GreetingsBayou City Road Runners |
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| | | | Space City 10-Miler Recap
Valhalla Streak Back on Track - Wednesday!
Tour de Bayou Stage 2 - Cullen Running Center - Thursday!
Save The Date: - 👻 Halloween Party - Oct 24th!
- 🏃 Houston Half Marathon - Oct 26th!
- 💜 Alex's 5K - Nov 1st!
- 🌽 Harvest Marathon Relay - Nov. 2nd!
Renew Your Membership: HARRA Fall Races Have Begun! | | |
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| | Space City 10-Miler - Recap! |
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BCRR excelled at the Space City 10-Miler on Sunday (as is our custom)! We had many great performances and an impressive display of purple on the podium.
Tom Bongiorno was first BCRR finisher with 1:01:43 - good for 5th place M35-39. Loris Fusi was first female BCRR runner with a 1:16:47 finish - 1st place F55-59.
BCRR Women (1st, 2nd, 3rd in bold): Natalie Lankford (1:23:33: 2nd F45-49), Leyla Østerhus (1:18:51; 2nd F50-54), Brenda Gonzalez (1:46:22; 7th F50-54), Loris Fusi (1:16:47; 1st F55-59), Lisa Thompson (1:25:42; 2nd F55-59), Anna Helm (1:29:37: 3rd F55-59), Mirna Chang (1:38:03: 8th F55-59), Latasha Gary (1:31:24; 3rd F60-64), Suzy Seeley (1:28:24; 2nd F65-69), Jody Berry (1:30:44; 3rd F65-69), Rhonda Emerson (1:43:03; 4th F65-69), Theresa Pearsall (running for BARC) (1:47:19; 1st F70-75), Camille Fitzsimmons (2:28:34; 4th F70-74), Kathryn Vidal (2:36:27; 5th F70-74), Gloria Mahoney (1:47:41; 1st F75-79), Brenda Hilton (2:02:50; 2nd F75-79)
BCRR Men (1st, 2nd, 3rd in bold):
Tom Bongiorno (1:01:43; 5th M35-39), Chris Farrokhnia (1:04:05; 2nd M40-44), Ankur Patel (1:39:00, 21st N40-44), Eivind Østerhus (1:18:09; 7th M55-59), Steve Hasson (1:43:55; M55-59), Joseph Lengfellner (1:21:00; 3rd M60-64), David Seeley (1:45:25; 4th M65-69), Scott Bounds (1:31:24; 3rd M70-74), Victor Aguirre (1:36:21; 4th M70-74), Fred Ward (1:47:10; 1st M80+), John Fredrickson (2:55:15; 2nd M80+)
Congratulations everyone! (FULL RESULTS). Kudos to BARC for putting on an awesome race!
(Shout out to volunteers Ron Morgan, John Phillips, Joel DuBois, Sharron McNeill, June Harris, Eddie Rodriguez, Kathi Mahon, photographer Milan, and anyone else I missed.)
Huge thanks to Ron Morgan and Theresa Pearsall for hosting the very excellent post race party at their home.
Elsewhere: Congrats to Twin Cities Marathon finishers Chad Holmes (3:28:00) and
Hans Wong (6:23:22) |
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| | Valhalla Streak Unbroken! |
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Upon
further reflection, it was determined that there was no break in the
Valhalla tab streak 2 weeks ago. The gathering was officially cancelled,
so therefore doesn't count. In addition, Bob Kirkpatrick bought some beers, so technically, there was a tab anyway. Thus we are moving into our 24th week of sponsored Valhalla tabs!
This week's tab will be sponsored by Chris Eick!
The Wednesday run, as always, starts at 6:30PM sharp from the First Christian Church Parking lot. |
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| | Practice for the Tour - Stage 2 Thursday |
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HARRA's FREE Practice for the Tour Cross Country Series takes
place the first 3 Thursdays in October, and features three timed,
cross-country stages, held at different locations along our bayous.
👉 Stage 2 this Thursday - Start at 6:00 p.m. |
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HALLOWEEN PARTY - Friday, October 24th
Lisa Thompson and Avi Moss are once again hosting their epic Halloween Party! Featuring the Human DJ! Come in costume and ready to party!
