New Years Day Run.

CCRC will be having their annual News Years Day run at Fort Vancouver on January 1th rain or shine.  The race starts at 10:00 Am so you have a chance to sleep in.  This is a good time to renew your CCRC membership.  All membership expire on Dec 31th. When you renew, please have your renewal registration form already filled out.  It makes things run a lot smoother.  Here is a link to our registration form.

Vancouver Lake Half Marathon is Full

We filed up in 5 days this year even though we increased the entrants to 475 this year. Every year our participants do a great job of car-pooling.  We are hoping they continue to carpool to the event this year so that we can keep this higher limit.  This year’s race is on January 25th and the run starts at 10:00.  The walk starts at 9:00.

We are changing the course slightly this year and we hoping to have certified in time for this year’s event.  The course will be more spectator friendly and a lot safer.  Instead of running past Frenchman’s bar, we will do a loop inside the park and return back on the trail.  We then following the identical course back.  The 1.5 mile turnaround will also be the 10.6 mile turn around.  We finish with the large loop around the field by the registration shelter.  So runners will be visible for spectators the last quarter mile.  Here is the link to the new course.  NEW COURSE  When you view, make sure you zoom in and put it on satellite mode.

RACE ENTRY CONFIRMATION LIST

Local High School Runners win Portland to Coast

A team made up all Skyview Runners won the Portland to Coast High School Division. Their time was 14:02:24.  They were first out of 50 high school team.  Most of the members are regulars at our club runs.  The members of the team were:

Sam Bradley-Kelly 

Ryan Cavola 

Zach Colburn

Trent Elms

Tim Farnsworth

Thomas Geisel

Chase Horrocks

Matt Moncur

Jared O'Brien

Andrew Pongratz

Ryan Schoellkopf

Oliver Tamis

Congratulations!!!

2008 CCRC Scholarship Winners

Congratulations to the 10 Scholarships winners.  We gave out over $6000 to the winners.  All funds for the scholarship came from Vancouver Lake Half Marathon.  Here are our winners:

· Samuel Bradley-Kelly — University of Washington

· Josh Burrus —  Concordia College

· Katherine Ellis  — University of Southern California

· Kevin Krohn  — University of Portland

· Matt Moncur  — Clark College

· Bridget Pisan  — Clark College

· Jessica Pyatt — Regis University

· Cody Serdar  — Western Washington

· Shane Weldon — Clark College

· Alex Zornick  — Clark College

Club Picnic on August 27th at Marine Clock

Make Sure you use your Assigned Bib number at CCRC events.

To speed up the processing of race results for all CCRC events, we have assigned permenant bib numbers to everyone who run a race in the last year.  This includes non-member.  These numbers will never change.  To find your bib number, click on this link.

Check your Membership On-line

We have moved the CCRC membership to an on-line database.  So you can check your membership status at any time.  The link to the membership database is

http://www.resultsdb.com/CCRCMembership/CCRCMembership.asp

There are still quite a few runners who have not renewed their 2007 membership yet but are running quite a few of our races.  Please renew you membership soon.

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Get Fit Live Fit

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Free Group Runs at Fit Right Northwest
When:  Thursdays at 6pm
What:  3-6 mile walks and runs with pace group leaders for all abilities
Where:  Fit Right Northwest 
                Vancouver: 700 SE 160th Suite 111 (Mill Plain and 160th, behind the Old Spaghetti Factory)

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