Wednesday Night Run 9-28-2011

Hello ORC,

It was the last minute till I remembered that the 4^th of July fireworks were rescheduled for last weekend.  I heard them though.  Cakes & Ale will be grilling up at the Oakhurst Community Garden Project for a fundraiser for the gardens. The Decatur Fitness Festival is at Decatur HS Stadium on Saturday. The Sweet Auburn fest is this weekend. Avondale is hosting Kidsfest.  Hotoberfest is at Glenwood Park. At the Atlanta Friends Meeting House is the Atlanta Pagan Pride Day. The Atlanta Greek Fest is at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral; awesome food.  At Emory Presbyterian is Bluegrass and BBQ.  Battle of the Burgers is at John Howell Park.  The Lake Claire Home and Garden tours are this weekend.  And I thought there wasn’t much this weekend.

What else is going on?  What events would you like to share?

This weekend will be the first day of October; it is officially Fall and hopefully the temps will follow.  Some local runs this weekend are the A Future, Not a Past 5K in Candler Park; the Firefly Run 5K an illuminated night run at Piedmont Park; the Vibha Dream Mile 5K at Georgia Tech; Battle of the Burgers 5K in the Highlands; and an Xterra race in Buford, not local but a cool trail race nonetheless.  There are a lot of other runs around the Metro Atlanta area, check out the Run Georgia calendar.  On Sunday are the 13.1 Atlanta Half Marathon & 5K so watch out for traffic.

Interesting note, the City of Decatur website now has a running page and has posted some routes on the site.  All the routes start from the front of the Old Decatur Courthouse.  If the route format looks familiar, there is good reason for that, http://www.decaturga.com/index.aspx?page=623.

This Wednesday you will be running route 8, the East Lake Golf Course run.  The link to the route is at the bottom of this e- mail.  I fixed up the link and now the routes are in Google docs.  I can access it from my phone but I can’t test it from my work computer.  Let me know if it works.  After getting out of the hill on Garland, the route runs downhill until climbing Oakview Rd.  Then the route continues to climb Howard to a quick downhill on College.  Then it's the climb on Wisteria, and a finishing uphill at the shop.  After the run, it's off to Mojo's Pizza for food, drinks and trivia.

Thanks for making the Oakhurst Running Club one of the friendliest running club in Atlanta.

Corny

http://oakhurstrunningclub.blogspot.com/

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B9kfg7f38KdBZGQwMWNkNTAtMTIyMi00MjNiLWI5MTgtZDkwNDNmNWRlMmEw&hl=en