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Only four weeks after running Boston in 2010, one of my friends sent me an email about an upcoming event just two weeks away, The North Face Endurance Challenge. The two-day event included 50-Miler, 50-K, marathon, marathon relay, half marathon, 10K, and 5K races. I immediately decided to enter the marathon despite telling the Cruisers […]
I was out of town this past weekend, and as much as I would have loved it, I wasn’t able to participate in Carter’s Run. If you remember, I introduced you to Carter back in April, and this was the big weekend his family and friends had prepared for all year. I’m sure they’ve already […]
This morning’s TKO Melanoma 5K was a ton of fun; well, except for while I was running which was hard work! This second annual race was in memory of Theresa O’Conner, a loving wife and mom, who lost her battle with melanoma in 2012. Running this race yearly and spreading the word about melanoma is […]
In celebrations of today’s 11th annual running of the Potomac River Run Marathon and Half Marathon, I’m recapping when I ran the 2004 marathon and Bill ran the half. When we ran the race, it started and ended at Belle Haven Park in Alexandria and ran along the Mount Vernon Trail next to the beautiful […]
In recapping the 2006 Frederick Marathon, I must first mention that there have been three races that I registered for, but didn’t run… There was the 2000 Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run when Bill and I woke up to a light snow and let the sweet call of our warm bed pull us back in. […]
Good luck today to all of the runners participating today in the 29th Big Sur International Marathon! Back in 2001, Bill and I met our friends Miles and his wife Jeani in California to run this bucket-list marathon. Big Sur advises that this will not be a PR marathon for runners; in fact marathoners need […]
I’ve run a lot of races over the years, 89 if you only count the ones listed on my Race Results tab. A few more, if you count the others that I ran way too long ago for me to remember the race names or distances… I’ve run enough races to make me appreciate a […]
Today was the Inaugural Loudoun Half Marathon and as expected the Ashburn Area Running Club did a fabulous job in putting this first-time race together. I first heard about this new race at the Reston Ten Miler and decided that I wanted to add it to my race calendar, mainly because the race proceeds were […]
The George Washington Parkway Classic Ten Mile Run is one of Bill’s and my favorite races, and it has been a staple for area runners since 1984. After being bused to the start at Mount Vernon, runners run back down the George Washington Parkway to Old Town Alexandria. The first part of the race is […]
Last fall Bill and I fell in love with trail running, but hadn’t run on any true dirt trails since we ran up to Molly’s Knob at Hungry Mother State Park in October. We have lots of great paved and gravel trails right right outside our door, but to get to a good technical trail, […]
In honor of tomorrow’s 43rd running of the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run, I’m recapping the years that Bill and I ran this fantastic and beautiful race. I’ll even talk about the year that we woke up to snow on the ground and like the wimps we were, went back to bed. About the […]
In honor of the 16th annual Virginia Creeper Marathon in quaint Abingdon, VA, I’m recapping my adventures running the race back in 2007 when I joined about 100 other marathoners to run in a drizzly off-and-on rain. I signed up for the $10 race (yes, only $10) after one of my clients hired me to […]
My friend Terri and I set a great plan into action for running the 2008 Georgia Marathon together. After scoping out the details, we decided to stay in the Omni Hotel so we could roll out of bed, take the elevator down to the lobby, walk out onto the plaza, and start the race! One […]
Way back in 2002, the Inaugural Washington DC Marathon ran through history… but only briefly. I believe their hopes were to become the spring version of the Marine Corps Marathon, but that wasn’t to be. There was no race morning packet pick-up, so our friend Bob and I drove over to Stadium-Armory on Friday […]
The National Marathon was run from 2006 through 2010, before becoming the Rock ‘N’ Roll USA Marathon in 2011. The inaugural marathon had a qualifying time of 4:30 which meant a lot of people weren’t able to run it. Five and eight years after the fact, I’ve prepared a throwback recap for the 2006 and […]
This morning Bill, several Cruisers, and I ran the Reston 10 Miler. It’s a part of the =PR= Race Series that I’ve told you about before, and this particular race benefited the South Lakes High School Track & Field team. Back when I last ran this race in 1998 and 2001, Potomac River Running Stores […]
Tomorrow I’m running the Reston 10 Miler again for the first time in several years. This prompted me to dig deep to remember stories from the previous years I’ve run it. The first thing I learned is that I’ve only run the race twice before, but I would have guessed that I’d run it several […]
Today’s 53’rd annual George Washington’s Birthday Marathon organized by the DC Road Runners Club had to be canceled due to the recent heavy snowfall. However; in honor of the event, I am publishing my throwback recap from when I ran the race. Back on February 20, 2000 I decided just a week or two earlier […]
This morning Bill, our friend Beth, and I ran in the Run Your Heart Out 5K in Reston. Race proceeds went to the American Heart Association to support life-saving efforts in research and education. From their website… This year we are proud to announce our partnership with the American Heart Association. With the help from Leidos, […]
Back in August I found Laura’s blog Write The Happy Ending and was instantly drawn to her and her sister Taylor. I wrote about their journey on Taylor’s 15th birthday, after I went on a 6.2-mile run in honor of Taylor. Laura’s love and devotion to her sister and her determination to bring awareness and […]
