Regular programming season wrapping up!

[David William Bitner]

Hey Everyone,

Thanks so much to you all for playing out on the trails with us this year! 

It's been inspiring to see all of your accomplishments. As has been the case the last few years, the Loopet will serve as our last official Missing Link event this year.

That means we only have two weeks left of our regularly scheduled runs. For the weeknight runs, it's getting dark on us now! Please remember to bring a headlamp. If you don't have a headlamp, let me know, I have extras I can let you borrow. Some folks have asked me for recommendations on good headlamps for running. Right now, this one: https://www.fenixlighting.com/products/fenix-hl32r-t-rechargeable-headlamp?variant=40731225030710 is my favorite (and it looks like it's on sale right now).

For our last Saturday group run this Saturday, we'll meet at our house (300 E 48th St, Mpls) at 8a and run along the trails along Minnehaha Creek followed by a pancake breakfast. Come for the run and breakfast, or come at 10a if you'd like to just join us for pancakes. We'll have pancakes, bacon, and syrup. If there's anything that you'd like to add to the feast, please feel free to bring something else to share. I will have some gluten free pancake mix, let me know if you are gluten free so that I can make sure I have enough.

I'll have the heat press and transfers set up as well. If you have any shirts / hats / shorts / jackets etc that you'd like to "Missing Linkify", bring them and we'll get you set up to show your Missing Link pride! We also have a ton of stickers, temporary tattoos , and some patches as well.

Just because we won't have our regularly scheduled workouts over the winter, does not mean that Missing Link will stop being active! It just means a shift of responsibility for organizing from me to the community! Throughout our off season, please use this email list and the What's App group  to self organize activities (be that running, hiking, skiing, snowshoeing, skijoring, hitting the bar, grabbing brunch ....). If you are doing an activity and would like company, please reach out to the group! We will restart our regular Mon/Wed/Sat runs again in March.

Of particular note, if you'd like to keep running with a group, the Thirsty Thursday group that meets at Utepils at 6pm year round is a super fun group that has many pace groups (and is quite pup friendly). Additionally, the Loppet Theo Loopers group which we have run with several times this summer is planning on continuing on through the winter for Saturday morning runs. Many of our runners are also active coaches for the Loppet Foundation Ski programs which are fantastic and have groups from beginners through elite skiers.

If you have appreciated what Missing Link Running does and have the means, please consider supporting the club financially. While Missing Link is completely free to participate, your support helps to cover actual costs of running the club (the big one being insurance, but also things like the website, stickers, and popsicles) but also as a token of appreciation for the time spent organizing. A huge thanks to all of you who have supported with either one time payments or by setting up monthly payments.

Cheers!

Coach Bit