News - June 2019
June 29
This morning's "As the Crow Flies" event started from the Garry Gribbles Running Sport store in Topeka. Thanks to GGRS's Mark, the Sunflower Striders and Fritz Menninger for hosting this summer street orienteering event. It was about 7-8 miles for the whole course. Photos
June 24
There's another opportunity to become a certified running coach by RRCA.
"We currently have room in our October 2019 - Des Moines and September 2019 - Kansas City Coaching Courses. If you are interested, we are offering RRCA state clubs an early opportunity to register. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me at: Kansas@RRCA.org."
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Brenda Groskinsky
KS RRCA State Representative
Registration page for Kansas City.
June 23
(Glen) Doug Hewitt competed in today's 10K at the National Senior Games in Albuquerque, 20th place in 57:30. On Fri, he did the 5K in 27:17 good for 31st place.
June 22
Results of local area runners at the June 22nd Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, MN. Full Results
| Cat. | Pl. | Name | Sex | Age | Time |
| M-open | 6 | Nick Caprario, KC MO | M | 30 | 2:16:01 |
| M19-34 | 10 | Evan Landes, Mulvane | M | 26 | 2:17:08 |
| M19-34 | 14 | James Wilson, Lawrence | M | 27 | 2:17:27 |
| M19-34 | 56 | Josh Baden, Lawrence | M | 29 | 2:26:32 |
| F40-44 | 6 | Raquel Stucky, Wichita | F | 43 | 2:46:10 |
| F35-39 | 44 | Brooke Watson, Olathe | F | 39 | 3:20:00 |
| F19-34 | 203 | Addie Long,Lawrence | F | 30 | 3:25:36 |
| M40-44 | 110 | James Fisher, Eudora | M | 41 | 3:36:44 |
| M55-59 | 100 | Cal DeWitt, Lawrence | M | 56 | 4:20:07 |
| F60-64 | 29 | Leah Kuhlman, Lecompton | F | 61 | 4:56:32 |
| F19-34 | 1119 | Chelsi Scott, Lawrence | F | 25 | 5:04:41 |
| F35-39 | 384 | Nicky Inskeep, Eudora | F | 38 | 5:18:08 |
| F40-44 | 350 | Jill Evans, Baldwin City | F | 42 | 5:34:27 |
| M45-49 | 264 | Erica Anderson, Baldwin City | F | 45 | 7:24:11 |
| Half Marathon | |||||
| M40-44 | 226 | Jason Inskeep, Eudora | M | 40 | 2:25:50 |
June 21
Julia “Hurricane” Hawkins took up running at age 100. “As I get older, I feel like I only have so many 100-yard dashes left, and I don’t want to waste them in practice,” she said. more
(source: by Sarah Mervosh, New York Times, June 20, 2019)
June 20
Al Gipp's Mini Mocs got together with Tim Byers' TCB Track Club for an evening dual meet at the Billy Mills Middle School track. Great to see so many kids getting into track and field at an early age.
June 9
This is the first mapping for Global running participation. The analysis covers 107.9 million race results from more than 70 thousand events from 1986 to 2018. This is by far the largest study of race results in history.
Key conclusions
- Event participation is for the first time in decline - by 13% - since 2016, which peaked with 9.1 million runners crossing the finish line. Growth continues in Asia.
- Runners have never been slower - male runners in particular. In 1986 the average finish time was 3:52:35, whereas today it's 4:32:49 - a slowdown of 40 minutes and 14 seconds.
- Runners have never been older aging from 35.2 in 1986 to 39.3 in 2018.
- Spain has the fastest recreational runners on the marathon distance, Russia on the half marathon, Switzerland on the 10K and Ukraine on the 5K.
- For the first time in history, there are more female than male runners. In 2018, 50.24% of runners were female.
- The motives for participating in running are potentially changing from being acheivement-focused to being phycological, health and socially focused, which in part can be proved by more people traveling to race, slower finish times and how milestone-ages (30, 40, 50) now are much less dominant than 15 and 30 years ago. more
June 8
Photos by the Friends of the Tonganoxie Library at the 5K and 10K races today: medals winners; and Don Whittemore. Results
June 4
Summer youth track programs are underway.The TCB Track Club had 52 for their first practice. (photo from the TCB web page)
