Thanks to all who were an active part of Charities Challenge's 7th Annual Challenge Depression Indoor Track Races – Taking Strong Steps to Defeat Depression Event, at Bethel University’s Sports & Recreation Center.
The same day as you race a CC Event timed/scored by our official timer, Josh Gerber, you may review race results at his web site http://www.wayzataresults.com/event/show/16396346
Enjoy photo memories of the racing and some Challenge Depression theme music while viewing the photos now available at http://www.charitieschallenge.org/cceventphotos/2011-2012%20Indoor%20Track%20Challenge%20Series/index.htm
When you open the above web page, click first on the upper right title of the “12.4.11 Challenge Depression Indoor Track Races” item, then once the music starts playing click on “Slideshow” atop the page. 600 edited, select photos in the show at 1 second per image will take a little more than 10 minutes to view.
You may also slow down the 1 second per image speed by entering a 2 or 3 in “Duration”. Enjoy the photo memories!
You’re welcome to freely copy any photos from “Index” to your photo files, and then add them to your social media like Facebook.
Join Charities Challenge on Facebook while you’re there at FB https://www.facebook.com/groups/41310607820/
Well done to all the athletes, ages 6 to 72, who raced on Sunday. Brilliant! Especially brilliant because together we demonstrated again how athletic competition and camaraderie, on a darkening, cold winter’s day, is the Power of RxExercise to actively “Challenge Depression”.
In addition to our event management professional, Josh Gerber, an additional truly happy “THANKS” to 6 CC Race Event Workers (CCREW) volunteers and three USATF/MN officials who helped produce this CC Indoor Track Event:
USATF Certified Officials:
(Superior) Starter, Dave Daubert, Rick Recker, Gary Westlund
CC Race Event Worker (CCREW) Volunteers:
Jeanne DeMartino - Announcer
Don Soule – Timing Assistant & More
Meredith Soule – Head Registrar
Ken Wendling – Facilities & Equipment Manager
Lynn Schwartz – Food & Beverage Hospitality
Marika Metaitis – Multi-tasker extraordinaire
Kim Fealey – Lap Counter
And, thanks to several athletes who helped when you weren’t racing!
You’re welcome to join our CCREW for any of our 28 Annual CC Events. Just let me know. You’ll also earn a variety of CCREW Rewards for being so actively supportive of others’ RxExercise experiences. Learn more about CC’s CCREW Program at the CC web site. Go CCREW!
After reviewing the race results, photos slideshow, and your own memories of Sunday on the track, please consider sending to me any highlight experiences you want me and perhaps others to read in my RxExercise blog.
One of my highlights was seeing friends and fellow athletes, Don Wright & Don Dornfeld, both gentlemen athletes who are not stopped by their cancer challenges.
Another of my highlights was a racing friend who stepped up near the end of the morning’s races to report with a smile, “And, today I’m not depressed”. Neither was I depressed on that good-busy Sunday morning with you all seeing so many racing and smiling and laughing! I’m encouraged by others’ stories of how their RxExercise is helping them meet life’s sometimes depressing challenges.
And, we saw the largest field of athletes ever for our Challenge Depression Indoor Track Races, 82 participants, producing 57 New Challenge Depression Records and 33 New All-Time All-Challenge Indoor Events Records!
Oh, there were so many highlights! So, please send me your highlights of especially memorable moments and experiences on the track last Sunday.
Stay active to the end of the year by running CC’s last two events of 2011:
Sunday, Dec 18, for the Challenge Courage Indoor Track Races back at Bethel U http://charitieschallenge.org/html/challenge_courage.html
Saturday, December 25, for the 6th Annual Christmas Day – Joyful 5k, the Biggest Christmas Day 5k in the USA! http://www.charitieschallenge.org/html/christmas_day_5k.html
We’re continuing to challenge wintertime depression and isolation, both our own and others’ wintertime challenges, by taking it on actively and in concert with others. Well done each and all!
Happy Hanukkah and a Merry Christmastime, indoors and out, with fun-fit family & friends!
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