Happy Hour@Mezzanine Lounge

Here are the pictures from the Happy hour at Mezzanine lounge on Friday.

Twisting by the Pool

"Come on in- the water's fine!!"

Ray Boytim, Avi Moss, June Harris, Jake Tonge, Kathi Mahon, Mike Doyle, Cathy McGlohn, Rosie Schmandt, Don Brenner (photos: Matt Nicol)

The Independence Day 5K in Deer Park (June 28th) is an annual favorite of many BCRRers and this year was no exception. Although the conditions are always hot and humid, this well-organized small race has a fast course, enough competition to make things interesting, a great after party, impressive awards, plentiful door prizes, and most importantly, ends with a dip in the pool. As usual, everyone from BCRR left with a trophy, a door prize or both.

Olympic Trial Videos

If you missed the televised coverage of the Olympic Trials in Track and Field you can view highlights here. (you may need to scroll to "Olympic Trials"). Of particular note: Check out the women's 10K final, in which Amy Begley makes a gutsy sprint for the last position on the team and the (wind-aided) world record performance of Tyson Gay in the Men's 100m.

VOLCANIC SPRINT

BCRR and Harra are co- sponsoring the screening of a new documentary, Volcanic Sprint, on Saturday July 12. The film is about an annual marathon distance race up and down a volcano in Camaroon. You can view a trailer for Volcanic Sprint here.

The screening will be held at the Aurora Theater, 800 Aurora, Houston. Tickets are $10 online or $10 by cash or check at the door. There is a reception from 7-8 and the screening starts at 8PM. See website for additional information.

Check out ATHLINKS.COM

Athlinks.com is a very cool and useful website for runners who like to race. It is a comprehensive online race results database for running, triathalon, cycling, mountain biking, swimming and adventure racing. You don't have to join to search for results, but joining allows you to access some of the other features. The most important features are below:

• Find and consolidate all your race results. You can do this quickly and with one search as opposed to slogging through the results of individual races on different websites. It's a great way to see and maintain all of your results in one place. You can even add races that are not online and consolidate results run under different aliases. This feature will be especially useful for BCRR members "Morry Copulare", "Homer Plate", "Inda Ozone", and "Chip Tyme".


• Check out the results of friends and competitors. You can then plot the trajectory of their age-related decline against your own, etc... Or let's say a runner with a gender-neutral name like "Chris", "Pat", or "Tracy" beats you in a race and you suspect they are a man instead of a woman. You can check this out in seconds on Athlinks.com.


• Network with other runners and groups.

We have a BCRR group already up and running. Check it out and join in at http://www.athlinks.com/affiliate/664/Bayou-City-Roadrunners.aspx

K. Mahon

BCRR Vet Women on Top

Got Hardware?

For the first time BCRR Veteran Women won BOTH Team and Club Competition Awards for the HARRA Fall Series! Awards were presented by HARRA at the Bayou Bash Relay in which BCRR Vet women teams also took 1st, 2nd and 4th place in their division - Sweet!

For those unfamiliar with the HARRA Interclub Competition , the "Team" competition is based on the top age-graded performance for the top scoring team (3 people/team) for each category for each race. The "Club" award is based on performance and participation as it scores for each team. (See Harra Rules - Bob Brown wrote a detailed explanation in the October 07 newsletter). Thus even if a Vet woman ran only one HARRA race in the fall series, she contributed to the Club award. Every person counts!!

Well Done!!

BCRR Among Top Ten Houstonians at Boston

Two Bayou City Road Runners were among the top ten Houstonian finishers at the 2008 Boston Marathon, as reported by Jon Walk in the RunHouston Blog (Houston Chronicle 4/21/08):

- Robert Walters, 3:07:31 - 7th male

- Anne Esler, 3:20:16 - 4th female

Congratulations!!