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Wednesday, July 12, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Learn about
volunteering
for Sisters
Folk Festival
The public is invited to
learn about festival volunteer-
ing for Sisters Folk Festival
at a volunteer open house on
July 18 from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
at the Sisters Public Library,
located at 110 N. Cedar St.
The Sisters Folk Festival,
this year September 8-10,
relies on around 500 volun-
teers to bring world-class
music to our town each year.
The heart and soul of the
event are the locals and vol-
unteers who help make the
festival a reality.
Geared toward new vol-
unteers who want to learn
more, the open house is a
drop-in event where you
can meet some lead vol-
unteers, ask questions, and
sign up to help or be on-
call during the September
event.
Snacks and refreshment
will be provided.
Sisters Folk Festival offers
special thanks to Deschutes
Brewery for supporting the
volunteer program.
To learn about the vol-
unteer program, visit www.
sistersfolkfestival.org/
volunteer or contact Kerani
Mitchell, volunteer manager,
at kerani@sistersfolkfesti-
val.org or 541-549-4979,
ext. 4.
Running commentary
By Charlie Kanzig
Correspondent
Last week as I moved
slowly along the west wall in
the deep end of the Tollgate
pool, faithfully doing my
“aqua-jogging” workout, I
allowed myself to consider
how mind-numbingly boring
the activity could be.
Inching along at what
must equate to about half a
mile an hour, trying to keep
some semblance of running
form while trying to antici-
pate the waves kicked up by
swimmers in the next lane.
This came the day after
speaking at the cross-coun-
try camp about “the mind of
a runner” and intrinsic and
extrinsic motivation related
to running. Catching myself
going negative, I quickly
switched mental gears and
engaged my imagination,
moving myself from the
watery boredom to running
down a favorite forest trail.
This worked for a couple of
laps before I returned to the
present situation and felt
myself struggling to relax my
shoulders and breathe evenly.
I tried pushing the pace
for a bit, sort of like in an
interval workout, and that
helped me pass some more
time. The three other swim-
mers had taken a break and
began talking about the
fender-bender at the round-
about and tossed around
opinions about the need for
a bypass for the big trucks
that rumble through the core
of town. I started to join the
debate and then realized it
would do nothing to improve
my workout or my standing
with the group and focused
once again on the idea of
actually running through the
forest, with some degree of
success.
Needless to say, I look
forward with hope to when/
if I can be out on the trails
a bit more. After over a year
of trying to cope with some
sort of rheumatoid issues,
I have ventured out a bit on
foot again with a max effort
of 3,000 meters, after which I
jokingly posted on Facebook
a sighting of a giant sloth in
the woods outside of Tollgate.
Some other aging, out-of-
shape friends reported similar
sloths in their neighborhoods,
giving us all a dose of good
humor.
Yesterday at about 5 p.m.
it was still over 90 degrees
and I had been going non-
stop all day, doing errands,
mowing the lawn, limbing
trees, when I noticed an inter-
nal nudge that I had not expe-
rienced for quite some time.
The nudge was my body tell-
ing me I needed to go to the
pool for my “run.”
This physiological and
psychological phenomenon
used to happen to me all the
time when I was younger and
training for marathons and
other races. I am sure sci-
entists have done studies on
this, but all I know is my body
and mind’s urge to go run
was sometimes as strong as
my urge to eat or drink. I felt
a sense of great joy because
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for the past few years, getting
out to exercise had become
a chore that involved some
significant pain at times.
Even though I was tired from
the day’s activities, I got my
towel and flotation belt and
headed to the pool for an
hour-long “run.”
When I arrived I saw my
neighbors who asked what I
was up to, so I explained the
“aqua-running” and I told
them about the need to really
employ my imagination and
picture different trails that
have been my favorites over
the years as I motated through
the water. Being middle-aged
themselves, they related to
the aches and pains of this
time of life and wished me
an enthusiastic “Have a great
run!” as they left.
One of the other chal-
lenges of aqua running is that
you don’t feel your effort the
same way as out on the trail.
In the summer, even on a cool
morning, I get hot quickly
when running. I breathe in the
dust and feel the undulations
of the geography. In the pool,
there is no dust, no sweating,
no hills. I am tired when I
get done in the pool, but was
wondering if the workouts
were having any effect.
Then I went for a REAL
run this morning.
I headed out our back
gate with my dogs, Raven
and Kinzua, who could not
believe that we were going
for a real run with “Dad.”
From the very first step, I
noticed that the old body was
feeling better than it had in
at least two years. The aqua
running was having a positive
effect! I completed a couple
of miles and felt I could have
gone further if not for the
challenge of staying untan-
gled with two leashed dogs.
So through the summer I
hope to continue my journey
both in the pool and — more
and more — on the trails. Not
sure what I’ll do when the
Tollgate pool closes down in
September … maybe it’s time
for me to help champion an
effort for a Sisters pool!
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