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TEMECULA TROTTERS NEWSLETTER September 2008
________________________________________________________ “Stand in front of the mirror and slowly take off your clothes. Marvel at your body—the flatness of your stomach, the curve of your hamstrings. Years of running have made your hips lean and your calves sculpted. You are strong. You are beautiful. You are a runner.”-Running Times, July 2008 – submitted by Ingy. #############################################
COMING 11 OCT: CLUB PICNIC POT LUCK LUNCH
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LEGEND: Pizza fac: Pizza Factory SRP: Santa Rosa Plateau PDS: Paloma del Sol FM: Farmer’s Market (old Town)
################################################################################## Clubs “Races of the Quarter”
Oct 19—-Temecula Race for the Cure 5k THIS RACE IS BEING REMOVED FROM ‘RACE OF THE QUARTER’ STATUS. IT WAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THERE WILL BE NO OFFICIAL TIMING AND NO AWARDS AT ALL WHICH KIND OF MEANS IT’S NOT A RACE in both your club president’s and your editor’s eyes.
Nov 29—Temecula Turkey Trot 5/10k
Dec 14—–Hemet Tinsel Triathlon/5k
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CLUB POT LUCK PICNIC LUNCH:
Details so far: 11 OCT, 11:30 The basics: NOT a BBQ -no facilities with which to BBQ-Very simple pot luck LUNCH. Sign up for what you want to bring during 1 Oct Pizza nite so be thinking about that. We will need paper plates and plastic utensils also unless everyone wants to just dip their hands in whatever, lick them clean, and re dip them, Survivor style. EWWWWW.
Location: Veterans Park, the long narrow park on corner of La Serena and S. General Kearney, whoever he was (I’m sure Ingy can tell us… yep, see below) …it’s kind of like up the road on La Serena from where La Serena hits Margarita. Don’t you love my directions… I’m not paid enough to do directions. As the time gets nearer, I’ve no doubt someone will improve on mine. There are picnic tables, a porta potty and grass to sit on. Or in.
| Kearney was a civil war veteran, but his fame came from the Indian Wars during the time of George Armstrong Custer. He may have been Custers commander at one time. Have you ever heard of Kearney, Nebraska (mid state along I-80). Ingy |
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5 SEPT: B I K E N’ H I K E N’ F L I G H T
SWITCHBACK NUMBER …”I lost count”
Last Sunday Doug and I (Tracy) took a ‘Hike N’ Bike N’ Flight on Ramona trail. We both did the ‘hike N’ bike bit. I solo-ed the flight part. The Hike N’ Bike part occurred during the 2.5 hrs it took us to traverse and pant our way UPPP the roughly 4 miles of switch back filled trail to our U turn spot. The ‘Flight’ part occurred during the 1.3 hrs it took to Bike N’ Hike back to start.
This trail, located near Hurkey creek/Idyllwild area, climbs 1,500 or so feet, the ‘or so’ part being pretty significant. It is riddled with 6 inch to 2 foot tall rock and hard plastic barriers placed for erosion control. Not being quite as talented as Doug now is on the bike, my arms got as much exercise lifting or carrying the bike over these obstacles as legs did pedaling. Both going uPPP and coming DOWnnn.
Doug perfected hopping the bike over some of the barriers on the way up and the majority of them on the way down, to include those located at very tight switchbacks. Vultures circled his head as he did this. They circled lower and lower the more he did it. I think they text’ed msged their buddy’s: “Come one, come all, we see a feast in the makin’ ” At one spot his front wheel grappled for traction in the sand and rock of the steep decline of the switch while momentum slid his back tire around the turn and just how close is that drop off??? I got there just in time to spot this gecko on a cell phone: “Cancel Doug S’s life insurance policy ASAP!!
Sometimes the trail exp a n d e d to a comfy 2 feet wide but in not a few spots it was closer to one. The drop offs invited us to go for an endless slide if we hit a rock wrong and pitched over the edge.
Our eyes took in the view. It was pretty spectacular. Bikes have a tendency to go where your eyes are looking. Looking at the view: Not a great idea. Other parts of the trail were enclosed within a canopy of multi specied, colorful, very tall chaparral bushes and trees, punctuated with occasional not soft looking cacti and equally not soft looking boulders. See above, “Be careful what you stare at”. If you don’t, your tires, followed by your bodies, meet n’ greet ‘not soft’. Auch -!!*^#*%!!-OO!
