Fw: BRC - Rock 'n' Roll Half/Full Marathon training - LAST Long Run

Good afternoon everyone!

 

Tomorrow is our last long run. Sorry we never sent anything out last week, but things got a little hectic with the chili cookoff.

 

We will get started at the prescribed time below in the parking lot behind the Belleville St Louis Bread Company. If you haven't made the last couple of runs and/or if you have some questions you'd like answered before race day, please try to make it out tomorrow.

 

Half Marathoners – We will start at 8:00am and will be running 6 miles (see complete schedule on our website).

 

Marathoners – We will start at 7:10am and will be running 8 miles (see the complete schedule on our website).

 

Thanks,

Toby and Dan 

Fw: BRC - Rock 'n' Roll Half/Full Marathon training - LAST Long Run

Good afternoon everyone!

 

Tomorrow is our last long run. Sorry we never sent anything out last week, but things got a little hectic with the chili cookoff.

 

We will get started at the prescribed time below in the parking lot behind the Belleville St Louis Bread Company. If you haven't made the last couple of runs and/or if you have some questions you'd like answered before race day, please try to make it out tomorrow.

 

Half Marathoners – We will start at 8:00am and will be running 6 miles (see complete schedule on our website).

 

Marathoners – We will start at 7:10am and will be running 8 miles (see the complete schedule on our website).

 

Thanks,

Toby and Dan 

Fw: BRC - Rock 'n' Roll Half/Full Marathon training - Week 9 Long Run

Good morning everyone!

 

Tomorrow is our week nine long run and this will be the longest that we'll run in preparation for the race. We will get started at the prescribed time below in the parking lot behind the Belleville St Louis Bread Company.

 

Half Marathoners – We will start at 8:00am and will be running 10 miles (see complete schedule on our website). We will run 2 loops on our 5 mile route.

 

Marathoners – We will start at 6:20am and will be running 20 miles (see the complete schedule on our website). We will run 4 loops on our 5 mile route.

 

Thanks,

Toby and Dan 

BRC - Rock 'n' Roll Half/Full Marathon training - Week 8 Long Run

Good afternoon everyone!

 

Tomorrow is our week eight long run. We will get started at the prescribed time below in the parking lot behind the Belleville St Louis Bread Company.

 

Half Marathoners – We will start at 8:00am and will be running 8 miles (the schedule says 7, but we'll make it 8 for simplicity). We will run 1 loop on our 5 mile route and then one loop on our 3 mile route. If you aren't familiar with the route, there are water fountains and restrooms on the course. We usually break for a couple of minutes at the end of the loop to get drinks of Gatorade, take a GU, etc.

 

Marathoners – We will start at 7:10am and will be running 15 miles (the schedule says 14, but we'll make it 15 for simplicity). We will run 3 loops on our 5 mile route. If you aren't familiar with the route, there are water fountains and restrooms on the course. We usually break for a couple of minutes at the end of the loop to get drinks of Gatorade, take a GU, etc.

 

Thanks,

Toby and Dan 

BRC - Rock 'n' Roll Half/Full Marathon training - Week 7 Long Run

Good afternoon everyone!

 

Tomorrow is our seventh long run. We will get started at the prescribed time below in the parking lot behind the Belleville St Louis Bread Company.

 

Half Marathoners – We will start at 8:00am and will be running 9 miles (see the complete schedule on our website). We will run 1 loop on our 5 mile route and then one loop on our  4 mile route. If you aren't familiar with the route, there are water fountains and restrooms on the course. We usually break for a couple of minutes at the end of the loop to get drinks of Gatorade, take a GU, etc.

 

Marathoners – We will start at 7:10am and are scheduled to run 18 miles (see the complete schedule on our website). We will run 3 loops on our 5 mile route and then 1 loop on our 3 mile route. If you aren't familiar with the route, there are water fountains and restrooms on the course. We usually break for a couple of minutes at the end of the loop to get drinks of Gatorade, take a GU, etc.

 

Thanks,

Toby and Dan 

BRC - Rock 'n' Roll Half/Full Marathon training - Week 6 Long Run

Good morning everyone!

 

Tomorrow is our sixth long run, which puts us officially at the halfway point of our training. We will get started at the prescribed time below in the parking lot behind the Belleville St Louis Bread Company.

 

Half Marathoners – We will start at 8:00am and will be running 6 miles (see the complete schedule on our website). We will run 1 loop on our 5 mile route, but will add an extra mile (out and back) on the new bike trail. We will place signs on the course to indicate the turn for this extra section.  If you aren't familiar with the route, there are water fountains and restrooms on the course. We usually break for a couple of minutes at the end of the loop to get drinks of Gatorade, take a GU, etc.

