplace. Often, he would arrive at the hotel at seven in the morning and work till three the following morning. He loved the work and determined to pursue a degree in hotel and restaurant management. The University of Wisconsin at Stout had that program.
Stout “I was a country bumpkin,” Barney said. “I showed up with a suitcase and a box. Guys told me where the food service was. All you can eat, three meals a day. It was great.” He also knocked on the door of the cross country coach, John Stallsmith. “What do you run the mile in?” the Coach asked. “Four fiftysix,” Barney said, proudly. “We’ve got girls that run that fast,” the Coach said. “I thought they had fast girls,” Barney said. Starting out cleaning the locker room just to be on the team, Barney ran well enough in the first home meet to make varsity. By the end of the season, he was the number three runner, behind John Chartrand, who at number one had won the state cross country championship in high school and run a 4:28 mile. Incidentally, Barney also tried out for the wrestling team. In practice early on, at 150 pounds, he came up against John Peterson, the future Olympic Gold Medalist.
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“He used me for a mop,” Barney recalled. He changed to indoor track. “At least if someone is beating you,” he said, “they’re not rubbing you into the track.” But his talent was catching hold. That year he was sixth in the Conference in the mile in 4:26 and ran the two mile in 9:40. He ran through the summer and ended up as the number one runner on the cross country team as a sophomore, though John was beating him by the end of the season. He improved in track to 4:21 and 9:20. During the summer, he upped his mileage to 70 miles per week, but an injury to his knee, a deep laceration, ended his cross country season early. His best time in the two mile in track that year was 9:22, despite running that race with a broken bone in his foot. He would run through pain. That summer Barney and a friend, who introduced him to running magazines, tried to emulate the workouts of Prefontaine and other great runners. “If they can do it, we can do it,” Barney recalled them thinking. It worked. Barney became one of the top runners in the Conference his senior year. He won races. In cross country, he ran five miles in 24:42. Indoors, he ran the mile in 4:17 and, in the Conference Championship, was third in the 1000 meters and a fraction behind the terrific runner Jimmy Drews in the two mile, going through the first mile in 4:44 and finishing in 9:03. Outdoors, Barney won the Conference Championship in the six mile and lowered his PR in the mile to 4:13.
Barney was young for his school year. “If I had had another year,” he said, “I might have run 4:06 or 4:04 at Stout and beaten Drews.”
Running the Marathon In the fall of his senior year, a week before the Conference cross country meet, Barney heard about the City of Lakes Marathon and jumped in. Though he ran a race the day before, he still finished in a (disappointing, for him) 2:43. Coach Bob Kamish was abashed when he showed up tired for practice on Monday. After graduating from Stout, Barney first worked as food and beverage director at the Hilton in Chicago. Though working 80 to 90 hours a week, he ran five to six miles a day. Changing to a job at a lodge in Merrimac, Wisconsin, he got the food and beverage operation going smoothly there in a few weeks. When his boss reneged on a raise, he returned to Stout to get a graduate degree. He had a scholarship and was head cross country and assistant track coach. He ran with the team. “I just loved it,” he said. After finishing his graduate degree, Barney got a job teaching and coaching cross country and track at Long Prairie High School in Minnesota. He stayed two years before moving to another job in the Twin Cities. Through these years he was running 60 to 80 miles a week, but not racing. “You got a degree and you went to work,” he said. “That was the way life was then.” Barney increased his mileage and started racing in the late
1970s. In 1977, he was second to Garry Bjorklund in Grandma’s Marathon in 2:21. The following year, he would win Grandma’s in 2:18. Also that year, he ran the City of Lakes Marathon, competing against Bjorklund and Mike Slack, and won the race. He repeated the winning performance at the City of Lakes in 1979. Perhaps more notably, after that race he met his future wife, Janis Horns, who had finished third among the women runners. At this time, he was running massive mileage: 140 to 150 miles a week. “It never bothered me to run a marathon and come back with another one the next week,” he said. “I did it all the time… But I didn’t taper enough. I’d get into a race and be tired.” That happened, in particular, in the New York City Marathon in 1978, when he ran 2:29. Barney’s Grandma’s race in 1981 was memorable. Two days before the race, tripping on stairs, he broke two toes. Alex Ratelle, the runner and doctor, told him he could run, but it would hurt like hell to do so. “I was in great shape,” Barney said. “I had just run well at two races a week apart, and I was determined to run.” The foot got bad at 21 miles. “I pushed as hard as I could the last mile and came in at 2:15:18” (a PR). “I might have pushed Bjorklund at 2:11 without the foot problem,” he said. Following this race, in which Janis finished second, Barney and Janis were married. He would be her coach. Thereafter, they supported each other in their running careers. In 1986 and 1987, Barney ran the Ultimate Runner Race in Michigan. In the course of a day, with breaks of an hour or two, the competitors ran a 10K, 400 meters, 100 meters, a mile and a marathon. The idea was to test both speed and endurance. Barney was sixth and seventh in total points.
Ultra Running Early in 1980, hearing about a 50 Mile National Championship road race in Chicago that fall, Barney put that race in his sights. “I’d go on thirty to thirty-five mile runs at sub
six minute pace,” he said, “And it just made sense that I could run 50 miles at that pace.” No one had ever done that on the road. The road record was just over five hours (six minutes per mile). On the track, the record was 4:53. Barney stepped up his mileage. All summer long he ran 150 to 175 miles a week. The training was brutal. “One long run, and the rest six to eight miles is not enough,” he said. Every week he’d get in a run of 30 or 35 miles, a run that included hill work and speed work of 18 to 20 miles and a tempo run of 10 to 12 miles. One year, at the Boston Marathon, Bill Rodgers had told him, “If I learned Frank Shorter was doing 90 to 100 miles a week, I’d do 120. If he was doing 120, I’d do 140.” Barney took the lesson to heart. He loved the work. When the race came, he went out hard at about 5:40 a mile and held that pace through 30 miles, slowed slightly and reached 40 miles in 3:46 (5:39 a mile), far under world record pace. It was a loop course. “At 42.5 miles,” Barney recalled, “I saw that they had an ambulance because they thought I would keel over.” Because water would cause him to cramp, he was running on no water. At that point, he took three ounces of water and cramped badly. He walked a quarter mile, and began to run again. He was still ahead of world record pace, but losing it. Let him tell it: “At forty-nine miles, I had stitches in both sides and saw myself losing the record. I thought, ‘I’m going to go as hard as I can. I don’t care if I rip my guts out. I am not going to cross the finish line thinking that I left something out there.’” He ran the last mile in 5:02, and finished in 4:51:25, an absolute road and track world record. One could well make the case that it is one of the greatest races ever run by an American (the current 50 mile road world record, set by the great Bruce Fordyce of South Africa in 1984, is 4:50:51.). On the basis of that performance, and others, Barney was named Ul-
trarunner of the Year for 1980 by Runner’s World magazine. In 1981, Barney determined to set an American record for 50K on the track. The race was in Tucson, Arizona. He ran at 2:20 marathon pace for 28 miles, and then overheated (the officials would not start the race half an hour earlier). He still ran 2:52:47.5, an American record that still stands. “If it had been cool,” Barney said, “I might have gone under two fifty. I really slowed in the last mile.” That year, he repeated as Runner’s World Ultrarunner of the Year. The next year, he would get the American 50K road record, with the marvelous time of 2:51 on a difficult course in Tallahassee, Florida. Also in 1982, Barney ran and won the Edmund Fitzgerald 100K road race. He ran the race in 6:50:43, putting himself at number two on the all-time U.S. 100K list. “I was trying to get under six hours,” he said, “but hit the wall at forty-two miles.” In 1983, Barney again won the 50K road race championship in 2:53. At this race, Janis set the women’s world record at 50K, bettering the old record by eight minutes. In 1986, Barney tried to regain the world record at 50 miles, running 5:10 on a two mile loop course in Dallas, Texas, on a very humid day. In 1990, he won his second national championship in an ultra race, winning the 50K road race in 3:07. He was on pace until 25 miles, then hit the wall. “I was going to drop out,” he said, “but Jan was there, saying, ‘You’re not going to drop out.’ We were each other’s strength.” Barney’s running exploits sometimes strike a citizen runner as surreal, tireless and insatiable. One fall, he ran a marathon in 2:26, a week later he ran the Twin Cities Marathon in 2:19 and a week after that ran the Ultimate Runner Race, which included a marathon. On another occasion, he ran 50K races on back-to-back weekends. “But I enjoyed it,” he said. “I always enjoyed distance running.”
