The Running Team for Women 50+ Fitness - Friendship - Fun

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MERCURY MASTERS is celebrating its 15^th Anniversary! Founded in 1995, Mercury Masters is the only team exclusively for women runners 50+ in the New York City area, established to promote a healthy lifestyle, camaraderie, and mutual support. As one of the official teams of the New York Road Runners, Mercury Masters holds first place ranking in the women's veterans division for 2002, 2003, third place for 2004, and second place in the women’s super veterans (age 60+) division for 2005, 2006, 2007, first place for 2008, and third place for 2009. All levels of fitness - walkers to runners - train weekly with our coach Donna Checkan, since 1988 full-time teacher and coach at The Spence School in New York, director of Craftsbury Running Camp in Vermont, and longtime member and former coach of Front Runners New York (for profile in NYRR’s local running newsletter, This Running Town, Fall 2008, click). Our fun runs are challenging and joyful Scavenger Hunt City Slicker Run Broadway and Holiday Classic Our parties are entertaining and exhilarating New Year's Eve Pre-Marathon Pasta Post-Marathon Celebration If you are hitting the roads for the first time or you have been running for years... If you want to run your first 5K or your 20th marathon... If you are up to the challenge or just looking for fitness, friendship, fun... Mercury Masters is your team: There Is Nothin’ Like a Merm We got sneakers, we got socks, We got road beneath our feet. We got energy and stamina That make us hard to beat. We got quadriceps and hamstrings And the best of racing legs. What ain’t we got? We ain’t got eggs! We got silver, we got gray, But we race the blues away. We got glasses and hot flashes, But they don’t get in our way. We got attitude that overrides A little bit of sag. What don’t we got? We don’t got drag! Refrain: There is nothin’ like a Merm, Nothin’ in the world! New York runners will confirm, There ain’t anything like a Merm! We run 5K, we run 10, We race marathons and more. We have wings that make us faster, We are Mercury, we soar. We can race in any weather, In the heat and in the cold. What don’t we feel? We don’t feel old! [Refrain] No one can run like a Merm, No one has fun like a Merm, No one can draft like a Merm, No one can laugh like a Merm, No one can stride like a Merm, Or has pride like a Merm. Any woman over 50 who has legs and can walk, Can learn how to pace by running a race with a Feisty, faster, Mercury Master, MERM!! Lyrics by Deborah Hamm (and sung to the music of “There Is Nothin’ Like a Dame”)