 

Marathoners – We will start at 7:15am and are scheduled to run 12 miles (see the complete schedule on our website). We will run 2 loops on our 5 mile route, but will add an extra mile (out and back) for each loop on the new bike trail. We will place signs on the course to indicate the turn for this extra section.  If you aren't familiar with the route, there are water fountains and restrooms on the course. We usually break for a couple of minutes at the end of the loop to get drinks of Gatorade, take a GU, etc.

 

Thanks,

Dan 

 

P.S. McKendree's Harvest Challenge 5K and Half Marathon are tomorrow. The half marathon would be a good tune-up for those of you training for the marathon.

Fw: BRC - Rock 'n' Roll Half/Full Marathon training - Week 5 Long Run

Good morning everyone! Tomorrow will be our week 5 long run for the Rock 'n Roll St Louis Marathon.

 

Toby and Dan and some other BRC Saturday morning regulars will be off in Mattoon for a Half Ironman Triathlon on Saturday. Coupled with Dewey's Wingfest 5k and the Labor Day weekend, we're not sure how many people will be there tomorrow.

 

That said, those of you that can make it, please meet at the prescribed times below in the parking lot behind the Belleville St Louis Bread Company.

 

Half Marathoners – We will start at 8:00am and will be running 8 miles (see schedule). We will run 1 loop on our 5 mile route and 1 loop on our 3 mile route. If you aren't familiar with the route, there are water fountains at approx. 1 mi, 2.5 mi, and restrooms at 3.5 mi. We usually break for a couple of minutes at the end of the loop to get drinks of Gatorade, take a GU, etc.

 

Marathoners – We will start at 7:10am and are scheduled to run 16 miles (see schedule). We will run 3 loops on our 5 mile route and pick up another mile in there somewhere. If you aren't familiar with the route, there are water fountains at approx. 1 mi, 2.5 mi, and restrooms at 3.5 mi. We usually break for a couple of minutes at the end of the loop to get drinks of Gatorade, take a GU, etc.

 

Thanks,

Toby and Dan 

BRC - Rock 'n' Roll Half/Full Marathon training - Week 4 Long Run

Good morning everyone!

 

Tomorrow will be our week 4 long run for the Rock 'n Roll St Louis Marathon. We will get started at the prescribed times below in the parking lot behind the Belleville St Louis Bread Company.

 

Half Marathoners – We will start at 8:00am and will be running 6 miles (see the complete schedule on our website). We will run 1 loop on our 5 mile route, but will add an extra mile (out and back) on the new bike trail. We will place signs on the course to indicate the turn for this extra section.  

 

Marathoners – We will start at 7:10am and are scheduled to run 15 miles (see the complete schedule on our website). We will run 3 loops on our 5 mile route. If you aren't familiar with the route, there are water fountains and restrooms on the course. We usually break for a couple of minutes at the end of the loop to get drinks of Gatorade, take a GU, etc.

 

A couple of other points:

 

-      We don't want to hear any excuses about being too slow or too fast. There will be pace groups for the 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 minute paces.

-      There will be some BRC provided refreshments at the end of the run (Gatorade, water, fruit).

 

Thanks,

Toby and Dan 

MetroBikeLink Opening Ceremony - 08/18/11 at 10:00am

Attached is a flyer for the Opening Ceremony for the new section of the bike trail on August 18th.

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OPENING CEREMONY FOR

 

MetroBikeLink Bridge & Trail Extension To Swansea MetroLink Station

 

August 18, 2011 10:00 AM

MetroBikeLink Trail

North End Park to Swansea MetroLink Station

Owner - St. Clair County Transit District

Length: 8/10ths of a mile

• 4.7 miles Swansea Station to SWIC

• 2.8 miles Swansea Station to South Side Park via City of Belleville Richland Creek Greenway Trail

Width: 10 foot asphalt with 2 ft shoulders

Four Significant Bridges:

• Over Richland Creek & Norfolk / Southern Railroad 3 span steel girder, 240' long

• Over IL Rt. 159 3 span steel girder, 240' long

• Two bridges over Swansea Creek Single span, pre-engineered, each 90' long

Richland Creek Bikeway Spur (Phase IIA)

Owner - Village of Swansea

Length: 4/10ths of a mile

When the final phase of this trail is completed in 2012, the total length will be 1.7 miles between MetroBikeLink and Old Collinsville Road, and potentially allow for the continued extension towards Shiloh and O'Fallon.

