VHTRC - The Club

Over 100 people celebrated the last Eagle Run on January 23.  Gary Knipling again welcomed us to Mason Neck where the weather was cold. Each participant received a fleece cap that commemorated "20 years running with baldy."  There were few eagles in Pohick Bay, the usual prime viewing location, but the Barnwharf Trail produced several close eagle sightings including the one at right. There was the usual pizza at Gunston Hall, and the party around the fire at the end.  A heartfelt thanks to Gary for 20 years of fun and memories! Photos by: Bobby Gill | Quatro | Anstr

We have updated the membership roster to list only those who have paid dues for 2011. There are now 461 members of the Virginia Happy Trails Running Club -- 300 renewing members and 161 new members. One hundred of the renewing members did so without payment of dues as volunteers. The membership process is off line. We hope to have a new process ready in March.  

Be sure your membership is up to date. Take the Read more link.

Matt ran 7:53 on a hard course and a strong field at the North Face championship in "San Francisco."  (It was actually not in the City, but in Marin County. There is a difference.) Event Web site | Results

VHTRC member Matt Woods ran 100k in 6:58:36 at the IAU World 100k Championships held in Gilbraltar on November 7.  Michael Wardian of Arlington, was third.  The U.S. men's team was second to the Japanese. Results [They are linked from this page and in pdf.] | Report by Bryon Powell

Our current situation is that members have two passwords to forget. The general one that is the same for everyone gets you into the Members Only section of the site. Then those who have made an account here have their own (different) password. Our goal is to fix that by having everything on this new section and do away with the password that everyone forgets and is not very secure.

Step one is to migrate the members only look up form over here. We have done that.  We hope you will test it and let us know if you have a problem.  Be sure you are logged in and then go to the Member Lookup page. (If you really want to test it, try this link when you are not logged in. Hopefully, you will get an error.)

John Hayward won Andiamo, a run of the 45-mile W&OD Bike Path on October 9. Kendall Hommel was the first woman.  Results

Brian Schmidt won the Grindstone 100 miler in a time of 19:44:32. Several other club members followed Brian across the finish line. Live Results | Grindstone blog | Event Web site | Bobby Gill's Photos

Challen Edwards reports that Amy Sproston was the first woman at the Pines to Palm 100 in Oregon on September 19. Challen noted that it was a "tough course and crappy conditions, but [Amy] came in under 23 hours." Final results do not seem to be on the Web yet. Picture at right is from the 2008 MMT and it is by Aaron Schwartzbard.  Event Web site | Results