Surprisingly, one of the best races he ever ran, Barney said, was a five mile race in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He went through the first mile in 4:11, finished two miles in 8:36, and came in second at 23:17, a pace of 4:39 a mile.
In Conclusion He and Janis often spoke publicly on the subject of running and gave numerous seminars on training and racing. For many years, Barney was Janis’ coach. Moreover, he coached up to 10 other runners, devising a training program that could be tailored to each runner. Throughout all this, there was a family to support and raise. Barney and Janis have six kids. Not surprisingly, all are athletically gifted, and all are encouraged to pursue whatever sports they might be interested in. Five of them are runners. Barney retired this summer after teaching Hospitality Management at Normandale Community College for 35 years. He also founded a company that does landscaping, lawn care and snow removal. He still runs. Having had a hip replacement, something his running probably forestalled for years, he has been ordered to limit his runs to three to five miles. On the day of the interview, he had strained his hip while running. “I tried to run six miles,” he said. “Why did I do that? I had to go and run six miles. Why?” Named Ultrarunner of the Year by Runner’s World magazine for 1980 and 1981. Inducted into the University of Wisconsin-Stout Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986, Grandma’s Marathon Hall of Fame (along with Janis) in 1998 and the Ultra Running Hall of Fame in 2010. Carter Holmes contributed to this article
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MINNESOTA MARATHONS
13 for 13 in ‘13 Peter Kaul Breaks Down His Inspired Minnesota Marathon Odyssey Last Year
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Strange things may happen in your life if you become an avid, cover-to-cover reader of this magazine. Some people have been known to read a couple of stories in here, look at the stunning Wayne Kryduba pictures and then get excited about running a few races. Some may even get a wild hair and, ah, er, run all the marathons in Minnesota in one year after reading RunMinnesota. So you’re thinking, “Na, that could never happen. Well, at least not to me.” Be careful Just ask Peter Kaul, from Eagan, who last year ran all 13 marathons in the Gopher State. Now he wasn’t under oath, but he did admit he wasn’t thinking about doing all of them until reading a spring 2013 RunMinnesota article about the various marathon medals. “By then I had already run Zoom! Yah! Yah! (in Northfield) and the marathon in Brainerd, so I thought, how much would it take to run all of them?” he said. But let’s not get ahead of our pace. Kaul got back into running a few years ago when he was a volunteer coach for his son’s track team. “I tried a couple local races, which went well. I ran several half marathons and said to myself,
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‘There is no way I could do two of these,’” he said. Now Kaul says he is a consistent runner, having done 14 marathons in the previous two years. And like most runners, he likes to talk about running and his accomplishments. “The first reaction I get is that people are surprised that there are 13 marathons in Minnesota,” he said. And he is unaware if anyone else has done all of them. Making the commitment Kaul, 48, admitted that after checking how many marathons there were, “It seemed to be a little bigger task than I thought,” he said with a laugh. He said the race scheduling was good for him with no back-toback events. “But toward the end, there were seven marathons in eight weeks. And I started to get a little nervous as those days approached,” he said.
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Zoom! Yah! Yah! Indoor Marathon Northfield
St. Paul Urban Trail Marathon St. Paul
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Superior Trail Fall Races: “Moose Mountain” Marathon and 50 Mile Lutsen
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Lake Wobegon Trail Marathon St. Joseph 4
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Med City Marathon Rochester
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Minneapolis Marathon Minneapolis
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Grandma’s Marathon Duluth 7
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Eugene Curnow Trail Marathon Duluth
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Kaul said he also had to be aware of his family schedule to make sure there were no events that would conflict with the races. He and his wife, Darci, have three children. “There were some (family) things that I missed on some of the marathon weekends, like a few football games and some family gatherings,” he said. And this year long adventure was also a new time commitment for him. “When you start looking at four hours to run a marathon, or some six hours for the trail ones, and then driving on both ends, it quickly eats up your free time, especially if you plan on doing it 13 or more times in a year,” he said. His early outings at the Wobegon and Rochester marathons went well. But up next was Grandma’s which he called a terrible experience. “I went out trying to hold a fast pace, but around 14 miles my legs and stomach went out and I started cramping up badly,” he said. Quickly, he had to decide on the race at hand, finish or quit, and the possibility that his streak would end. “I was not feeling well and the temptation to quit was pretty strong. I said to myself, ‘I want to finish all 13 marathons,’ so I went into survival mode just to finish,” he said. Kaul said he didn’t have any significant injuries during the year, but admits that he was very worn down at the Mankato Marathon, which was number 13. “Mankato was the seventh marathon in eight weeks and two days. The last six miles of that race were the hardest physical running obstacle I have ever had to overcome,” he said.
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Best Crowd: Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
Peter’s Minnesota Marathon ‘Best of’ Most Fun: The St. Paul Urban Trail Marathon. “It was a new race, so that created an element of uncertainty and excitement as we gathered for the start in downtown St. Paul,” he said. “It also attracted a variety of runner types, some being more road runners, some more trail runners.”
Most Challenging: “That’s a tie between Moose Mountain Marathon in Lutsen and the Eugene Curnow Trail Marathon in Duluth,” he said.
Best Crowd: “Oh that’s easy. It's Twin Cities,” he said without a pause.
Best Organized: The Rochester Marathon. “They (the race organizers) really embrace that marathon and the people do a good job supporting it,” he said.
Most Unique: “I’d say this is another tie between the Walker Marathon and the St. Paul Urban Trail Marathon. They both have a variety of different running surfaces,” he said.
Best Running Friends: The best marathon to meet some new running buddies is Zoom! Yah! Yah! “When you have only 44 people running in a circle and you pass each other many times, you get to know everybody pretty well,” he said. Runners wear their name on the back of their shirt so in passing someone you get to know their name and can share encouragement.
