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In this edition:
Olympians Flanagan, Goucher Headline Inaugural Dodge Latin Music Miami Beach 1/2 Marathon
Jock Semple and Will Cloney Award Winners Announced
Brooks Sports, Inc. Releases Its First Corporate Responsibility Report
Portland Marathon Makes Donation to Help Restore Parks from Occupy Portland Damage
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Jingle Bell Run for Arthritis 5K, Birmingham, AL, December 10
USATF National Club Cross Country Championships, Seattle, WA, Dec 10
Bill Rodgers Jingle Bell Run, Boston, MA, December 11
Inaugural Dodge Latin Music Miami Beach 1/2 Marathon, FL, December 11
Tucson Marathon, Tucson, AZ, December 11
Athleta Iron Girl Scottsdale Women's 5K & 10K, AZ, December 11
Santa to the Sea Half-Marathon, Oxnard, CA, December 11
Run Holiday Half, Pomona, CA, December 11
HUFF 50K Trail Run & Relay, Fort Wayne, IN, December 17
12K's of Christmas, Kirkland, WA, December 18
Christmas Day - Joyful 5K, St. Paul, MN, December 25
Emerald Nuts Midnight Run, New York, NY, December 31
First Run Burlington, Burlington, VT, January 1, 2012
PT Solutions Resolution Run, Kennesaw, GA, January 1
New Year's Day Hopeful 5K, St. Paul, MN, January 1
Resolution Run 5K & Polar Bear Dive, Seattle, WA, January 1
U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, Houston, TX, January 14
2012 London Olympic Games qualifier
Running USA 2012: The Industry Conference, Houston, TX, Jan 15-17
"Passing the Torch: Running Toward the Future"
Olympians Flanagan, Goucher Headline Inaugural Dodge Latin Music Miami Beach 1/2 Marathon
Oregon Track Club teammates Tim Nelson, USA Cross Country champion Brent Vaughn and NCAA champion Simon Bairu lead men's field; event to feature outdoor expo, finish line on the sand and a post-race concert headlined by chart-topping Miami rapper Pitbull
TIM NELSON
Event: 10,000m
Height: 5-8
Weight: 130
PR: 27:31.56 (2010)
Born: February 27, 1984
Current Residence: Portland, Oregon
High School: Liberty Christian (Redding, Calif.) HS ‘03
College: Wisconsin ‘07
Coach: Jerry Schumacher
Agent: Self
Club: Nike/Oregon Track Club
http://www.usatf.org/athletes/bios/Nelson_Tim.asp
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - (Dec. 8, 2011) - Once perceived as rivals, Shalane Flanagan and Kara Goucher will compete for the first time as teammates on Sunday, December 11 at the inaugural Dodge Latin Music Miami Beach 1/2 Marathon. Each athlete is looking toward the 2012 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials on January 14 in Houston where they are considered favorites to represent Team USA at next summer's Olympic Games in London.
"To see America's two brightest distance stars on the road at the same time will be a true treat for Miami Beach," said Tracy Sundlun, SVP of race organizer Competitor Group. "Many in the running community, myself included, are very much looking forward to seeing them run in one of their last significant tune ups before the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials and their first time racing together since Kara joined Shalane's training group and began working with Jerry Schumacher, who has been Shalane's coach since 2009."
The half-marathon will mark the first race for Goucher since finishing 13th in the 10,000 meters at the World Championships this summer in South Korea, where she was badly hampered by a hip injury. The Minnesota native has since parted ways with coach Alberto Salazar, joined the Oregon Track Club, overcome the injury and is back training focused on making her second Olympic team.
While Goucher has overcome recent adversity, 2011 has been a banner year for Flanagan. She won bronze medal at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships as well as her second U.S. title in the 10,000 meters over the summer. She recently won the Rock 'n' Roll San Antonio Half Marathon in 1 hour, 10 minutes, and 49 seconds, which was the second fastest half-marathon run in this year by a U.S. woman on a record standard course.
