La Chute July Newsletter by Jim Cunningham

24th Montcalm Mile

did relief registration since everyone registering

Matching the timing with the race numbers

was running and needed to warm up. Matt and

and producing results went very smoothly,

Dave handed out clipboards with entries. With

although the crew finished just before the

llie picked up her card this morning. Ellie

that much help we had lulls registering. We

fireworks! One seemingly potential problem

usually rides the police car and takes the

closed registration, boxed supplies, and then

was misspellings on the final spreadsheet,

pictures. This year Michaela did. Elle is happy

the last runner came. Thanks Heidi for getting

but as it turned out, the spellings on the tabs

with her performance and that I didn’t delete

him set up!

were correct, and runners had unusual names.

the pictures from the card. Ellie mentioned that

Results and pictures are up on the site, and

many of the area college

The finish went smoothly. Dave

the only thing left to do is to repair some of

age

consider

and Tom worked the head of

the stanchions.

the Montcalm Mile their

the chute directing runners and

favorite race!

redirecting bandits. Brian, Walt,

The race committee review the race and their

and George took care of the

findings follow: •no bandits •bed race came through while the chute was up and blocking the way, needs coordination next year, bed racers didn’t know where the finish line was •one put the bar code tag in the envelope instead of the name tag •one envelope was empty

The

runners

race

was

the

timing. Jim and Connie handed

smoothest ever! We had roughly 212 runners

out envelopes and acted as pushers. At the

(debate still continues on the status of the

end of the chute, Rita, Joanne, and Barbara

horse). Heidi collected the money. It was sure

helped give out the medals. Linda and Kathy

nice to see it separated the next morning. Jim,

picked up the envelopes.

Shawn, Ellie, and Fred registered runners. Jeff

•redo the registration form to match the set-up of the race number •add a place for the bib number on the registration form, that will link the number to additional runner information •cell phone worked fine •envelopes vs. ring; debate continues The race raised $850, so the club is all set for 2011. Thanks again to all those who helped out at the race!

Mooseman Half Ironman Red McDonough: 2nd place

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Usain Bolt vs Sean Eadie

sain Bolt is the fastest man alive, but can a top track cyclists beat him? That was a question posed in the June issue of outside magazine. Most trackies know that a top track sprinter doing a 200M time trial will go almost twice as fast as a 100m runner ( both pretty darn close to 10 seconds, with the track rider going twice the distance), but the cyclists has the advantage of the standing start. The folks at Outside magazine went to Jim Martin, and former track racer and now one of the top cycling bio-mechanist in the world. From a standing start, it makes sense that the longer the race gets the more likely the cyclist is to win, as the runners are already slowing down after 100M and the cyclists is just gaining speed. But it is a pretty close race at 100M. Who do you think won? The answer is the cyclists by 0.16 seconds. Bolt pulls ahead at the start, but then Eadie

Passes him at 89.7 meters. Jim’s models are excellent, and can be be highly accurate, but when it comes down to 0.16 seconds, I think it could still be anyone’s race. If those two men lined up at the starting line in top form, I wouldn’t have much confidence in predicting the winner one way or the other. Complete Article

Additional Results: Karen Costello Run for Hope (3/20/2010) “Half Marathon”- 1:59:50 and The Prospect Mt. Road Race (5/8/10)- 1:05:57. That was my first time up Prospect and what a lovely day to do it, rain and fog, no views except the blacktop. But FUN! I got third in my age group (55-59), but I know I beat some younger folks. See you on the road. Karen State County NY

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