G O T T R A I L??
The ‘flight’ part of the day’s adventure in soreness came at the start of our descent . Bike and I got in a flying contest to see which could fly further. I won. Face down. My bike rolled down hill off a large but shallow rock. The front wheel exited the rock not so slowly, then buried itself rather abruptly in the sand. Unfortunately the bike’s front end failed to mention this change in speed to the bike’s rump end. .05 seconds later I joined the vultures in the sky: “Hi ya, pleased to meet ya, yi YI YIKES!!” SPLAT. The contest lasted roughly 2 seconds. I won by almost a full body length! Give me ribbon!! The down side of winning…the bike doesn’t need advil today : )
For other’s interested in this trail, I’d recommend, ‘think hike, not bike’, take plenty of fluids, food, a camera and me because I’d love to return. Expect to spend about 6 hours or more if you’re intent on finding the summit we didn’t.
Below are two video links of the ride, one of me on easy part of the trail, and Doug on not easy part -you actually see his motion momentarily stop as he works the wheel over rock, thru sand, and around the switch dead into more chunky rocks N’ sand.
http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b143/Trexx77/?action=view¤t=100_0254-1.flv
http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b143/Trexx77/?action=view¤t=100_0255.flv
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WED NIGHT 24 SEPT RUN: LOST IN SPACE…and Not!!
So not GPS guided Kim K and uh, me, did a Trotter’s club ‘recruitment drive’ during Wed’s night run. We did this by taking the ‘new course’ and shall we say ‘customizing’ it to not fit either of our training needs. We did this shortly after drooling over the cool looking rapids of wasted water raging down the aesthetic park like portion of the new course. The part that parallels Pachanga pkw. WE followed Maurice off the walkie/joggy path thru the left turn on to ‘Some Road’, saw him head straight down ‘Some Road’.
At this point we hit the first cross street on ‘Some Road’. It was called Wolf ‘Something’. Homing Pigeon Kim and I both know that there surely is only one street in ALL of southern CA called ‘Wolf’, uh, whatever it was so this HAD to be our turn and CLEARLY Maurice was going the WRONG way. So we turned.
Twenty steps into our turned, we stalled for two minutes to recruit a couple who had seen a “group of runners” and who wanted to join the club. The couple failed to mention the group they saw was on ‘Some Road’, not Wolf Whatever-it-is-doesn’t-matter-cause it’s-got-’Wolf’-in-it.
After about a mile of panting down Wolf Whatever, the teacher in Kim’s startin’ to get the idea that the ‘Whatever’ part of Wolf might be pretty important. Her Garmin ticks away the miles. We re-hit Pechanga Pkw. Now we KNOW it’s important. We wriggle our way back through convoluted neighborhoods, making new non running friends left and right. Remind me to tell Ingy he needs to hand out crib notes at the next club meeting. The crib notes need to say what ”Pizza Factory” is in Spanish, korean, German and Texan. We finally hit Red Hawk. It’s pitch black out. It’s been that color for some time.
We re-join the few remaining club members. One of those is Kim’s Glen. Thank you dear for not leaving without me. Glen: ” Without you? Were you missing??” Because this is not the National Inquirer, I will not print the conversation that followed*. Did you know Glen can fit inside a dog house designed for a Pomeranian?
*In this issue
.….AND NOT lost in space…..
refers to The Phantom of the Trotter’s club Brigid who, after joining the club some time back, is finally hooking up with us for our club runs! Most of us will have to eat an extra bowl of Wheaties to even try to keep up with her!
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MOVIE REVIEW…5 STARS!!
About 10 Trotters spent Friday evening enjoying snacks and the cool flic “Running on the Sun” about the sweltering race through Death Valley that ends up at the Portals of Mt Whitney.
You know the way it is when you watch people do something not just tough but double dipper TUFFFF and they inspire you and you say to yourself, BY God, I’m going to go out there and DO THAT TOO!!! After watching it, I don’t think a single one of us in that room had a desire to challenge Eric in the ‘been there, done that’ department. Not in this life or the next 8 either. That’s how tuff it looked. Watching people train for and do this race was a bit like watching The Adventures of Heat Stroke interspersed with comic relief.
From the movie, I now have a better understanding of how these people’s minds don’t work even when they are lucid. For example, did you know it’s possible to fit a treadmill in a sauna or that it’s possible to hook a drier vent up to a treadmill and get hot air blown into your face from something besides your neighbor down the street who keeps rehashing his first and last 10 K to you? See what I mean…normal people don’t think of things like that let alone do them.
