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Monday Night Running Club

Club Meets 6:00PM Each Monday Night to Run or Walk after short meeting.

Third Monday Meets in Niles.

All other Mondays meet in Dowagiac in Rm141, Lyons bldg. on the SMC Campus.

After the 1st SUN in NOV:  at the Riverfront Cafe upstairs.

After the 2nd SUN in MAR: meet at or in the pavilion at Riverfront Park.

MAPS:
SMC Dow. (Dale A. Lyons  Bldg.)
Niles Summer (Riverfront Park)
Niles Winter (Riverfront Cafe)

(last update 1-2-12)
SEE THE CALENDAR PAGE FOR DATES, THE MAPS PAGE FOR DIRECTIONS AND/OR THE CONTACT US PAGE.
    
WE ARE ON THE WINTER TIME SCHEDULE

DECEMBER 26 SMC Dowagiac Campus
 
NO MEETING

JANUARY 2
 - SMC Dowagiac Campus
NO MEETING

2012 HOSTED MEMBER HOSTED SPECIAL EVENTS

Coach Ron Gunn founded the MNRC (Monday Night Running Club) during April 1979 at SMC (Southwestern Michigan College) in Dowagiac, Michigan where he was a track coach for over 40 years.

Past members are asked to email your address to one of the officers so that you may receive our Newsletter by email and for other members to contact you.  Please join us whenever you are in the Dowagiac area.

We welcome both aspiring and seasoned runners, casual and serious walkers, or hikers from short to extreme.  We have those who walk for just a few minutes to those who put in a vigorous 45 minutes each week to those who condition for half marathon's during the year.  The club collectively has much wisdom, derived from experience, to share.  The club currently has more dedicated hikers and trekkers than runners, yet the spirit of adventure runs strong through this unique and dedicated membership.  Dedicated to fitness and living life a little more completely, reaching a little further past commonly perceived limits.  It is an inspiring group to hike, run, travel and break bread with.

Members are often an enthusiastic part of Coach Ron Gunn's adventure tours which utilize the fitness level of the group to see places of interest like few ever do; trekking through the bamboo forests and volcano craters in Hawaii, or rim to rim through Grand Canyon, or hiking in the Virgin River through the narrow canyon walls of Zion National Park, or through the moors and around the lochs in the Scottish Highlands, or hiking the tumbled rocks and bluffs along Devil's Lake Wisconsin; a unique area scoured out by the glacier during the last ice age. 

Whether you run, hike or just travel with the MNRC members you will have a great time - their spirit of adventure is both inspiring and infectious.  Join them for some fitness and fun on one of Coach Ron Gunn's Cairn Stone Adventure Tours.
 
 

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”   ~ Maya Angelou

     Sport Walking Video
     Coach Gunn Retires     More about Coach Gunn

Questions?  Contact our Web Master and President
Thom -  269-462-0683  thomaspjanssen@gmail.com

 NOTICE:  Each 3rd Monday we meet in Niles, Michigan at the pavilion in Riverfront Park.  Note that should the weather be adverse the group will spontaneously meet upstairs at the Riverfront Cafe.  This is also our winter meeting place.

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