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PHOTOS * indicates females
NOTE: All results are gun times
MDRA Meet of Miles JANUARY 13, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FIELDHOUSE Overall 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
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Nick Golebiowski, 18 Matt Boumeester, 27 Isaiah Barlow, 18 John Leaf, 26 Johnny Davis, 24 Patrick Russell, 37 Chandler Klavitter, 17 Matt Lumbar, 18 Ben Merchant, 33 Lance Elliot, 43 Scott Kridera, 18 Dan Peters, 22 Lars Mattison, 24 Andrew Nelson, 18 Tom Gatyas, 33 Danny Docherty, 24 Faysal Marasoud, 17 David Christenson, 26 Eric Thies, 24 Hamdi Abdujalil, 17 Brian Davenport, 39 Alex Ilyushev, 16 Ibrahim Baraude, 18 Mason Kiffmeyer, 15 Paul Giannobile, 54 Kelly Brinkman, 32* Paul Swim, 22 Luke Lumbar, 18 Josh Klavitter, 28 Adam Peltipece, 35 Alex Berne, 17 Trent Claybaugh Jason Chrudimsky, 36 Bob Finke, 51 Carl Henderson, 28 Scott Davis, 43 Peter Kessler, 52
4:24 4:26 4:29 4:33 4:33 4:34 4:34 4:35 4:36 4:36 4:37 4:37 4:37 4:38 4:39 4:42 4:43 4:47 4:47 4:48 4:49 4:50 4:51 4:54 4:57 4:58 4:59 5:00 5:04 5:06 5:08 5:10 5:14 5:14 5:14 5:16 5:17
2 3 4 37 38 39 5 40 41 42 43 44 6 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 7 53 8 54 55 56 57 9 58 59 60 61 62 10 63 11 64 65 66 67 12 68 13 69 14 70 71 72 15 73 16 17 18
Melissa Gacek, 32* Mackenzie Schell, 17* Larissa Peyton, 23* Jason Larson, 30 Jacob Odom, 17 Randy Niemiec, 43 Koby Hagen, 29* Jeremy Reichenberger, 22 Tim Johnson, 33 Greg Sorenson, 38 Conlan Olson, 15 Shawn Pridgen, 30 Anna Maurer, 18* Ahmed, 16 Rob Economy, 50 Jay Nelson, 44 Christopher Dirkes, 24 John Walker, 18 Gerald Butler, 42 Rick Larsen, 52 Eric Porte, 49 Julia Boumeester, 28* Jim Ramacier, 50 Meg Buker, 28* Kirt Goetzke, 53 Derek Racek, 17 Bobby Paxton, 57 Patrick Eastman, 52 Suzie Fox, 30* Kelcey Knott, 40 Kirk Crabb, 31 Jeff Webber, 49 Ron Nelson, 50 James Allen, 36 Syndey Latterell, 18* Michael Bjornberg, 60 Renae Schendel, 40* Sam Ehde, 16 Rich Diaz, 47 Gordon Meyers, 52 Brenner Sandberg, 31 Lydia Novutny, 30* Dale Heinen, 58 Molly Pennings, 33* Bryan Swenson, 60 Kathi Madden, 56* Dale Compton, 41 Max Johnson, 18 Bill Koski, 48 Victoria Ranua, 33* John Falvey, 47 Danielle Gordanier, 42* Kelly Segura, 16* Emily Gallagher, 13*
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5:17 5:17 5:19 5:21 5:21 5:22 5:25 5:25 5:28 5:28 5:28 5:30 5:30 5:31 5:31 5:31 5:34 5:35 5:37 5:38 5:38 5:39 5:40 5:40 5:41 5:42 5:42 5:42 5:44 5:44 5:47 5:48 5:48 5:49 5:49 5:49 5:51 5:52 5:56 5:56 5:56 5:57 5:59 5:59 5:59 5:59 6:00 6:01 6:02 6:03 6:05 6:05 6:05 6:07
74 19 75 20 76 77 78 21 22 79 80 23 81 82 83 24 84 25 26 85 86 87 88 27 28 29 89 30 31 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 32 98 99 33 100 101 102 34 35 36 103 104 37 105 38 106 39
Mike Nixon, 40 6:07 Bev Docherty, 55* 6:15 Ben Zhao, 60 6:16 Meggan Craft, 38* 6:21 Arland Braaten-Lee, 64 6:23 Mark LeDuc, 59 6:24 Ben Gervais, 30 6:24 Anna French, 26* 6:25 Kelly Ramacier, 52* 6:29 Steve DeBoer, 59 6:31 Jim Graupner, 69 6:31 Lisa Hines, 51* 6:36 Will Harder, 9 6:42 Erik Larson, 38 6:43 Perry McGahan, 54 6:44 Karis Lysne, 40* 6:45 Ward Lenius, 54 6:46 Sarah Barker, 55* 6:47 Carolyn Fletcher, 56* 6:48 Greg Buse, 65 6:50 Scott Dunnewind, 41 7:01 Benjamin Fleischhacker, 37 7:02 Don Dornfeld, 70 7:04 Olivia Segura, 12* 7:12 Maria Schilly* 7:21 Julie Larson, 39* 7:24 Norm Purrington, 70 7:24 Emma Snuggerud, 12* 7:25 Nissa Larson, 35* 7:27 Kristen Kinnear-Ohlmann, 38 7:27 Stephan Osalvo, 23 7:30 Ron Sadowski, 44 7:31 Patrick Ryan, 65 7:32 Rick Recker, 69 7:36 Phil Erickson, 73 7:41 Ed Rousseau, 74 7:52 Lee Stauffacher, 73 7:52 Vivian Gacek, 8* 7:54 Darrel Christensen, 76 7:54 Steve Maupin, 62 8:08 Julie Swenson, 59* 8:13 James Chase, 54 8:15 Gregory Logajan, 55 8:15 Harvey Johnson, 72 8:20 Mari Steinbach, 51* 8:26 Tracy Sadowski, 12* 8:28 Linda Hagen, 50* 8:45 Dan Wright, 72 9:16 Richard Wicklund, 73 9:34 Carol Klitzke, 66* 9:38 Doug Erbeck, 78 9:46 Dorothy Marden, 76* 9:57 Niki Grant, 32 11:43 Anthony Grant, 32* 11:43
Securian Winter Run Half Marathon JANUARY 25, ST. PAUL Open Men 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Patrick Russell, 37 1:14:09 Tom Gatyas, 33 1:17:59 Nathan Hoffman, 31 1:20:40 Elijah Kamermans, 28 1:21:11 Bennett Isabella, 31 1:21:15 Brian Davenport, 39 1:21:27 adam doe, 26 1:21:45 Pete Hoyem, 32 1:21:54 Zane Grabau, 25 1:22:05 Brent Roeger, 41 1:22:25 Greg Liebl, 28 1:23:01 Robert Economy, 50 1:23:20 Bryan Larison, 30 1:25:02 Douglas Johnson, 32 1:26:03 Michael Mack, 33 1:26:04 Nathan Campeau, 34 1:26:13 Nathan Leckband, 31 1:26:23 Graham Merfield, 51 1:26:32 Samuel Stiff, 20 1:26:55 Grant Moris, 23 1:29:18 Eric Kronback, 39 1:29:32 Don Sullivan, 40 1:29:48 Wayne Horsman, 53 1:30:04 Tony Yang, 50 1:30:34 Hal Brown, 25 1:31:01 Lucas Spargo, 32 1:31:08 Antony Motl, 31 1:31:13 Nicholas Rhodes, 33 1:31:19 Jeremy Reichenberger, 22 1:32:16 Rick Larsen, 52 1:32:33
