VIRTUAL RACES PAUL PIPLANI MEMORIAL VIRTUAL RACES At the request of some of Paul's closet running friends, I have adapted a Virtual Races Venue, as an extension of the PPM Chino Marathon, Half Marathon & 5k, being held in Chino, CA on Nov 1st, 2009. Here are the guidelines for the Virtual Runners of these races: 1. Flat fee of $37.00 for all races (includes a pre-event t-shirt bearing Paul's photo in the race logo (with mailing costs included), post-event finishers medal (with mailing costs included), race bib. 2. There will be no aid station provisions, as this venue is not run at the Chino, CA location, nor goodie bags. 3. Virtual PPM Races course options: any official event on October 24, 2009, October 25, 2009, October 31, 2009, or November 1st, 2009. 4. Officially measured marathon, half marathon or 5k course. Marathon can include running the half marathon course twice. 5. Bib and t-shirts are included, but it is the runners' choice whether or not to wear them. 6. Virtual Race Results will be posted on our website, separately from our on-site Chino, CA race results. It is, however, all runners' responsibility to report their inividual results by email, within 2 days after their race, to the RD (CharlieAlewine@gmail.com) 7. The cotton t-shirts should be ready for shipment to race entrants by Friday, October 16th, 2009. Please allow 5-7 days for shipping. 8. Finishers medals will be sent out to race entrants on or about November 4th, 2009. Please allow 3-5 days for shipping. 9. Charlie Alewine Racing doesn't list runners by age groups, as most of our races are relatively small. 10. Bibs, T-shirts and finishers medals will have our regular event info, and will not include Virtual Races on any of these items. Virtual Race Application Form No 20% C.A.R. Club discount if applying online. Bio of Dharam Paul Piplani by Charlie Alewine Dharam Paul Piplani, of Paradise Valley, Arizona, died on August 22nd, 2009 of liver cancer. Paul was very well known by most everyone in the marathon and ultra-marathon running community. He was mostly known for having run an unbelievable number of marathons and ultras from 1993 through May 2009. His goal was to run 1000 marathons and he was closing in on that incredible feat. His first marathon was Pikes Peak, which he completed 14 times. I ran with him for the last time on May 23rd of this year at the Nanny Goat 12/24 Hour Races. He then ran the Los Angeles Marathon on May 25th. His last race was the San Diego RN'R Marathon, on May 31, 2009. I met Paul for the first time in 2004, but didn't start running with him until the Moab Marathon in Utah in May, 2005. The next day we ran the Fort Collins Marathon together in Colorado. After that, we ran many marathons and ultras together. Because our pace was so similarly slow, we usually ran every step of races together, including several 100 milers. Paul finished almost every race he started. Every so often, during a really tough ultra, he would miss a cut-off time, and get pulled from the race, but never without pleading his case as to why he should be allowed to continue. Every once in a while, he'd talk the R.D. into letting him continue. He wasn't a quitter, that's for sure. I miss running with Paul. He could be a real character somtimes; He loved to bark back at dogs, tell someone watering their lawn that they missed a spot, or ask for a cigarette or a Guiness at aid stations. He never smoked, but he did like Guiness. Paul ran in every state many times over. He ran in many countries, and he ran on every continent. He usually did two marathons or ultras every weekend. He loved to run. He could tell some incredible stories, and although most people coudln't imagine what he went through to get to, and get through, so many races, the stories were true. Paul is missed by thousands of runners and others across the country. I'm hoping to see shirts from the November 1st, 2009 marathon I'm hosting in his honor, bearing his picture, for years to come.

 

 

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