Argonne Running Club

Our intention is to keep the ANL community informed on the on-site running and walking activities and provide pointers to running-related forums. The club is also an advocacy group for all fitness related activities at Argonne.

Local Argonne Races and events Information for hosting runs -- Updated 29-June_2009 Pictures from previous Runsincluding pictures from the 2009 Saint Patrick's Day race, thanks to Rich Lee Races Recommended by Argonne People June 22, 2003 Also checkSign Me up Sports for races and online registration. About Joining the Argonne Running Club See the special prizes available to club members, a $100 gift certificate and an entry to the Chicago Marathon

Information on Running Including medical items. Updated Oct 5, 2009 -- links to info on running in groups and dangers of ibuprofin. Chicagoland Running Clubs Running Web Sites including a site to use Google Maps to calculate running distances Blogs on Running experiences UpdatedNovember 20, 2008 starting with Keith Knepper's description of his first 50-mile run. Running distances at Argonne has a map of the roads in and around Argonne with the running distances in feet. You should be in the Argonne domain to access it. Also available, a map of some of the trails in Waterfall Glen with distances in miles. Updated June 11, 2003

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The next running club event will be :

Information about the Argonne Running Club programs

• Argonne Running Club Newsletter
• A chance to win raffle prizes at fun runs
• A small subsidy of the entry fee at selected road races

The Argonne Running Club will be separately raffling off two donated prizes in 2005. One is a $100 gift certificate to Dick Pond Athletics, provided by store management (four stores in the Chicago area). The other is a free entry to the Chicago Marathon, provided by the LaSalle Bank. These prizes will be given to members of the Argonne Running Club based on membership and participation in club activities in 2005.

The $100 gift certificate will be awarded in the following manner: For each club member, a raffle ticket will be entered into the pool. In addition, each time a member registers, or works, at one of the club's events in 2005, a ticket for the member will be entered into the pool. The more events a member enters (or works), the greater will be the chance of winning. At the end of October, the club will hold the drawing. (The gift certificate expires at the end of November, 2005.)

The Chicago Marathon entry will be awarded in essentially the same manner. However, in order to be eligible, you need to be planning on running the marathon. The prize will not be given to someone who is not intending on running the marathon. This prize will be awarded in early summer (June or July) by a random drawing. Again, the more a member registers or works for club events, the greater the chance of winning. To be fair to all remaining club members, the winner of the marathon entry will not be eligible for the gift certificate raffle. (This year, the Chicago Marathon is on October 9.)

Information on Running and Medical Problems

• Training in groups
• Ibuprofen in running
• Running Injury Products - Return2fitness.net, specialist sports medical and running injury products, knee braces, insoles and more..
• AchillesTendon.com has been reviewed by Orthopedists, Podiatrists, Chiropractors and Physical Therapists
• The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has a web page with useful information. check under patient/public information. (thanks to Rich Lee, after retiring he has more time to find useful sites!)
• Rich Lee has provided both an article on back problems and an exercise sheet. As Rich says, it is too late to do something after things start to hurt, so maybe, just maybe, you should check out the exercises and the article before your back starts to hurt.
• Dick Page has completed knee surgery. He discusses the surgery and shows before and after pictures, as well as pictures of normal knees. Note that there are about 110k of pictures, but the text should load first and you should be able to read it while waiting for the pictures. To transfer to this article, click here.

Pictures!

Pictures from the 2009 Saint Patrick's day race, thanks to Rich Lee.

Pictures from the "Put The Giving Back in Thanksgiving" run, which were taken by Corrie Patterson Kamiya.

Pictures from the 2007 Saint Patrick's Day Run which were taken by Rich Lee

Pictures from the Magellan run For the original pictures, please contact Jim Kuiper

Pictures from the May Flower Run. If you want the full-sized file, e-mail Art Frigo.

Pictures from the 2004 Argonne Team championship (taken by Art Frigo, if you want the full size files, contact Art). Note that the pictures are taken alphabetically so the team picture is on the second page.

Pictures from the Magellan run (circumnavigate the Lab)

Rich Lee has put together a page of Rich's Argonne Running Club Hall of Fame for the 25th Anniversary of the Argonne Running Club. Check it out here

All pictures are shown as "thumbnail" pictures. If you click on the the "thumbnail", a larger version of the picture will appear.

Jim Kuiper has provided pictures for the March 2003 St. Patrick's Day Run. Check them out here.

-Rich Lee has provided pictures for the St. Patrick's Day race -- check out the priest and the green hair.

The Running Club Party was held at the Kerry Piper on January 31st. Limits on DOE websites mean that most of the pictures could not be put on the website. We show pictures of our youngest member, resplendent in his Argonne Running Club shirt -- who has clearly run his shoe off -- and a picture of our youngest and oldest member.

In December 2001, Tom Braid organized a cross country run. The weather was unseasonably warm -- the trail in some places was very slick but otherwise fine.

This year, Chemistry returned the trophy for the McKee trophy. Paul Eident has supplied the pictures which can be seen here.

Pictures from the Lets put giving back in Thanksgiving run organized by Lovely Pruett and Kristi Wood. Pictures by Don Bohringer, as he tries out the new camera he got for retirement

Pictures of the Chicago Marathon taken by John Koss. You can see an Argonne Runners Club sign in the back of one of the pictures. Otherwise they are pictures of the Palos Road-Runners club, John's wife and their fixation on bananas.