Open Women 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Fox Suzanne, 30 Carrie Hinners, 27 Melissa Mangan, 24 Annalisa Krystof, 35 Alyssa Larsen, 36 Sharon Heyer, 25 Jane Morris, 32 Elaina Schellhaass, 26 Jamie Blumentritt, 26 Danielle Gordanier, 42 Elizabeth Sellers, 35 Elena Smith, 17 Donna Philippot, 45 Kate Davis, 48
1:34:12 1:34:39 1:35:45 1:35:51 1:38:31 1:38:43 1:40:51 1:40:59 1:41:10 1:42:25 1:43:09 1:43:23 1:43:25 1:44:01
AT T H E R AC E S 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Tamara Spargo, 34 Jody Nelson, 49 Joy Esboldt, 27 Tracie Kent, 39 Jill Marble, 42 Amy Vogt, 40 Diana Hogan, 30 Ann Wasson, 52 Amanda Murphy, 27 Victoria Ranua, 33 Jennifer Marlin, 28 Kelsey Dieterman, 24 Morgan Place, 24 Taylor Marble, 24 Ann Stanoch, 32 Emily Bradshaw, 23
1:44:06 1:44:12 1:44:28 1:45:52 1:45:53 1:45:56 1:46:07 1:46:08 1:46:34 1:46:42 1:47:04 1:47:08 1:47:10 1:47:12 1:47:21 1:47:29
Men 14 - 15 164 256
Ben Reuss, 15 Gavin Peterson, 15
1:56:02 2:14:46
Men 16 - 17 33 Faysal Mahmoud, 17 142 Ryan Phillips, 17 289 Brady Allbaugh, 16
1:33:46 1:52:56 2:35:29
Men 18 - 19 58 72 135 141
Jake Odom, 18 Eric Peterson, 19 Dan Rother, 18 Cole Gewerth, 18
1:40:48 1:43:20 1:52:27 1:52:55
Men 20 - 34 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 11 13 14
Tom Gatyas, 33 Nathan Hoffman, 31 Elijah Kamermans, 28 Bennett Isabella, 31 adam doe, 26 Pete Hoyem, 32 Zane Grabau, 25 Greg Liebl, 28 Bryan Larison, 30 Douglas Johnson, 32
1:17:59 1:20:40 1:21:11 1:21:15 1:21:45 1:21:54 1:22:05 1:23:01 1:25:02 1:26:03
Men 35 - 39 1 6 21 31 37 41 48 67 74 81
Patrick Russell, 37 Brian Davenport, 39 Eric Kronback, 39 Evan Roberts, 39 Derek Sciacca, 38 James Dougherty, 37 Jason Chrudimsky, 37 Thomas Lindsay, 37 Dwight Skinner, 39 Paul Olson, 39
1:14:09 1:21:27 1:29:32 1:32:45 1:34:05 1:35:09 1:37:42 1:42:17 1:43:27 1:44:36
Men 40 - 44 10 22 34 38 40 42 47 49 59 64
Brent Roeger, 41 Don Sullivan, 40 Kelcey Knott, 40 Jason Rezac, 40 Mica Grafenstein-Kinzel, 41
Andrew McCurdy, 40 Gerald Butler, 42 Mark Garrison, 43 Robert Haung, 40 Jeff Berends, 44
1:22:25 1:29:48 1:33:49 1:34:38 1:34:59 1:35:11 1:36:23 1:37:55 1:40:52 1:42:10
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Men 45 - 49 36 46 57 61 62 66 71 73 78 79
Chris Sebald, 48 John Kilbride, 48 Timothy Wright, 49 Jeff Webber, 49 Ross Jilk, 48 Victor Reiner, 48 Craig Hagensick, 49 Mike Koetting, 46 Mark Meierotto, 48 Eric Levinson, 48
1:34:01 1:36:14 1:40:42 1:41:15 1:41:52 1:42:15 1:42:54 1:43:25 1:43:52 1:44:13
Men 50 - 54 12 18 23 24 30 32 43 56 68 76
Robert Economy, 50 Graham Merfield, 51 Wayne Horsman, 53 Tony Yang, 50 Rick Larsen, 52 Mark Hofmaster, 51 Mark Larison, 51 Dave Just, 54 Dale Shores, 50 Jozef Klobusnik, 54
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Dale Heinen, 58 Steven Sylvander, 55 Brad Gluth, 56 Jeff Hutton, 55 Gerry Neville, 55 Ken Kufahl, 55 Mark LeDuc, 59 Bob Paulsen, 57 Michael Salm, 57 Peter Friberg, 59
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Men 65 - 69 94 102 145 180 274 284 288
LeRoy Jordan, 66 Greg Buse, 65 Mick Justin, 65 kent teibel, 66 Vincent Rohr, 69 Patrick Ryan, 65 John Urbach, 66
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Men 70 - 74 206 222 231 239 246 293
Douglas Brandt, 70 Norm Purrington, 70 Phil Erickson, 73 Steve Schroeder, 71 Ed Rousseau, 74 Gary Telega, 71
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AT T H E R AC E S Men 75 - 79 297 302
Douglas Erbeck, 78 Ralph Wilson, 79
21 2:37:42 2:42:59
Women 14 - 15 131 184 198
Megan Hanenberger, 15 2:09:36 Maggie Brenner, 15 2:23:59 Elizabeth Wisenden, 15 2:30:03
Women 16 - 17 12 32 39 79 82 169 180
Elena Smith, 17 Kaitlyn Gynnild, 17 Catherine Luo, 16 Ellie Tupper, 17 Tessa Solberg, 17 Melissa Seman, 17 Rachel Kubiatowicz, 17
1:43:23 1:47:32 1:48:24 1:55:46 1:56:13 2:16:49 2:22:54
Women 18 - 19 87 119
kim oldenborg, 19 Lexi Hasleiet, 18
1:56:50 2:05:49
Women 20 - 34 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 15 17
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Fox Suzanne, 30 Carrie Hinners, 27 Melissa Mangan, 24 Sharon Heyer, 25 Jane Morris, 32 Elaina Schellhaass, 26 Jamie Blumentritt, 26 Tamara Spargo, 34 Joy Esboldt, 27
1:34:12 1:34:39 1:35:45 1:38:43 1:40:51 1:40:59 1:41:10 1:44:06 1:44:28
RESULTS Diana Hogan, 30
1:46:07
Women 35 - 39 4 5 11 18 54 60 61 63 76 110
Annalisa Krystof, 35 Alyssa Larsen, 36 Elizabeth Sellers, 35 Tracie Kent, 39 Molly Libra, 39 Jessica Deegan, 37 Aubrey Bork, 36 Katy Bonnstetter, 37 Susie Breckenridge, 35 Leigh Currie, 39
1:35:51 1:38:31 1:43:09 1:45:52 1:50:47 1:53:05 1:53:19 1:53:55 1:55:32 2:02:41
Women 40 - 44 10 19 20 31 53 59 69 73 78 103
Danielle Gordanier, 42 Jill Marble, 42 Amy Vogt, 40 Lisa Himes, 43 Willie Tibbetts, 42 Kerry Oliver, 42 Deanne Newborg, 43 Michelle Thomas, 42 Stephanie Zahrbock, 43 Jill Jewell, 44
1:42:25 1:45:53 1:45:56 1:47:30 1:50:31 1:52:39 1:54:46 1:55:29 1:55:41 2:01:07
Women 45 - 49 13 14 16 42
Donna Philippot, 45 Kate Davis, 48 Jody Nelson, 49 Katy Dickson, 48
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48 51 52 62 67 77