So if that’s the way these runners’ minds work when they are fresh as driven snow, imagine what world their brains spiral into after countless hours in unimaginable heat on a not flat course and as for sleep, what sleep??
The commentary on screen and off was highly entertaining. We were extremely lucky to have Noni present to fill in the gaps about the truth and consequences of this race. She told us what it was like to provide support to Eric, a daunting task in and of itself. And from what she said, Eric’s support requirements were fairly minimal compared to many of his 39 compatriots. The Jester made a token appearance in person at flic’s end. He looked normal and sounded lucid. He has had about 2 fist fulls of years to recover though.
Thanx again to Barb for providing us with a comfy place to watch the movie and to Doug for getting the movie (DVD actually) for us to watch.
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WED NIGHT’S RUN…
1. During Wed’s night run the THRILLING answer to that fascinating question everyone’s been afraid to ask got answered.
the question: IS ERIC ‘the Jester’s’ SEAMSTRESS the SAME AS SPIDERMAN’S?? Or are his outfits leftovers from what Noni wore in high school????
And don’t even try telling me that none of you have wondered about that though maybe not in those precise words. I understand it took Monica 10 miles running side by Jester’s side to find out. It took me .5, mostly because I knew I couldn’t hang with him any gasp, longer, gaspp, than, gasp gasp, that.
Here’s the scoop: Eric was in the market for a tri suit back in 1981 when he noticed two things: First, they were expensive; second, they came in ‘assorted’ colors, assorted being navy, black, grey, black, navy, grey and ‘assorted’ combinations of navy, grey and big surprise… black. How exciting. NOT.
So Eric being a more inter prizing sole with more imagination than most, went to ‘Mom’. Mom conveniently happened to be a seamstress. He said, “teach me” and she taught. The tri industry took a hit as Eric started sewing and wouldn’t all of us have loved to be on site for his first fitting of his first attempt making his first tights?? I failed to ask the color of his first tights but I’d place money that they weren’t black, blue or grey. Maybe under Baskin Robbin’s influence, they were 31 colors.
The next question this readership’s probably thinking but not wanting to ask: “why ’skirts’?” Back way backkk then, The Jester participated in a race/event, the name of which I didn’t quite catch that had to do with Scottish games. It was the norm for participants to wear kilts, thus he wore a kilt…Some where along the line like maybe 10 minutes into that first event, he realized the kilts were more comfy than running shorts, something the tri chicks in our group seem to have discovered also. He since participated in 17 of those Scottish oriented races and no I didn’t ask if he created a different colored kilt for each.
Along with having fun with kilts’ and tights’ colors and design’s, he’s had fun with hair do’s that 99% of all poodles wouldn’t be be caught dead sporting except sometimes their owner’s make them. Most outrageous: Envision checker blocked boxes of hair and no hair matched up with a missing eye brow. Thank goodness noses can’t be moved about the face or I’m sure his would have been.
Last on the Jester front: Is Noni color blind, or do Eric’s outfits ever make her feel like crawling under a bench to hide?…answer: Double ‘No’. His oddities along with his rep as a great ultra runner were well established when she first met him. “It was part of him…I accepted that.”
WED NIGHT’s RUN PART 2:
GLEN K’s CORRUGATED AWNING WORKOUT:
Glen planned on doing the FIT race but found out that installing a corrugated awning was less fun and much more work than the race. He found this out by night fall of the day before the race. Apparently wanting all the glory of accomplishment himself, he refused Kim’s offer of help. While she wisely worked indoors, he hung out all day Sat. and how-many-hours-is-that working in the sun. Yep, I can see who got the brains of that pair.
By day’s end, he dehydrated just enough to wobble off his perch on top the porch top, eyeballs focused or is that unfocused on those little black floaty spotty things. You know, the ones no one else sees while your body decides if it’s going to faint or not and, “KIMMM… who turned Pomeranian Charlie into a Dalmatian?!” Ever notice if you try to reach out and catch those spots you usually fall over? I have to wonder if Eric ever sees these spotty things, are they tutti frutti colored, or black like the rest of us.