Future Enhancements

Swansea Station to Memorial Hospital MetroLink

Station

2.2 mile trail extension with grade separation bridge over Fullerton Road. Includes drinking fountains at Swansea & Memorial stations. Under construction. Should be completed Summer 2012.

MetroBikeLink Trail Bridge at Green Mount Road

New embankment and grade separation bridge over Green Mount Road on the existing trail near Southwestern Illinois College. In design. Planned for 2012-2013 construction.

SWIC Green Campus Initiative

A green campus initiative to create a more walkable campus, including a new loop trail off MetroBikeLink and around the campus perimeter.

SWIC Station to Scott AFB MetroLink Station

Proposed 3.5 mile trail extension.

Memorial Hospital Station to Fairview Heights

Station

Proposed 3.5 mile trail extension.

Additional Connecting Trails to MetroBikeLink

In construction, design or initial planning. Would further connect shorter, "local" trails of Belleville, Swansea & Fairview Heights to the "backbone" of the St. Clair County trail system.

Fw: BRC -- Race Day at McKendree

FYI

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Smallheer, Kim A" <kasmallheer@mckendree.edu>
To: "'brc@bellevillerunningclub.com'" <brc@bellevillerunningclub.com>
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 7:54 AM
Subject: BRC -- Race Day at McKendree

Hi, Dan.

 

McKendree University in Lebanon, Illinois is hosting a summertime cycling event on Saturday, July 23^rd and we are hoping you can pass the information on to Bellville Running Club members and perhaps post it on your BRC web site Events Calendar.  We know you are all primarily runners, but there might be some cyclists in the group or you may know cyclists who are looking for a biking event this side of the river.

 

We've designed our 18-mile "The Great McKendree Bike Chase" to be a fun event (a combination ride and race) and welcome riders of ALL levels of cycling expertise.  You can lead the group and hammer the Chase in under an hour or take your time and count how many riders you pass (or who pass you) in the two hours that we'll have the course open.  Your bicycle is your choice:  cruiser, hybrid, road bike, mountain bike, or the Huffy from your basement, but riders must wear a serviceable helmet to participate.

 

Our Bike Chase is not a U.S. Cycling Federation event and cyclists will NOT be riding on a closed course.  While traffic early on a Saturday morning is very light in Lebanon, we'll ask everyone to be careful of vehicles, especially when making turns.  We'll have volunteers all over the course to keep things safe, but cyclists still need to exercise caution and be aware of other riders who may be participating with different cycling skill levels.

 

The Chase starts at the McKendree Fountain in the center of campus and finishes on our track inside the Leemon Field stadium.  Each of the six, 3-mile laps follows a route through Lebanon business and residential areas, into and out of our stadium, and then back to the campus fountain and features the challenge of high-speed straight-aways, tight turns, a segment of brick road, a single-file sidewalk, and the track surface itself.

 

The Bike Chase starts at 8:00am with a safety briefing set for 7:40am.    Registration fee is $15.00 for each participant with $5.00 added if you wait until Chase Day to sign up.  You may register in person on campus at the Intramural Gym located in the Melvin Price Convocation Center, download the registration form at mckendree.edu/raceday, or register online (for a small fee) at "active.com."  Mailed entries must be postmarked by July 19^th.  The Chase Day staff will provide both T-shirts and post-race refreshments while they last.  For your convenience, I've attached the registration form; the course map; and an information sheet which includes (1) a description of the Chase course, (2) driving directions to McKendree, and (3) instructions for registering online through active.com.

 

So, enjoy your summer, have a safe Independence Day weekend, and we hope to see some BRC members bright and early on Chase Day, July 23^rd, to ride the streets of McKendree and Lebanon

 

 

Regards,

 

Kim Smallheer

Director of Student Recreation Programs

McKendree University

(618) 537-6420

 

Law Day Run

The Law Day Run is tomorrow morning. Since the course is on our home turf, it is usually well attended by BRC members and we usually kick a lot of butt.  

 

- Beginners. Good luck to all of you who have been training with the Beginner's 5K Training Program. I'm sure you'll all do great out there!

 

- Tent. The Belleville Running Club will have our tent and a table out there. If you've been watching the e-mails on this list, but haven't made your way out yet, please stop by the tent and meet us.

 

- BRC Shirts. If you've got one, don't forget to wear it.   

 

- Kids Run. The 5K is at 9:00am and it is followed by a diaper dash and a youth 1K race at approximately 9:45am. The BRC will be running with the kids to encourage them. The kids races start at the same location as the 5K.  I currently have Shelly Adams, Christy Belsom, Shannon Blaes, Dan Ernst, Jason McCoskey, Ken McKinley, Kristen Preston, Brendan Preston, Patty Shaw, Debbie Townsend, and Sarah West committed to running with the kids. We can use as many people as possible, so please help out regardless of whether or not you've already committed to doing so.