Another year, another red dress run. Another superb collection of pictures by Don Bohringer. See all the pictures here This year again we are fortunate to have pictures taken by Stan Niehoff (IPD-MED) and they can be found here.
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Dr. Yoon Chang, acting Laboratory Director, started the annual "Director's Run". In the background, bracketing the start line, is Walter McFall, with the honorary title of "President for Life" of the Argonne Running Club. These pictures first appeared in the Argonne News and we are grateful for David Jacque for making them available to us.

The mass finish at the year 2000 St. Patrick's Day race. Other pictures can be found here. We are grateful for Rich Lee and Paul Eident for the pictures.

Please follow this link to pictures from the Procrastinator's Valentines Day Run. Pictures were taken by Paul Eident.

Follow this link to Pictures from the January 2000 Winter Waddle. Pictures were taken by Boh (Don Bohringer).

In 2000, Argonne's 8 member River-to-River Relay team (under the name of 4 does and 4 bucks again took part in this 80 mile run from the Mississipi to the Ohio River. This year, there are no pictures at the Ohio river, only at the finish line in the dark! We were given a late starting time and finished with Boh, chased by farm dogs and bats, coming across the finish line using a flashlight. This year we see the many passes made on the course from the Mississippi to the Ohio. Somehow the team was alternately female and male! Previous pictures are in the old pictures section. . To see more pictures click here. May 23, 2000, with pictures from Corrie

Several people from Argonne participated in the Avon 3 day walk to fight Breast Cancer. Kristi Wood supplied several pictures. To see the remainer, click here.

From the everpopular Red Dress Run, we have pictures from the 1999 run. More pictures can be found here Pictures are again captured by "Boh" (Don Bohringer).

From the 1999 Run the IPNS mountain. More pictures can be found here. I want to thank "Boh" for the pictures.

The Argonne Contingent at this years Frosty Five race (photo from John Schlueter).

Pictures are available for the Valentine's day race. Thanks are due to Jean Smith for these pictures.

Previous pictures on the web site can be found here

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Chicagoland Area Running Clubs

• Indiana Raiders
• Prairie State Road Runners
• Lincoln Park Pacers
• Kennekuk Running Club
• Kankakee River running club
• Cara website
• Website for the Chicago Marathon

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Some Running Related Web Sites

Note that links to commercial sites do not constitute an endorsement by the Argonne Running Club or Argonne National Laboratory. The links are present for your information alone.

• A site dedicate to Track and Field running
• WalkJogRun.net makes it easy to use Google Maps to calculate running distances.
• Running for Kicks A specialty running store in Palos Heights. Argonne Running Club members get a discount
• The Human Race Sports A runner and triathlete specialty store. Argonne Running Club members get a discount
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• Marathon training site
• A new listing of links for track and Field and Running -- also includes links for dealing with injuries
• If you need a training partner in any of twenty sports, check out Buddy up sports
• Run the Distance A new website, still under construction, is intended to be a full-service website (whatever that means)
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• The The Running track and field links
• Run-down.com presents a large listing of links for running. There is also a place to rate club running pages.
• Probably, the most comprehensive list about many items including running is Yahoo's Yahoo Running. The built-in search engine allows you to leap to other sports, news etc.
• Another relatively comprehensive jumpstation for running related web sites is the Internet Resources for Runners.
• Runner's World Web site provides running related information ranging from current news in the running community to general information about running. A rather comprehensive list of marathons in the U.S.A. and abroad can also be found.
• The governing body of track and field events in the U.S. is USA Track & Field.
• Internet Newsgroup rec.running is a running forum. An alternate way to access other recreational activities refer to rec.* groups.
• A jumpstation for online/downloadable publications, magazines, newsletters, etc. is located at Running, Walking and Fitness Publications.
• Road Runners Club of America (RRCA)
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• Marathons in 59 countries
• Running in Brazil
• An excellent source of local races (and other fitness events can be found at the Chicago Amateur Athlete
• A good source for information about upcoming races, race results, places to run, running related products, magazines is The Running Page.
• Are you tired of running marathons? Your marathon finishing times have not been improving? You feel you need a new challenge in running? How about paying a visit to D. Blaikie's Ultramarathon World? Another related web site is Ultra & Trail Running Homepage.
• Detailed schedule and calendar of thousands of running, triathlon, duathlon, and other sporting events from around the world are featured by Sportsworld.
• Listing of races that require minimal or no clothing
• Website for the American Running and Fitness Association - has disappeared -- Karl discovered that it was now an entry to a site for pictures of females who might enter the previous category listing.
• www.i-run.com you can get a personalized workout schedule for the next week
• www.coolrunning.com information about road races and a national race calendar
• If you are looking for a cozier discussion forum, try the Dead Runners Society.

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Are you going to be on travel? Check the following Regional Running WWW sites for club and race information in these areas or check Yahoo Running.The search engines at the end of this homepage may also be useful.

• Cool Running (New England)
• Webrunner (South East U.S.A.)
• Running in the Northwest
• Florida Track Club
• San Francisco Bay Area Running Pages
• Orlando Area
• Sydney Striders
• Australian Ultra Runners

An incomplete list of marathon homepages.

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