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Welcome to Central Jersey

Road Runners Club

P.O. Box 1863 Cranford, New Jersey 07016

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New! Announcing the CENTRAL JERSEY TRIPLE!

2008 was the inaugural season for The Central Jersey Triple.

What is the CENTRAL JERSEY TRIPLE?

All people (members and non-members of CJRRC) who run and/or volunteer in all three of the following club races

will receive a commemorative coffee thermos.

For the 2009 CENTRAL JERSEY TRIPLE our three club races are:

Hangover Run 5K January 1st, 2009

June Moon 5K June 19th 2009

New Date: Not-Quite-Fall Classic 4 Mile Sunday August 30th,2009

Group Runs

MORNING RUNS IN SOUTH BRUNSWICK

If anyone is visiting Central New Jersey near Princeton & Edison, I have weekday morning training runs on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Location: Farrington Lake at Riva Road and Ireland Brook Drive, South Brunswick/East Brunswick border.

Training partner needed!

Starting time: 6:45am (Best to stretch before 6:40)

Finish: 7:30am

Running mile pace between 7:30 and 8:25 per mile, partly on country roads, Davidson Mill County Park and some trail. See deer, farms and streams. I run rain or shine.

Also, Tuesday hill workouts in Highland Park

5:40 pm-6:30pm

More details at

http://www.njlaws.com/South_Brunswick_Running_Group.htm

Ken Vercammen’s Upcoming Fun Races

If you are attending any of these races, please call or email Ken V.

Often we car pool or met at these events.

If you can run, you can volunteer, or walk the course.

· 6/15/09 PRESIDENT'S CUP NIGHT RACE, 5K, 8pm, Charlie Browns, Millburn, 973-376-6094, (USATF-700pts) Free beer, big post race party

· 6/19 Friday June Moon 5k 7:15pm Somerset NJ Quality CJRR event. Post race food CANCELLED

· 6/20 Ryan 5k Middletown

· 6/21/09 ACS Run For Dad West Windsor 9am

· 6/23/09 Tuesday night Raritan Valley Road Runners RVRR 5k summer series New Brunswick Buccleuch Park

· 6/23 ETS 5k 7:30 Race Information? Race Director Gerard Fennelly?(609) 631-9211

· 6/25/09 SUNSET CLASSIC, 5 Miles, 7:30pm, Foley Field, Bloomfield, 732-381-0318

· 6/28/09 Pine Beach 5K 9am Vista Park, [near Toms River] Sunday Very well run shore area event.

· June- August Lake Takanassee Series - Every Monday 5k 6:30pm Long Branch

· June- July JSRC Series - Every Thursday 5k 6:30pm Wall

· June- July FARC Series - Every Wednesday 5k 6:30pm Freehold

· 6/27/09 Frog Hollow 5k South Amboy- Free food & swim club all day

· 7/1/09 Woodbridge 4 mile 7pm

· 7/4/09 Firecracker 5 miler Wall

· 7/4/09 Wilkes Barre, PA 5k

· 7/4/09 Jim Thorpe, PA 4 mile & 15K

· 7/7/09 Tuesday night Raritan Valley Road Runners RVRR 5k summer series New Brunswick Buccleuch Park

· 7/8/09 Marlton Splash & dash 7

· 7/9/09 Strides for Stroke 5k Hamilton

· 7/9 Lawyers for Kids Morris 7pm

· 7/11/09 Belmar Five Mile Run 5 mile, 8:30am Belmar NJ 732-571-2162 free food at Bar a after race and reduced price beer

· 7/18/09 Teterboro Airport 5K Teterboro\

· 7/18/09 Kenneth Vercammen’s 50th Birthday Party South Brunswick

· 7/19 JCC Summer Classic 5K, 8:30 Deal

· 7/19 Eden Family 5k, 9am, Princeton NJ

· 7/21/09 Tuesday night Raritan Valley Road Runners RVRR 5k summer series New Brunswick Buccleuch Park

