I am new to the club I’ll admit, but I have heard a lot of excitement around NIRCA returning nationals to the Midwest. I presume this is because these course are flat, although two posts ago is a lengthy explanation of the virtues of Olivet, MI. Perhaps someone could explain the virtues of Shelbyville, Indiana, should those virtues […]
4/12/22 11 vs 11 Coed B IM Soccer Recap – SSL vs Club Running
~ From the archive of Club Running related articles for weekly emails past ~ On a dark Thursday evening, our IM soccer team rolled up to the fields next to Xfinity Center. However, there was a shortage of players on the women’s side, due to a variety of reasons including a “club sailing formal.” With a total of 4 players on […]
5 reasons I’m glad NIRCA Track Nationals was held in Olivet, Michigan 2 years in a row
As my time as Vice President has come to a close, I have reflected a lot about the past 2 semesters of organizing club travel and race registration. With the unprecedented early announcement of Spring Track Nationals being announced in Richmond, Virginia, the Mid-Atlantic NIRCA Clubs cheered with the prospects of a conveniently located championship for our region. […]
A Novel by Andrew Cullen
For those of you who haven’t been keeping up with my novel on Strava (fake fans that deserve cruel and unusual punishments), I have compiled all of the chapters here for you to read. Real fans, please also feel free to reread if you’d like. Please enjoy friends. Also, chapter 4 is indeed the first chapter, there is […]
Connetquot 2024
Connetquot: Part TwoMay 26th, 2024 Visiting Long Island has provided me with the chance to once again tackle the blue loop at Connetquot River State Park Preserve. Here I recount this morning’s run as a follow-up to my Connetquot inner monologue from nearly one year ago. I arrived at the park fairly early, paid my entrance fee, and […]
Connetquot 2023
Connetquot: The Recounting of a Nine Mile Inner MonologueMay 31st, 2023 When I arrived at Connetquot River State Park Preserve, I paid $8 to enter. I questioned if it was worth the money when I could have easily run anywhere else. However, thinking ahead to the many trail and park races that I have planned for the summer, […]
Member Spotlight: Andrew Scalese
Introduction Introducing… Andrew Scalese. Better known as just simply “Scalese,” Andrew is a graduating senior from the University of Maryland, studying Civil Engineering with a focus area in environmental and water resources. While an avid runner and member of club running, Scalese can also be seen as a member and the treasurer of a professional environmental science fraternity […]
A Flashback to My First Day of Club Running
Everybody bring yourself back to the fall of 2019, the last year in our new collective BC (before COVID). While some of you reading this were mere 9th graders at the time (*shudders*), for me it was my first semester at the University of Maryland. On around the second or third day of classes I received a message […]
My Journey with Running
(Was gonna put pictures, but I have to go to class and y’all can check my insta in a few days for some career recap photos) As a kid, I was always a runner. I played outside and ran around for hours every day. I grew up playing soccer and softball so when I got to high school […]
Running Scared, One runner’s struggle to overcome imposter syndrome
It’s 75 and sunny on a gorgeous day in Florida and the only thoughts in my head as I approach the line are “wow –its go time– holy shit, my mouth is so dry,” and then the gun goes and two Missouri freshman bolt from the outside and the race swallows me and I’m buffeted by elbows and […]