 

- Picture. As in past years, we will take a group picture after the race. Please assemble at the finish line right after the kids 1K run is complete.

 

Thanks!

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Angie Vassen <AVassen@LawDayRun.com>
To: danieltrapp@yahoo.com
Sent: Mon, April 25, 2011 4:11:59 PM
Subject: Law Day Run News and Registration

10^th Annual

St. Clair County Law Day 5K Run/Walk
1K Youth Fun Run

3 Mile Wheelchair Event

Saturday, April 30, 2011

 

Belleville , IL April 25, 2011

To celebrate the 10^th Annual Law Day Run the committee has implemented some new features.  These additions include a three mile wheelchair event (escorted by Big Shark Bicycle Club); Five Pictures, Five Stories, Five Songs; performance shirts; and fun-filled events for race day.  We will once again feature chip timing provided by Big River Running. 

 

The success this race has seen is the result of the efforts of the City of Belleville , St. Clair County, our sponsors (some of whom have been sponsors since our first year), our numerous volunteers, and you, the participants.  Everyone working together has made this event a huge success.  We are anticipating a record number of participants this year.

 

Whatever your reasons for participating, we thank you.   We hope you continue to keep active and participate in this event as it benefits a worthy organization, the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation , Inc.

 

Remember the Law Day Run is the first event to qualify for the Belleville Triple Crown Athlete Medal.  There is still time to be a part of all of the excitement.    

 

Online registration will remain open until 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 .  The online voting for your favorite starting line song will also close at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27^th.  If you miss the online registration deadline you can still participate.  Late Registration is Friday, April 29^th at The Lincoln Jug Restaurant 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.   Day of Race Registration is available on Saturday, April 30^th from 7:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. To Register online go to:  LawDayRunRegistration

 

Be Healthy, Enjoy Life!

www.LawDayRun.com

If you have trouble with the registration link then cut and paste the following address in your web browser: https://secure.getmeregistered.com/get_information.php?event_id=4659

BRC Half/Full Marathon training - Week 7 Long Run

Good afternoon everyone!

 

Tomorrow is our seventh long run. We will get started at the prescribed time below in the parking lot behind the Belleville St Louis Bread Company.

 

Half Marathoners – We will start at 8:00am and will be running 9 miles (see schedule). We will run 1 loop on our 5 mile route and then one loop on our newly created 4 mile route (you may notice that the 4 mile route is an awful lot like the 3 mile route). If you aren't familiar with the route, there are water fountains and restrooms on the course. We usually break for a couple of minutes at the end of the loop to get drinks of Gatorade, take a GU, etc.

 

Marathoners – We will start at 7:15am and are scheduled to run 18 miles (see schedule). We will run 3 loops on our 5 mile route and then 1 loop on our 3 mile route. If you aren't familiar with the route, there are water fountains and restrooms on the course. We usually break for a couple of minutes at the end of the loop to get drinks of Gatorade, take a GU, etc.

 

Thanks,

Dan 

 

P.S. What does everyone think about moving our 03/19/11 long run to forest park? The downside is that this will be our longest run and there are also two local races on the same day: McKendree's races (5k, 10k, 10mi) and a 5k/10k at the shrine. The other alternative would be to move our 03/26/11 run.

Beginner's 5K Training and Speedwork

Beginner's 5K Training

 

The first training session for the Beginner's 5K Training is scheduled for March 1st at 6pm at the Belleville East track.

 

There is more information on the website at http://www.bellevillerunningclub.com/beginner.html, including a flyer and the training schedule.

This is your chance to finally get your friend, family member, etc in to running! It would be great if everyone could try to get at least one person to show up to (and complete) this training!

 

 

Speedwork is back

 

In conjunction with the Beginner's 5K Training, speedwork is also starting back up on March 1st. Although we will have the track starting at 6pm, we would ask that you don't actually start your speedwork session until the beginner's training session is over. Your blazing speed can be a bit intimidating to someone just getting into running. However, please still show up at 6pm and run with the beginners. It can be a perfect warm up for your speedwork.

BRC Half/Full Marathon training - Week 6 Long Run

Good afternoon everyone!

 

Tomorrow is our sixth long run, which puts us officially at the halfway point of our training. We will get started at the prescribed time below in the parking lot behind the Belleville St Louis Bread Company.

