Valley Women's Running Team
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Running opportunites!!
August 17th
a) Janecek Trail Pasta Feed
The PHS XC Running and Skiing teams/boosters are sponsoring the First Annual Janacek Trail Maintenance Pasta Feed to continue the improvements and upkeep on the
trail as well as benefit the teams. The Pasta Feed will be Tuesday, August 17 from 5:30-7:30 in the PHS Lower Commons. Adults $7; Students $5 (High
school and under); Family of 6 $20.
b) Farm Fun Run & Agriculture Appreciation Day
The Matanuska Experiment Farm is having an Alaska Agriculture Appreciation Day on Tuesday Aug 17 11am-4pm with an assortment of activities like the Air Force Band, assorted kids games, Matanuska Colonist display (75th
anniversary) and some activities related to trails. Here's the full list ofactivities:
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Farm Fun Run will be a low key (no fee, no aid, no awards) at 6:30pm. Two approximate distances: about 3.7 mi and about 6 mi. The route will be marked. It will be timed, for those who want a time. This is intended to introduce people to the farm trails and how they connect with neighboring trails.
c) Twilight 3K Race on Colony High Trails
High School athletes at 6:30
Community Races at 7 pm. No fee.
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Trail night is changing times! We will start at 6:15 for the rest of the season to accomodate the request of many runners. We'll see you there!
2010 Track and Trail Sessions
Trail Runs
Where: See Thursday Night Trail Runs
Time: 6:15 pm
Track Sessions:
Where: Palmer High School Track
When: Tuesday's
Time: 6 PM
Gear Check
- paperwork: Waiver/Release
- hat/headband
- gloves/mittens
- long pants
- running shoes
- couple layers on top
- jacket
- water bottle
- watch
Check the VWRT Forum Often
Learn the latest news and connect with your running buddies on the VWRT Forum. We have set up this forum so that our members can network for group runs, rides or ski outings; get the latest trail updates; post classified ads; and more. There's even an 'announcements' forum where members may post news that may otherwise take up precious time at our Tuesday workouts. To post messages, you'll need to become a registered user - very simple to do but if you need assistance, ask Natalie Cadieux. Visit the forum often to stay up to date. And don't be shy about posting messages!
Membership At A Glance:
VWRT meets April through August at 6:00 pm on Tuesday evenings at Palmer High School Track for coached track workouts.
The 2010 membership fee is $125 for the season.
Thursday is Trail Night! Coordinated by VWRT members, these low key, fun, informal trail runs allow you the opportunity to get to know some of your VWRT members, and the great trails we have access to here in the Valley.
VWRT Jackets
BROOKS NIGHTLIFE JACKET
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The purpose of the Valley Women’s Running Team is to provide an educational and recreational running program for women of the Mat-Su Valley.
Members of VWRT have commented on how positively their lives have been impacted by joining the group and how many lifelong friendships have been formed.
A speaker (head of psychiatry at Stanford) gave a lecture on the mind-body connection of the relationship between stress and disease. He said, among other things, that one of the best things that a man could do for his health is to be married to a woman whereas for a woman, one of the best things she could do for her health was to nurture her relationships with her girlfriends. At first everyone laughed, but he was serious.
Women connect with each other differently and provide support systems that help each other to deal with stress and difficult life experiences. Physically this quality "girlfriend time" helps us to create more seratonin--a neurotransmitter that helps combat depression and can create a general feeling of well being. Women share feelings whereas men often form relationships around activities. They rarely sit down with a buddy and talk about how they feel about certain things or how their personal lives are going. Jobs? Yes. Sports? Yes. Cars? Yes. Fishing, hunting, golf? Yes. But their feelings?--rarely. Women do it all of the time. We share from our souls with our sisters, and evidently that is very good for our health. He said that spending time with a friend is just as important to our general health as jogging or working out at a gym.
There's a tendency to think that when we are "exercising" we are doing something good for our bodies, but when we are hanging out with friends, we are wasting our time and should be more productively engaged--not true. In fact, he said that failure to create and maintain quality personal relationships with other humans is as dangerous to our physical health as smoking! So every time you hang out to shmooze with a gal pal, just pat yourself on the back and congratulate yourself for doing something good for your health! And when you combine exercise with that girl time, you received double the benefit!! We are indeed very very lucky.
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