If any of you wish to emulate Glen’s work out, do about 2000 deep knee bends while balanced on an overhead platform while holding large chunks of metal that didn’t get up there by themselves. Eat your heart out gym members because this work out’s free and comes with a nice soft concrete landing pad below for you to faint on. ############################################################## A F I T GROUP: 
Trotters did indeed show up in force again for the FIT race and did a GREAT job of wearing their Trotter’s shirts…not to mention winning medals and what’d ya mean I should talk medals before shirts?? If you squint really hard, you can see the gaggle as the splash of white sitting in the pic and if you both squint AND get out your glasses, you can make out Eric at the close end of the group and Ingy is that white spot at the other end. The empty spots are where the ghosts of the (at least) 2 Trotters who won awards but weren’t present to collect resided. As to specifics as to who did what…if I get sent it, I’ll put it in here, other wise the readership will just have to hang in limbo.
THANX TO DINA FLORES, THE TROTTER’S WON’T HANG IN LIMBO AFTER ALL REFERENCE WHO PLACED WHERE!! HER INPUT FOLLOWS. If anyone got left out, this is your chance to send beakbytes@verizon.net truth or lie about how you did..or didn’t do : ) KIM P., that just might include you since I know you were thinking about putting most of the females at the Pendalton half to shame…DID YOU? (SCROLL for answer)
5K Male 20-29: 1st place ANTHONY FLORES 27 0:21:10 0:06:50 pace
5K Male 30-39: 2nd place 15 65 CONSTANTINO SORIA 31 0:25:43 0:08:18
3rd place 19 75 VICTOR LOPEZ 38 0:26:29
5K Male 40-49: 2nd place 4 30 DAN DETIENNE 43 0:21:29 0:06:56
3rd place 12 35 VICTOR FLORES 47 0:24:39 0:07:57
5K MALE 60+: 1st place 10 15 MAURICE BEIDLER 61 0:24:11 0:07:48
5K Female 40-49: 3rd place 37 34 DINA FLORES 45 0:29:42 0:09:35
10K Results
Overall Winner-Male 10 K- BIG TROPHY!!!: 1st place 1 330 OMAR ZAVALA 28 0:39:39 6:23….If you don’t know Omar, you aren’t spending enough time in the Running Center!
10 K Male 50-59: 1st place 3 304 ERIC CLIFTON 50 0:43:48 7:03
10 K Female 50-59: 1st place 14 308 BARB FANELLI 54 0:53:21 8:36
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The FIT Trotters weighted down with their brass…. or rather gold, silver and bronz
photo by Dina’s daughter who probably has a name but I don’t know it.
Puttin’ words where they weren’t:
Eric: ”Doug, how ’bout stickin’ that jacket in front of me…Moon unit and Star dust just ESP’ed me that orange, pink and green might clash!”
Dan and his Crew - photo by dougie
Eric (the Jester) Clifton in his finest Livery. - photo by dougie
2 members of the Jester Fan Club “Moon Unit” and “Star Dust” - photo by dougie
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If a photo is worth a thousand words, how much is a video clip worth? You tell me. Enjoy the below in put from Doug: Here is a mini video clip of BIG MO crossing the finish line but being chased down by a munchkin. - video by dougie
http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b143/Trexx77/?action=view¤t=TemeculaFitraces08005.flv
Here are 2 mini videos of Boston Barb. In the first she is at the half way mark and the second is obviously the finish. Look at how smooth and easy she runs. videos by dougie
http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b143/Trexx77/?action=view¤t=TemeculaFitraces08006.flv
http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b143/Trexx77/?action=view¤t=TemeculaFitraces08009.flv
THANX AGAIN TO DINA AND DOUG for their input – Trotter participation is what makes this newsletter fun to read. The more you all put into it, the better it is for everyone!….
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And, speaking of better:
HEARTBREAK RIDGE HALF MARY – challenging, hilly, dirt course…dirt has rocks in it. ”Aucho-o!”
From Taimi: “I will brag on Kim. She ran the Heartbreak Ridge Half this weekend and vindicated herself from last year. She ran it in 1:43:33 and was fifth in her age group. I believe she was 156th overall, out of the 1000 that signed up. I think somewhere in the high 800’s finished.”
editor’s note: Kim wasn’t a happy camper ref. her last year’s finish even though most of us mere mortals would still have described it as darn good. Ironically, last year she actually placed better at 3rd in her age and 150th over all but her time was what Kim apparently thought of as slug slow at 1.46.26, which amounted to an 8:08 pace. So apparently within the wriggles of Kim’s brain, the 3 minutes improvement is a bigger deal than the place in age or overall. Of course the fact that 99% of the world’s population not to mention about 50% of the trotter population would be delighted to do that half at either of her times is probably irrelevant to her. GOOD GOING, KIM!