Goucher and Flanagan will be joined at the start line by teammate Lisa Uhl, formerly Lisa Koll, an NCAA 5000 and 10,000m champion at Iowa State.
U.S. Cross Country champion Brent Vaughn is the fastest of the men's favorites, with a 1:02:04 personal record from Houston last year, where he finished third overall.
Vaughn's teammates Tim Nelson (1:02:11 PR) and Simon Bairu, a two-time NCAA Cross Country champion while at the University of Wisconsin with a PR of 1:02:08, and Christian Hesch of Hollywood, CA, who finished third at the Dodge Rock 'n' Roll Seattle Marathon in 1:04:32, a PR and the Olympic Trials qualifier.
The Dodge Latin Music Miami Beach Half Marathon will begin at 7:00am on Ocean Drive in South Beach. Runners will be inspired by waterfront views along iconic South Beach, with more than six miles of the route running along the water, including spectacular views of the Port of Miami cruise ship terminal, Star, Palm, Hibiscus, and Fisher Islands.
The course starts and finishes at Lummus Park in South Beach, and takes runners across both the Julia Tuttle and MacArthur Causeways, which stretch over the sparkling Biscayne Bay. Participants will run through the Miami Beach Art Deco District and alongside the historic Miami Beach Golf Club before a unique finish line on the sand, a first for a Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Series event.
The free one-day Health & Fitness Expo is open to the public and will kickoff race weekend at the Lummus Park. The Expo, where all participants must pick up their bib number and race packet, will be held outside from 9:00am to 6:00pm on Saturday, December 10. Race weekend registration is available at the expo where exhibitors will feature free samples, the latest in running gear and sports apparel, a beer garden and a day full of live music performances.
The event will conclude with finish line concert on the sand featuring international music sensation Pitbull starting at 10:30am.
For more information, visit: Competitor.com
Jock Semple and Will Cloney Award Winners Announced
Awards recognizing service and achievement in the sport of running presented to John Powers and Roberta "Bobbi" Gibb at Sunday's Bill Rodgers Jingle Bell Run
BOSTON - (December 7, 2011) - The Bill Rodgers Jingle Bell Run presented by the Boston Athletic Association is this Sunday, December 11 at 5:30pm. Runners will assemble at the Hyatt Regency Downtown Crossing before the 2.3 mile fun run and wind their way through the Boston Common and the financial district before returning to the Downtown Crossing area for the post-race party at the Hyatt. As is the tradition at the Bill Rodgers Jingle Bell Run, holiday dress and costumes will be in full-form among the field of more than 1,000 runners. In addition, the Cloney Award and Semple Award winners will be recognized at the event.
Will Cloney and Jock Semple were longtime caretakers of the B.A.A.'s athletic and administrative efforts. In their honor, the B.A.A. and brothers Bill and Charlie Rodgers bestow awards upon worthy local recipients. The Cloney Award is presented to an individual who has promoted the running industry, especially locally. The Semple Award is presented annually to a local athlete who has made an impact within running, especially through performance.
Both awards will be presented by four-time Boston Marathon champion and running legend Bill Rodgers, along with representatives of the B.A.A. before the start of the Bill Rodgers Jingle Bell Run.
Will Cloney Award - John Powers
John Powers has worked for the Boston Globe since 1973, writing for the Sports, Metro, Sunday Magazine and Living departments. He shared the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a special Globe magazine on the nuclear arms race. As part of his international sports beat, he has covered the Olympic Games since 1976 as well as five soccer World Cups and has written stories from five continents. He has covered the Boston Marathon for the better part of four decades.
Powers is the author of seven books: The Short Season (a Boston Celtics diary), One Goal (with Art Kaminsky, on the 1980 US Olympic hockey team), Yankees (with George Sullivan, a club history), Mary Lou (with Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton, an autobiography), Seasons to Remember (with Curt Gowdy, a memoir) and The Boston Dictionary and The Boston Handbook (humorous lexicons with illustrator Peter Wallace). His eighth book, a Fenway Park history co-authored with Ron Driscoll, will be published next year.