· 7/25/09 Parker House 2 mile Fun Run 2 mile Sea Girt free beer

· 7/22/09 Downtown Westfield 5K Westfield Pizza Extravaganza

· 8/1/08 Chicago 5k

· 8/7/09 Ken V turns 50. New age group

· 8/8/09 Asbury Park 5k 8:30

· 8/9/09 Turkey Swamp 10 mile

· 8/15/09 Bradley Beach 5k

· 8/16/09 Belmar 1 mile swim 8:30

· 8/22 Lacey Township Alliance 5k, 8:30am, Forked River NJ

· 8/22 Three Bridge 5 mile race. Cold beer

· 8/30/09Staten Island Tri

· 8/30/09 RVRR Picnic

· 8/30/09 Kortney 2mile Oceanport 10am

Most Scenic Race Courses by Bob McGill

(except for # 1, the order is random)

1. Truskey Memorial 10k & 5k (Tuscarora State Park, near Tamaqua, Pa)

2. Run for the Cookies 10k (Berwick, Pa)

3. Race Street Run 15k & 4 miler (Jim Thorpe, Pa)

4. Steamtown Marathon (Forest City, Pa to Scranton, Pa)

5. Oley 10 miler (Oley, Pa)

6. Bucks County Road Runners Winter Series (Tyler State Park,

Newtown, Pa) distances vary from a 5k to a half marathon

7. South Mountain 10 miler (Bethlehem, Pa)

8. 5k Mountain Challenge at Great Gorge (Vernon, NJ) (race no longer

exists)

9. Hacklebarney Hill Climb 15k Pottersville, NJ, (race no longer exists)

10. Midland 15k (Far Hills, NJ) (race no longer exists)

11. Stillwater Stampede 5k (Stillwater, NJ)

12. High Point Easter 5k (Wantage, NJ) race was moved and name

changed to a less scenic area

13. Beach Blast 5k (Stillwater, NJ)

14. Christmas in August 5k (Stillwater, NJ)

15. 9 to 5 relay race (Lodestar Park in Fredon, NJ)

16. Freedom Firefighters Pancake Run 4.4 miler (no longer exists)

17. The Tri State Classic 10k (starts in Montague, NJ runs thru NY State

and finishes in Matamoras, Pa)

18. Nike Bunker Loop 5k (Atlantic Highlands, NJ)

19. Charlie Horse Half marathon, near Reading, Pa

20. Half-Wit, Half Marathon, near Reading, Pa

21. Ugly Mudder 7.25 miler, near Reading, Pa

22. Double Trouble 15k & 30k, French Creek State Park,

near Reading, Pa

23. Mount Penn Mudfest 15k, near Reading, Pa

24. Tewksbury miler (Tewksbury, NJ)

25. Raising Hope 5 miler (Readington, NJ) (race no longer exists)

26. Shepard's Lake 5k (Ringwood, NJ)

27. Sparta 8 miler around Lake Mohawk (Sparta, NJ)

28. Sparta Frostbite Trail & Road 5k more or less (Sparta, NJ)

29. Miles for Matheny 5k (Peapack-Gladstone, NJ)

30. Our House 5 miler (Summit, NJ)

31. Mountain Top 10k (Warren, NJ)

32.12 miler at Allamuchy Mountain (border of Warren, Morris and

Sussex counties, NJ) (race no longer exists)

33. Tinsel 5 miler (Toms River, NJ)

34. Cherry Blossom 10k (Newark, NJ)

35. Delaware Water Gap 5k night races

If you missed the Spirit of the Marathon Movie

Public Broadcasting’s NOVA has an hour long episode called

MARATHON CHALLENGE. It’s presented online in 5 chapters.

Click Here for link.

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The CENTRAL JERSEY Triple

Group Runs

Ken Vercammen’s Upcoming Fun Races

Most Scenic Race Courses/Marathon Challenge Movie