12/31  All Striders invited to a 20% off shopping party on Tuesday, January 19th 2010:  It's happening at Sports Basement (1177 Kern Avenue Sunnyvale)
Bring your friends.  Free drinks and snacks. Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm. Located here

12/31: Congratulations to the following Striders, winners of the Big L Awards given out at the Holiday Party:
           Athletic Achievement:
          1. Christina Brownson and Bill Dodson for winning their age division for ultrarunner of the year (Pacific Track and Field)
          2. Johanna Ylanen for her Silicon Valley Marathon 3rd place
          3. Dennis Connor (first 100 miler in last year and then WS)
          4 John McKiernan (first marathon for 20 years and it was a Boston Qualifier; first 50K at Stevens Creek and then first 50 miler at Firetrails this year)
          5. Randy Ison (first marathon at SV marathon).

           Service to the Club:  Bill Jones

           Strider of the Year:  Peter Hargreaves

           Also Awarded at the Holiday Party, the Striders Western States Entry:  to Lina McCain.

12/23: Last Board Meeting Minutes posted. Here.

12/21: Randy Ison's photos of the two Striders teams at the Christmas Relays at Lake Merced on Dec 13th.  Here. 

12/3: Slideshows and Movies of the Thanksgiving Relays. Many thanks to Michael Florence for organizing the relays. And thanks to Tom Kaisersatt and Andrew Johnson for taking the photos. Here.

11/28: Striders entry to the Western States 100.  If you don't get lucky in the Western States lottery and wish to be considered for the Striders entry, make this known to a board member.  Note the criteria listed in the 11/9 update below.

11/28: Website problem affecting Christmas Relays & Big L Awards. Our website hosting company managed to turn off our email service for 2 weeks so we have no idea what emails for these 2 events we have missed. It is now working again.  But if you have already have tried to write to enter the relays or make a nomination please do so again: they will not get counted twice!  Sign up by December 5th else fee increases.

11/28: Big L Awards. Make your nominations before midnight on December 10th. Awards to be made at the Holiday Party.  Nominations closed.

11/23: Newsletters. Carol Borders has just unearthed the missing 1999 annal plus a few more newsletters from the early 90s. So we are pleased to add the scans here.  Thanks Carol. We are still sorting out how to best scan the photos from the last 27 years to keep them for posterity and identify the Striders therein. Newly published: from 1999: Mar, May, Jul, Sep, Dec,  and more recently: Dec 2001, Mar 2002, Jul 2004, Nov 2009.   Main Newsletter page here.

11/23:  Christmas Relay information and signups:  Sign up by December 5th else fee increases.

11/9: Striders entry to the Western States 100.  As the Striders run one of the aid stations at this annual race, the club is able to nominate a runner each year to participate if they fail to get in by the lottery process. After a commitment in August 2008, after the forest fires forced the cancellation of that year's race, your board invited comments and recently reviewed the selection process. At the last 2 board meetings, after much careful deliberation, it was decided that the system should better recognize service to the Striders as a club. So the following system is now in effect.

After having notified the board of their desire to be considered for the entry having applied and failed to get a place in the race, points will be allotted to contenders on the criteria listed below. The member with the highest number of points will be given the entry. In the event of a tie, the entry would be allotted from a draw from the names of those tying. The entry is not transferable by the winning entrant. If the entrant decides not to enter the race the board would put forward the next highest point applicant and so on.

a) Stevens Creek Striders currently paid up member: 1 point
b) Last Chance aid station worker: 1 point for each of previous 5 years, max 3.
c) Quicksilver aid station worker: 1 point for each of previous 5 years, max 2.
d) Last Change aid station captain: 1 point for each of previous 5 years, max 3. (In addition to Last Chance worker points).
e) Quicksilver aid station captain: 1 point for each of previous 5 years, max 2. (In addition to Quicksilver worker points).
f) Board member: 1 point for each of previous 5 years, max 3.
g) Never won Striders' WS entry, 1 point.

11/9: Board Minutes.  October Minutes added here.

11/1: Board page updated here.

10/12: Board Minutes. September Minutes added here.

10/04:   Holiday Party.  The Holiday Party will be on December 12th at St Edwards Episcopal Church Hall located at 15040 Union Avenue (same place as last year). More details and sign up to follow soon.

10/02:   The Palo Alto Run Club (PARC) invites Striders members to participate in their upcoming Monthly Trail Run at Monte Bello OSP on Sunday October 11. There will be 6-mile and 10-mile run options, followed by a pot-luck. Details are available here

9/27: Carrying on the tradition, Turkey Relays will be run again this year at 8:30 on Thanksgiving Morning. Striders, family and friends invited to participate in this exciting (and jolly) event at DeAnza College track on Thanksgiving morning. As usual, Mike Florence is organizing the event and supplying valuable prizes. No sign up necessary. Just show up and be ready for fun! Photos from last year.

9/26: Montebello & Black Mountain run. Last Saturday the Striders move up the hill to be kindly hosted by Noel and Bill at their Vineyard. Great running on Black Mountain.  Thanks to Randy for these photos.

9/24: August Board Minutes added: here

9/11: Clambake Photos added here.

9/3: Yosemite Weekend. Photo Album added here. 18 Striders and friends had a great weekend on the eastern side of Yosemite. This photo from Bruce and Lina.

8/26: Spring Picnic Photos.  Clearly in the better-late-than-never category, Mike Dhuey's photos of the Picnic are now posted here.

8/25: Big Sur River Run.  Saturday October 24th, 10am. Camp over on Friday night in Pfeiffer State Park. Details here.

7/17: Striders Website Search launched.  27 years of Newsletters scanned.  To the left you will see a new search dialogue which uses a Google custom search engine to just search this website. At the same time we have scanned all the paper newsletters we have going back to 1982: here.  So now the search function can find all references to your target of interest. Normal Google syntax applies, for instance Donald OR Mickey (note the or is capitalized), or Donald AND Mickey. Phrases should be in inverted commas: 'Mickey Mouse'. To exclude words prefix them with a minus sign. For example: Doug OR White -elephant.  You have to put up with occasional Goggle adverts on the results page but that is a small price to pay. We are missing a number of newsletters between 2002 to 2006. So if you have squirreled any away not shown on the newsletters page please let us know. Enjoy the archives!

 

 

Top of page

---

Weekly Program Tuesday & Thursdays:  Rancho San Antonio 6.30am meet near the bathrooms at the lower parking lot.  Various lengths involving Upper and Lower Wildcat Canyon trails but 60-75 minutes typically. Wednesday: Interval Training 6.30am meet at Cupertino High School Track. Map here.  Friday Fun: Fremont Older 6.30am sharp at Fremont Older. Meet in the parking lot at the top of Prospect Road, Cupertino. 6.5mile hour trail run on Seven Springs, Coyote Ridge and Toyon Trails. Beautiful sunrise run over some 75 mins. Saturday Striders: Stevens Creek Country Park Every Saturday 8.30am Stevens Creek Country Park. Top of page

About the web site... Comments and suggestions welcome. Please send photos by FTP or CD (no huge photo emails, please). Contact the webmaster for postal or FTP address information.   webmaster@stevenscreekstriders.org Top of page