Shari Stamps, 49 Lynnette Faragher, 48 Lori Harley, 48 Karen Hanson, 46 Eda Mutua, 49 Colleen Prudhomme, 48
1:49:44 1:50:14 1:50:25 1:53:28 1:54:27 1:55:38
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Women 50 - 54 22 38 45 84 86 89 91 116 117 140
Ann Wasson, 52 1:46:08 Wanda Lewis, 52 1:48:03 Hendrie Grant, 51 1:48:56 Brenda Todd-Bense, 52 1:56:27 Caroline Hale-Coldwell, 501:56:49 Karen Jansen, 50 1:57:12 Lisa Hines, 51 1:58:56 Diane Stoller, 54 2:03:34 Cassie Warner, 51 2:04:13 Diann Lee, 53 2:11:18
Women 55 - 59 98 101 162 173 175 187
Mary Purcell, 56 Linda Odden, 56 claudia wondra, 59 Susan Janssen, 59 Carol Bartholow, 58 Vicki-lynn Ferguson, 59
2:00:30 2:00:51 2:14:58 2:19:22 2:20:17 2:26:40
Women 60 - 64 203
jeri bukstein, 61
2:34:41
Women 65 - 69 148
Sara Cherne, 65
2:12:46
Open Men 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
Luis Leonardo, 33 Bobby Paxton, 57 Phillip Juda, 23 Sean Regan, 41 Aaron Schwietz, 16 Jason Sonnek, 33 Lucian Dieterman, 21 Michael Burgmeier, 25 Stephen Bartos, 43 Michael Jurasits, 34 Aaron Martin, 32 Dave McGarry, 40 Joey Zehner, 29 Tyler Giles, 28 Alex May, 16 Dan Waller, 29 Chris Ramsey, 49 Denny Jordan, 62 Quan Dang, 42 Jesse McCaffrey, 26 Jerry Beutel, 63
41:17 42:48 43:15 43:15 43:39 43:49 43:55 44:07 44:11 44:49 44:55 46:02 46:30 47:47 47:52 48:01 48:06 48:11 48:31 48:43 49:11
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Securian Winter Run participants get warmed up 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Tom Huberty, 62 Silasj Bell, 66 John Tipton, 22 Darren Trenkmann, 41 Nicholas Kopp, 18 Joe Smedsrud, 51 J J. Kirby, 30 Tommy Siesennop, 19 Justin Persuitti, 29
49:35 49:39 49:54 50:27 50:29 50:35 50:43 50:55 50:59
Open Women 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Shelly Lacher, 39 Jill Winter, 38 Lauren Nietz, 37 Mishka Vertin, 34 Lauren Morales, 27 sarah kenutis, 32 Callie Summers, 30 Meghan Becker, 29 Dana Piper, 35 Abby Delander, 21 Anna Langer, 21 Krystina Stadler, 28 Tanya Nelson, 40 Mallory McCarty, 26 Sara Drake, 39 Dayeton Tolle, 16 Roberta Just, 48 Margaret Gehring, 49 Sarah Northrup, 23 Alexandra Lodge, 28 Julie Goettl, 49 Kori Shelden, 27 Heidi Rusch, 28 Cathryn Jennissen, 36 Emily Mantor, 17 Jennie LaRoche, 24 Lani Lutz, 26 Amber Lee, 23 Libndsey Heiserman, 29 Yulia Melian, 24
42:16 44:27 44:30 45:54 46:30 47:49 47:56 48:07 49:09 50:47 50:47 53:36 54:07 54:41 55:17 55:20 55:22 55:24 55:25 55:25 55:27 55:28 55:49 56:31 56:43 56:51 57:10 57:52 57:56 58:04
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Alex May, 16
47:52
Men 18 - 19 26 29
Nicholas Kopp, 18 Tommy Siesennop, 19
50:29 50:55
Men 20 - 34 1 3 6 7 8 10 11 13 14 16
Luis Leonardo, 33 Phillip Juda, 23 Jason Sonnek, 33 Lucian Dieterman, 21 Michael Burgmeier, 25 Michael Jurasits, 34 Aaron Martin, 32 Joey Zehner, 29 Tyler Giles, 28 Dan Waller, 29
41:17 43:15 43:49 43:55 44:07 44:49 44:55 46:30 47:47 48:01
Men 35 - 39 32 38 48 52
Aaron Griga, 39 Michael Evans, 39 Glen Varns, 39 Mike Sigrist, 37
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Luis Alber Vega Fuentes, 35
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Pete Miller, 37
51:46 53:09 54:56 55:40 1:01:47
1:02:26
Men 40 - 44 4 9 12 19 25 42 50 54 59 91
Sean Regan, 41 Stephen Bartos, 43 Dave McGarry, 40 Quan Dang, 42 Darren Trenkmann, 41 Mark Jacobson, 44 Rich Yankton, 43 Luis Valiente, 42 Chris Isensee, 42 Robert Hanson, 42
43:15 44:11 46:02 48:31 50:27 53:14 55:07 56:07 56:58 1:03:17
Men 45 - 49 17 37 43 49
Chris Ramsey, 49 Michael Fox, 45 Jerry Gunn, 46 Richard Berg, 47
48:06 53:07 53:44 54:59
Men 16 - 17 5
Aaron Schwietz, 16
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Bob Hoye, 45 Steve VanHandel, 46 Tom Walter, 48 Ken Clemons, 49 Joe Killeen, 45 Marc Light, 47
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Men 50 - 54 PA
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Knee Pain IT Band Syndrome Hip Pain
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Joe Smedsrud, 51 Hoobie Eskuri, 53 Bruce Satterlund, 54 David Juda, 52 Kim Bonander, 52 Gary Johnson, 53 Stephen Walsh, 53 Joseph Betlej, 52 Curt Bossert, 52 Brett Lehman, 50
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Bobby Paxton, 57 Louis Ahlstrand, 59 Jack Phillips, 56 Doug Collison, 57 Matt Moore, 59 Mark Varberg, 59 David Gallatin, 59 chuck oestreich, 56 Art Jacobson, 59 Paul Johnston, 55
42:48 54:42 56:55 58:10 1:00:37 1:00:49 1:04:39 1:07:02 1:08:41 1:13:54
Men 60 - 64 18 21 22 83 100 108
Denny Jordan, 62 Jerry Beutel, 63 Tom Huberty, 62 Timothy Walsh, 64 Don McCall, 60 Lee Piepkorn, 64
48:11 49:11 49:35 1:01:58 1:09:04 1:25:41
Men 65 - 69 23 55 56 87 101
Silasj Bell, 66 Jerry House, 66 David Schreiber, 67 Lou Miller, 69 Dave Rafael, 69 john brown, 70 Gene Bourland, 70 John Adams, 76 Claus Pierach, 79 Dayeton Tolle, 16 Emily Mantor, 17 Nicole Mischler, 19
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Mishka Vertin, 34 Lauren Morales, 27 sarah kenutis, 32 Callie Summers, 30 Meghan Becker, 29 Abby Delander, 21 Anna Langer, 21 Krystina Stadler, 28