If anybody else ran this (or any other) race and wants their 1 minute of glory in the newsletter, let me know. T.E.
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SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS 
5- Thomas Beyer 17-Erica Kreske 22-Taimi Schweighardt 23-Bob Martzolff ############################################################## DUES DUE
Steve Altfillisch
Amber Omato ______________________________________________________________________________________________
HEY GANG,
Boston Barb has secured us a room at the Temeku Club House and on Friday evening the 19th of this month. We have the room from 7:00 – 9:00 PM. We well be showing the Movie “Running on the Sun”
The Club House is located on Temeku Dr. If you come East on Rancho Calif Rd from Margarita, Tee Dr will be the first street you can turn into on your left (golf course). After you make the left on Tee you will need to make a right turn on Temeku Dr. Just come up a block or two and the Club House will be on the left side of the road.
Dougie
Note fm Tracy: I’m bringing sugar filled munchies of some sort so we can all get sugar highs while we watch these folks.
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Below quotes found in, “The Complete Runner’s Day by Day Log” by Marty Jerome
Quotes made by actress Gwyneth Faltrow and Frank Shorter respectively, two people with little in common and totally different views about MARATHONS …maybe….maybe not:
Her: ”Three hours??…I don’t even like to do things that feel good for three hours!”
Him: “You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can’t know what’s coming.”
TAIMI: On dropping bowl on her toe last week: ”Yeah, yeah, yeah, guess I’ll have to down size my Saturday run to just 19 miles, blast it!. (That quote not found in Runner’s guide…in fact it may not have even come out of Taimi’s mouth. Guess this means her toe healed faster than Ingy’s metatarsal bone.
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NEWS LETTER CHANGE:
Gang, I have decided to quit as the Newsletter Editor. I am turning it over to Tracy Ellis, she has stepped forward and volunteered and I owe her a big thank you. THANK YOU
I will however continue to contribute photos and videos and the occasional race report from those races I attend. So please from here on out send all your submissions, etc. to Tracy Ellis at <beakbytes@verizon.net> Regards dougie
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NEWS LETTER CHANGE PART 2:
My computer skills are 2 bits shy of the average 3rd grader so what I put in isn’t going to have the same nice colorful zing of Doug’s truly delightful 18 issues. That means if you want my issues to be more colorful, try putting on glasses with different colored lenses. Try rose to start with.
As interested as I am in how various Trotters trot, canter or run through their races, I am not going to search race results to see how you all did in your assorted activities. That means if you want well deserved notoriety in this newsletter, you need to E me your results and any words of wisdom (or non) you’d like to pass on about your races. I won’t make them up for you. Probably…
Two other things you might notice…I can’t spel so if U can’t spel either, that’s fine with me. I prbably won’t know the diffferance so it will go into the newsletter as is and hopfully the speling is close enouf to reality that everyone wil kno what everyone iss sayying. Secondly, my writing is not always 100% ‘politically correct’. Oh…you already noticed that? Fast learners, you are. I don’t apologize for that fact but I will say I never deliburtly (U did just read above passage about spel-ing, right?) offend any one’s body or brain with my words.
After reading the above paragraphs, and after reading whatever I end up writing in the future, hopefully Doug will ultimately still thank me for assuming responsibility for this master piece of literature.
Tracy
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On Saturday morning a 51 year old runner was hit and seriously injured at the intersection of Redhawk Parkway and Via Cordoba. I’m not sure where that is , but its has to be on our Wednesday night loop.
I can’t emphasize enough the need to be alert and careful when running on the roads, and when available get off them and onto the horse trails and byways. ”Ingy” ———————————-
They probably meant Vail Ranch Parkway and Via Cordoba. Via Cordoba is the first street on the right as you turn from Redhawk parkway unto Vail Ranch parkway. Thats right after that rolling merge at the signal. – dougie Via Cordoba is the first street after the waterfall and the corner where we took a right last Wednesday when we tried a “new course”. Be careful out there, I almost got hit this morning! – Beth
21 Sept update from Ingy: The runner hit by a car several weeks ago at Redhawk Prkwy./ Via Cordoba died last Thursday. Be alert and very careful out there!
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