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From the Editor's Desk -
Notes About the Newsletter
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ello fellow Flyers. It's hard to believe but the year is more than 1/4 over, as is our term as club secretary and newsletter editor. Since the first newsletter issue which was released in February, things have been very busy. As secretary, I'm charged with looking after the communications of the club, but really it's lots of folks who are doing the work.
Thank You!
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pecial mention goes to the Flyer Blog, under the administration of Eric Stadnyk, which has become very active and timely. Eric has a veritable stable of regular contributors and not a day or two goes by before a new post appears. Thank you Eric and thank you bloggers!
Jon Bennion has taken over the Twitter account. If you follow tweets, subscribe to the Flyer twitter feed and you'll get (sometimes) instantaneous updates on what's happening.
On the newsletter front, I've been busy. We decided to publish the very popular member profiles on a monthly basis, and we hope you enjoyed the March profile of Iris Chen and the April profile of John Whitfield - and of course the profile of Dave Kleckner which appeared in the February newsletter. We expect to continue these on a monthly basis.
For the full newsletter, it looks like we can move to a bi-monthly schedule. There's a lot of content in each issue which takes a great deal of time to collect, edit and format, but as they say, we'll keep chugging along.
New in this issue
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'm very happy with this issue. We have a new column, "Healthy Eating" by Anne Halpern. Together with her monthly blog posts, her column in the newsletter will include healthy eating recipes timed to fit the seasons. Anne assures me that all of her recipes are designed so that even the most novice of cooks will be able to put together these delicious and healthy meals.
Scott Cohen has written an introductory article for those who are thinking of moving into triathlons, and he intends to follow up with more of the same, geared to the more advanced triathlete.
In the "Beyond Central Park" section, we feature Brooklyn: first a recap of a poplular winter race in Prospect Park, the "Cherry Tree 10 miler", followed by a description of a training run titled "3 Bridges to Brunch" which describes a great run down along the East River and over and back and over again to Brooklyn, ending with brunch in Williamsburg.
And the big story for this issue is the recent Boston Marathon. 37 Flyers entered the 114th running of that fabled race and a number of PRs and requalifications were earned. Two articles of related stories accompany the main article. One titled the "Boston to Big Sur Challenge", chronicles a small band of Flyers who turned a single race into a marathon of marathons. And lastly a set of remembrances by yours truly, detailing how this race has touched me - sometimes unexpectedtly - over the years.
Pictures
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any of the photos you see in the articles of this newsletter are actually a set of photos, one behind the other. If you click on the photo, the next one in the set will appear. So whenever you see the note "(Click on the photo for the next one in the set)" under a photo, you'll know there's a number of others waiting to be viewed.
And Now, an Index for the Whole Year!
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tarting with this issue, we are publishing a single page index of all the articles published in the newsletters for the entire year. As each issue comes out, the articles of that issue will be added to the index. So if you recall an article on "Snowshoe Racing", for example, but don't remember where you saw it, just bring up the index, and you'll find it. The index is accessible as the very last link on the left sidebar of each issue, and it's also an option of the Communications Menu, on the red menu bar of the Flyer web site.