San Francisco FrontRunners

Happy Monday! Here is your weekly source of all things FrontRunners that are coming in the days ahead! Special news and events are at the beginning of this post and regular, reoccurring events are on the lower half.

Special Events/News This Week:

-Announcement: Seeking volunteers for the 2012 SFFR Pride Run! If you have attended the Pride Run in the past, you know how fun and exciting the event is. Volunteer involvement is crucial to making the event a success. Head to our official site and check out the volunteer (Dibs) section and see how you can become involved (link).

-Pride Run Meeting - Thursday, June 7th - 6:30 PM - 415 Hill Street: Join us to discuss and plan the agenda for the 2012 SFFR Pride Run. As always, you will get tasty food and you’ll have the chance to share your input and ideas!

-June Bagel Brunch - Saturday, June 9th - 10:00AM - Stow Lake Area in Golden Gate Park: Following our regular Saturday runs, Steve Benne of Molto Benne Catering will once again provide a delicious spread of brunch items for an amazing deal of $5 per person. Full info here (link).

-Sundance Saloon/SFFR Dance Night - Sunday, June 10th - 5:00PM to 10:00PM - 500 Barneveld Avenue (Near Bayview): Sundance Saloon, which many of your fellow SFFR members are also involved with, welcomes SF FrontRunners members to an evening of dancing and dance lessons. Head here for full info (link).

-SF Track and Field Club’s 5th Annual Pride Meet registration is open. You can go to their site (link) for full information on how to register and all of the details on the event.

-SFFR 2012 Pride Run registration is open. You can go to our site for all the information on the event and how to register and/or volunteer here (link).

Birthdays This Week:

The following SF FrontRunners have birthdays this week:Nic Marais (June 6), Kenneth Kung (June 7), George Elvin (June 8), Andrew Chandler (June 8). Happy Birthday!

Regular Events This Week:

-Tuesday Evening Run - 6:30PM: Meet at the Ferry Building for a 3 mile (5K), 5 mile (8K), or hill run along Embarcadero. We typically grab dinner after.

-Saturday Morning Run - 9:00AM: Meet at Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park for a 1, 2, 3 (5K), 4 (6.5K), and 5 (8K) mile run/walk. We also now offer the Cross Training option that meets immediately after First Circle to go over the routine for that day. We will forgo our normal brunch as this month’s Bagel Brunch will be happening instead. Join us at 10:00AM for Bagel Brunch and Second Circle.

-Sunday Long Run - 10:00AM: Meet at Gold’s Gym in the Castro for a long run (70 to 90 minutes total, depending on the week). We usually have brunch following the run.

-Sunday Interval Training - 10:00AM: Meet at SFSU Cox Stadium for dynamic stretching and short, efficient workouts to improve speed and endurance. Go to the SF Track & Field workouts page (link) for more info. http://www.sftrackandfield.com/workouts

*Note on website and club feedback: The board encourages and welcomes feedback and ideas for corrections and improvements to the club and websites. In order to best receive and discuss all feedback and ideas, please send all input via email to board@sffr.

Enjoy your week and see you at the runs/walks and events!

Remember, you can check all scheduled events, important calendar dates, activity recaps, runner bios, and reoccurring columns at our official site: sffr.org and our blog: sffrontrunners.tumblr.com/

*Special Note on Online Information: Now that the new sffr.org site (link) is launched, we will be using that as the primary source of news and information from the club. We will still have our blog (link), twitter (link), and facebook (link) pages that will receive identical information from the official site. Because of this, you should be able to view accurate information on all online sites. If you are having trouble viewing anything at any of these options, please let us know (email vp@sffr.org). Some of you have been having trouble viewing news on our facebook page. Please note that there is an official SF FrontRunners Page (link). This is not the group page that many of you are members of, and is less an official page and more of a social and community page. For accurate information, simply “like” the official page and you will receive all news updates.