Can standing in line for the can...

Line for BCRR members at private BCRR Privies

Line for the wretched masses at public porta-cans

As we are in the midst of the HARRA Fall Race Series, let us give thanks for one of the major perks of BCRR membership: the impeccably maintained, incredibly clean, sweet smelling (at least initially) private BCRR Porta-Potties. In addition to the short lines, these potties are fully equipped with oodles of toilet paper, scented candles and a mirror! You'll never get caught when the gun goes off with your pants down and no TP in a dark, funky porta-can if you're with BCRR! We owe a huge debt of gratitude to John Phillips for building them, schelping them to every HARRA Race, and taking them and their contents back afterwards. Thank you John!

BCRR membership has it's privledges!!

BCRR Halloween 09

As Seen at Valhalla after the run last week...

-Reduced rate for last minute Koala/Luke's Locker Half-Marathon registration this weekend

The Koala Health and Wellness Centers & Luke’s Locker Houston Half Marathon and Relay is scheduled for Sunday, October 25 at Sam Houston Park in downtown Houston. This is the first race in the 2009 Houston Marathon Warm-up Series and a great way to train for the 2010 Houston half and full marathon.

As the managing sponsor, the Houston Striders is excited to offer all Houston metropolitan area running club members a special rate for one weekend only. Beginning Saturday 10/17/09 @ 12:00 a.m. and extending through Sunday 10/18/09 @ 11:59 pm, we are waiving the $5 increase fee bringing the cost of the race down to $45 for the half-marathon and $70 for the relay.

Runners can log onto online registration located at http://www.houstonhalf.com/ and should enter code HHM09 on the second page of the online entry form to receive the discount.

Marathon Training runs in India!!!

BCRR is proud to announce that we are taking Marathon training one step further. If you are in India and would like to continue your Marathon training, BCRR is there for you.

In Todd's words: "A nice 47 minute easy run with Neeraj helped me overcome my jet lag and also gave me a flavor of local surroudings"

Todd and I will travel to lower foothills of Himalayas on Friday morning and will do our little Hill repeat workouts in a beautiful breathtakig Valley of Flowers.

If, you wanna join us for your marathon training, shoot me or Todd an email and we would love to meet you and help you finetune your marathon training...;-)

Rice All Comers Track Meets

All-Comer Track and Field Meets are being held for 3 Fridays during June at Rice. The last one will be Friday June 26th starting at 6PM at Rice University Track on the corner of University and Main. The cost is $7.00 per person for unlimited events. This video was taken on June 19th of some the 800 and 400 meter heats. Featured runners (i.e. people that I know) are Matt Nicol, Neeraj Rohilla, Leno Rios, Tom King, and Sabra Harvey. It is a lot of fun to watch and I've been told it is fun to run in, but I am not so sure about that:) Contact Casey Thom at cdt@rice.edu or Jon Warren at jhwarren@rice.edu for more information.

Yoga for Runners

Recommendation from Linnie Reichle:

...wanted to let you know about a class I took Saturday, it was Yoga, but we concentrated on stretches for runners. It was great, you might want to post this info for some of the other runners in the club. It is on Saturdays @ TRI ON THE RUN @ 10 am. It is only $10.00 a class and Nicole took us through some great stretches. This Saturday the co-owner of Yoga One will be there to work on back stretches and some more running stretches.

Linnie

BCRR Writing Excellence Awards

What many of you didn't see at the recent BCRR Awards Banquet were the lovely personalized certificates that were received by the winners of the "WORD FROM THE BIRD" WRITING EXCELLENCE AWARD. These certificates were designed by Mike Mangan. Congratulations again to our winners Carlye Graydon (1st), Tom Helm (2nd), and Mr. Negative Split (3rd- accepted in his behalf by Alfonso Torres).