BCRR Update: May 18th, 2026

 

Greetings Bayou City Road Runners The Word from the Bird ­ In This Newsletter:  ­ LP Race Recap! Valhalla Tab by Run in Texas and Tejas Beer 5k!  HARRA Members: Check your Stats! Tejas Beer 5K - May 30th! Save the Date: BCRR Year End Celebration - Awards Banquet - Elections - June 26th! Early Bird Registration for HARRA and BCRR Membership! Volunteer for Hydration Support This Summer! ­ ­ LP Run Recap! BCRR excelled as usual at the LP Run on Saturday at Rice University Track!  We had arguably the largest club presence and easily won the club competition for women (BCRR men were 2nd, and actually would have been first, except a couple of you did not indicate BCRR as your club affiliation on your entry😯).  A number of BCRR folk volunteered at the event (as we are wont to do). Thanks for supporting the run and representing BCRR! RESULTS: Female 19 and Under: 1st Diana Berry (21,428ft; 4.06mi) Female 55-59: 1st Mirna Chang (18,559ft; 3.51mi) Female 60-64: 1st Anna Helm (20,257ft; 3.84mi) Female 65-69: 1st Jody Berry (20,845ft; 3.95mi), 2nd Suzy Seeley (20,217ft; 3.83mi), 3rd Cindy Babski (running for Striders) (20,120ft; 3.815mi) Female 70-74: 1st Theresa Pearsall (running for BARC) (17,073ft; 3.23mi), 4th Kathleen Mahon (13,719ft; 2.60mi), 5th Camille Fitzsimmons (13,611ft; 2.58mi), 7th Kathryn Vidal (8,805ft; 1.67mi) Female 75-79: 1st Gloria Mahoney (17,106ft; 3.24mi) Male Masters winner: Chad Holmes (27,798ft;5.26mi) Male 45-49: 1st Lee Morris (21,219ft; 4.02mi), 2nd Hans Wong (running for the Striders)(17,018ft;3.22mi) Male 60-64: 3rd Josh Flynn (20,221ft; 3.83mi) Male 70-74:1st Scott Bounds (19,967ft; 3.78mi) Male 75-79: 3rd Ron Morgan (15,022ft; 2.85mi) Male 80+: 1st Fred Ward (18,344ft, 3.47mi)  Congratulations All! ­ Valhalla Tab by Tejas Beer 5K! Race Day May 30th This week's Valhalla tab will be generously sponsored by Bill Gardner of Run in Texas in anticipation of Tejas Beer 5k next weekend (Saturday, May 30th), at Tejas Brewery (2101 Summer St.  Houston, 77007). BCRR will be supporting the race and manning a water stop.  We will have our tent at the event to promote BCRR and Alex's 5k. Run in Texas will make a generous donation for our charities.  We encourage folks to volunteer or run. Also a great opportunity to highlight our club to the beer-loving running community!   If you can volunteer, contact houstonbcrr@gmail.com RACE SIGN UP Use Code HARRA for $5 off. This marks our 53rd week of consecutive sponsored tabs - and the start of our 2nd year of drinking for FREE! Thanks to all who have participated in funding the tab! Let's keep the streak going! If you would like to sponsor a tab in the future, contact houstonbcrr@gmail.com   The run, as usual, will start from the First Christian Church Parking lot at 6:30PM sharp! ­ HARRA Members: Check Your Stats! Runners: If you are a HARRA member in good standing and ran in any HARRA race, now is the time to check on the accuracy of your results on the Leaderboard for the HARRA Runner of the Season (RotS). Spring Series data is listed through the relay. Please check for accuracy and send any corrections or omissions to Hans: info@harra.org. Hans will be adding the LP Run results to the database soon.. Volunteers: If you have volunteered at any HARRA-supported races or events since July 2025 starting with the Summer Celebration, submit your volunteer hours to receive credit towards the HARRA VVIP Awards given out at the HARRA Summer Celebration.   HARRA VVIP Submission Form ­ Up Coming Events: BCRR Year End Celebration   Awards Banquet & Board Elections Save the Date! Friday, June 26th, 2026! Our Annual BCRR Awards Banquet and Elections will take place on Friday, June 26, 2026. Details to be announced soon, but there will be food, drinks, and fun!  We will announce the our running and volunteer recognition awards and hold our annual BCRR Board Elections.  It's not too late to run for a position on the board, please email houstonbcrr@gmail.com if interested. ­ Early Bird Registration Renewal Season is off and running! The official "running year" for both BCRR and HARRA memberships runs from June 30th to July1st, so all current memberships will need to be renewed by July 1st, 2026.    Renew now and be good through 6/30/27!  Both BCRR and HARRA  have an "Early Bird" registration period so it is easy (and cheaper) to renew now before June 30, 2026.  (Note: anyone who joined or renewed after 4/1/26 will automatically been renewed for the upcoming year.)  (Note that Both the current year's membership package and the Early Bird membership package appear on the BCRR page. Be sure to scroll down to the Early Bird option!)   Save $5 on both memberships for the upcoming year. If you are a current HARRA member, you will save an additional $5 off your BCRR Membership. What a deal! ­ Step Up to Help with Hydration this Summer! We need a few volunteers to help with hydration stops for our Sunday long runs starting in June, as several regulars will be unavailable. If everyone takes a turn occasionally, the workload stays manageable. This is a great opportunity to give back to the club. Otherwise, we may need to change the course to the Bayou route and reduce support to just one stop during the hottest part of the year. Please contact Loris at Loris0105@yahoo.com if you can help out. ­ BCRR THIS WEEK:  🏃🏃‍♀️ 😎 Monday 7PM: Mellow Monday.  Memorial Park Tennis Center. Dinner afterwards.  🏃 🍺 Wednesday 6:30PM: Wednesday Night Run from First Christian Church. Tab courtesy of Run in Texas and the Tejas Beer 5k. 😀 🕢 Friday 6:30PM: Happy Hour. Bad Astronaut.👽 🏃🏃 Sunday: 6:30AM: BCRR Long Run - Memorial Park Tennis Center. ­ Happy Birthday Happy Birthday This Week:  5/18 Siren Li     5/20 Harsh Bhasin 5/23 Bill Lindsey 5/23 Jess Vega ­ Welcome New Members Welcome:  Kathy & Stacey Miller Lauren Newcomer Patrick Williams ­ Happy Hour - bad Asstronaut Happy Hour (Friday May 22nd) will be at Bad Astronaut, 1519 Fulton St, Houston, TX 77009 . We will be there about 6:30PM ­ Sunday Hydration Support Thank you to Mirna Chang and Scott Bounds for setting out the water and Gatorade last weekend.                                                      🥛🥛🥛  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!