New Member Welcome Letter
Dear Interested Runner,
We are glad you may be interested in joining the Philadelphia Athletic Charities Track
Club(PACTC). We are always looking for runners who wish to join a track club with the
thought of competing for a team at a local, regional and national level. PACTC was
established in 2003 by a few of us who competed in high school/college track and cross
country and still had the passion to continue to compete even though we were in our 40s.
PACTC focuses on competing in various disciplines of running which include track, cross
country, off road and road races. Since the track club was formed in 2003, we have
competed in the USATF Grand Prix Road Circuit, the USATF Off Road Ciruit, the Penn
Relays (Master 4 x 400), the USATF National Master Cross Country Championships, Boston
Marathon Team Championship, Philadelphia Distance Run Team Championship, the
Philadelphia Masters Indoor and Outdoor Track Series, Cross Country Champs at Van
Cortland Park (NY City).
Even though most of the members of PACTC are master male and female distance
runners, we are also looking for younger open runners to assemble teams for Open
Championship events. We also have a member who is a racewalker and are looking on
recruiting more racewalkers to the team who would compete for USATF titles. In 2007,
PACTC won the USATF Off Road, 3rd in USATF Road Grand Prix and many individual
award winner in local and national level races.
Team Workouts Our members live in all areas of the Delaware Valley and train mostly on
our own and meet assemble at the races but we do organize 1x a week for either cross
country, indoor or outdoor track at Belmont Plateau, Lower Merion track, Roxborough High
School track, Wissahickon Track and long runs on the Valley Green trail. Meeting spots
and workouts are planned on a weekly basis and dependent on the season of where we
meet. Chuck Shields organizes weekly workouts and will inform those interested on a
weekly e mail.
Talent Level PACTC members tend to be at the higher end of the performance level
and take their sport seriously. Even though we do socialize on occasion, the club was
formed primarily for training and competition. We recruit all ages but we are looking for
runners who are wishing to compete at a high level and not so much as just a social club. If
you are looking to compete and improve your performance, we may be the club for you.
Please check out our current members biography page to see their background.
If you are interested in joining the club, please download and fill out the PACTC
membership form and send form with payment to Philadelphia Athletic Charities Track Club,
611 Jamestown Street, Philadelphia, Pa , 19128. We are a Mid Atlantic-USATF club and all
members need to keep up their USATF membership each year to be eligible to run on the
track club. Please go to the PACTC membership page for directions on signing up for a Mid
Atlantic USATF membership. First year members will receive a PACTC singlet with costs
being part of the first year membership costs. Our team colors are Red, White and Blue.
The singlets are blue/white. All club members are responsible for buying their own red
shorts to complete the club uniform to be worn at races the club participates in. New
members will receive a schedule of the team championship races or Series that we will focus
on each year.
Philadelphia Athletic Charities Inc. is a sport event organizer and produces a few road
and cross country races each year. Track Club members are encouraged to help out the
parent company by volunteering at the races and we have a volunteer award given each
year to track club members at our Spring Awards banquet. If you have any questions,
please call me at 215 487 0770 or e mail me at thomasd611@yahoo.com,
Take care and good luck with your training and racing this year.
Dave Thomas PACTC MEMBERSHIP FORM
President of PACTC