AYRR Hosts 1st Annual Born to Run Race - Arizona Youth Road ...

Arizona Youth Roadrunners
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The Run Down
AYRR Hosts 1 st Annual
Born to Run Race
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Kiwanis Park
Registration: 6:30am
Race Start: 7:45am
Where: Kiwanis Park, Tempe, AZ (North
Soccer field located near the parking lot
located off of Baseline Rd.)
Awards: 5k Run/Walk Top 3
Male and Female finisher in
5-­‐year age groups.
Come Run With Us!
This is AYRR, and this is who we are
Our Mission
To fight childhood obesity ....
regardless of race, gender,
ethnicity, physical abilities, and
socio-­‐economic status. We
promote a healthy, competitive,
and safe environment for
children to embrace and
empower themselves with the
necessary tools to succeed in
sports and throughout life.
March 2012

Spotlight: Tannar Duff
I am a 9 year old fourth grade girl at Benchmark
Elementary, and I am running with AYRR for a second
season. I never ran before joining this group and never
had been interested in running. I joined because I had a
good friend
on the
team, and
she told me
how much
fun it was.
Running with
AYRR has
taught me I
can do anything if I put my mind to it. It is all about
starting and finishing! How long it takes isn’t
important. Dawn, one of my coaches, inspires me
because she is an amazing runner, and I want to be able
to run like her. She reminds me that I can do it when I
want to give up. I believe that I inspire first-­‐time runners.
Also I have had several ladies come up to me at the races
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Full Marathon Finisher – Age 12
Sydnee York (1)
Half Marathon Finishers – Age 12
Madison Barton (3)
Sydnee York (2)
Half Marathon Finishers – Age 11
Kaitlin Barton (1)
Nicholas Pandelakis (1)
10k Finishers – Ages 10 and up
Kaitlin Barton
Madison Barton
Bailee Bauermeister
Janelle Bidak
Matthew Bidak
Nicholas Pandelakis
Sydnee York
10k Finishers – Age 9
McKenzie Bruno (7!)
Tannar Duff (1)
10k Finishers – Age 8 and under
Brooke Bauermeister (1)
Jared Lounsbury (1)
Julian Pandelakis (2)
AYRR Gratefullly Acknowledges the
Sally Meyerhoff Foundation
AYRR is the proud recipient of a grant for $500 from the Arizona Community
Foundation for program support.
Wall of
Fame
The grant funds were drawn from the Sally Meyerhoff Foundation, and we
sincerely thank Ms. Cindi Meyerhoff for recommending AYRR as a recipient.

Why Am I Sore After a
Workout?
Your coaches have you all working hard in your
training runs. Some of you may feel great the next
day but some of you, especially when you first started
to train, feel sore all over for a couple days. You are
experiencing “delayed onset muscle soreness”
(DOMS). There is a lot of biology and biochemistry
involved, but the bottom line is inflammation in the
muscles. You may even feel like the muscles are
swollen.
1.
Muscles hurt during a hard workout
because the heart and lungs can’t quite
keep up to supply the working muscles with enough
oxygen and glucose, a special sugar for fuel.
2.
During hard exercise the muscles change
how they burn the glucose to a way that
doesn’t need as much oxygen. It allows you to keep
running but causes a chemical, lactic acid, to build up
in the muscle.
3.
Lactic acid is a bit irritating, and is why you
get a burning feeling in the muscles when
you are running hard. As soon as you stop to rest, the
body gets rid of the lactic acid and everything gets
back to normal.
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Tannar
Duff
cont’d
and say, “ Congratulations, you were
my inspiration to finish the race
today.” That is awesome because they
are so much older than me. I like to get up and do the
extra practice before school on Tuesdays. It feels good,
it gives me a jump start on my day and keeps me from
feeling lazy all day. Training on Tuesday also helps to
make my races seem easier to run. Yes, it is hard to get
up early sometimes to train or to go to a race. I get
nervous for the race and for training I know that it will
be a hard work out, but afterward I feel so good and I
am always glad that I did it.
AYRR is a special group of people to me. All the kids
support each other no matter what race we are running
or how long it takes some of us.
Special Thanks to Our Sponsors

Why Am I Sore After a Workout? (continued)
The muscle soreness you feel the next couple days is from tiny tears inside the muscles during the workout which
causes protein and other fluids to leak into the area around the muscle fibers. That stuff causes inflammation that
causes soreness. Inflammation is important, however, because it signals the body to repair the muscle while you rest.
The repaired muscle is stronger and more efficient at using
glucose than before, so you end up stronger and faster.
You actually want to be a bit sore the next day because it
tells you that you had a good workout. You shouldn’t work
out so hard you can’t exercise the next couple days.
The first workouts cause more soreness because the
muscles aren’t used to hard work and really complain by
hurting! The good news is the more you work out the
stronger and faster you will be, and the muscles won’t tear
as much. You will be getting “in shape.” The bad news is
that if you do the same workouts all the time your muscles
will get used to it and you won’t progress. To keep getting
better the workouts need to become more challenging.
A recent study of people doing hard workouts showed that having a 10 minute Swedish-­‐style massage of the muscles
used in the workout decreased inflammation but made the muscle cells more efficient in how they used oxygen and
glucose. The rubbed muscles recovered more strength and had less swelling.
Things that make DOMS less painful are:
1. Do good stretches before and after a workout
2. Light jogging after the workout
3. Massage
4. If you are really sore the next day, decrease your intensity in your next practice until you are in better shape.
There is some truth to “No Pain, No Gain,” but exercise should be enjoyable and make you stronger and feel better
physically and mentally.
-­‐ Larry R. Bergstrom, M.D., Mayo Clinic Hospital Internal Medicine