March 2010 - Space Coast Runners

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2009-10 SPACE COAST RUNNERS RUNNER OF THE YEAR SERIES Fall Into Winter 5K September 26, 2009 Male OA: John Davis - 17:54 Female OA: Beth Whalen - 18:26 Space Coast Classic 15K And 2-Miler November 7, 2009 Male OA: John Davis - 56:32 Female OA: Beth Whalen - 59:08 Space Coast Marathon and Half Marathon November 29, 2009 Marathon Male OA: Matthew May - 2:37:58 Female OA: Renae Cicchinelli - 2:59:01cr Half Marathon Male OA: Jonathon Volpi - 1:10:45 Female OA: Beth Whalen - 1:26:05 Reindeer Run 5K December 12, 2009 Male OA: Ten Dean - 17:22 Female OA: Beth Whalen - 18:29 Tiger Dash 5K and 1-miler January 30, 2010 Male OA: Doug Butler - 16:53 Female OA: Beth Whalen - 18:43 Eye of the Dragon 10K and Tail of Lizard 2-Miler February 27, 2010 10K Male OA: Kevin Butler - 36:49 Female OA: Beth Whalen - 39:50 2-Miler Male OA: Bruce Bayless - 12:23 Female OA: Emily Chapman - 12:50 Downtown Melbourne 5K April 3, 2010 Females: 7:30 a.m.; Males: 8:15 a.m. Downtown Melbourne Frank Webbe, 674-8104 webbe@fit.edu Space Walk of Fame 8K April 10, 2010 Time: 8 a.m. Space View Park, Titusville Marty Winkel, 537-3526 runsalot@earthlink.net You don’t have to be fast… To have a blast!! The Runner of the Year Series offers you more than just a chance to rack up points for year-end Series awards. It also offers you eight races of varying distances that provide a goal for and gauge of fitness levels. The races, themselves, provide an opportunity to enjoy a ‘catered’ workout; socialize with fun and like-minded individuals and enjoy the unique amenities that are provided by each Race Director. Once you start, you might become addicted! For complete Series information click http://www.spacecoastrunners.org/roy.html Page 4
THE PASSING LANE With Ron Hoar More Health Issues and Options for Us Aging Runners It’s not my intention to make this column a regular medical primer but I did want to pass along some additional medical information that came to me as a complete surprise—a procedure I had never heard of before. After reading of my AV block, a local legend of running, Henry Campbell, alerted me to a treatment that he received several years ago—a procedure that he discovered through his own research. Henry was sprinting to the finish of a 4-mile training run a few years ago when he had a severe angina attack. The cardiologist was almost adamant that he have an operation. But Henry resisted and opted for a non-invasive treatment called EECP (Enhanced External CounterPulsion). EECP is an outpatient treatment for angina and heart failure. Treatments are about an hour a day, five days a week, for a total of 35 hours. You lie on a table with large blood pressure-like cuffs wrapped around your legs and buttocks. The cuffs inflate and deflate at specific times between your heart beats. A continuous EKG is used to set the timing so that the cuffs inflate just after a heartbeat while the heart is at rest. They then deflate just before the next heart beat. Henry provides a user friendly-description of what happens. He says “The sequence milks the blood back up the leg causing a back pressure on the arteries around the heart which assists the body in opening up the capillaries around the obstruction.” The claimed benefits, in addition to it being non invasive, are that no recovery period is needed and the patient realizes more energy and a better quality of life. This is not a new concept—it was used by doctors in Pittsburgh about 60 years ago and prior to that was used extensively in China and India. There is an international EECP Patient Registry that collects data on the safety, effectiveness and long-term benefits of EECP therapy. That data suggests that the benefits can last at least three years and often five or more years. Henry Campbell reports that he has had no reoccurrence in eight years. Last fall at the European Society Cardiology Congress there were several reports on studies of the effectiveness of EECP. Among the reports presented, researchers at the Charite Hospital at the University of Berlin concluded that “EECP treatment promotes recruitment of new arteries”. In another presentation, Dr. Lawrence Crawford, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Duke University School of Medicine said “published scientific data…on the effects of EECP therapy makes a very strong argument for the use of enhanced external counterpulsation therapy in treating stable angina and compensated heart failure patients.” Of course, as with any medical condition, the treatment needs to be selected for the individual circumstance. So EECP may not be for everyone and should be carefully considered in consultation with medical experts. My point is that there are procedures and therapies that most of us are not aware of and we need to become self educated when it comes to health issues. That is much easier to do today with the vast internet resources available. Your research should supplement and help educate but not substitute for medical expert consultation. Sooner or later each of us will face medical issues even as we subscribe to a running lifestyle that delays the inevitable. Page 5
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