Powers, a cum laude 1970 graduate of Harvard and a former Poynter Fellow at Yale, lives in Wellesley, Mass. with his wife Elaine.
Jock Semple Award - Bobbi Gibb
Roberta Louise "Bobbi" Gibb was born in Cambridge, MA and in 1966 became the first official woman to finish the Boston Marathon. She is recognized by the B.A.A. as the pre-sanctioned era women's winner in 1966, 1967 and 1968. Gibb's run in 1966 challenged prevalent prejudices and misconceptions about women's athletic capabilities.
Gibb studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University School of Special Studies. Her early running included daily commuting of the eight miles to school. She ran in white leather Red Cross nurses' shoes because there were no running shoes available for women at the time.
Gibb received her B.S. degree from the University of California, in 1969, fulfilling the pre-medical requirements, with a major in philosophy and a minor in mathematics. She has reported she was denied admission to medical school because of her gender. She went on to earn her law degree in 1978.
Gibb has been included in Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. In 1982, she was inducted into the Road Runners Club of America Long Distance Running Hall of Fame, and she has been interviewed for news programs and documentaries on ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN and HBO. She was included in the 1999 HBO Sports documentary Dare to Compete: The Struggle of Women in Sports.
In 2000, she produced a documentary on her art and running entitled "Where the Spirit Leads". She pursues a career in art and writes on a wide range of topics including economics, spirituality, the nature of natural systems, and the phenomenon of subjective experience. Recently she joined the Cecil B. Day Neuromuscular Laboratory, in Boston, as an associate working to find the causes of and cures for neurodegenerative diseases, specifically amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Race entry remains open, and interested runners are encouraged to register at: www.baa.org
Brooks Sports, Inc. Releases Its First Corporate Responsibility Report
Company shares 2009-10 progress and future focus areas
BOTHEL, Wash. - (Dec. 8, 2011) - Brooks Sports, Inc., parent of leading running brand Brooks and women's active lifestyle brand Moving Comfort, has released its first corporate responsibility (CR) report. The report, Running Responsibly, expresses the company's philosophy on corporate responsibility and its road map to achieve its CR goals. It also represents an important mile marker in the company's quest to become one of the most admired companies in the world and a more sustainable business.
The report, which includes the company's first greenhouse gas emissions measurement, highlights the corporation's 2009 and 2010 environmental and social performance, and the strides taken to manage the company's most material sustainability issues. The report also highlights challenges and key focus areas around the bend.
"Through best-in-class gear, can-do service and Run Happy spirit, we strive to develop meaningful consumer connections that ring far beyond the register," said Jim Weber, Brooks President and CEO. "We care about our customer's healthy bodies and minds, and our role in fostering an environment where life can thrive for the long run. Our newly established sustainability baselines will help us measure our future CR progress in what we consider a lifelong marathon."
The CR report includes an in-depth eco-footprint of two of the company's top-selling 2009 products - the Adrenaline GTS 10 performance running shoe and the Podium SS technical running top - that identifies, quantifies and assesses the environmental impacts associated with these products' different life cycle stages. The report also features sustainability highlights from 2009 and 2010:
BioMoGo Midsole - A five-year study found that BioMoGo, the midsole materials used for the vast majority of Brooks shoes, degrades in anaerobic conditions 50 times faster than a standard EVA midsole.
Cascadia 6 - Virtually every component of the Cascadia 6 has an environmentally-friendlier feature, such as materials made of recycled content, water-based inks and adhesives, and soy-based foams.
CMP Midsole - Brooks' eco-friendlier compression molded preform (CMP) midsole manufacturing process creates 50 percent less waste than traditional midsole manufacturing methods.
Green Silence - Constructed with roughly half as many parts as a comparable shoe, 75 percent of the Green Silence is made from post-consumer recycled material. The shoe requires 41 percent less energy to produce and uses 65 percent fewer volatile organic compounds.
