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Text Box: Workout Calendar is in the works! Ernest Joseph is in the process of creating a monthly workout calendar that will highlight all the group work outs and races going on in the Rockland Road Runners world. We will also include cross-training opportunities, meetings and special events. You can look at the sample calendar and make suggestions. Please note you can also add your group runs. Check it out! http://www.rocklandroadrunners.org/groupruns/workouts.html

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Text Box: Rockland Road Runners Holiday Party! The 2007 holiday party ended the year with a lot of happy faces. The annual awards is a long time tradition and are presented each year at this party to some very worthy people. The very first awards presented were the RRCA National Recognition awards. This award is given to members who have contributed a significant amount of time promoting road racing through their tireless service to their local club. Rockland Road Runners is proud to have so many wonderful volunteers, but each year it is my honor as President to nominate members to our National Affiliation, the Road Runners Club of America to be considered for this honor. I am proud to announce that both Ann McGrath Angerola and Frank Dickinson became the latest members of RRR to receive this national honor. Ann (McGrath) Angerola was one of the early crew that forged the path for us to follow. She had served on the board in various roles including vice president. Although her current position is head of the Angerola household, years ago she was co-race director of the Women’s Distance Festival. Although the race has changed directors Ann’s contributions early on ensured its longevity and we were proud to celebrate its twenty fifth anniversary this past July. Congrats Ann! Another champion of volunteerism is our webmaster Frank Dickinson. If you have visited the website you will have entered Frank’s realm. The website is constantly being updated and Frank is the man who does all the work. 2000 hours is a drop in the bucket considering the many years and hours this wonderful person has contributed to our organization. Grazie mi amore! Congrats Frank. Dave Fernandez received his inspiration award from the 2006 recipient Steve Borton. The crowd cheered as he held his Trophy proudly above his head. Words of inspiration were shared by Dave Fernandez, Sr.. Steve Borton, praised our champion for inspiring us all! It was a mix of emotions as the very funny Steve Borton shared background on our winner. Laughs and tears were met by the joy of triumph. Congrats to Dave, you’re the best! The Sun may rise but it never sets for our Volunteer of the Year, Jerry Sun. Cheryl Langus was thrilled to forward the torch of volunteer excellence to Jerry. He graciously exclaimed to his adoring fans that he was sure there were members that did more than he has. He may be humble but were are sure glad to have Jerry on our team. Whether or not he is running a race with RRR proudly on his chest, dropping water before a long run or typing a hundred or two names in at race registration, Jerry is irreplaceable to us in so many ways. Congrats Jerry! Bernie Casserly received the Don Cordisco Award honoring his lifetime achievement of service to RRR. Like a cat with nine lives Bernie has contributed at least two, to the last 30 years of service to good old RRR. The fact that he still maintains his pace contributing to the board, coaching and helping at almost all the races can be contributed to his love of running, or some really good vitamins. We thank him for his devotion and hope to see him take home a third award 10 years from now. Congrats to all our winners and to all our members for making Rockland Road Runners the great organization that it is. Special thanks to Cheryl Langus for coordinating the party. To Ernest, Cheryl, Steve Borton and Rich Tinger for helping with the presentation. To Mike Nusblat, Diane Wannamaker and Jerry Sun for helping at the registration desk. Our 50/50 raffle was won by Fred Turk, but he did not except his winning but instead donated his portion to help with the expense of replacing the water fountain at the firehouse. Additional thanks to Ed Howard for the wonderful pictures that you can view on the link provided. Picture below….Dave Fernandez relishes in the spotlight of his honor! Click here to view pictures from the party!

Text Box: Aqua Jogging up and running! We are pleased to inform you that the Diplomat Health and Swim Club and Rockland Road Runners has partnered on a program to provide members the ability to Aqua jog at their facility. With various session available and a generous rate this cross training is bound to take off. Sessions are available Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 7 to 8pm, There is a 10:30 to 11:45 session every week day and on weekend there is open aqua jogging starting at noon and ending at 3 pm. You can use your own equipment or borrow from Diplomat. The program has a fee of $120 that includes an application fee and 10 coupons to attend the sessions you choose to attend. Contact Laura for more information or to sign up and schedule a orientation. speedwork@rocklandroadrunners.org

Text Box: Next Team RRR Race—NYRR This Sunday! The last team race for the 2007 Season. This is the one that finalizes the standings for the teams and individuals. Nominations for the runner of the year and age group runners of the year are presented at club night. This year we have really climbed up the ranks with our ladies 40+ just one point out of 5th place and our Open women currently in 10th place. We also have a few women who could quite possible receive nominations for age group honors. Please join us and make this last one count! NYRR Joe Kleinerman 10K - Sunday, December 9 / 10K (6.2M) • 9:30 a.m. / S, Q Contact Ernie at: longruns@rocklandroadrunners.org

Text Box: Santa Claus Run -5K! If you can’t make it to the city for the team race, perhaps a 5K in Orangetown is more your speed. With a 10:30 am start from Veteran’s Memorial Park and a race day registration fee of just $15 it’s a good way to kick off the holiday season. For directions click here! For the application click here!

Text Box: Las Vegas Marathon, brings luck to the Shrems! Role the dice and hit your lucky numbers, it was certainly in the cards for Shelly and Rafi as they repeated another pairing at the Las Vegas Marathon. Perhaps the strip brought them luck, as Shelly took a gamble and headed out west in search of a goal…..a marathon PR. There wasn’t any pressure, they had just ran well in NYC. But Shelly felt she had some change in her pockets after NY and wanted to spin the wheel one more time, she had nothing to loose and everything to gain. She shook the dice in her hands and threw a lucky 7, JACKPOT. 11:00 minutes off their time at the New York City Marathon. Please note, this was not a flat course! Congrats Shelly on your PR!

Text Box: NYRR Hot Chocolate 15K! Steve Joseph lead the Rockland Road Runners pack at the Hot Chocolate 15K, skipping in with a speedy 1:02:44. Kate Tormey was the first lady in 1:11:17. Here are the results from our members that participated.



							Weekly News December 2, 2007

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		Sex/	Overall	Gender	Age	Finish	Pace/	AG	Gender
Last Name	First Name	Age	Place	Place	Place	Time	Mile	Time	Place	AG %
JOSEPH	STEVEN	M46	138	130	7	1:02:44	6:44	58:19:00	83	71.00%
TORMEY	KATE	F39	679	119	48	1:11:17	7:39	1:09:09	132	66.30%
BROWN	EDWARD	M45	820	655	68	1:12:49	7:49	1:08:12	518	60.70%
POLLACK	MITCHELL	M48	928	731	77	1:13:52	7:56	1:07:37	480	61.20%
DUKES	DONNA	F39	1151	282	105	1:15:39	8:08	1:13:23	261	62.40%
BORTON	STEVE	M61	1749	1197	16	1:19:58	8:35	1:04:49	323	63.20%
SOSTRE	EUGENE	M46	2126	1385	137	1:22:30	8:52	1:16:42	1192	54.00%
WENDHOLT	JULIE	F43	2883	1176	115	1:27:26	9:24	1:22:04	881	55.80%
DECKER	CAROL	F68	4748	2436