The purpose of the Nittany Valley Running Club is to establish a sound, continuing program of youth and adult fitness, to promote development and competition for all age groups, and to conscientiously prepare athletes for competition.
NVRC, Calder Square P.O. Box 10348, State College, PA 16805-0348
Our new web site has been online for over a year now. Most of the content from the old site is available and updated to the new format. We're still working on making the site better. If you have any suggestions on how to make the site easier to use, let us know! Email either Dave DeGroote or Marty Mazur with any problems you find. We've tried to make the new site easier to navigate. Let us know if this is so. If you can't find something from the old site on the new one, use the search bar above. Much of the new site is cataloged and searchable. More of it will become searchable soon.
Finally, if you need it, the old site is still available here, but please let us know if there was something broken on the new site that made it so that you needed the old site. In time, the old site will become out of date.
Last Updated on Saturday, 07 November 2009 21:01
Results From Recent Races
Written by Martin Mazur
Browse the results of past races on the Results page. Here are the most recent races:
November 1:THON 5K(Complete results unavailable. Age group winners only and no times.)
We're trying out putting photos from Flickr on the website using tags. This will allow anyone that took pictures of an NVRC event to upload them to Flickr, tag them, and have them appear on the web page for that event. See the Arts Fest pages for examples and the following for instructions:...
Thursday Track Report: You Don't Need To Be A Weatherman
Written by Bwana
The sky was dark, and a light drizzle was coming down, but Jim Myers, Tom Cali, Bob Cornwall, Marty Klanchar, Jim Moore, Judd Michael, Costas Maranas, Meira Minard, Tara Murray, Greg Luna, Michael Goldfine, John Wilcock, Mark Lee, Mike Weyandt, Lee Culver, Dana Todd, Kirk Rager, Jim Laudermilch, Ron Cunfer, Dave DeGroote, Mark Traband, and Marty Mazur knew that a hard rain was gonna fall, so they headed for the MSF Indoor Track.
It was the first time indoors this season for much of the crew, so Bwana called out the usual benchmark workout, the 3X3X300. There weren't too many tears of rage, but after a few reps, the Crew was singin' the fixin' to die blues.
Julie Grubb put the call out earlier for some "models" to show up at Beaver Stadium for a photo-op after the track workout. When Julie calls, we don't have to think twice; it was "Baby, let me follow you down". LDC made the shoot, too, fresh from Maggie's Farm. The shoot was held in the south end-zone tunnel, complete with backlighting and fog machines. The stadium itself was empty: every row was Desolation Row. But the Crew was wet, cold, and impatient standing in that tunnel, and by time the pictures were taken, we all had the subterranean homesick blues.
As for those who weren't there, well Bwana won't waste any of his precious time. Next Thursday is Thanksgiving, so there'll be no Thursday Track workout. And Bwana knows that "everybody must get stoned", but please be careful out there, and don't drive after too much turkey, let alone too many beers.
Katie Visco's Run Across The USA
Written by Martin Mazur
Katie Visco is attempting to be the youngest woman to run across the USA. She started in Boston in late March and hopes to reach San Diego before Christmas. On May 16, Katie passed through State College with an escort from the Nittany Valley Runnig Club. I took some pictures, which are in this album on Facebook.
You can read more about Katie and her trip at her web site: http://www.paveyourlane.com/. There's a post in her blog there with her impressions of State College and the NVRC. And Tara Murray summarizes the recent spate of blog posts on Katie's run here.
