Oh! What a beautiful morning. A bit different than last month. A dry fast track greeted our 56 hearty and hardy runners for a run along the beautiful Highline Canal. It seems as though the South Suburban Highline Run having been postponed last week had been rescheduled on top of our run. But, we, as the CMRA always does, made lemonade out of the lemons handed to us. We ran our own course and as usual had a great time. To those who came a bit late, sorry about the parking problems and the fact that we started a bit early. That kept us ahead of their pack of walkers/runners and gave us the open trail.

Thanks to Joe Baird, Linda Gonzales and Rob Fisher, who made the adjustments and compensated for all the problems. The start, finish and scoring came off without a hitch. Thanks to Lew Hutchinson and Levi Gonzales for their course management. Because of them the CMRA runners kept on the right track and ran the proper distance. Thanks to Rich Romero who retrieved all the bread and rolls and cookies and recruited the volunteers. We missed Rich today, but send congratulations to the family on Rosana's graduation from Graduate School. With a crew like that, race directing is easy. Thanks to you all

A Special thanks to member, Jeff Young for bringing along the youth running group called "Planned Pethood Posse". What a nice group of young people. They really can run, and took all the open division ribbons in the 5K and won the 10K, giving our best runners a challenge. Tell us more about this group Jeff, and we hope they will join us soon again. Hope we gave them a good challenge and a tune up for upcoming events.

By the way. Now is the time for a few good people to step forward and help keep this club going. Many are ready to retire after putting in as many as 10 or more years volunteering to provide club members with inexpensive, fun running. The club won't run by itself and if people don't volunteer to be Board members, Officers, Race directors, Newsletter editors and just plain volunteers, this club which has been going for over 30 years will vanish from this earth. The more help the merrier, and many hands make light work. Don't be afraid to volunteer. The jobs are not that difficult, but many of us are just burning out. We have given all we can. Now is the time to step forward. We need new blood.

See you at the races. Tom