• BETH ATNIP COMPLETES 500 MILES!  September 30, 2006 - Congratulations to Beth on joining the 500 Mile Club!!

  

  Beth Atnip completing her 500 Miles

• NEW STUMBLERS  September 30, 2006 - Welcome to Allisan Kingston, Casey Gilvin, and Gayla Cook as first time Stumblers.  Gayla confessed she had actually run with the Stumblers once before, with her cross country team when she was 13!  Welcome back Gayla.

  

  Allisan Kingston, Casey Gilvin, and Gayla Cook

• LET IT RAIN, LET IT RAIN, LET IT RAIN  September 23, 2006 - Or maybe we should have said, "Rain, rain go away...".  Torrential rains that flooded both urban and rural roads in the area created a dilemma for many Stumblers.  Do they risk the journey out for the chance to run in heavy rain ... or do they go back to bed?  Sleeping in won out for most of us with only four [choose your adjective] Stumblers venturing out to the clubhouse.  Now we know for which of us the lure of fresh donuts is especially strong.  Shall we name them?  Nah, you'll just have to come out and read the sign-in book.  Sadly the ducky four did not get their coveted donuts because someone did not bring them out.  Pip, you should have traded days with Virgil, he could have boated them in.

• UPDATE FROM MATT ROGERS September 21, 2006 - We received a nice email from Matt Rogers whom some of you will remember.  If we don't see Matt at the Harvest Homecoming  this year, we hope he'll drop by another time when he's in the area. 

  

  From: Matt Rogers
  Subject: Todds Road Days - update
  Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006

   

  I was looking for a race to run when I visit KY for my 25 year HS reunion at Shelby County and “stumbled” (pun intended) across the TRS website.  I will be home the weekend of October 28 but was planning to race at Bernheim Forest.  If I change my mind I will try to get to the TRS reunion. 

   

  The old newsletters brought back some great memories, especially the articles about Dave Schaufus and Dennis Haddad/Mike Raftery.  I ran XC and track at EKU as a walk-on when Dave was our graduate assistant coach, and after graduation moved to Lexington to be a running bum prior to graduate school.  I was a regular hanger-outer at John’s Running Shop and even worked part time there for a while.  I jumped right into the TRS “offshoot” that met at John’s on Saturdays and Sundays.  I still can’t believe I was able to hang with those guys (for most of the run anyway) as untalented as I was then and as slow as I am today at age 43.  I also look at some of those old race results and realize how fast the 40 – 45 age group guys were back then; much faster than I can handle today.  Because I was hooking up with that group, I never managed to get out to the club house and sign the roster during those 1980’s golden age days.  I won’t say who, but the one Saturday I was planning to head out there someone left without me (but Dennis knows who he is)  Okay, so I was a little bit late and may have violated the long standing 5 minute rule.  I did eventually get out there after moving back to Lexington from Arizona around 1992, got the TRS tank top and finally assuaged my guilt for having raced in a TRS singlet as an unofficial member.  That old singlet doesn’t actually fit anymore; it looks like it was made for a grade schooler when I put it on now.

   

  Update: I left Lexington again in 1998 to take a rehabilitation job at a hospital south of Savannah, Georgia.  In June of 2005 I was fortunate enough to get a great job back in the research field, where I had intended to be all along.  I now live in Holiday, Florida and work in Clearwater at The Arthritis Research Institute of America (www.preventarthritis.org) conducting clinical trials of the effects of exercise on people with osteoarthritis.  Eventually I plan to conduct a study on the effects of long term running on osteoarthritis.  I have finally gotten back to working on my PhD – the reason I moved to Arizona – and will be able to keep working at ARIA while I pursue that goal.  So it seems an old Stumbler can learn new tricks.  Running wise, I finally finished a marathon in 2004 (John can now stop ribbing me about dropping out of the 1990 Columbus Marathon), suffered a pelvic injury and had to take some time off.  I am now running around 40 – 65 miles most weeks and very gradually getting back into some semblance of racing fitness.  TRS members are welcome to drop me a line at mrogers@*take this out*preventarthritis.org if they plan to be in the Tampa Bay area.

   

  Take care,

  Matt Rogers 

   

  Matt Rogers, MS, CSCS

  Director of Exercise Physiology

  The Arthritis Research Institute of America

  Clearwater, FL 33755

• OFTEN SCENE  August 26, 2006  A typical view along the course in late summer.  This is the tobacco field near the end of the course on Combs Ferry Road this foggy morning.  The tobacco is cut and speared and ready to be transported to and hung in the barn.

   

   

• WELCOME HOME DAN WELLS!  Dan Wells is now residing in Lexington again after retiring from the Social Security Administration in Washington DC. 

• August 27, 2006 Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the families and friends of those that died in the tragic crash of Comair Flight 5191 this morning at Bluegrass Field.

• WELCOME!  August 26, 2006  Jordan Bray, a Senior from Wellesley Academy in Lexington, joined us for the first time, running the 9 mile course.  Welcome Jordan!

Jordan Bray

• OFTEN SCENE  August 26, 2006  A typical view along the course in late summer.  This is the tobacco field near the end of the course on Combs Ferry Road this foggy morning.  The tobacco is cut and speared and ready to be transported to and hung in the barn.

• WELCOME!  August 12, 2006  Marty Park joined us for the first time.  Marty is a busy guy, he does triathlons, is the technology director for the Clark County school system, and is the wide receiver coach for the Georgetown College Tiger football team.

Marty Park finishes his first TRS run

• PAUL WALMSLEY JOINS 500 MILE CLUB  August 5, 2006  Paul and his TRS friends celebrated his entering the 500 Mile Club.  Way to go Paul!  If anyone has a photo of Paul crossing the "finish" line we'd like to publish it here.

• WELCOME!  July 29, 2006  Make sure you introduce yourself to these young ladies.  They proved themselves to be capable runners, easily handling a long course in the continuing hot and humid weather.

Samantha Price, Elissa Roycraft, Emily Rupper

• VIRGIL JOHNSON JOINS 500 MILE CLUB   July 22, 2006  Virgil quietly marked his 500th mile with the Stumblers.  Congratulations Virgil!

Virgil Johnson finishing his 500 Miles

MORE NEW STUMBLERS  July 15, 2006  In spite of the hot and humid weather a lot of Stumblers just can't miss their weekly fix of running in the country.  And we're getting "first timers" almost every week.  This week was no exception with 4 new Stumblers.  Congratulations to them all and a note that Amanda ran the 15+ mile "Pit Bull" route her first time out!

           David Sheeks and Amanda Ribble                                                                                             Kara Bottiggi and Krista Green

• NEW STUMBLERS AND VISITORS  July 8, 2006, Another father and son team, John and Dan Richey, have started running at TR.  John works at Lexmark and Dan is a student at Henry Clay HS.  Make sure you give them a friendly hello when you see them.  Karen McCulloh brought baby Graham "Grahambo" out to the clubhouse.  Strapping young lad!  Congratulations to mom and dad!

                    John and Dan Richey                                                                                                 Karen, Tom, and baby Graham McCulloh

• STUMBLERS DO WELL AT BLUEGRASS 10K  July 4, 2006, It was hot, it was humid!  Congratulations to all the Stumblers that ran in this signature race!  Many Stumblers did very well, placing high overall or in their age group.  As we all know, even just finishing is a victory sometimes.  Thanks to Marty and Mary for hosting a Stumbler get together at the "big house" on Limestone.  Link to online BG10K Results.

Some of the Stumblers after the BG10K