Shelly Lacher, 39 Jill Winter, 38 Lauren Nietz, 37 Dana Piper, 35 Sara Drake, 39 Cathryn Jennissen, 36 Daphne Lundstrom, 35 Carrie Steffens, 38 Jessy Perzel, 38 Katherine Peterson, 35
42:16 44:27 44:30 49:09 55:17 56:31 58:25 1:00:34 1:00:52 1:01:45
Women 40 - 44 13 46 50 77 78 100 106 108 119 120
Tanya Nelson, 40 54:07 Catherine (Cal Chenault, 421:01:41 Alexandra Yarke, 43 1:02:03 Kristie Ellickson, 42 1:05:36 Andrea Mowery, 42 1:05:37 Sarah Fitch, 40 1:09:38 Irene Sy, 44 1:10:38 Tracy Schmidt, 43 1:11:08 Tammy Ferrian, 44 1:13:59 Kristin Lennert Murra, 44 1:14:37
Women 45 - 49 17 18 21 34 54 60 61 69 76 83
Roberta Just, 48 Margaret Gehring, 49 Julie Goettl, 49 Tracy Anderson, 47 Bonnie Eskuri, 48 Ann Sheehan, 49 Karen Olson, 46 Catherine Bishop, 46 Tammy Getman, 45 Valerie Neri, 46
Women 55 - 59
1:31:01 1:38:49 55:20 56:43 1:26:52
Women 20 - 34 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12
1 2 3 9 15 24 31 38 40 47
51:11 1:17:20
Women 18 - 19 137
Women 35 - 39
42 56 71 79 84 112
Women 16 - 17 16 25
54:41 55:25
55:22 55:24 55:27 59:46 1:02:20 1:02:45 1:03:14 1:04:38 1:05:18 1:06:19
Women 50 - 54
Men 75 - 79 110 111
Mallory McCarty, 26 Sarah Northrup, 23
49:39 56:31 56:45 1:02:25 1:10:40
Men 70 - 74 31 106
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45:54 46:30 47:49 47:56 48:07 50:47 50:47 53:36
49 53 75 94 97 117 129 135
Eve Dieterman, 50 Kimberly Hobert, 51 Micki Hofman, 52 Chiquita Ewert, 50 Valerie Holthus, 54 Jackie Klecker, 52 Linda Christen, 57 Ann Hicks, 55 Laurie Payton, 55 Jessie Carlson, 55 Joan Furlong, 58 Melinda Deye, 56 Debra Walsh, 58 Cherida McCall, 58
1:01:09 1:02:27 1:04:40 1:05:47 1:06:25 1:11:53 1:01:56 1:02:15 1:05:18 1:08:51 1:09:28 1:13:46 1:17:37 1:21:44
Women 60 - 64 51 62 115 141
Julie Swenson, 60 Joy Schwab, 61 Cathy Lauer, 61 Lindsay Nauen, 63
1:02:05 1:03:40 1:12:44 1:45:00
Women 65 - 69 33
Jan Daker, 66
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AT T H E R AC E S
CALENDAR
MARCH 22, 2014
APRIL 26, 2014
• MDRA 4 Mile Lake Johanna 4 mile
• Walk On Waconia 10K or 10 Mile Run or Walk
Schmidt Park , Arden Hills Rob Economy, 952-927-0983
• Monticello March Madness 5K Monticello, MN Dave Wik, 763-295-4053
M A R C H 2 9, 2 0 1 4 • MDRA 7 Mile Hopkins, MN Heidi Miler, 952 927-0983
• Return of the Robin Run 5k, 10k Rochester Rec Center, MN Mary Anderson, 651-688-9143
APRIL 5, 2014 • MDRA/Ron Daws 25K Minnetonka, MN (Cross of Glory Church) Norm Champ, 612 822-6743
• Rotary Strive Scholarship Spirit of White Bear Lake 5 Mile / 5K White Bear Lake, MN Don Mooney, 651 308-1364
APRIL 6, 2014 • Fools Five Road Race 1 Mile and 8K Lewiston, MN Dan Goss, 614-578-6528
A P R I L 7, 2 0 1 4 • University of Minnesota Design of Medical Devices Conference 5.10(K) Coffman Memorial Union, University of Minnesot Laura Paulsen, 410-925-4665
APRIL 12, 2014 • Run the Valley 10K Golden Valley MN Jeanne Fackler, 763-512-2345
• Trail Mix Race Minnesota 50K Ultra (solo), 25K (solo), 50K Team (4-person teams/12.5K each runner) Lake Rebecca Park Reserve, Rockford, MN Megan Kelzenberg, 763.694.7725
A P R I L 1 9, 2 0 1 4 • Fitger's 5K Run & Walk 5K Duluth, MN Jon Carlson, 218-727-0947
• Stride into Spring 5K & 10K Bemidji State University, Minnesota Craig Hougen, 218-755-2883
• Hair to There 5K Wayzata, Minnesota Camille Weas, 763-350-6214
• Mpls Recycle Run 5K Lake Harriet, MN Mary Anderson, 651-688-9143
• Bunny Hop 5k and Egg Hunt 2014 Woodbury, MN Travis Holt, 952-220-3357
A P R I L 2 0, 2 0 1 4 • Easter Sunday - Rise 'n' Shine 5k Como Lake, St Paul, MN, Gary Westlund, 612-245-9160
Waconia , MN Bart Meath, 952-442-3372
• Chippewa 10K & 50K New Auburn, WI Randy Fulton, 651-653-7401
• Alpha Lambda Delta Pi Run 5K, 10K, and Fun Run Crookston, MN Elizabeth Tollefson, 218-281-8432
• CEMSTONE Run For Others 10K and 5K Mahtomedi, MN Tim Torgerson, 612-751-4878
• Next Steps 5K Saint Paul, MN Julie Borgerding, 651-227-5911
• Heartland Relay 200 mile team realy Winterset, IA Timberline Events LLC, 303.800.5353
• Get in Gear 5K, 10K, 13.1 Miles, Kids 2K Minneapolis, MN Paulette Odenthal, 612-722-9004
• Falls Duathlon 2 Mile Run, 14 Mile Bike, 3 Mile Run Cannon Falls, Minnesota Mark Bongers, 507-664-9438
• Healthy Heart 5K Run/Walk Osceola, WI Bob Wolf, 715-294-5736
• CrazyLegs World - Twin Cities 8K Run or 2 Mile Walk Hopkins, MN Jessica Santos, 763-528-8632
A P R I L 2 7, 2 0 1 4 • Challenge Happiness (3rd Annual) 5k & 1.5 Mile Como Lake, St Paul, MN Gary Westlund, 612 245-9160
• Heartland Relay 75 75-mile team realy Blanchard IA to Omaha NE Timberline Events LLC, 303.800.5353
• Athleta Unleash the SHE 10K, 5K Rochester, Minnesota Mitchell, 5076649438
M AY 1 , 2 0 1 4 • Healthy Knight 5K Run Dakota County Technical College Campus Tom Cross, 651-423-8677
M AY 3 , 2 0 1 4 • Jump To It 5K and 10K White Bear Lake, MN Randy Fulton, 651-653-7401
• Run the Ridge 5K run/walk Chaska, MN Megan Williams, 952-261-5769
• Roxbury Rural Run & Kids Country Mile 5K Run/Walk, 10K, Kids 1 Mile The Dorf Haus, Roxbury, WI Patrice Luer, 608-643-7226
