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Written by Bwana Bwana

December 18, 2014

The last Thursday before Christmas, time for the annual Jingle Bell Run. It was about as cold as last year, but instead of a sunny day with 4-5 inches of snow on the track, it was just drab and breezy. Jim Myers, Tom Cali, Marty Klanchar, Mike Renz, Dave Moore, Mark and Nikita Fedkin, Andrew Maguire, Jaimie Wright, Meira Minard, Allison Machnicki, Seth Senior, Dave DeGroote, CJ Wagner, Barb and Brent Kelsey, Adam Ilgen, David Lloyd, and Marty Mazur headed for the track bedecked for the season.

The traditional “workout” after the 1.5 mile “jog” to the track is a “Look Back” at the old year (1 lap running backwards) followed by a “Look Forward” to the new (1 lap forward to unwind your legs). After that we head to the big steps at South Halls to run up them and then watch Meira run down at breakneck, trail champ speed. Then we all run through downtown State College amusing pedestrians and shopkeepers (Rapid Transit Sports, Kitchen Kaboodle). It’s all “topped off” by a run up the parking ramp at Beaver and Fraser, which has a great view of Mt. Nittany.

Last year, Bwana produced a video of the Jingle Bell Run. This year, we were briefly joined by a short, pudgy guy with very thick black hair. He spoke with what Bwana discerned to be a strange form of a Korean accent. I think he didn’t understand the humor, and shortly after we got back form the run, Bwana started getting heavy-handed threats in “Norklish” not to publish any video of today’s run or the NVRC web site would suddenly disappear. That would mean the end of Bwana’s job as Propaganda Minister for the NVRC. So, he decided to buckle under. But you can still watch last year’s video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flQwx41g70M

Here are a couple of photos from today's run:

The crew at the notably unsnowy track. What a change from last year!

There was a wee bit of snow on the top floor of the Beaver Avenue garage.