Packaging Materials and Waste Reduction - Brooks examined every aspect of its shoe box and determined several ways to significantly reduce packaging materials and waste.
Hazardous Substance Reduction - In 2010, Brooks listed 193 chemicals on its restricted substance list and actively tracked 67 of the highest risk substances. All 49 of Brooks' footwear component and material suppliers, and contract factories have enlisted in its Restricted Substances program to help make Brooks products as safe as possible.
Factory Performance - Brooks began auditing its contract factories in the early 2000s, driving steady and meaningful social improvements. From 2009 to 2010, the average number of violations against Brooks' Code of Conduct decreased in issues related to wages and benefits as well as heath and safety.
Factory and Supplier Training - At Brooks' annual training conference, the company educates its factories and component suppliers, free of charge, about its CR program, human rights, worker health and safety, and environmental issues.
Soles4Souls - Brooks collects and donates product samples and gently worn shoes and apparel for those in need through the Soles4Souls program. In two years, Brooks donated more than 175,000 items.
Brooks and Moving Comfort Charitable Apparel Programs - Together, the two brands donated more than $65,000 in 2009 and 2010 to various charities through the sales of cause-related apparel collections.
Now with a baseline measurement of its sustainability impacts, Brooks will focus future CR efforts on five key areas that are most pivotal to its business:
Energy and water used to manufacture and assemble products and operate facilities
Waste generated (particularly on materials that are used) in the manufacture of products
GHG emissions associated with products and business operations
Materials used that are harmful for people and the environment
The well being of the individuals who work at Brooks and make its products
Brooks' Running Responsibly report is written in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G3 Guidelines, the de-facto standard for sustainability reporting. To see a copy of the entire report, please visit www.brooksrunning.com/runningresponsibly. Feedback is encouraged on the reporting process and performance via runningresponsibly@brooksrunning.com.
Visit www.brooksrunning.com for more information, and to follow frequent brand updates on Twitter (@brooksrunning) and Facebook (Brooks Running).
Portland Marathon Makes Donation to Help Restore Parks from Occupy Portland Damage
$4000 contribution commemorates the event's 40th edition
PORTLAND, Ore. - (December 7, 2011) - The Portland Marathon has announced that it will make a $4000 donation for the restoration of Lowesdale and Chapman Parks from damaged caused by Occupy Portland. The donation amount commemorates the event's 40th year.
Lowesdale and Chapman Parks, which are adjacent to the event's start and finish, are key pieces to the Portland Marathon-weekend activities. The parks were taken over by Occupy Portland for more than a month. The damage to the two parks was estimated by the City's Parks Department at $85,000.
"We think it is important these locations be restored to their former beauty and use," said Les Smith, Portland Marathon Event Director.
The Portland Marathon paid the fees for the two parks for a three-day period last October, but was never able to use them due to Occupy Portland protesters. Despite this, Smith said he was pleased Occupy Portland did not want to hurt the Portland Marathon efforts or interfere with the production of the events.
Some Occupy Portland protesters participated in the Marathon while others assisted with the set up and take down of the event. According to Smith, Occupy Portland protesters helped the Marathon build a blackout fence around the two parks and after the Event helped pick up trash in the finish area.
"We are grateful for the help of the Portland Police as well as the assistance of our amazing volunteers who helped create and ensure we had a safe and successful 40th Anniversary Portland Marathon for our participants and City," Smith added.
The Portland Marathon is a non-profit running and walking event that produces Portland's largest three-day "convention". The event has a positive $25M economic impact to the Portland area. Proceeds from the Portland Marathon go to help local schools, charities and non-profits. October 7, 2012 will mark the 41st Portland Marathon. The event features 85 entertainment groups at 53 locations along the course. The events of the Portland Marathon have over 15,000 registered participants from all 50 States, and is produced with the help of over 4,700 volunteers. The Event has been called the "best-organized marathon in North America" and has received national attention for being one of the first eco-friendly, "green" marathons.
For more information or to register for events, visit: www.portlandmarathon.org
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