• Ron Erno Memorial Lake Minnewaska Warm-Up Half Marathon/10k/5k Glenwood, MN Steve Hill, 320-239-1331
• Brookings Marathon, Half Marathon & Marathon Relay Brookings, SD Matt Bien, (605) 692-2414
• 7 at 7 7 mile, 5k and 1K kids' run St. Peter/Mankato, MN Chris Crocker, 507-327-7170
• Gunflint Trail's Ham Run Half Marathon & 5K Fun Run Gunflint Trail - Grand Marais, MN Colette Mueller, 218-387-2429
• Next Steps 5k Upper Landing Park, Saint Paul, MN Mary Anderson, 651-688-9143
• Walk For Bladder Cancer 5K East River Flats, Minneapolis, MN Mary Anderson, 651-688-9143
M AY 4 , 2 0 1 4 • MDRA Mudball Classic Kids: 1/4 - 1/ 2 mile, Adult 4 mile South Wirth Park Forest, Minneapolis, MN Heidi Miler, 952-927-0983
• MN Landscape Arboretum Bud Break 5K Run/Walk Chanhassen, MN Carol Fischenich, 952-443-1515
• Steps for Hospice 5K Walk/Run Sturges Park, Buffalo, MN Laura Jones, 763-684-1477
• Eau Claire Marathon 5k, 13.1 miles, 26.2 miles 4 person Marathon Relay Eau Claire, WI, Pat Toutant, 715-577-7117
M AY 1 0, 2 0 1 4 • Mom's Day 5K Minneapolis, MN Heidi Miler, 952 927-0983
• Oakdale Spring Classic Duathlon 3 mile run, 14 mile bike, 2.5 mile run Lake Elmo Park Reserve, Oakdale, MN Randy Fulton, 651-653-7401
• Lake Wobegon Trail Marathon St. Joseph, MN Sharon Hobbs, 320 251-4873
• Journeys Marathon Full marathon, half marathon, 13.1 mile power walk and 5K Eagle River, WI Kim Emerson, 800-359-6315
• 10th Annual Scheels Fargo Marathon 5K, 10K, 1/2 Marathon and Full Marathon Fargo, ND Mark Knutson, 1-888-RUN-FARGO
• Maple Grove Half Marathon and 5K Maple Grove High School, MN Mary Anderson, 651-688-9143
• Open Baskets 5K & 1 Mile Walk
• Think Gray 5K Lake Phalen, MN Tammy Greschner, 651-698-79912
• Run Camden 5K Minneapolis , MN Barb Leinenger, 612-644-8185
M AY 1 1 , 2 0 1 4 • Mothers Day 5k - Celebration of Active Generations 5k & 1.5 Mile Como Lake, St Paul, MN Gary Westlund, 612-245-9160
• Susan G. Komen Twin Cities Race for the Cure Mall of America Bloomington, MN Susan G. Komen for the Cure, 952-746-1760
• Run With The Housewives 5k & 1k fun run Elm Creek Park, MN Mary Anderson, 651-688-9143
M A Y 1 7, 2 0 1 4 • HCC's 6th Annual Rock 'n Run 5K & 10K & Kids' 1K & 3K Morrison Cty Fairgrounds - Little Falls, MN Kate Bjorge, 320-631-5675
• Be The Match Walk Run 5K, 1K, Tot Trot Lake Harriet, Minneapolis, MN Jenna Squires, 612-884-8444
• Litchfield Empower Race for the Future 4 mile Lake Ripley Litchfield MN Renee Nolting, 320-235-1050
• The Autism 5K Lake Calhoun Corey Donovan, 952-653-1731
• Dodge Dash 5K and 1 mile family fun run Saint Paul, MN Betty Notto, 651-259-1462
• Pax Christi Run/Walk/Pray 5K Eden Prairie, MN Marc Nosal, 952-947-3782
• TC Kids Cross Country Fun Run Kids Event St. Paul, MN Twin Cities In Motion, 651-289-7700
• Get It Dunn Run 5K and Half Marathon Menomonie, WI Karen Hatfield McCalla, 651-335-1428
• The Nova Classic Run 10K, 5K & 2K St. Paul, MN Trixie Williams, 651-485-5032
• Marion Arts Festival Half Marathon & 5K Marion, IA John Snitko, 319-373-0741
• Challenge Obesity 5k (9th Annual) 5k & 1.5 Mile Como Lake, St Paul, MN Gary Westlund, 612-245-9160
• Northern Lakes 5K, 10 Mile, 30K White Bear Lake, MN Randy Fulton, 651-653-7401
Trapp Farm Park, MN Mary Anderson, 651-688-9143
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MEETING MINUTES Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting - December 9, 2013
Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting - February 10, 2014
Members Present: Kate Bomsta, Norm Champ, Jim Delaplain, Noelle Frost, Josh Jacobson, Kristin Johnson, Bill Knight, Dave Marek, Kevin Ross, Melissa Wieczorek
Members Present: Paul Arneberg, Kate Bomsta, Kristen Bruner, Nathan Campeau, Norm Champ, Jim Delaplain, Josh Jacobson, Kristin Johnson, Mary Johnson, Dave Marek, Mike Nawrocki, Kevin Ross, Scott Welle
Guest Present: Heidi Miler Members Absent: Paul Arneberg, Nathan Campeau, Mike Iserman, Mary Johnson, Mike Nawrocki, Eve Stein Secretary’s Report: The minutes of the November 11 meeting were approved. Treasurer’s Report: Treasurer Josh Jacobson reported YTD ad revenue is down, while membership revenue to budget is on target. Expense and revenue activity was at a minimum in November. Due primarily to significantly insufficient ad revenue and secondarily lower than expected membership revenue, we will not meet our budgeted revenue target for 2013. Office Manager’s Report: Membership: New Members Renewals Membership Total
2012 21 139 2,424
2013 29 138 (includes 32 two-year renewals) 2,364 (prior month: 2,350)
Overall membership can increase month to month yet appear to decline due to the timing of when MDRA is paid for online memberships. Total new member and renewal numbers reflect paid memberships during November. The membership total includes new members registered online; revenue for these memberships will be recognized in December. RunMinnesota: The November/December issue and the 2014 MDRA Annual Calendar have been mailed and are available for sale in local running stores.
