Your Laguna Turf & Surf Walkers of Orange County volunteer
officer roster :
Bob Rothrock President, Trailmaster (949)448-8345 rbrothrock@juno.com
Bob Dykes Vice President, Award designer (949)348-9268 rad1@eqe.com
Dori Blase Treasurer, Newsletter (949)251-0840 doriblase@aol.com
Vicki Bowman Membership (714)540-0987 Major_b@juno.com
Sherri Andrews Webmaster (760) 632-9943 mesherri@home.com
Date: September/October 2001
A BIG CONGRATULATIONS to:
Ruth Ellis, a charter member of LTSW who completed walking all 50 states in July 2001!
Bob Rothrock, who received an AVA recognition Award: Certificate of Service!
Marilyn Line, from Banning who won the New Balance shoes at our Doheny Beach walk!
Here is Ruth’s happy description of reaching this milestone (from her email to me):
Yes, Yes, I have completed all 50 states. I'm one of those nuts that flew up to Alaska just to complete my 50th. On January 11, I toured with Walking Adventures and walked on all the Hawaiian Islands. That left four more states to do. So in April, I visited a friend in Tyler, TX. My Tyler friend is not a walker, but is such a good friend she drove us up to Tulsa and on to Little Rock and back to Tyler. That left only Alaska to do. I considered hooking up with Walking Adventures at the close of the Convention. Time didn't work out for me, so on July 10, 2001 I took a plane to Anchorage and the hotel met and I spent the night there. Got up early July 11, took my camera and started out on the trail. I had the map in advance from the people who run the YRE in Anchorage. I caught the midnight flight out of Anchorage on July 11 and was home before noon on July 12. Sounds insane, I had a great time, everything went like clockwork. That's the story of getting my 50 states. I am now looking for someone to do Route 66 with, or I may have to do it alone.
PS. I wanted to add that I met a gal on the airplane, she was going to Redding and I to Anchorage. She was so interested in my fly up, fly back and all the walking I do that she wanted to find out more about AVA. Well, the last time I saw you that gal joined the Laguna Turf & Surf, her name is Barbara Islas from Fountain Valley. Also, I lit a fire under Diane Whitford and she renewed her membership that day also. Diane & I are friends from way back, she had lost interest and now she is back.
Please join us in welcoming new and returning walkers to our club:
Barbara Islas of Fountain Valley
Diane Whitford of Garden Grove
Kim Allen-Morris of Laguna Niguel
Tom & Lynda Armbruster of Orange
Vicki Bowman, our membership chairperson is recovering from major surgery and is finally back in her own place recooperating. Please wish her well and until she is up to walking our events, look for her to be helping out at the Start/Finish table.
Last month’s Doheny Beach, Dana Point walk was a huge success with 161 participants and
we sold 11 New Walker Packets! This newsletter is also being mailed to past purchasers of New Walker Packets that did not join our club, perhaps because they don’t live in Orange County, but we want to be sure they are receiving ongoing information about Events, are active volkswalkers and to invite them again to join the Laguna Turf & Surf Walkers. The membership application is included in each newsletter for those wishing to renew (name highlighted on address) or for new people who are interested in supporting a club who puts on six walking events per year and has four Year-Rounds for those times when you want to enjoy our beautiful scenery here in Orange County.
Web addresses:
LTSW is http://members.home.net/laguna-walkers/
CVA is http://members.aol.com/WalkCakif
AVA is http://www.ava.org
IVV (for International information) http://www.ivv.org
I’ve enclosed the flyer for our next walk at Peters Canyon Regional Park in Tustin and in case you don’t receive The American Wanderer, Bob’s article, A Short History of Peters Canyon Regional Park was published on page 11 of the October 2001 issue. As usual, if you are working the Start/Finish table that weekend you may pre-walk before October 27/28. You can get the walk directions and pre-registration start card from Bob.
Chaparosa Canyon Wilderness Park in Laguna Niguel flyer, our walk January 5/6, 2002 is enclosed also.
Please consider helping out at our events as it is a GREAT way to meet other walkers and helps make it a social event and not just a walk.
Here are the wide variety of events planned in Southern California for the balance of this year:
Please see the Compass for details or the CVA Web Page
Please try to bring a friend or neighbor along on your next walking event.
