Hello, UO Club runners —  (Sunday, June 6, 2021)

It’s final exam week and we will meet ONE LAST DAY this term…tomorrow, Monday, June 7, at 3pm.

I have my daughter and grand daughter visiting this week, another grand daughter about to be born this week (in Ukraine!) and the NCAA track meet beginning on Wednesday (announcing the hammer throw).  Yes…life outside of the Running Club.  And my wife is celebrating the ribbon cutting of the Little Library she’s funded at McKenzie High School up in the wildfire area.  Janet has 150 books for the 150 kids in the Blue River school district.

So, after Monday you’re on your own for awhile.

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NEWS!

— Eric Beyerle’s excursion up the McKenzie attracted fourteen Club members yesterday.  Thanks to Eric and all of you!

— The Club all-time lists will be coming to you soon…the best time at every distance for every Club member ever.

— Two Club stalwarts raced on the track one last time this school year, at the Stumptown Twilight last Thursday at Lewis & Clark.  Josh Gordon ran 16:17.23 and Eric Beyerle did 15:10.65 in the open 5000m.  Meet officials moved the open race into an earlier, warmer time of day to accommodate the “high performance” section’s need for better conditions.   Dang!

— Keaton Ibendahl ran a 5000m time trial on Friday at South in about 19:19.  Good run!  Thanks to Thomas Brugnara and Owen Pugh for pacing.

— Once the dust settles from the NCAA meet, I’ll have info about summer runs for Club members here in Eugene.  In past years we’ve met at my house at 8am on weekdays.

— There are changes being made in the images on the wall of Hayward Field along Agate Street.  It looks like a couple of 1980’s women athletes and I will be included.

— Oregon Track Club’s all comers meets will be held in July at Springfield High School.

— Butte to Butte, the July 4th road race across Eugene, will be August 22!

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WILL NEXT YEAR BE BETTER?

Yes, we hope so!  With vaccinations required for fall term students and staff, it seems we’ll look more like the real Running Club in 2021-22.

Eric Beyerle and Magda Van Leeuwen have done so well for us in a really trying year.  Thank you for your work to hold us together!  And thanks to Rob Fritz for organizing and leading our sprint group.

In the fall we hope to field cross country teams and to race in several XC meets in the Willamette Valley.  NIRCA Pacific Regionals?  Nationals?  Who knows?

Track in the spring?  Yes!  Eugene marathon and half?  Yes.  Training inside Hayward?  Maybe!

We’ll need certified drivers to make trips in motor pool vans.  Each van costs about $100 per trip so there will be a $50 to join Club for the whole year.

We can do excursions in vans too.  It doesn’t have to be for racing.  Exploring!  Smith Rock?  Painted Hills?  Sand dunes?  Cape Perpetua?   If you can organize it, you can do it!

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NEWCOMERS FOR FALL TERM ‘21

Connor Kerr
frosh, Rochester NY
<connorkerr17@gmail.com>

David Acuna
frosh, Napa HS CA
<davidacuna227@gmail.com>

Iris Duxbury
frosh, Roosevelt HS, Seattle
<irisduxbury@gmail.com>

Jai Shah
Nairobi, Kenya
<jshah21@isk.ac.ke>

Quinn Wilcox
frosh, Ida J. Wells HS, Portland
<qwilcox@icloud.com>

Anthony Petrillo
frosh, Ward Melville HS, Long Island NY
<anthonypetrillo2021@gmail.com>
will take gap year

Lily McAndrews
soph, Carmel IN
<lilymca541@gmail.com>

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‘See you on the IM field one more time…Monday,

Tom Heinonen
coach
cell: 541-954-0263