Mid Week , membership

The midweek workouts are posted with most keep on keeping on and few more moving over to hills.

Next week (Aug 6th)I will be leaving for a little vacation (I know so sad) so I won't be at the Wednesday or Saturday run. Wednesday night you're on your own on Saturday Carey will be there to open the store for you to meet before your run.

Since I will be there on Tuesday we will run the 2 mi TT, I'll move the Wednesday group TT to the following week that I get back so that I don't miss any of the action and that will give you Wednesday runners one more week to impress me with your new and improved speed.

As always I'm looking for ways to provide more useful information on the web site. As many of you know I have a wide range of running maps that have been one of the biggest draws to my web site. Unfortunately thay have become pretty outdated so I have been looking for ways to update/ improve them. Thanks to group member Patrick Niemeyer I have found away and am just in need of a little time to replace them on the site with these. Here are a couple of examples Shilshole 13 mile route and ChuckIt 20 miler. I hope to get them all up on the site soon. I think these will prove to helpful.

Ok from the business side of things. Over the years I have been pretty flexible with people paying the group membership fee. Well there is a new development. I'm getting more and more people who want to just come and check out the group as well as older members who are coming back, the problem is that many check out the group over and over again until I have to ask for the payment or older members who come back and don't pay until I ask. Well this is very awkward. There were 5 people who fall in those catagories on Saturday. You know that adds up to about $700 which is geeting to be a sizable sum and honestly this isn't fair to those that do pay.

Now if there is a reason that you can't pay please let me know and we can work something out. There have been many over the years who couldn't afford it or were unemployed that I have let slide until they could, so if you fall in this category let me know. As long as we have an understanding it's all good, at least I'll know why you're not paying.

Remember you can pay online yearly every 6 months or monthly as well as with cash or checks so there cerertanly is some flexibility to be had.