December 05/January 06 Pacer

RSVP to Frankie St. Philllips

First off, congratulations to those brave souls who completed a lap or laps at the Huff. Bud Stiffler again proved he’s our version on the Energizer Bunny by completing all 3 laps in a little over 8 hours. Several other members turned in very respectable times on what was again a cold day with snowy and rough trail conditions. I had to work in a nice warm store with free food that day so I felt bad about missing out.

If memory serves me correctly we had about 55 brave souls show up for a rather chilly and windy Thanksgiving Day Run. I was really gratified by the number of runners who donated their pies and canned goods for us to deliver to the Christian Center. My thanks to Bob Kearns for picking up the turkeys and a load of pies. To Greg Smith for always being there to help with set-up, scoring and tear down. And finally to Robin Gerhart for making time to run our donated items to the Christian Center. None of these events, no matter how small, come off without a team effort.

Originally, we had planned to have two-lappers in December and January. Because of the timing of all the other events we substituted the City Lights run for one of the two-lappers. As we reported earlier we had a nice turn out of about 25 runners including many of our XC racing team members and we also enjoyed the hospitality of Perry Knox and Rax. Stay tuned to arrcnews and if things work out timing and weather wise we’ll attempt to have a two-lapper on a Sunday afternoon later in January. We’ll do our best to avoid any conflicts with potential Colts playoff games, too.

As the calendar year winds down we also find that the club year is also rapidly coming to a close. Our annual meeting is scheduled for Feb 4, 2006 and it will be time to gather to celebrate each others accomplishments, pass out awards from both the Thursday night and Road Race series races, and also attend to the election of officers.

While the board has already made some progress towards identifying candidates for our annual awards we’re still open to suggestions and nominations. Each category is open to both male and female runners and walkers. The categories are as follows:

Rookie of the Year
Most Improved in 2005
Comeback Runner of the Year
Dale Johnson Award – Marathoner of the Year
James West Award -  Outstanding Youth runners
Jeff Bailey Award – Awarded to the person(s) who provide outstanding service to the ARRC

As I noted above we’ll also be electing officers. As is always the case every office is open for election. We do have several current board members who have offered to serve yet another term. Those who have agreed to serve again, if duly elected, are:

If I don’t see you on the roads or trails I look forward to seeing you at the annual meeting February 4, 2006.

Sponsor Spotlight – Rayl Surveying

We are a Civil Engineering and Land Surveying company that has been in business in Anderson for the last 25 years. My dad who is both a licensed civil engineer and land surveyor has been in the profession since the 1960's He started the company after working as city engineer and continues to oversee the daily operations. We have 13 full time employees and 3 part time. I started out working with my dad at about the age of 10 working on ditch projects and road construction projects. I started full time in 1989 and became licensed in 2001 I currently oversee all of the survey field crews and schedule the work. People will ask me what do you do exactly holding that stick. Our main focus of work is in the commercial and government sector. We have designed many of the road and sewer projects throughout the city included Main Street, 64th Street, and Enterprise drive. We also work with many developers on residential and commercial subdivisions. Including South Main West, Paramount Springs, Pendle Pointe Flagship Park, Lakes At Killbuck and Lake Clearwater. Other business we have worked as late include Skyline Chili, Culvers, Starbucks and the new WalMart Site. We continue to work with Anderson University on Student Housing completing the new location at 5th and Nursery earlier this summer. We work with many of the local churches on new site designs including Madison Park on the south side of town. We have worked with Habitat for Humanity on some sites in town for new residents. I have also enjoyed going to schools and Cub Scout meeting to show and explain what we do, It fascinates kids when I tell them that I can make my measurements from satellites orbiting the earth. I have seen quite a few changes in the profession since I started and continue to love what I do and be involved with new projects throughout the community.

Hey just a quick note on my recent completion of the Honolulu Marathon.  It was my first ever marathon and I was concerned about the 80 degree temp so I started slow and continued the pace, had a great time and the views running up Diamond Head were awesome. Also I included a link to the local paper, http://starbulletin.com/2005/12/10/news/story01.html where they took my picture the day before at the expo. I tried to give credit to Anderson but he was a little confused and just put Indianapolis. I finished in 4:26:10 a new PR and room to improve on my next Marathon.

  

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