BCRR This Week - October 15 to 22, 2012

HELLO BAYOU CITY!

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Thanks to Tim McGuirk and John Adams for sponsoring last week beer tab at Valahalla. 

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We had a good turn out at Memorial Park on Friday for the Alternative Happy Hour Scrabble Run. Thanks to Susan Cita for providing scrabble tiles, snacks and awards for the top three finishers.

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BCRR Birthdays This Week: Dennis Dwulet (October 16), Mary Kathryn Campion * (October 17), Rey Buznego (October 18), Kathleen Mahon (October 18), Jim Knievel (October 20), Raymond Verm (October 21), Elizabeth Frost (October 21) and Jennifer McKay (October 22). *=New Age Group

Have a very happy birthday!

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WORD FROM THE BIRD wants to hear from you. Feel free to contribute with any interesting running material you want to see in the newsletter. The bird is always on the lookout for entertaining run/race reports, how-to/technical articles, editorials, and photos. Just submit your story to bcrr.news@gmail.com. The Deadline for consideration to the next newsletter is always the 20th day of the month. 

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SAVE THE DATE: 12/12/12 Details to follow.

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What to know about local races, training runs and BCRR events? Just click on the BCRR Events Calendar

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REPORT YOUR RACE RESULTS: We want to know what our members are doing on the roads and/or trails. Send all your results to us at bcrr.results@gmail.com before the 20th day of the month and we’ll make sure they hit the next newsletter!

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Running Calendar:

Tour de Bayou Races: Every Thursday in October, 6:00 pm. If you have not run any of the HARRA Tour de Bayou races you should try to this month. They are fun, hilly and free. No entry fee, no t-shirt, no refreshments (bring your own if you want any). But there is plenty of fun and runners with attitudes (good ones) and if you collapse and your heart quits beating one of the AEDs will zap you back to life.   

Here are the dates and locations of the Practice Tour de Bayou series:

• Oct 4: Spotts Park
• Oct 11: Ho Chi Minh
• Oct 18: Allen Pkwy at Montrose (Dog Park)
• Oct 25: White Oak Bayou at Thelma

For more information go to: www.harra.org/955dir/Competitions/tourdebayou.html

Wednesday (Rice University): Join us every Wednesday evening at Rice University for Sprints and Spirits. The group meets at 5:45 pm (run leaves at 6 pm). The Bayou Run (6.6 miles) is the usual route but there are shortcuts and alternative routes as well. All levels are welcome. And the best part is the cheap beer at Valhalla, a delightfully casual and economical watering hole, afterwards. Come on out! It's a great way to break up the stressful work week.

Friday Hills at Mount Bacon (Tanglewood): Join us for this weekly run from St. Martins Episcopal Church, 717 Sage Road to Mount Bacon. We meet in the church parking lot at the corner of Sage Road and Woodway Drive at 5:30 am. We have a 1.3 mile warm-up run to Mount Bacon and do 2 to 4 miles of hills with a 1.3 mile run back to the church. 

Sunday Long Run (Memorial Park, 6:30AM): Join us for the weekly long run from Memorial Park zero-mile marker. We leave promptly at 6:30 and members typically run between 10 and 15 miles. 

The HARRA Fall Race Series: BCRR needs for you to run as many of the following races to score valuable points for the club for the HARRA Inter Club Competition. You must be a current HARRA member to earn points so if you have not joined please do so now. 

• October 14, 2012 - USA Space City 10-Miler
• October 28, 2012 - Luke's Locker & Koala Healthcare Houston Half Marathon
• November 18, 2012 - HMSA St. Lukes Episcopal Hospital Classical 25K
• December 9, 2012 - Sugar Land Finish Line Sports 30K
• January 13, 2013 - Chevron Houston Marathon

Webmaster's Note: Only the race distances listed count for the HARRA competitions. Auxiliary races such as the half-marathon relay, 5K's, and the Aramco Half marathon that occur as part of these events do not count. 

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Social Calendar:

Happy Hour (October 26, 2012, 6:30PM): Alabama Ice House. 

If you'd like to be on the mailing list for the unofficial Happy Hour, please email Sam Pace

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SAVE THE DATE: Sunday December 16, 2012, BCRR Christmas Party, Cadillac Bar, 1802 Shepherd, 5:30-10. 

The board wants your help with the music for this years Christmas Party. Do you have a song that you want included? If so, please send the song title and artist name to Chris Thompson and we will try to accommodate your request.

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Your BCRR Board!