For Current Local Running News and Discussion, Join Our Google Group!

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Written by Martin Mazur Martin Mazur

In early 2018, we moved our email listserve to Google Groups due to unreliable service from our previous provider Yahoo. The Club listserve is where we keep you updated on coming events including races, group runs, meetings, and other activities. It's also a forum for discussing training programs, running health and injury prevention, and anything else of interest in the local running community. You do not have to be a dues-paying member of the NVRC to join our listserve, but we encourage you to join the Club!

If you would like to join our Google Group, instructions and more are here. 

2018 Race Series Cup

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Written by Marty Mazur Marty Mazur

The 2017 Race Series is in the books. Final tallies can be found here. The 2018 Race Series is well underway. So far we've had 2 races in the Series: the FIrst Knight Resolution Run 5K and the Indoor Mile Series. More races are coming, so lace up! 

We'll have the 2018 tallies here as soon as they're available. If you spot an error, please contact Bob Shafer at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Check here for rules and here for the list of Series races. There are also numerous opportunities to earn Volunteer points: Helping out at NVRC races, at the NVRC/Centre Parks and Rec Youth Cross-Country Meets, Volunteer coaching with the Nittany Track and Field Youth Group, and donating blood at the NVRC Blood Drives, and many more. But to participate, you have to be an NVRC member to participate. Join the Club! More information on the Series is here.

Join the 2018 Marathoners For Medicine (M4M) Team

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Written by Jaimie Wright Jaimie Wright

Come be part of the 2018 Marathoners for Medicine team! If you are running a longish race this spring, please consider joining the team. We raise funds for Centre Volunteers in Medicine (CVIM), a local organization that provides free and/or discounted medical and dental care to our neighbors in Centre County who lack health insurance. The need is great, and there is no better time to combine your love for running with an opportunity to enable more of our neighbors to live healthier lives.

We request that you dedicate your race to CVIM, and then ask your family and friends to support you by making a donation to CVIM. You are not required to raise a minimum dollar amount -- every dollar counts, and every dollar you raise goes directly to providing services at CVIM. You'll help to make a difference in our community. Greg Fredericks will once again be serving as an honorary coach along with Fumi Franklin, and we are hoping to have Sue Paterno return.

The M4M fundraising pages are now going up on the CVIM web site. If you can't run with M4M this year, please take a moment and donate to the cause in the name of one or more of the athletes!

 For more information or to join the team, contact Jaimie at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

Thursday Track Report: To L and Back!

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Written by Bwana Bwana

May 24, 2018

IIt was sunny and warm, but thankfully not too humid, a great day for an almost-summer track workout. Oddly, the turnout was down significantly from last week. Maybe people were taking off early for the Memorial Day weekend? John Domico, Tara Murray, Meira Minard, Mike Casper, Andy Maguire, CJ Wagner, Monica Acosta, and Marty Mazur were the Crew today.

Bwana was rolling over ideas for a new workout on the rectangles of the IM Fields as he drove to the track, but upon arriving he found there was already a consensus that he could take his ideas and go to L with them! Domico, seconded by Tara and others, wanted to make a return trip through those gates that say “Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here!”, even though we’d just gone through them two weeks ago. Bwana said, “Ah, what the L!”. Off we went, without Virgil as our guide. The workout is: Run an “L” on the rectangle. Distance 330 meters, Then rest the next side of the rectangle. Rinse and repeat. Eight or so times. The kicker is that the rest alternates between a long side of the rectangle (270 m) and a short side (60 m). Try to maintain a consistent mile race pace despite the varying rests. The varying recovery really messes with your head, but situations in real races, that deliver varying doses of terrain and challenge, are like that!

We might be able to run on the Penn State outdoor track next week. It’ll be open for Special Olympics and Dave Eggler, an official, usually waves us in to warm up the track for arriving athletes. I’ll let you know soon!

Thursday Track: Track Venue Until Summer (REVISED 03/29)

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Written by Bwana Bwana

March 29, 2018

The Thursday Track Crew meets every Thursday at the Curtin-Burrowes entrance to Rec Hall at noon for a warm-up run to the Penn State track. You can run with the group from Rec Hall (about a mile-and-a-half warm-up). 

NOTE: As of April 12, we are moving Thursday Track to the IM Fields on the north side of Park Avenue just east of the Law School. In case of a return of abominable weather, Bwana will put out an email blast on the listserve announcing a temporary indoor hiatus at the MSF. Otherwise, we'll be at the IM Fields until June when we move to the State High track.

Summer Hours For Thursday Track: Due to the new limited hours of Rec Hall during the academic summer (from the first week of May through the start of the Fall semester, around the last week of August), the Rec Hall Regulars who come to Thursday Track leave Rec Hall by about 11:45 AM. Thursday Track will start at about 12 noon.

PA Biathlon Race Report

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Written by Cheryl Keller Capone Cheryl Keller Capone

May 20, 2018

Yesterday, Tara Murray, Dean Capone, Brian Capone, and I, participated in a PA biathlon event in Nescopek, PA, which is about a 1hr 45 min drive from State College. As you know, it rained yesterday morning, and while the rain seemed to let up in State College, it continued to downpour in eastern PA the entire morning throughout the event.  

The biathlon was set up as follows:

• 1 mile run
• 25m shoot in prone (5 shots)
• 1 mile run
• 25m shoot in standing (5 shots)
• 1 mile run

The run is a 1 mile out-and-back course, mostly flat, through a corn field, and you have to take a 70m penalty lap for each shot missed before heading back out for the next mile loop.

Read more: PA Biathlon Race Report