 

Half Marathoners – We will start at 8:00am and will be running 6 miles (see schedule). We will run 1 loop on our 5 mile route and then pick up another mile by going out and back ½ mile on the course. If you aren't familiar with the route, there are water fountains and restrooms on the course. We usually break for a couple of minutes at the end of the loop to get drinks of Gatorade, take a GU, etc.

 

Marathoners – We will start at 7:15am and are scheduled to run 12 miles (see schedule). We will run 2 loops on our 5 mile route and pick up another 2 miles by going out and back 1 mile on the course. If you aren't familiar with the route, there are water fountains and restrooms on the course. We usually break for a couple of minutes at the end of the loop to get drinks of Gatorade, take a GU, etc.

 

Thanks,

Dan 

 

P.S. If you're looking for a little running humor, check out this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw5MHsO-JI8). You may have already seen it going around facebook a couple of months ago.

 

P.S.S. At one time, we discussed running forest park one of these weeks and maybe running part of the race course. We have 5 more long runs scheduled. Is there a week that any specifically prefers?  

Get Up and Go - Pointing the Way to Health

Get Up and Go (http://getupgo.info/) has started a new challenge called the Pointing the Way to Health Challenge (see details below).

We have a Belleville Running Club group on the Get Up and Go site with a modest goal of 250 miles per week. Please consider creating a user id and tracking your runs on this site so we can kick every other groups' butt. I know our 250 mile goal won't be difficult to meet if just a small fraction of us report our results.

Thanks,

Dan 

 

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Is it Possible to Count What We Can Do for Health? It's a simple idea, but we hope it will grow into something significant enough to help transform the health of an entire county. In St. Clair County, Illinois, that means counting the collective efforts of nearly 262,000 citizens! We know this is an an ambitious goal. We're not sure if something this big has ever been tried before.  Nonetheless, it's part of the Year 2020 Vision of the Get Up & Go! Campaign, and we are asking for your help to see it through over the next several years. We call this idea the Pointing the Way to Health Challenge because we want to work together to do two things: First, we want to see how many individuals and groups are out there practicing (or willing to practice) activities that promote active living and healthy eating. If you are one of them would you help point the way for others by making and tracking a health goal through our website? Second (and this is the fun part), we want to see if we can capture all these combined efforts and share them in such a way as to make them count for something. To start out, the Get Up & Go! Campaign is going to count just four things - Time, Distance, Servings and Pounds. Simply put, our volunteers started asking "What if…" What if we could count the amount of time spent in fitness activities being promoted through the many extracurricular programs undertaken by our local schools, volunteer groups and churches? What if we could span the total distance being logged by the many clubs, organizations and schools in our communities as they encourage more walking, running, biking, swimming, etc? What if we could count the total number of servings of healthy fruits and vegetables for people who have set a goal to live healthier by trying to practice the recommended guidelines of eating 4-5 servings each day? What if we could combine the total number of pounds lost through all those office "Biggest Losers" contests or weight reduction programs? Like the 1998 Iowa town that lost a ton. If we can succeed at counting our efforts in just these four areas, imagine how many more ways we can find to work together to transform the health of St. Clair County and its many diverse communities over the next nine years? Please consider joining the journey and sharing your progress along the way. Before you get started, there are just few things we want you and your team to know about setting and keeping healthy goals and using our online system.  To see or downlaod our Pointing the Way to Health - Users Guide, simply click the file. Thank you, in advance, for being such an important partner in this effort.

 

You can see metro-east park, bike trail plans on Jan. 18, 19

FYI.  See the article below about the MEPRD's Community Update on their Long Range Plan.  If you like our local trails and would like to see more of them, please try to attend.  According to MEPRD's website, "those in attendance will have the opportunity to ... provide comments on the projects being proposed for priority."  A good showing by the BRC at this event can only be beneficial in the development of additional trails and improvements to our existing trails.

 

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http://www.bnd.com/2011/01/06/v-print/1540683/you-can-see-metro-east-park-bike.html

 

    Two chances are coming up to have a voice in planning local parks and bike trails.

 

    The Metro East Park and Recreation District will share long-range plan for parks and recreation projects and take comments about the plans during two open houses.

 

    The first is 6:30 to 8 p.m. Jan. 18 at the district office, 104 United Drive in Collinsville.

 

    The second is 6:30 to 8 p.m. Jan. 19 at the William and Florence Smith Art Center at Southwestern Illinois College, 2700 Carlyle Ave. in Belleville.

 

    The district creates or helps in development of an interconnecting system of parks, trails and greenways in Madison and St. Clair counties. It is funded by a one-tenth-cent sales tax approved by voters in November 2000.