May is upon us and that means summer is almost here. I look forward to a busy summer at YRC in 2015. On Wednesday May 13th, we’ll host our first Ypsilanti Running Co. Athletic Club “Workout Wednesday” at Frog Island Park. Workouts are $5 drop-in or you can pay $60 for the whole summer. The track workouts will be rain or shine (in the event of rain, alternate road workouts will be planned as the track can get a bit mushy). Check out the store calendar on our website www.ypsirunning.com/calendar.html or stop by the shop for details. I hope you’ll join us for some fun workouts this summer!
As a way to compensate for our use of the track on Wednesday nights, we recently “adopted” Frog Island Park in Ypsilanti. The shop has taken on the responsibility of helping with the basic upkeep of the park by meeting once a month for cleanup days. The primary goal of adopting the park is to not only help keep it clean but to improve the surface of the track by removing some of the weeds that have overtaken the track so that the entire surface of the track is usable. Maybe I’m biting off a little more than I can chew here, but as a home to one of the few remaining cinder 440yd tracks in Michigan, Frog Island Park was a natural extension of our shop and I feel like it deserves a little extra attention. I know there are some of you out there that might feel the same way and are willing to help! I hope you’ll consider joining us on those clean-up days. The days will fall on the last Sunday morning of each month throughout September. As sort of a kickoff to our park adoption, I hope you’ll join us on Saturday May 17th for Ypsi P.R.I.D.E. day (http://business.a2ychamber.org/events/details/a2y-chamber-event-ypsilanti-p-r-i-d-e-day-2015-6153) as we get the summer started by pitching in to help clean up Ypsi’s parks. Let me know if you are interested in joining us!
We also have some other events planned for a great summer-the Donut Dash the first Sunday of every month at 10:30am if you’re feeling squirrelly (and hungry), the group runs will remain constant on Tuesday nights and Saturday mornings, and in June we’ll be hosting a fun kick-off party on Thursday, June 25th in preparation for the Color Run. More details to follow including a new summer YRC logo. Anyway, I hope you consider including us in your plans to stay healthy this summer, and I look forward to seeing you out on the roads!
Stay fit!
As a way to compensate for our use of the track on Wednesday nights, we recently “adopted” Frog Island Park in Ypsilanti. The shop has taken on the responsibility of helping with the basic upkeep of the park by meeting once a month for cleanup days. The primary goal of adopting the park is to not only help keep it clean but to improve the surface of the track by removing some of the weeds that have overtaken the track so that the entire surface of the track is usable. Maybe I’m biting off a little more than I can chew here, but as a home to one of the few remaining cinder 440yd tracks in Michigan, Frog Island Park was a natural extension of our shop and I feel like it deserves a little extra attention. I know there are some of you out there that might feel the same way and are willing to help! I hope you’ll consider joining us on those clean-up days. The days will fall on the last Sunday morning of each month throughout September. As sort of a kickoff to our park adoption, I hope you’ll join us on Saturday May 17th for Ypsi P.R.I.D.E. day (http://business.a2ychamber.org/events/details/a2y-chamber-event-ypsilanti-p-r-i-d-e-day-2015-6153) as we get the summer started by pitching in to help clean up Ypsi’s parks. Let me know if you are interested in joining us!
We also have some other events planned for a great summer-the Donut Dash the first Sunday of every month at 10:30am if you’re feeling squirrelly (and hungry), the group runs will remain constant on Tuesday nights and Saturday mornings, and in June we’ll be hosting a fun kick-off party on Thursday, June 25th in preparation for the Color Run. More details to follow including a new summer YRC logo. Anyway, I hope you consider including us in your plans to stay healthy this summer, and I look forward to seeing you out on the roads!
Stay fit!