Cape Cod Athletic Club

March 7^th 2012 @ 7 – 8:30 pm

Proudly presents

Speaker: Bob Giguere from Igenex Lab

Dennis Senior Center, Route 134 Dennis

We are delighted this month to have Bob Giguere, local representative from IGeneX Labaratories in Palo Alto, CA, coming to speak about laboratory testing for Lyme & related infections such as Ehrlichia and Babesia. IGeneX is the medical laboratory used by most physicians who diagnose and treat Lyme Disease and related tick borne infections. Bob will discuss the various techniques used in laboratory medicine as well as the shortcomings of these techniques when applied to Lyme disease. Please bring your questions and concerns to what we are sure will be a very informative and eye opening presentation.

All are welcome to attend! Patients, families, friends, health care practitioners and all concerned citizens.

Contact runecky@yahooo.com, 508-737-9589 for more info.

Did you miss the banquet or were you so intent on the Grand Prix awards that you missed yourself on the big screen? Here it is for your enjoyment in up to full 1080p HD!

[Banquet Photos by Rick Heath]

The Cape Cod Athletic Club took over the Monomoy Room of Chatham Bars Inn on Saturday night to celebrate notable achievements of 2011, present the Winter Grand Prix awards, and have a good meal and some fine dancing.

As dining got underway, president Bob Eckerson welcomed the assembled, gave some introductory remarks and comments, and then presented the Hall Of Fame inductees for 2012: Bob Edwards, Bill Masterson, Bill Ferguson, Joe Weinberger and John Worgan.

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> The Annual Banquet is tomorrow night – that’s Saturday, 4 February, and the bar opens at 6:00pm … Chatham Bars Inn in the Monomoy Room out back. If you haven’t registered or applied or sent in your application or otherwise let us know that you’d like to attend, ping Ecky as soon as possible at runecky@yahoo.com.

> The Day After run will be hosted by Kevin Petrovek at Hanlon’s Shoes in Hyannis as his winter 10 miler on Sunday. If you don’t feel up to the full 10, there are many shorter alternatives so ask at the store for one of the short courses. Go time is 11AM and the store should be unlocked by 10:40. Don’t come at 10:00 or 9:00 unless you’re logging some extra miles before the race.

> !!! We need volunteers for the Hyannis Marathon races on the 26^th of February !!! Please contact Bob Eckerson, Joe Weinberger, or CCAC if you can assist. Primary duty is course marshal –

> We’ve established a new communications channel in the internet-o-sphere – in addition to syndicating our website updates to our Facebook page, we’re pushing updates, thoughts, quotes, and other important news to Twitter as @ccac76. Follow us!

> Andy Scherding has spun up a new Facebook group focused on multisport info: Cape Cod Triathlon: News & Discussion. It’s an open group at the moment and you can join at http://www.facebook.com/groups/231751820246786/.

> Check your Grand Prix results as soon as possible. We’re sincerely hoping that we’ve messed up some of the Happy Trails team members’ times (too fast) and that we recorded some of the Gecko times too slowly. Grand Prix awards will be handed out at the banquet so make sure you get your booty!

Run fast!

Bright sun, a moderate wind from the west and temperatures ranging from the mid-30’s to mid-40’s made for a superb day to run the Cape Cod Ultrarunning Society’s 50K/25K at Sandy Neck. Perhaps it was too warm as much of the beach hasn’t seen a good freeze yet making for some tricky footing. Gregg Stone set the tempo with a 4:33 for the 50K with Colleen Murphy the women’s winner of the quahog shell in 5:24, good for 9th overall. In the 25K, Jamie Zschau dispatched all challengers in 2:07 ahead of a perennially goggled John Martin who posted 3rd in 2:17. Molly Alesch led the women over the upper and lower loops one time for a win in 2:19 which placed her 4th overall. Club power walker Bill Dalrymple tackled the beach and walked to a 4:24 in the 25K, followed by a short outing on Sunday at the Chapin’s Grand Prix finale. The crazy entirety was recorded for historical and training purposes by Alan Budney. [Full Results] [Photos]

Yeah, we’re a social club with a running problem – so get tech social and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. We’ll be posting and tweeting local running and triathlon information along with USAT&F, USAT, and other national and world running and multisport news of interest. Be Facebook liker number 500 or Twitter follower number 50 and you’ll get some cool club gear too! Send screen shots of the Facebook or Twitter page, before and after you like or follow us, to ccac@capecodathleticclub.org to claim your goodies!

It all comes down to a lonely run out to a cold and desolate Chapin’s Beach in Dennis – and then we eat, and drink, and be merry! The last race in this year’s Winter Grand Prix series is your last chance for age group and team points and the last stop before the Annual Banquet next weekend. Make sure your times and points are accurate by checking the Scoreboard … and send any corrections to ccac@capecodathleticclub.org. See you at the beach!