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I hope you have all got back to running and hope you will join us for a
couple races coming in the next few weeks.  Some of us ran in the Tinley
Turkey Trot today (Sunday)  and despite a terrible weather forecast it
was not too bad.  I will list some result below.  The next race is in
Orland Hills on Nov 22. The 5k starts at 10:00am. You can check the web
site for details.   I would like to add this is a small race.  If we
attend in large numbers we will get most of the trophies.  Then will be
Mel's race on Thanksgiving morning.  I know most of us will attend that
race.  We will start December off with the Jingle Bell run put on by the
Lockport Park District.
11.13.08
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 Our runner of the week this  week has been running  marathons since 2001.
 He has ran Chicago every  year since except 2005  because it filled so early he  got locked out.  That year he  ran Milwaukee. Several years  ago when I asked for help  with  themed run I was  directing he was one of the
 first to volunteer.
Welcome!
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Post-Marathon The Marathon and Banquet are Over . . . Now What?
   
Mondays Group Runs at Running for Kicks
 
 
 
 Normally I have group  leaders write their own story  but occasionally I make  exceptions, this is one of them  times. Click here to learn  more about this week's group  leader.
Leader Profile of the Week
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."
       - Ralph Waldo Emerson
     


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Nutrition Tip of the Week

  
  Jan Dowell,   MS, MHS,   RD, CSSD


 Salt:  not just for margaritas  anymore. Read Jan's tip of the  week for some advice on this  important mineral, as well as  what NOT to eat before  the marathon .

 

 

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Hello, my name is Joe Werner. I am the Oak Forest site coordinator of CARA’s marathon training program in the southwest suburbs.  Along with your group leaders I want to welcome you to our website and hopefully to our training site. CARA offers the best training program in all of Chicagoland.  It is my opinion that our site has the most dedicated group leaders.  We are big enough that a group surrounds everybody and still small enough that your group leaders will know your name.  I will know your name and your face, though sometimes I have trouble putting them together. This makes our site the best site CARA has. We run from Yankee Woods, which is located at 165th and Central Ave in Oak Forest.  We run through Tinley Park, Orland Park and eventually run into Palos Heights.  Announcements start around 6:45am, which allows our runs to start promptly at 7:00am.
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