Status of our year-rounds to date:
#1342 Laguna Niguel Lake Walk 55 walkers (18 from out-of-state)
#1343 Dana Point Harbor Walk 98 walkers (42 from out-of-state)
#251 Balboa Island/Newport Beach Walk 123 walkers (53 from out-of-state)
#190 Dana Point Bike 20 bikers (3 from out-of-state)
Thinking ahead, here are LTSW’s new Orange County walks and dates for next year:
Also in 2002 the CVA convention will be held May 3-5 in Vacaville, Solano County, CA hosted by Vaca Valley Volks who received the AVA Recognition Award of Gold Star Club. The AVA National Convention will be held in Colorado in June 2003.
In September LTSW had it’s fifth birthday! If you have Charter Member under your name on the address label, you have been with us since our inception and we THANK YOU for that!!
Please let us know if you would like to help put a walk together or if you have something you want included in our newsletter. We are eager for your ideas and involvement! This is your club!
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Dangers for Distance Walkers |
Keeping enough fluids and salts in your body during a long distance event such as a marathon, a 20-miler, or a half-marathon is crucial to finishing feeling good, as well as avoiding an IV and a trip to the emergency room.
Dehydration
The basic rule of thumb is to start a walk having had 16 oz. of water, then replenishing with a cup of water every 15-20 minutes. End your walk with a big glass of water. That will prevent dehydration - losing too much fluid from your body. Symptoms such as feeling thirsty happen only after you have lost too much water already. Don't wait until you feel thirsty - keep drinking.
Signs of dehydration: Dry mouth, fatigue, dizziness, stomach ache, back pain, headache, irritability, decreased urination.
Hyponatremia (loss of sodium)
Sweating removes both water and salts - electrolytes - from your body as you walk. Depending on the humidity, you may not notice how much you are sweating. For walks of over an hour, replenishing your electrolytes with sports drink is also important to prevent hyponatremia. It is recommended to drink 1 bottle of sports drink for every 2 bottles of water. Or drink a mixture throughout your walk.
Signs of hyponatremia: nausea, headache, cramps, confusion, slurred speech, bloating and swollen hands.
Test Your Sweat IQ
How much do you know about sweat? Sweating is natural to an athlete, yet not many know how it can be both helpful and harmful to them. Take this quiz and see how you score.
Question 1: Why do we sweat when we exercise?
(choose one)
To maintain a safe body temperature is the correct answer. The evaporation of sweat from the skin during exercise, enables us to maintain a safe core body temperature.
Question 2: As an athlete becomes more fit, they do what?
(choose one)
Sweat more and sweat sooner is the correct answer. As a person becomes more fit, he will sweat more efficiently. This means he will sweat sooner, sweat more and sweat over a greater surface area of the body.
Question 3: Sweating makes us thirsty because of what?
(choose one)
It reduces blood volume is the correct answer. Sweat losses reduce the blood volume, which in turn, increases the sodium concentration of blood. These physiologic changes stimulate the brain to trigger thirst.
Question 4: Who are better sweaters?
(choose one)
There is no difference is the correct answer. Both men and women exhibit a wide range of sweat responses and sweat rates, and there is no measurable difference based upon gender alone.
Question 5: How much sweat loss will impair performance and/or physiologic function in a 150 pound person?
(choose one)
1 percent (1.5 lbs) is the correct answer. In a 150 lb. person, as little as 1% dehydration or 1.5 lbs. of sweat loss can decrease performance. For this reason, it is extremely important that athletes stay well hydrated.
Question 6: What, in addition to water, does sweat contain?
(choose one)
Minerals is the correct answer. Sweat contains minerals such as sodium, potassium, and chloride, in addition to small amounts of other electrolytes.
Question 7: Dehydration is dangerous because of what?
(choose one)
It strains the cardiovascular system is the correct answer. The fluid lost in dehydration decreases the overall blood volume. This requires the heart to contract more frequently and forcefully to maintain the same stroke volume. Because blood circulation is compromised, it makes it difficult to maintain a safe core temperature
Question 8: Which of the following does not affect how much an athlete sweats?
(choose one)
Age is the correct answer.There is no correlation between a person's age and how much they sweat. There is, however a correlation between fitness level and sweating response (the more fit sweat more) and acclimation to heat.
Question 9: The sweat response is triggered based upon what internal regulator?
(choose one)
Body Temperature is the correct answer. As work occurs, often via muscle contraction, heat is generated. As this heat increases the core body temperature, the sweat mechanism is triggered to encourage evaporation, and to help cool the body.
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