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50th Annual Meeting
NCURA Boot Camp, Fun Run, and Power Walk
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NCURA Boot Camp
Monday, November 3rd and Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
6:15-7:15 am
Kick off your day with a fast moving, action packed aerobic routine incorporating various athletic drills and body sculpting. Join your fellow NCURA members from 6:15 - 7:15 am for a high intensity (not high impact) workout with NO choreography and lots of sweat guaranteed to get your heart pumping and energize your body. Great workout for both beginner and intermediate exercise enthusiasts!
The group will be led by one of our own, Cindy Case, Director, School of Medicine, Grants and Contracts, Case Western Reserve University. Cindy has taught aerobics for over ten years and has been certified by the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA).
NCURA Fun Run
Monday, November 3rd and Tuesday, November 6th, 2008
6:15-7:15 am
Begin your day with a run through Washington DC! Starting at 6:15 am, everyone will convene at the NCURA registration desk for a pre-run stretch. Runners will then be provided with maps and directions and will depart the hotel at 6:30 am, returning around 7:15 am with plenty of time left for participants to get ready before the first session.
The Fun Run will be lead by Curtis Brahm, Wayne State University, and will follow Route 2:
Route 2: “Don’t Shoot the Messenger”
Joan of Arc and Meridian Hill Park
This loop course will take runners to Meridian Hill Park on 16th Street in Adams Morgan. Meridian Hill Park was designed and built between 1912 and 1936, and has been under jurisdiction of the National park Service since 1933. The park is divided into two principal areas: the lower park, with a water cascade of linked basins, symmetric stairways and a large reflecting pool surrounded by a plaza; and the upper park with an open mall, wooded areas flanking the mall, and broad terrace overlooking the lower park. In 1922, a statue of Joan of Arc, a copy of the figure by Paul Dubois at Reims Cathedral, was installed directly on the main cross axis of the park.
NOTE: This course does not actually take runners through the Park, but to it and around it. If interested, ask you group leader to lead you through the Park before continuing back to the Hilton.
SKILL LEVEL: Beginner to Moderate. Runners may experience some uphill on Columbia Road, but Euclid is primarily flat, and 16th Street South is down hill. Returning North on Connecticut will be on an uphill slant, but the distance is short.
NCURA Power Walk
Monday, November 3rd and Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
6:15-7:15 am
Start your morning off on the right foot and join your fellow Walkers through Washington DC. The day will start at 6:15 am with everyone getting together at the NCURA registration desk for a pre-walk stretch. Walkers will then be provided with maps and directions and will depart the hotel at 6:30 am, returning around 7:15 am with plenty of time left for participants to get ready before the first session. This will be a brisk, up beat, power walk!
This walk will follow Route 1: “Mr. Vice President, NCURA is on the line.” Embassy Row and U.S. Naval Observatory
No other Washington DC tourism stop quite exemplifies the stately grace of the Nation’s Capital than Embassy Row. The tree-lined setting for the world’s embassies is a stunning stroll, particularly in the spring and fall when color bursts against the Classic, Neo-Classic, Beaux-Arts and Federal style buildings. Join us for an out and back course that will take walkers past the Embassies of Finland, Brazil, the Bahamas, Belize, and the Republic of Cape Verde. The Kahil Gibran Memorial Garden and Normanstone Park can also be seen and enjoyed on this course, with a final turn-around at the U.S. Naval Observatory (depending on time).
SKILL LEVEL: Beginner to Moderate. Some walkers may find this course moderately challenging as the first half, to the U.S. Naval Observatory, is either flat or uphill. The good news, once you reach the big anchor, it’s all down hill from there.
Registration
If you would like to register for the Boot camp, Fun Run, or Power Walk, please send an email to the corresponding address. Please note that by sending an email, the participant releases NCURA, the Hilton Washington and the instructors from any liability and injury related to the activities in the NCURA Boot Camp, Fun Run, and/or Power Walk.