COMMITTEE REPORTS Administration: There is a full slate of candidates for MDRA’s Board of Directors, including several new candidates. Voting will again be offered electronically and via paper ballots, and will begin in December. New board members will be announced at MDRA’s Annual Party on January 11, 2014. Programs: The Programs Committee is delighted to announce that Gloria Jansen and Rochelle Christiansen will coach the 2014 spring marathon training class. Details regarding the class will be finalized and published in January. Due to sub-zero temperatures, for the first time ever, a Polar Bear run was cancelled; otherwise, runs continue to have a core contingent of runners representing a wide range of paces. Polar Bear runs are friend-friendly and not limited to MDRA members. The Polar Bears are hosting a Shopping Day Saturday December 14; details will be posted on the Polar Bear Facebook page. Dome Running will conclude with a final run on December 26. Promotions: MDRA Annual Party date is set for January 11, 2014. Party goers will again have the opportunity to purchase official MDRA merchandise. Race: MDRA Grand Prix awards have been acquired and are ready for awarding. Grand Prix winners will be recognized at MDRA’s 2014 Annual Party. MDRA’s Race Directors’ Conference will be held Saturday, January 11th at the Edina Community Center, Room 350 (5701 Normandale Rd, Edina MN 55424). This year’s clinic will focus on race basics, marketing, options for timing your event and the always popular race director’s round table. Conference hours are from 8am – noon. Same day registration ($40) is available at 7:30 am. USATF: Annual awards banquet will be held Feb 22, 2014. New Business: Artwork for MDRA’s inaugural half marathon will be finalized by the MDRA board this month, kicking off promotion of the 2014 City of Lakes Half Marathon. Old Business: The board voted to determine the 2013 recipient of The Lanin Award for Distinguished Service. The winner will be announced at MDRA’s annual party on January 11, 2014.
Guest Present: Heidi Miler Members Absent: Randy Fulton, Mike Iserman, Eve Stein, Melissa Wieczorek Secretary’s Report: Kevin Ross requested all board members bring their goals for 2014 to the next meeting. The minutes have been corrected. Dave Marek moved to approve and Jim Delaplain seconded. The minutes of the December 13, 2013 meeting were approved. Treasurer’s Report: The January financials reflects a year over year decrease in Ad revenue by roughly $5000, however we are expecting a stronger year overall for ad revenue. Expenses are favorable compared to January 2013 due to a conscious decision about bill payments. The 2014 budget was discussed and there was a proposed and approved overall increase of $17,000 in revenue and expenses. Changes were made in order to reflect a need to make both the City of Lakes and the training programs sustainable. Additionally purchasing new equipment was discussed, it was suggested we delay this purchase one year. Kevin Ross suggested we discuss this purchase again in the third quarter of this year. Nathan Campeau moved to accept the budget. Kevin Ross seconded and the budget was approved. Office Manager’s Report: Membership: New Members Renewals Membership Total
2013 71 254 2,420
2014 59 246 (includes 51 two-year renewals) 2,316 (prior month: 2,314)
Office Manager’s note: Overall membership can increase month to month yet appear to decline due to the timing of when MDRA is paid for online memberships. RunMinnesota: As normal this time of year we have many December and January members who have not renewed. Reminders are being sent out. February membership should look good and we should see better numbers in March.
COMMITTEE REPORTS Advocacy: Nathan Campeau chairs this committee. Nathan influenced positive trail improvements on the West River Road in 2013. Nathan and Heidi will meet with Greg Rosenberg to discuss a partnership idea that Greg has that involves bringing together the various running factions in Minnesota. He is interested in starting a Minnesota Running Coalition to act as an advocacy group for running related issues. The Polar Plunge will be on March 1 with a group of MDRA members participating. Through this effort MDRA is able to make a contribution to Special Olympics. Programs: Kevin Ross chairs this committee. Jim Delaplain and Scott Welle volunteered for this committee. Mike Nawrocki announced the last Polar Bear run is on February 15. Gloria Jansen and Rochelle Christensen are coaching the Spring Marathon Class. The info session is on Tuesday, February 18 and the first run is Saturday, February 22. Promotions: Mike Nawrocki will chair this committee. Dave Marek volunteered to be on this committee. Heidi said we need ideas for Grandma’s marathon expo. Race: This committee will be meeting next month. Volunteers are needed for Spring Races. New Business: Kevin Ross proposed a simple work plan for 2014. His suggestions are, balance annual budget, increase membership, explore alternatives to our annual printed calendar, RunMinnesota magazine issued first week of every month, update web site, and develop new coaches. A lively discussion followed. Thoughts were these are ideas to aspire to, some challenging, others to give us increased organization. Most felt these ideas are committee issues with each committee needing specific goals. Drafting a work plan was discussed. Improving our committees and achieving goals through smaller groups was suggested. Josh Jacobson suggested a goal that would explore how to achieve financial stability. Kate Bomsta raised the issue of the future of our annual calendar. Nathan Campeau will format all ideas for 2014 and sent out a ballot for vote on survey monkey. The board is requested to send all goals to Nathan by February 7. Old Business: A variation of the Classic COL 25K logo will be used for the new Jeff Winter City of Lakes Half Marathon. Nathan Campeau moved to adjourn the meeting and Jim Delaplain seconded the motion.
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PHOTOS
MDRA Annual Party January 11 • Edina PHOTOS BY WAYNE KRYDUBA
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PHOTOS
100% Irish for a Day 10 Mile & 5K March 8 • Minneapolis PHOTOS BY WAYNE KRYDUBA
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RUNNING INSIGHTS
The Bargain BY BRUCE BROTHERS
Typically, I bargain with myself before and during runs. Simply to nudge myself out the door, I often need to remind myself about previous days skipped or runs cut short or events looming that require preparation. Often, the bargaining resumes while I’m out there, especially if the opportunity arises to turn for home. On the good days, however, I find myself almost bargaining to avoid that turn. I reach a point of playfulness where running is not a chore but a pleasure, where the wind chill and the slippery terrain and the hour of the day seem insignificant. I am exactly where I want to be, moving at an even pace as my senses embrace the conditions. Why not tack on a few miles more? It can happen in January in St. Paul when the temperature is below zero, as it did recently when I abandoned my plan for a three mile run and upped the distance a bit. My feelings of well being when I finished that day were very much like those after I finished running a similar distance a month earlier along the coast of the Pacific Ocean in southern California. Certainly, it’s easier to rediscover the joy of running when you can shed your shoes and lope barefoot along the edge of the surf, alternately splashing in the waves or carving footprints in wet, compacted sand. It’s a return to playtime, a truth I was reminded of a few hundred yards down the beach, when I was overtaken by a young boy sprinting for all he was worth to a spot where his sister and mother were bent to the task of constructing a castle in the sand. The boy’s grin sparkled like the sun off the surf. Oh, yeah, I thought. Running is fun. Late running writer George Sheehan was the voice of wisdom concerning perceptions about running. “In play, you realize simultaneously the supreme importance and utter insignificance of what you are doing,” Sheehan writes in the marvelous Running & Being, a book that remains pertinent more than 35 years after it was published. Sheehan adds, “Play is where life lives.” Physical grace, psychological ease and personal integrity emerge as a person becomes immersed in “times of peace the world cannot give,” he posits. Running demands a focus that blurs many of life’s difficulties. Boring? Sheehan liked to proclaim that when you are out there and breathing hard, the most interesting topic on the planet is air. Like that carefree child, you zero in on your next few steps. Life takes on a simplicity that Sheehan described as “perfection.” Bargaining becomes an afterthought. You coast, savoring the wet sand or the light snow or the pavement beneath each footstep. Like the sign says: You are here. And amen to that.
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MARCH/APRIL 2014