11th Annual Titus Van Rijn Invitational One-Hour Distance Classic - Nampa Edition
Thursday, May 28, 7:00pm, Nampa Christian School Track (Orchard and Davis)

I am planning this FREE running event to get people out to the track for some fun and maybe a little friendly competition. I hope that you and your friends will join me in seeing how far we can run (or walk, if that's your flavor) in an hour on the track. Bring your iPod if you want; we'll celebrate our victories with black cherry soda at the end, in TVR Classic tradition. If you plan to attend, please email me if possible (including your age for the official race report); but if you forget to RSVP, don't let that stop you from showing up.

What is the TVR? It's basically an international festival of local one-hour running events, now in its 11th year. See the specifics below, but the "rules" are really quite simple. Grab some friends and hit the track sometime in May, record how many laps you completed in 60 minutes, and send the results to the event director. It's kind of a throw back to the old postal events where you run and then mail in your results. You've always wondered how far you can go. Now you'll know.

Other race reports from 2008 and 2009:
TVR Sun Valley Edition, Run Junkie
Rogue Valley Runners
My Track Record, Greg Crowther

Official Rules:
11th ANNUAL TITUS VAN RIJN INVITATIONAL ONE-HOUR DISTANCE CLASSIC

WHAT: A one-hour footrace
WHERE: Your local track
WHEN: Anytime between May 1st-June 1 st, 2009 (date extended to June 1 because Haile
Gebrselassie is scheduled to try to break his own one-hour world record at a meet in Europe on June 1).

GUIDELINES
* Your performance must take place on a standard 400 meter/440 yard
track. Include partial laps in your final total; estimate distances
as accurately as possible within reason.

* Send results to by midnight, 1 June 2009.
In your results, please note name, total distance completed (in meters
or yards), age, date, and location. We encourage you to include a
brief report of your experience for the official race report.

* You may run the event more than once if desired, but only submit
your best mark.

* You are encouraged to invite others to participate in the event. In
many cases, our address list of past participants is incomplete, so we
especially appreciate your forwarding this invitation to past runners
not included in the original mailing.

* Complete results and race report will be sent to all participants.

TRADITION
World champions in football and baseball celebrate with champagne; the
victor at the Indy 500 gets a bottle of milk. At Titus Van Rijn, the
celebratory beverage of choice for all participants is black cherry
soda. We encourage you to maintain the tradition.

ONE-HOUR TRACK RECORDS
World, women: 18,517 meters (~11.5 miles)
Dire Tune (Eth), Ostrava, Czech Republic 6/12/08
http://youtube.com/watch?v=W6OZPV98Hxo
World, men: 21,285m (~13.2 miles)
Haile Gebrselassie (Eth), Ostrava, Czech Republic 6/27/07
http://youtube.com/watch?v=e5fgejdS4gQ

U.S., women: 17,273m (~10.7 miles)
Nancy Conz, Amherst, MA 6/25/81
U.S., men: 20,547m (~12.8 miles)
Bill Rodgers (GBTC), Boston, MA 8/9/77

TVR, women: 12,800m (~7.96 miles)
Kate Jennings (WA), Winthrop, WA 6/2/2007

TVR, men: 18,115 (~11.25 miles)
Greg Crowther (WA), Seattle, WA 5/27/2006

Since 1999, TVR competitors have amassed more than
2.3 million meters of distance and countless gallons of black cherry
soda. Join the fun!