Friday, October 24th at 7PM. At the Modern B&B, 4003 Hazard St. RSVP to Lisa at lisa@modernbb.com. | | |
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| | Houston Half Marathon & 10K | | |
| HARRA Race - Sunday, October 26th | | |
| You will have a whole day to recuperate from Lisa's party and be ready to run the Houston Half Marathon or 10K!
It's a HARRA Race, so we will have the tent there, but more
importantly, there will be an awesome post race party at the home of Sue and Paul Schulz (details later). (use code HARRA for 10% off race registration) | | |
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Alex's 5k - Saturday, Nov. 1st
Registration is open for the 15th annual edition of our race. Thanks to all of you, we have raised over $250,000 for autism charities over the last 14 years! We raised $25,000 from last year's race alone! We are confident - with your help - that we can do even better this year!
If you can't run, please consider volunteering. Contact Christina (christinabcrr@gmail.com) or sign up online.
Race will be held from Avondale House (3737 O’Meara Drive, Houston, Texas 77025) |
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Harvest Marathon Relay - Nov. 2nd
Get on a BCRR Team! Weekend
Double Header: Run for autism charity on Saturday, Nov 1 at Alex's 5K
and run to reduce hunger on on Sunday, November 2 at at the Houston Food
Bank's Harvest Marathon Relay! The Houston Food Bank will be sponsoring a fundraising Relay Marathon, and BCRR is going to sponsor two teams of 10 persons each ($1000 total), so we just need runners! If
we can gather 10 people per team to run 2.5 miles each (1/4 mile at a
time) we can do a good deed for the Houston Food Bank, and get some good
PR for BCRR, and have a lot of fun doing it! BCRR has sponsored teams
for the last few years - run at no cost to you! Contact Steve Hasson (shasson@earthlink.net)
if you are interested in helping out. The Relay Marathon is Sunday,
November 2, at 7:00am, on the Wendell D. Ley Track at Rice University.
RACE INFO |
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| | 🏃🏃♀️ 😎 Monday 7PM: Mellow Monday Memorial Day. Memorial Park Tennis Center. Dinner afterwards.
🏃🍺 Wednesday 6:30PM: Wednesday Night Run from First Christian Church. Beer tab at Valhalla courtesy of Chris Eick!
🏃🐊 Thursday 6:00PM: Tour de Bayou Stage 2. Cullen Running Trails Center.
🏃🏃♀️ Sunday 6:30AM: BCRR Long Run. Memorial Park Tennis Center. |
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Happy Birthday This Week:
10/6 Timothy Berry
10/6 Janie Montes
10/6 Hardeep Thind
10/7 Hiroko Furo (NAG*)
10/8 Tim McGuirk
*NAG = New Age Group | | | | | Welcome Back: Scott Wonderly
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| | | | | | There's no official scheduled Happy Hour this week, but rumor has it that there will be a rogue happy hour at Hughies N. Shepard, 633 Heidrich St, Houston, TX 77018. Check the BCRR Facebook page for updates. 6:30PM.
The next official Happy Hour will be on Friday, October 17th at H-Town Brewing, 210 Glen Park St, Houston, TX 77009. | | | | | Thank you to Jamie Lopez (and sorry for the omission last week) and Kathi Mahon for setting out the water and Gatorade for the last official long run. Supported long runs resume this Sunday. 🥛🥛🥛 Who likes water during the Sunday long runs? Our Sunday morning hydration team could use a your help. Please contact Loris at Loris0105@yahoo.com for more information on how to volunteer! | | |
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Membership Renewal for 2025-2026 | Renew: the HARRA Fall Race Series Has Started!
We are now into the new "running" year (from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026). HARRA Discount: If you are a current HARRA member, you will save $5 off your BCRR Membership with code HARRA25 at checkout. | | |
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|  | | | 6:30 pm at First Christian Church for a 3-6 mile run around Rice University and Hermann Park followed by drinks at Valhalla |
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|  | | | 5:30 am at Memorial Park Running Center. Contact Peter Griffiths for more info |
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|  | | | 6:30 am at Memorial Park Tennis Center (on trail in front of Center) for a 10-12 mile supported run w/ water at 2 locations followed by breakfast at Whole Foods in Montrose (701 Waugh Dr Houston, TX 77019) |
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