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Race Directors News: www.directors.island-timing.com  Long Island Running News Race Applications and Sponsored Advertisements are being accepted for our newest running publication. Distribution for our winter edition is 1,000. Publication will be distributed at races, running stores and fitness centers around Long Island.   Each edition will cover 6 months of races and will be published quarterly. Distribution will increase during busy periods. Special editions are being considered as well.   Contact bob@eerunner.com for more information. Island Timing Regional Calendar Nassau and Suffolk Counties I never noticed until now that the runners in the logo for the East End Road & Trail Runners Club are running west. I moved out to the east end years ago and founded the club because there was none. I started timing my own races and started a newsletter to help publicize running and races on the east end. Thirteen years have gone by and I’m finding I’m timing more and more races west of Riverhead. A couple of years ago I made an attempt to start a Long Island running publication, but it just wasn’t practical. With one third of my races in Nassau and western Suffolk I may reconsider. This attempt is a much more modest one. This newsletter is an extension of the East End Runner, which in one form or another, I have published erratically and under different names, for thirteen years. The purpose of this expansion is to help promote the races I have worked with over the years, both east and west. I look forward to starting new races and helping current and new race directors with their events. www.eerunner.com Island Timing's, Long Island Race Calendar by Region

2009 Race Calendar www.races.island-timing.com The East End Road and Trail Runners Club is a non profit organization dedicated to promoting running and fitness and organizing races for charitable organizations. We provide organizational skills, advice and the insurance required to put on a running event. In our 15 year history we have helped charitable organizations raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for their causes. We are very grateful to our sponsors and the thousands of runners who contribute to the worthy causes we run for. For the latest running news as it happens: Join Island Running Join the club online at active.com www.eerunner.com Main directory page for running, racing, and results as published by Island Timing www.islandrunning.com Directory page for running on Long Island with Island Timing Have Island Timing promote and time your event. Fit Results: Island Timing Island Timing 2008 Race Calendar Island Timing Race Results Great photo's and articles at: Hamptons Online Subscribe! Free! Big things happening! In 2009! Get updates in your e mail. find out the latest Long Island running news. www.eerunner.com Main directory page for running, racing, and results on the east end of Long Island, New York and with Island Timing www.islandrunning.com Directory page for running on Long Island with Island Timing May, 2007: Bob Beattie has formed Beaton Technological Systems LLC dba Island Timing to take over the responsibility of the Websites, Race Management and Timing, and Publishing of Fit Results, The East End Runner, The Running Pages, The Hamptons Pages and to create and expand on new enterprizes in 2008.

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Race Results www.results.island-timing.com The East End Runner Is Now Island Running These economic times are hard for all. All of us are being effected by it in many ways. Local governments are no exception. Because of budget problems, Southampton Village has decided that events would have to pay for overtime police officers. After all, they have a responsibility to their taxpayers. East Hampton Town is considering this as well. Do runners not pay taxes? OK, so many of our runners come from outside the village, so they don't pay village taxes. Bringing runners into the village during the deadest times of the year may not bring an economic boom to the village, but runners do spend money. The local deli, bakery, sports store, will benefit from bringing runners into town. I was planning to take my staff out to lunch after the race. A shopping stroll down Main Street after the race is not out of the question. Events bring people into town. Non profit organizations organize events to raise money for their cause. Businesses sponsor events, not only to benefit an organization, but also to advertise the company and be visible to the public. More business, more money, more taxes paid. Non profits are going to have a harder time raising money. Contributors are cutting their budgets. Sponsors are sponsoring fewer events. When I was the vice president of the Southampton Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber's aim was to create more off season events to vitalize the village during quiet times. The October Fest was my idea and I was the chair of that committee. It is with the same spirit that I created off season running events. Charging non profit organizations for overtime police is a burden to the non profits. Some may be able to absorb the expense. Some may not. Either way, it remains a burden to an organization that is serving and benefiting the community. Add to this the further burden of getting sponsors for events in these hard times. Businesses are cutting back, budgets are tight. Sponsors are going to be harder to find. 2009 has brought us our share of problems. I continue to work with the village, the police and the chamber of commerce to work out a solution. Bob Beattie, East End Road and Trail Runners Club www.eerunner.com The East End Runner Island Timing 2009 Race Calendar Island Timing Race Results Great photo's and articles at: Hamptons Online Subscribe! Free! Big things happening! In 2009! Get updates in your e mail. find out the latest Long Island running news. www.eerunner.com Main directory page for running, racing, and results on the east end of Long Island, New York and with Island Timing www.islandrunning.com Directory page for running on Long Island with Island Timing Annual Meeting: East End Road & Trail Runners Club  Southampton RSVP to join the committee Running in the off season has always been a challenge. For runners, it’s dealing with the weather. For a race director it’s dealing with the low turnouts... and the weather. Managing four races last year in five off season months on the east end is not something I would ever recommend to anyone. Physically and financially it was a burden. Yet I plan to do it again this coming year, but bigger and better. This year with the help of OMAC, I’m determined to make it work. And we are! Join Us! Subscribe and you will be the first to know! If you’ve run in our races, you should be getting our publication. If you’re not, you need to go to our website’s newsletter page and click on any subscribe button. You will get the next issue in your e mail box. Free mailed versions are available as well through 2008. Use the subcribe link in the midle of this page!